My Fusion got keyed

[BatCat]

My 2013 Fusion got keyed and we don't know exactly when it happened. We did report it to the State Police and they spent about an hour at the house. My other three cars are fine so I don't think it happened at my house. I am getting dash cams for all of my cars just to be safe. Both the mirrors and the passenger side door were keyed.

[thrasher086]

These pictures got me mad. Who goes out of their way to do ---- like this? First time I have seen mirrors get keyed.

 

I hope the door scratches could be buffed out.

Edited September 2, 2015 by hybridbear
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[hybridbear]

My 2013 Fusion got keyed and we don't know exactly when it happened. We did report it to the State Police and they spent about an hour at the house. My other three cars are fine so I don't think it happened at my house. I am getting dash cams for all of my cars just to be safe. Both the mirrors and the passenger side door were keyed.

I'm very sorry to hear that. With how damaged the mirrors are I imagine that you would have noticed that as soon as it happened. Where were you when you first noticed the damage to the mirrors?

[jeffo65]

I am assuiming that you don't drive your FFH daily. If you did, you should have know right away when looking into those mirrors.

[Timewellspent]

Like others have stated, I could see not knowing about the door, but how do you drive off without knowing the mirrors were damaged...

[BatCat]

I'm very sorry to hear that. With how damaged the mirrors are I imagine that you would have noticed that as soon as it happened. Where were you when you first noticed the damage to the mirrors?

At home. My wife drives the Fusion and I drive the MKX for my at home job.

[BatCat]

Like others have stated, I could see not knowing about the door, but how do you drive off without knowing the mirrors were damaged...

My wife drives the Fusion daily. She is off during the summer and we noticed it in the driveway Tuesday morning. She went out Monday evening for about four hours to the local Elks and didn't notice a problem, but it was 9:30pm when she left.

[Griswald]

Who did you (or your wife) piss off?

[machoman1337]

Who did you (or your wife) piss off?

 

Probably some asshat who sees a nice car and decides that since he can't afford it, he should ruin it for everyone else.

 

I was born in Singapore where this is a common risk. Due to Singapore's tiny size, cars are heavily taxed to discourage ownership, and the taxes have been rising steadily over the last 30 years. As you can imagine this largely restricts car ownership to the top earners. Yet it also makes cars extremely desirable status symbols, and quite a few middle class people will stretch their budgets and go into debt just to afford a beater car as well as the piece of paper that permits you to possess it for 10 years (the latter can cost over $50k USD today). This breeds a lot of jealousy in such a status-obsessed society. In the 1990s, the newspapers were filled with stories of new-car owners seeing key marks all over within a few days of purchase, with the extreme cases involving paint remover, sandpaper, and even ACID! Just having a brand new car, even a tiny subcompact Yaris, is enough to draw this kind of attention. Police crackdowns (as well as harsh punishments - look at the case of Michael Fay for a good laugh) have made the problem a lot less severe today, but it still happens, especially to luxury brands like BMW and Mercedes which now make up an even larger share of cars than they did in the past due to the taxes skyrocketing beyond belief.

 

My parents owned a beater car when I was growing up there (in the 1990s, it was possible for two five-figure incomes combined to afford a car without breaking the bank because the population was much smaller), and even that got vandalized. After we emigrated to the United States and later Canada, we have gone through multiple much nicer and larger cars without any problems. Whenever I hear of car vandalism it tends to be because of a personal dispute or the car owner parking poorly (hence deserving it) or the car displaying offending bumper stickers. Random acts are pretty rare in the places I've lived. Huh, I wonder if the perp is from Singapore...

 

Hope your insurance covers it BatCat. Sorry to see that unfortunate damage. At least these parts are easily replaceable/repaintable.

Edited September 20, 2015 by machoman1337

[machoman1337]

I am getting dash cams for all of my cars just to be safe.

 

About this, I recommend getting the smaller kinds that hide in front of your rear view mirror so they aren't too obvious because they can be a theft magnet - you don't want your safety measure to end up costing you one of your windows. If you're feeling adventurous, splice the wires into the rearview mirror cable. Otherwise, tuck the wire under the edge of the headliner, and run it all the way on the front, down one side, through the glove compartment, and finally to the 12V port under the central panel. I'm quite proud of my own dash cam setup - it's almost invisible from the outside. The camera itself is detachable from the mount that permanently lives in front of my rearview mirror. On hot days I remove it to prevent heat damage.

 

Dash cams are really more for capturing footage of an accident while driving, and the footage is especially useful if the guilty party tries to commit insurance fraud. If someone's gonna burglarize your car, chances are high that the dash cam will be one of the stolen items.