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Just discovered this perfectly round hole in my wife's car as she was leaving for work this morning. Didn't have time to measure the hole because she had to leave, but when she gets home I'm going to see if a 9mm will fit snugly inside. What in the hell could this be? The hole is almost perfectly vertical, so it's not like someone took a shot at our car. 
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Jan 16, 2016 15:44
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My internet powers say yes. or someone took a hole saw/spear/meteorite to it.
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Jan 16, 2016 15:52
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In every other picture I've seen of bullet holes in steel the area around the hole warps inward slightly. That looks more like a puncture. Unless of course that fender is aluminum, which is more brittle and wouldn't warp the same way. e: The more I look at it the more it looks drilled. Gorson fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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Jan 16, 2016 16:07
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Gorson posted:In every other picture I've seen of bullet holes in steel the area around the hole warps inward slightly. That looks more like a puncture. Unless of course that fender is aluminum, which is more brittle and wouldn't warp the same way. It's a plastic body panel.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:23
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That definitely looks drilled. Every bullet hole I've made in something has always been way more ragged. Except for wadcutters or semi-wadcutters, and even then, the only place they look remotely round is in paper.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:24
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Why the hell would someone drill a hole in her car? Random vandalism? Someone was just walking around with a cordless drill?
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Jan 16, 2016 16:29
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Is there a factory security system in the car? Where's the ECU? Is there anything under that fender that they'd want to get at to disable?
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Jan 16, 2016 16:32
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Yeah, my bet would be factory security wiring or hood release run through that fender and someone drilled it to try a low key break in.
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Jan 16, 2016 16:34
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Looks like it's been drilled rather than shot at. If they were drilling to access wiring, you think they'd go big, i.e. holesaw, especially into plastic. They would be replacing the panel either way. Put a power antenna or wing mirror in there.
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Jan 16, 2016 21:39
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I've seen shots at fiberglass, sheet steel, and aluminum, and that is not a bullet hole. Bullet holes in fiberglass tend toward the ragged, in sheet metal they leave a definite pucker or dimpling around the hole. There is definite single direction burring in that hole which is indicative of a drill.
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Jan 16, 2016 21:50
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Put a CB radio antenna in there, one of those comedy huge VHF whips from the 80s.
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Jan 16, 2016 22:20
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Lincoln posted:It's a plastic body panel. Is it really?
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Jan 17, 2016 04:43
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nth'ing drilled hole. At any rate, next time you get your hands on the car, take a look behind/underneath and post more. What model car? Edit: any minute circular, concentric scratches around the hole? Sometimes the chips will collect on the drill and rotate with it, slightly scratching the surface of the "workpiece". bolind fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Jan 18, 2016 |
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Jan 18, 2016 14:42
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Look for the dust from the drill still under or look for the object that made the hole. A meteor might be worth the price of your deductible. I doubt there is anything run up there it would be a dumb place to run wires and cables now that accountants have told the engineers to make everything as short as possible.
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Jan 18, 2016 15:13
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I have shot many cars with bang sticks and this is not a bullet hole.
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Jan 18, 2016 18:49
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Makes me wonder if there was a rumor email going around about how you can steal it by drilling a hole but all I got was results about drilling the door below the lock. Looks like regular old cordless drill vandalism to me, maybe walk the block and see if anyone else got the same thing?
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Jan 19, 2016 03:43
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It's a speed hole - it makes the car go faster.
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Jan 19, 2016 06:00
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It's easy to see who's been to the track and who hasn't.
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Jan 19, 2016 06:11
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It's slightly worrying that more of you have posted 'I know what bullet holes look like' than 'I know what drill holes look like'.
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Jan 19, 2016 11:41
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bolind posted:nth'ing drilled hole. At any rate, next time you get your hands on the car, take a look behind/underneath and post more. 1) I'll have time to poke around later this week, but there's no easy way to se the damage from underneath. 2) 2012 BMW X5 3) nope, nothing like that, but there are shavings coming off the exit-side of the hole, so yeah it was drilled. Adjuster will look at it early next week. $99 deductible, so no big whoop, but I'm still puzzled that it even happened. I'm just chalking it up to random vandalism. But I've never heard of this. Antenna snapped off, sure. But walking around a parking lot with a cordless drill.
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Jan 19, 2016 12:57
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