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In another twist of fate today, I earned this lovely ear mark on my car.
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I am pretty bummed about this to be frank. The cause was an errant piece of bent steel lying in the middle of the roadway and impossible to see in the dark conditions I was driving in. All was well until I heard a very deep "thunk" as I was driving along. Initially I thought a rock might have hit my car somehow or something, but when I pulled over to check the damage I determined the true cause.

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The hit must have been extremely hard. The scratch is bored down to shiny metal and the door panel is bent around the impact. Glad it didn't go through a window in hindsight.

Either way, yet another blemish has appeared on my car, the latest in a string of poor luck events this year for my car (from an attempted break in on the beginning of January, to my tires exploding and being damaged in the last two months, to this new tragedy).

Anyways, I am planning to discuss this with my insurance tomorrow. Fortunately I have full coverage and will only need to pay $500 to get everything fixed, but that's $500 out of my pocket now, not to mention whatever else they'll need to do to fix a scratch of this magnitude.
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Total bummer, sorry to hear about that. Hopefully things start to look up for you.
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You really are lucky that piece of shrapnel didn’t do worse damage or hurt you or anybody else!! I know it doesn’t “feel” lucky to you, but many years ago I had a coworker who had a piece of steel similar to yours come through the floorboard of his Chrysler LHS and clip his calf! It was a somewhat minor injury that caused him surprising and significant long term problems. Very glad you are not injured!! Steel and paint can be fixed! If it’s any minor consolation to you, my car does not have a single panel that doesn’t have a ding or dent. I even have dings on the roof from flying debris. My car seems like a 460hp catchers mitt.
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Looks like a piece of someone's leaf off their spring. I was going home one day years ago when I still had my Super Duty, I was almost to my exit on the freeway. I see this truck in the left lane coming up fast on me, as he passes me I watch his ball mount on the trailer hitch fall out. Hits the road, digging up stone as it skips along behind him, headed for the median. Luckily it went far enough that it wasn't a issue any more, but had someone been behind him, could have been a different story.
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You really are lucky that piece of shrapnel didn’t do worse damage or hurt you or anybody else!! I know it doesn’t “feel” lucky to you, but many years ago I had a coworker who had a piece of steel similar to yours come through the floorboard of his Chrysler LHS and clip his calf! It was a somewhat minor injury that caused him surprising and significant long term problems. Very glad you are not injured!! Steel and paint can be fixed! If it’s any minor consolation to you, my car does not have a single panel that doesn’t have a ding or dent. I even have dings on the roof from flying debris. My car seems like a 460hp catchers mitt.
You make an excellent point, one that I pondered after considering the good fortune of it not hurting anyone in my back seat as I had a family member back there. Steel panel did it's job fortunately.
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That looks like a mower blade from a mower deck. I'd go over to the Highway Dept. and see if can squeeze some compensatory damages,
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Same thing happened to my parents and their 2011 Fusion. Also took out one of their tires. I know it sucks but that can happen to anybody and quicker than you can react. So much stuff falls off vehicles and trailers on the roads it's surprising more accidents don't happen.
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I once watched a pickup truck lose his tonneau cover and rails on the highway. One of the rails came flying straight at our car and miraculously went under the car instead of hitting the windshield - I don't think I'd be here today if our car was 30 feet ahead of where it was. So have a glass-half-full attitude about this - you survived a very dangerous situation with literally just a scratch.

Speaking of the scratch, I wonder if a good shop can fix it. I've seen dent specialists repair really big nasty-looking dents so maybe they can pop that out for you and then paint and color-match. Worth a try.
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Don't let it get you down. It happens to everyone. Get some touch up paint from Ford and see if you're okay with the result. If not, a good body man can make that disappear in a day :)
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Not this Fusion, but the one I had before (not a Sport), I had just gotten it a couple days before, and I hit the interstate in the morning to drive to work, punched it to merge with traffic and as soon as I got up to about 70 or so the big truck ahead of my had this huge tarp with large iron (looked iron anyway) hooks fly off and immediately slam into the front of my car, leaving scratches and gashes all up my hood, up my windshield, and the front edge of the root before flying off the car. So I can sympathize. :(
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It really does happen to everyone, but that doesn't help the hurt any. I drove over the edge of a shipping pallet in the dark in my Mustang Cobra years ago that dented the passenger fender and door. So pissed! But I paid to have it fixed and forgot about it....mostly. Hang in there.
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In another twist of fate today, I earned this lovely ear mark on my car. View attachment 31039
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I am pretty bummed about this to be frank. The cause was an errant piece of bent steel lying in the middle of the roadway and impossible to see in the dark conditions I was driving in. All was well until I heard a very deep "thunk" as I was driving along. Initially I thought a rock might have hit my car somehow or something, but when I pulled over to check the damage I determined the true cause.

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The hit must have been extremely hard. The scratch is bored down to shiny metal and the door panel is bent around the impact. Glad it didn't go through a window in hindsight.

Either way, yet another blemish has appeared on my car, the latest in a string of poor luck events this year for my car (from an attempted break in on the beginning of January, to my tires exploding and being damaged in the last two months, to this new tragedy).

Anyways, I am planning to discuss this with my insurance tomorrow. Fortunately I have full coverage and will only need to pay $500 to get everything fixed, but that's $500 out of my pocket now, not to mention whatever else they'll need to do to fix a scratch of this magnitude.
It looks like a piece of car jack. I am just wondering what that metal was doing there.
Glad you and no one else was hurt..
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