Would you ever hit a car in the parking lot and not leave a note?

I would write a note to the owner of the car with my contact information. Depending on the type of vehicle, the owner may just be happy to let it go. However, I'd want to leave that decision up to them.

Scratches that seem barely noticeable in certain types of light may become very obvious in others. It also depends on if it was just one scratch or a series of them. The color of the car matters too.

If it's a silver car, you may easily have gone right through the paint down to bare metal without realizing it (I have a silver car and I have to watch for stone chips, etc. ) Deep scratches that aren't tended to will rust, even if they don't look that noticeable at the time.

I would definitely leave a note on the car owner’s vehicle, if I happened to bump the car in any way that left behind visible scratches or dents. I believe in treating others the same way you would expect to be treated, and I am fairly certain that if my car were damaged in any way by another driver parking or exiting his own car, I would like to know about it. I have found numerous scratches on some of my previous cars during car washes and some dents on my side doors showed visible paint smudges that stemmed from the other car that caused the damage.

Nobody had ever left me a note when these incidents occurred and so I never knew about the smaller of the dents and scratches until a few weeks or so later, after I finally decided to hand-clean my car. It can be very frustrating to discover that the car you thought to be in immaculate condition was actually damaged in areas that you were previously unaware of.

Of course I would leave a note. That is the right thing to do! Heh, my sister's first car started out with just a tiny ding in the passenger side door.

Slowly but surely, the ding turned into a dent, and then quite a big dent. I asked her what the deal was, and here was her best guess at how this happened: Subconsciously, people saw the ding and figured, "Oh well, this person doesn't care about her car anyway, so I don't have to be careful getting out of my car next to hers... Oh! Wow, I hit it with my door.

Oh well, she won't care. She didn't care about the ding the last guy made. " She did care, though.

She just had a $1000 deductible on her collision insurance, which she could never find it in her to spend fixing a little ding / dent.

I would actually wait around if the damage were noticeable. I would rather not just leave a note so they can tell my insurance what ever they like and I can end up fixing the whole side of their car. If it was a barely noticeable scratch I'd prolly give it a feel see how deep it was and if it was basically nothing just drive away.

They probably will not notice it, and if its not any real damage while waste both our time and risk being ripped off? I actually rarely park next to people though.. I usually park as far back as I can away from everyone else sometimes even out of the parking lot both to avoid scratches and get some extra exercise.

No I'd leave a note the insurance pays for it anyway.

If I was in a parking lot and accidentally hit another car, I would do like you said, get out and check out the damage. If it was only a scratch that you could barely see, I’d probably wait around for a few minutes but if no one came, I might or might not just leave. If it’s just a scratch I probably would just leave.

I do have insurance but to fix a scratch the owner might take advantage of me and want to get the whole side of the car repainted. Plus, I know my insurance would go up after they paid for the damage. Now, if it was more than I scratch I would again wait around for a few minutes to see if the owner comes back.

If not, then I would leave a note with my name and phone number on it so that the owner of the vehicle could contact me. :-).

NO! I am a big believer in karma. The idea of karma was born from Buddhist teachings, these teachings state that the definition of the law of Karma is: “For every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.

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I may not be a practicing Buddhist, but I do believe that we should all live by the Golden Rule of treating others as we would wish to be treated. Chances are, if my car was hit in a parking lot, it would just be a scrape or a ding so I wouldn’t pursue getting it fixed, so the note would be more of a goodwill gesture on the part of the driver.

To be honest, I'd have to say not all the time. I mean if I definitely caused some damage that should be fixed then sure, definitely I would leave a note (not wait around, that could take all day). But if the car already had damage over it making it not really noticeable then I think I would probably just leave it be.

The main reasoning being that sometimes people can try take advantage of you, using your slip to make wider repairs. Leaving the decision up to them can just land you in a difficult situation, because some people will want as much as they can get. So really it becomes a judgement call, is this going to be worth the trouble to have this minor and insignificant scratch fixed?

If the decision is a close one, or even slightly tipped in the direction of not leaving a note, then its usually best to leave one. But there are many cases it would be pointless. If it were a bigger hit then I would definitely always leave a note.

I had someone run into my car parked outside my house one time, hit right on the driver side door hinge making it not open properly. All they left me was a little of their paint :/. To this day its still not completely fixed as I just don't have the money to make it a priority.

Another time I had a wing mirror smashed, but the rock they left behind gave me the impression that a note was never going to be part of the equation.

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