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Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.
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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Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.

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.

e: The more I look at it the more it looks drilled.

It's a plastic body panel.

Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.
Why the hell would someone drill a hole in her car? Random vandalism? Someone was just walking around with a cordless drill?

Lincoln
May 12, 2007

Ladies.

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.

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".

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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