Expensive lesson on Mazda 3 sports.

Side note (I really really hate typing out a huge post, and then closing that tab by accident. On a scale of 1 - 10 I could probably stab somebody's eye out with a screwdriver right now)

Anyway back to my original tale of woe.

I come upon my car in the parkade at work and notice the light is reflecting off my driver side door in a queer fashion. How curious I think to myself. What could be causing this disturbance in my vision. Upon closer examination I discover this disturbance is no vile trickery of the eyes no. It's a motherfucking dent on my brand new fucking car. (Sorry to offend any potential readers, but I swear. A lot. If you are offended by my coarse language may I suggest you fuck off) That's right a dent. My car has less than 1000km on it. I've owned it for less than 45 days. (Leased actually, but semantics be damned) I was trying to figure out how I managed to aquire this brand new training speed hole in my lovely new car. Could some inconsiderate prick have opened their car door into mine in a parking lot? Since the dent was on the drivers side there is a good chance the offending door opener was a passenger. Some sorry fuck that can't afford their own ride, and has to obtain rides to the mall by performing fellatio on his friends, or whomever picked him up on the street corner. I probably wouldn't have minded so much had the dent not been clearly visible both upon entering the vehicle, as well as in my side view mirror..... staring at me.... laughing.... always laughing.

I made the executive decision that my car needed to be fixed or this dent would surely drive me over the brink of madness during the next four years. staring at me in the side mirror.. laughing.... I mean seriously what else can I do except grab my ankles and pay. I call a bodyshop to get a rough estimate on my costs. When I describe the queer dent to him I get a shock I was not expecting. Allow me to share with you the disturbing dent upon my car. There is a medium sized dent of circular proportions above the door handle, and then a sharper more linear dent under the door handle. This is not consistent with a door on door injury since there was limited to no scratching, and no damage to the handle. When the bodyshop guy heard of my woe he explained that it wasn't some inconsiderate lout in a parking lot. It was an attempted car thief. It seems that the expensive lesson in Mazda 3 Sports is the 06-07 models have this nifty trick. If you lock your keys in the car instead of calling a tow truck simply kick your driver side door handle really hard a few times. This will in turn unlock your car for you.

What if I have a car alarm you ask.

Don't worry. This neat little trick will also disable your car alarm.

What if I own this car in a province well known for it's homeless, and drug addict problem.

Well then some junkie or vagrant will probably bust into your car and steal your ipod and whatever else you left in your car you slob since this apparently is a well known defect.

Aha but I will outsmart you yet vagrants and junkies. I will go and lease a brand new 08 1/2 Mazda 3 Sport. This model has fixed that problem, and no longer will a few sharp kicks to my door grant you access you my vehicle.

Unfortunately for the hero the asshole who kicked my car obviously didn't know the difference between the models, and found out he couldn't get into my car after he was kind enough to leave me some nice dents to remind me of his passage.

Today I have not slept yet, and have to work tonight. I still have to stay up and go to a bodyshop and spend about $200 to fix my car. I also tacked an additional $25 a month onto my rent for an underground parking spot. The bodyshop guy says he gets a lot of repeat business because like I said this is apparently a well known defect. I was probably going to get an underground spot in the winter when the snow started cause I hate brushing off my car, but then I realized that I live near Vancouver. By the time I wake up to go to work the snow has long since melted. I'm now paying $25 a month, so I don't have to pay another $200 in a few weeks or months when some other asshole thinks kicking my car door seems like a fantastic idea. Parking it on the street in front of a park doesn't seem like a safe bet anymore.