i feel your pain! if the bumper isn't cracked it should be repairable

 

well it is gouged up pretty good but there wasnt any penetration. actually if the metal had been a little thicker I would've gotten away with a scrape, I was just easing out of the parking lot.

 

Sorry to see your boo boo. Nothing a good body shop can't fix. Keep us updated.

 

Ouch,
how come that i never heard about pole accidents until i registered at this forum?
do you have so many dangerous poles over there?

 

I've heard of them jumping out in front of cars when you least expect it.

 

that'll buff right out!

 

Ouch! I'm sure Wade wouldn't have wished his misfortune on his worst enemy, much a less a fellow member like yourself!

 

i hope you took revenge on the pole , sad news whenever a pat gets vandalised by inconsiderate objects and animal life

 

It's just a flesh wound.

Nothing that's not one-day at the shop from being as good as new.

 

Sorry for your accident Sgtarky. Was the police inspecting it and figured out if it was your fault or of the other party?
I dread the day when something like that happens to my Patriot and it doesn`t even have to be that big. A stone chip on the windshield or grille, a scratch from tight parking lots (we`ve got plenty of those here) - it will all hurt the same
My wife scraped the right side of her Renault recently - from a tight entrance gate to the paking lot at her work. So I tried my best taking off the scratches with abrasive paste, waxing an polishing - it came out pretty good except for a very small dent. Few days later she came back from work with new and much worse scrapes and dents on the other side of the car :doh:

Anyway I think your front fender will be fairly easy fixed or replaced since it can be detached, it would be much worse at the rear end of the vehicle.
Good luck and let us know how it went.

 

Sorry to see that man. At least nobody was injured

 

Nobody ever asks about the Pole. JK. That sucks.

Those are the kinds of accidents that some percentage of people just live with.. have you noticed how many nice cars out there with a big yellow dings from the parking garage Pillars. And they just live with it. One guy I work with still washes and polishes his new car eventhough she's got a giant dent on the rear end he apparently has no intention of fixing

I know body repair is way expensive, but what's up with people who drive around in a new car that needs body work.

I could understand a work pickup truck. Hell I would fix any dings in my truck with a hammer and crowbar and then spray paint over them with a paint match.

 

well I am just waiting on my claim check. I got a shop picked out they said they can get it done in 4 days. Hopefully I will drop it off friday to be worked on monday.

 

its fixed. looks great, they had it 3 days. I post pics tomorrow. I put on my chrome accents too.

 

Now, Wade you wont feel as bad.

But I feel bad for you anyway... I really feel that all light posts in parking lots should be within a concrete curbed ring island. This way, one might scuff the wall of a tire or scratch a wheel by rubbing against a concrete curb instead of crunching a fender, or, in my case, ripping a wheel and suspension out from under the fender. Painting the base of the pole yellow doesn't really prevent the accident from happening.

Again, I feel for ya... Not a fun thing to experience....

 

Geeeez, sorry about that. You DO have a nice lookin' blue babe there, though. Should be an easy fix. The Patriots out here are multiplying and a local company is using them as official road vehicles. Word's getting out!

 

 

Whow looks great!.
Not only they repaired the fender but added chrom to the mirror too

 

no that was somthing I did. added the door handles too. i was going to get the body shop to paint the rear hatch handle(body color), but I didnt realize it had a textured surface, he said it wouldnt look good.

 

Your car looks great! Is it me or are the wheels on the '09s darker (the gray part) than the '08s?

 

All`s well that ends well ... and your Patriot now looks even better than before the accident

 

Cool! She looks great!