Originally Posted by rowan

My wife had a new car in mid 2005, since then it's had...

- numerous nudges, scratches and indentations to the rear bumper... including hitting another car when she was backing out
- scrape to the rear bumper when she hit a fence while backing out
- scrape to the front bumper when she hit the garage door rail backing in
- crumpled front wheel well when she went over a large rock that got caught in it
- dented rear door when someone decided to overtake her on the same side she was turning

The last incident wasn't her fault, but the rest cost $1k in insurance excess to fix