My 550 was ambushed by an Audi TT
01-08-2008, 05:14 PM
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An Audi TT decided to make an impromptu left turn in front of me across a double yellow line and two lanes of on-coming traffic recently. Fortunately we both had cat like reflexes and came to a screeching halt but not before his front license plate screw button covers made cat like scratches in my left front. Luckily our cars barely made contact. There was no damage to the Audi at all and almost none to my car and everyone is ok. I have the front end covered with a clear bra and the scratches only seem to be into the plastic bra and not the paint itself. Hopefully I will require no paint and just have the bra removed and replaced.
The 19 year old kid and his friend who hit me were apparently very hungry and were trying to get into Arbys' parking lot. He was driving Mom and Dads car and he was super nervous. I felt bad for him. He was a reall ynice kid so I joked around with him that at least I got hit by another German car and that he should have eaten at Wendy's. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the Arbys' parking lot. One shot of the scratches and one shot of my car side by side with the TT featuring the perps. You can see from the strange 6/G-shaped marks how the front ends dove while braking.
The 19 year old kid and his friend who hit me were apparently very hungry and were trying to get into Arbys' parking lot. He was driving Mom and Dads car and he was super nervous. I felt bad for him. He was a reall ynice kid so I joked around with him that at least I got hit by another German car and that he should have eaten at Wendy's. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the Arbys' parking lot. One shot of the scratches and one shot of my car side by side with the TT featuring the perps. You can see from the strange 6/G-shaped marks how the front ends dove while braking.
01-08-2008, 05:28 PM
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Originally Posted by DRANGED' post='515294' date='Jan 8 2008, 06:14 PM
An Audi TT decided to make an impromptu left turn in front of me across a double yellow line and two lanes of on-coming traffic recently. Fortunately we both had cat like reflexes and came to a screeching halt but not before his front license plate screw button covers made cat like scratches in my left front. Luckily our cars barely made contact. There was no damage to the Audi at all and almost none to my car and everyone is ok. I have the front end covered with a clear bra and the scratches only seem to be into the plastic bra and not the paint itself. Hopefully I will require no paint and just have the bra removed and replaced.
The 19 year old kid and his friend who hit me were apparently very hungry and were trying to get into Arbys' parking lot. He was driving Mom and Dads car and he was super nervous. I felt bad for him. He was a reall ynice kid so I joked around with him that at least I got hit by another German car and that he should have eaten at Wendy's. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the Arbys' parking lot. One shot of the scratches and one shot of my car side by side with the TT featuring the perps. You can see from the strange 6/G-shaped marks how the front ends dove while braking.
The 19 year old kid and his friend who hit me were apparently very hungry and were trying to get into Arbys' parking lot. He was driving Mom and Dads car and he was super nervous. I felt bad for him. He was a reall ynice kid so I joked around with him that at least I got hit by another German car and that he should have eaten at Wendy's. Anyway, here are a couple pics from the Arbys' parking lot. One shot of the scratches and one shot of my car side by side with the TT featuring the perps. You can see from the strange 6/G-shaped marks how the front ends dove while braking.
01-08-2008, 05:29 PM
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Hope the damage was only to the clear bra! Good luck! 
Good luck!
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Looking at the photos, it's lucky the street was not slippery!
01-08-2008, 05:46 PM
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Sorry to see the scratches D, luckily no one was hurt .............. time for the MTech bumper 
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That's quite an amazing sight. I mean, you hear of missing something "by an inch," but what's the thickness of a clear bra, a millimeter? Two cars hurtling right at each other and you missed by a millimeter? Won't see that very often. Glad it worked out for you.
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Originally Posted by westcoast550' post='515305' date='Jan 8 2008, 09:46 PM
Sorry to see the scratches D, luckily no one was hurt .............. time for the MTech bumper
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Originally Posted by elyk' post='515317' date='Jan 8 2008, 10:14 PM
haha, i would really see if there are any scratches below the clear bra. if there isn't wow, the clear bra did its job!