I got keyed! :(
 

I inspect my car always before getting into it. Not to see if anyone vandalized it, but because I want to make sure there is no bird poop on it. Bird poop ruined the paint on my last car so I'm a little paranoid.

happened on campus..

I park my car as far as possible in the parking lot. I never park next to any cars. Two other people do this as well (hooked up IS300 and some old Mazda Miata). I walk back to my car and inspect it and I see a bunch of deep scratch marks on the right side. Not just one but it looks like someone tried to make an X.

I hope whoever did it DIES. I dont know if it is because I park my car far away or because I blast my music in the mornings or what. Yeah I like to blast my music with the windows down... that's me. I still don't deserve to get keyed.

I'll have pictures later today. I only have my phone camera (MPX220) and it sucks. I'll try to get my friend's DSC-W1 Sony which should be good enough.

People suck! What ever happened to respecting peoples property. You have a problem with me, deal with me, don't screw with my car. COWARDS. That pisses me off. Sorry to hear it.

At least they didn't break in. Look what they did to MDKs X. Busted up the entire tailgate and rear window. They should be shot!

Man sorry to hear the bad news. It really sucks how people have to ruin something nice due to jealousy.

Yeah, my wife's MB 320 got keyed at the ball park ~18 months ago. She doesn't even play loud music!

I agree with Laura....COWARDS!

People are cowards. My fathers car was keyed all the way around a few months back... I got my windows broken and tires slashed due to jealous little cowards... Just remember Karma will catch up to them.

That sucks! Unfortunately there will always be low life members of society with no respect for anything. Being on campus I suspect it might be motivated by jealousy.

That sucks! My first Grand Cherokee was keyed from headlight to taillight in a mall parking lot.

Another victim here. Agree they are cowards. :mad:

Sorry to hear about your car. It's pure envy, some people are so jealous of your possession the only way they can feel good is to imagine hurting you. Get it fixed and don't give them the satisfaction of a reaction, you'll always live a better life than people like that. A good life is the best revenge!

Most likely do to the music.

A suggestion for you; it's always a good idea to turn the music down anywhere you are going to park; whether you have a expensive sound system or not. People look out for things like this and wait and follow. Just like with rims; people will follow you home and see where you park with bad intentions. I've learned my experiences and so has a few of my friends. I've seen hoods popped just to get a new battery. I've seen numerous cars on bricks. And of course numerous windows broken.

I agree with Benathon it helps to stay as low key as possible when you near parking lots. I use to drive a 350Z and im not one to blast music or drive crazy and drift everywhere, but i live on a large street where a lot of people easily see my car and i was constantly getting egged :( My mom just the other day got her car keyed at the local bakery... common... sorry to hear what happen though, its never easy seeing your pride and joy in that condition.

-Izzy

In the early 90's, I was forced to tell my roommate’s husband, a crazy Vietnam Vet w/ sawed off shotguns, that she had a male friend who frequented her upstairs bedroom while he was working in Saudi Arabia.

Two days later my brand new Black Honda Accord was found completely scratched on Campus. It was thoroughly rubbed by a pot scrubbing pad in psychotic manner. I needed to repaint the whole car that cost me 2k that time. I immediately reported to the authorities, but they never got her or her lover.

What’s the moral lesson of this story? 1. Yes, I should have minded my own business but I felt that my life was threatened. 2. Stay the hack away from white trashes, black Asian or purple trashes too.

I don't know it makes you feel better but what I am telling you is it could be lot worse. As well as it is a physical damage but it is more of an emotional terror. The f%^&-face who did this to you wants to get mad every time you see the scratch. Don't make him/her get to you, then f$%^-face wins.

Last week someone took the plastic caps from the BMW 2000 Profile roof mounting sytem. He knew I have to replace the whole thing. I hope he dies and burn in hell eternally or his little winie falls off when he pees.

But what can I do? I won't lose my night sleep over this.

Carry a teaser gun and a video camera.
Use the teaser gun when you catch this guy, make sure there's no witness or closed-circuit camera around. Next best thing would be try to videotape the crime and prosecute them.
I wonder if we could make a citizen't arrest on this. Well it could be dangerous.

Find out who they are and me & Wagner will pay them a visit;)

Possibilties are endless... It can be anyone.

TASER, my friend, TASER. ;)

He said 'ME NO SPEAK ENGLISH!' ;)
Get 2 webcams with motion activation and which comes with built-in webserver. Remove the shell casing and place one on the inside of A-pillar facing the D-pillar diagnally across. Place another camera on the that D-pillar facing the the 1st camera so that you have the 360 around the car covered. Cameras are powered by 12v. If you have carpc you can also have it send you an alert.

You can also add the after market sensitivity feature to the security alarm. You probably have witnessed that when you are in a parking lot and accidently touch the car next to you and either the alarm goes off or you hear "Please step back. Thank you".

I know. That is why I tried to educate him politely, rather than flaming him.

Cool mod.

Doesn't just happen in the US. I got keyed here in Australia...same lowlife types here as well. Bad news is that it took the dealer 3 goes to get the paint right. Ended up having to strip the complete doors and do a complete repaint!!!

The person (or people) who keyed your car will never have the money to buy a nice car - they are just losers :tsk:

My bad again with the mix up. This time no misspelling.
A Teaser Gun is what I carry in my X5. Ladies love it when I use on them.
Come see me if you want to find out how it is done. Ladies only please.;)

I have to stop posting after bed time. You are having too much fun.

Hate to hear that Aimster. At least I was in the car when the guy hit me and got to yell a string of explicative's at him! Plus gotta love camera phones (or in my case a friend that always has her camera) in those cases.

My car got key at the parking mall too. I was parking next to a Honda Ridgeline, it was a brand new car. I thought they would be more carefull about their doors hitting my car. But apparently not, they must be jealous about an x5 parking next to the car.

I found my x5 keyed the first week i brought it to park on campus - it's a deep scratch running from the passenger front side where the headlight ends about 5-6 to the door. The next month I got my hood emblem scratched off but luckily that was cheaper.

Needless to say, I no longer park on campus.

Anyone know where they sell those colored decals for the emblems.

They are cheap on ebay.

I got keyed at the mall. Little bastards went to town on my rear left door. Why should we get screwed because they are jealous that we are hard working and earned nice cars? I hate people like that

yea dude mine got the door kicked in (some strong muthafuker) leaving my drivers door with a huge ding as well as a nice addidas shoe print...stupid bastards man they can't deal with the fact that they suck and can't get beautiful Bimmers like us...nuff said

I hate people who vandalize other peoples property. My cousins m5 got keyed on the hood and the person carved in the word F*&k.

our cpo X5 has a little scratch on the driver's door, and I think it was from a key. it was the best conditioned one though out of all of our options.

BMW now sells a paint scratch removal kit. Maybe you guy(s) should look into that as a possible fix?

Looks more like a touch up paint.


I hope people that do these get caught in the act and get what they deserve. I don't cheat on my girl but even that song by Carey Underwood where she vandalizes a car pisses me off.

They sell that kit at the dealer? Its not touch up paint, its something else. I might be interested in this..I'd like to learn more about this product.

were there security cameras at the mall? They might have had the guy on tape - but they might not release tape to the victim, only to authorities...

It is not touch up paint. You can (and should) buy the touch up paint separately. This is a universal kit and is not color dependent.

You might want to calm down on the blasting of the music IMO. There is a time and a place for that. Neighborhoods and parking lots are not the places. There is a guy who drives down my girlfriends street blasting his music in his stupid tacoma with the windows down--its usually some metallica or pantera. Man I would love to key the sh!t out of his truck or put a brick through his window--or kick the sh!t out of him on principle, but I have self control not to do it. More than anything I wouldnt want someone to do anything to harm my X;) . Not everybody has self control to keep them from doing things they want to do or maybe they have a car that they aren't worried about getting trashed.
Sorry for what happened to you--I would prob shed a tear in pure anger:explode:

let me guess, this happened at mason? I had the same issue MANY times even though i parked as far away as possible and as close to the curb as possible. but that never worked.. you will always have some idiot park even CLOSER to you and swing their door into yours and move on like nothing happened.

Look into getting the garage decal, its easier to find roomier spaces and people tend to care a little bit more about their cars. And its convenient :thumbup: