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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Door dings are a part of living in a bigger city/suburban area. I generally park away from people because I want space to open and close doors, etc, but, if someone dinged my door and left a note, I'd never call them and ask for payment. These things just happen.

Frankly, I worry that leaving a note with your number is asking for a $5000 claim for "damage" that wasn't there. [/quote]

I worry about that too, which is why I take some precautions even though I always leave a note. I use my phone to take photos to document the damage and write myself a brief contemporaneous note detailing what damage I did and what was unrelated. I also photograph the other party’s license plate and note the make/model/color so that I know for sure what car I dinged. Once, I slid on ice and my bumper just barely grazed a POS, very old, badly scratched and dinged car. I left a note anyway. I never heard from the owner. Another time, I was opening my car door and a very strong gust of wind whipped the door open so hard I couldn’t keep my grip on the door handle (remember that bad wind storm that canceled school this spring?). The car already had a couple very minor dings/scratches, but I left a note anyway and the owner only followed up to say she found my note, but she didn’t get any repairs or ask for compensation.[/quote]

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