So today I started my first day at Wachovia. And of course I got lost and was late finding the orientation building.
I pulled into a parking spot... forgot to turn off my ipod, gps, and forgot to pull up my ebrake.

2 mins later... the security lady comes into the orientation building... asks who's weird honda is parked out front. doesn't say much...I walk out.. and FcuKK it rolled into a dodge nitro

 

aw man! did it just roll into the nitro or did it like gather a lot of speed and smash into it?

 

well the witness said it rolled into the car less than 5mph.
my tail light scratched the nitro rear quarter panel... no dent or anything...
but my car needs a new bumper. honda and their cheap bumpers.

 

Bummer...
Hope everything works out!

 

yea me too.
i'm just really bummed. like the fit was my first brand new car. and then i do something careless and fcuk it up! grr.

 

Time for jdm tails and bumper.

 

hahah well i have another set of tail lights.. but when i bought them from ricky he forgot the small connection pieces in FL.

and i would buy a jdm bumper, but my husband and i are trying to buy a house.he's sellin his s2k and im refraining from buying car parts.

 

Uh-oh, first story of car damage that wasn't caused by someone else?

 

bahaha! wasnt caused by anyone. the cars hated each other and got in a fight

 

Dodge vs. Honda I am pretty sure dodge would win..... Sad thing isn't it.

Now if it was a battle of reliability and gas mileage the Honda would pwn....

 

ahh that sucks!!!
sorry to hear that

 

thats that sucks, second day i had my car i was on hill and rolled back and hit someone at a red light, not damage thank god.

 

did you turn your wheel?

did you put it in gear? (after the engine is off)

If you didnt do either of those, then i hope you do in the future. expensive lesson.

 

dam.....

comon mistake.

in a rush and forget to pull the ebrake. one day i did that, and i ran after my car haha

 

So hopefully the new employer doesn't think you're a dip now.

I think the iPod somehow interfaced with your car's computer, and tried to steal the car. Steve Jobs is like that.

The bright side:
Your Fit will be on the road for years after that Dodge has been smelted and recycled into something useful, like drugstore shelves.

You're in B'ham? Cool, me too. (Well, not really cool right now, it's 96 degrees.) There are a couple of other FitFreaks here in town, also.

 

Flow checks! Professional pilots do flow checks of the cockpit for each phase of flight. In my car I always shut down the car using a flow that starts at the console to make sure nothing is drawing power from the power plug, place the car in Park, or first gear if it's manual, and set the park brake. Turn off the radio, turn off the AC blower, turn off the engine, make sure the lights are off, crack open the driver's window in the summer, release the safety belt and open the door. In an airplane I then back up the flow with a written checklist. In the car I don't need the written checklist. I just always use the flow for turning the car off, and I basically reverse the flow to start the car. Good habit patterns will keep you out of trouble. This flow only takes about 15 to 20 seconds to complete.

 

at least its not damage to bad, hope everything works out for you though. i always feel that i forget to do this and end up running to my car all time.

 

hahaha! yuh i believe the ipod wanted to run away or something.

anyways.... i seen a million other fits in bham...but not many nice ones.
what part of bham ya stay in?


and everyone else... i learned my mistake.
ebrake is hella impt.

 

I'm in Indian Springs (Pelham area), and work in Trussville.
A guy on this forum, whom I don't see on here much lately, called TheDeadPoet, lives in Birmingham somewhere. I was supposed to meet up w/him once but some crap came up at work or something, and we never did meet.

My Fit might not be considered "nice" either. It's just plain bone stock except for a bug deflector and a dead pedal, and Florida-legal tint. I have no intention of adding heavier wheels and a less-efficient intake or exhaust, the ones that come on the car are just fine by me. Is yours modded? Other than the unintentional mods caused by the iPod and the Dodge, that is?

 

sorry to hear. i think we all do this one time in our lives... luckily
for me i was standing right next to the car (this was like 20yrs ago)
when my mom's camry started rolling a tad at a gas station while
i was selecting my $0.89/gallon regular gas. lol