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Old Jan 31, 2009 | 04:17 PM
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After a week of ice and snow . The sun was shinning today . Drove the Challenger to Louisville Ky. About 50 miles from home to eat at a Outback Steakhouse we go to . With the temperature up to or above 40 after being 15 this week. I decided to wash the grime and salt off the car when I got home. With warm soapy water and bucket. Sprayed it off as I went and then with stream of water to get all the soap off. When I got to the front end and was washing the grill around the head lights on the driver side . I discovered the plastic that is behind the bumper and wrap's around under the nose of the car was busted with a piece gone . Also a crack about 20 inch's over toward the center of the car all the way through toward the engine . Can't tell you how mad it made me . I did have a flock of black birds fly up from a field and across the road in front of me on the way home from having the oil changed at the local Dodge dealer yesterday. I was doing 50 and hit the brakes . But one did hit on the driver side and came tumbling up over the grill and keep on flying. Did the bird hit the cover around the headlights and it pull enough on the wrap around inside the nose and break it . They are two seperate part's . but the headlight cover hit's against a back stop from the part that broke. My other thoughts was it damaged in the garage yesterday. I just rinsed water over the car when I finished . So I went back out in the garage and chamioed the water off all the car so I could get a good look at the bumper to see if it was damaged. Not a mark on it. Or sign of it being hit. I never park the car to where anyone can pull up against it in the front. I have handicap parking and normally park with a post infront of me with the sign or up to a side walk area. I noticed the damage when I took the soapy mit to the area. The plastic is way too thin for my likeing also. Shouldn't have busted . Hate the thought of it being worked on . Hope they don't have to take the nose off the car.
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