You are going to pay out the wazoo, but call your local beemer dealer and ask what body shop they use. You won't be disappointed.

Suddenly, I realize my problems are so normal and boring.

Repaint the whole car apricot with some gold flake

A bit of apricotade where life gave me apricots is that it looks like he missed the driver's door and only nailed the quarter panel. So at least on that part it's not a disaster if the paint's not a perfect match.

Yes it will be. It's going to have to be very close or it's going to be obvious. If it was just the front or the rear, something that a body line breaks up, it wouldn't matter as much
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How close can you get on a 12 year-old car? I'm kind of afraid of the answer.

Wow, my new Mazda 3 had a similar brush with death Thursday night. Some drug addicts came around the corner, the wheel came off their car and it (the wheel) hit my front bumper. No damage, amazingly.

So there was something to the end of the 13th Baktun after all. Evidently the Mayans for saw the formation of Sandbox Simulations and knew that on this date (within 24 hours) both of the founder's motor vehicles would be threatened by ridiculously careless people.

There were a couple of other pointers to this event that we should have seen this coming. My previous vehicle was a bright yellow Ford F-150; so we both had exceptional taste in motor vehicle color. And my tire event had been foreshadowed by a similar event a couple years earlier http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?p=7032496

Spooky.

If the person taking the picture and mixing the paint know what they are doing you can get really close.

A good body shop will know what to do. They won't use the original paint code. They will probably picture the door which will be the closest spot in terms of fade etc.
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Evidently there was a slight mistranslation on that Mayan calendar. There was no apocalypse, but rather an apocarlypse.

Ah, so they match the faded paint and not the original paint? I had no idea.

So would you paint the whole car or just the quarter panel or just the damaged part? It's not as if a ton of paint came off - it's just scrapes and a few small areas maybe the size of a dime where the paint was scratched off.

Let the shop decide that. They will know where to fade in the new paint.

I wouldn't paint the whole car, but that's just me
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Thoughts and prayers your way.

Yeah, I was just thinking about that other incident. It might seem as though you are likely to die eventually through some incident with a Goodyear. But I would suggest that you may live life around tires with reckless abandon. You've survived your share of tire-related accidents so you're safe now.

I predict that someday they'll find cdcox dead in a tire swing, having strangled on the rope.

In the first incident I stayed in my lane and I got hit.

In the second incident, I changed lanes and I got hit.

Must be doing it wrong.

I predict Seedy Cox passes of kidney stones.