Not again! Another mystery dent in my new(er) Challenger

[JH27N0B]

I have an '09 B5 blue Challenger R/T that was my first new car.  I drive it on nice days and keep garaged.  I park it winters and put around 3000 miles a year on it.
Last year shortly after I got it back out in spring, I noticed a ding in the lower passenger side door. 
I had no idea where it came from.  It was parked at an airport with a golf course 100 feet north, so maybe a golf ball hit it?  I took it to a paintless repair place, and the guy there said it was too bad the dent wasn't higher, it was too close to the door frame to fix perfectly.  They repaired it, but if I look at the area in the right area, I can see where it was.
I've not been able to drive the car much this year due to bad weather, but drove it to work today.  When leaving, I looked at the car in the parking garage, and noticed a dent on the top of the passenger side fender, in the area the antenna would be on a vintage car.  What the heck, I don't know when that happened either.  I last drove it last Sunday, to the airport where it was parked for maybe 2 hours.  Another possible golf ball hit?
The car is babied and only has 30,000 miles, and now twice it gets mysterious dents?   I hope the painless dent repair place can fix it, I'm really in trouble if that location isn't fixable by their methods.
My daily driver Dart that gets parked outside, driven year round, and has almost 80,000 miles, has never got dinged. My Challenger must be cursed!

[Chryco Psycho]

That bites 

[Cuda Cody]

 

[JH27N0B]

If the paintless ding place can't fix it, I wonder if I can make a claim under comprehensive in my insurance policy?  If the fender needs to be fixed and repainted, with a new stripe, it won't be cheap.
Problem is I don't know how or when it happened.
It seems it always happens that if you drive nice cars something happens to it, just like how birds crap on nice shiny cars after you wash and wax them!  I remember when I had a really pretty Thunderbird SC which was my daily driver except in bad weather, when I'd drive my truck.  I garaged it and parked in far corners of parking lots.
One Saturday morning I was in a real hurry to get somewhere, but needed to run into the bank on my way.  I saw a space in front of the bank, so parked there instead of looking for a remote space.  Couldn't have been in the bank even 5 minutes, came out, jumped in the car and drove to my destination.  Had sort of a bad feeling, about a van or SUV I'd seen parked on my passenger side when I'd left the bank, so went over to that side of the car and checked after I arrived.  Sure enough, big ding about 5 inches under my quarter window!
Fortunately a paintless place was able to fix it perfectly.  I hope that is the case this time!

[RUNCHARGER]

Yes: The wind caught the door quarter door of my day old truck when my wife took it to the store and put a dent in it. I have to get it worked out as it bugs me every time I walk up to it.

[JH27N0B]

What gets me is having a nice car you baby, garage, only drive on nice days, park away from other cars, and still it gets damaged. Now twice.  Yet I drive a subcompact car 16,000 miles a year in all weather, snow, ice, hail, park outside, and in almost 5 years closing in on 80,000 miles, except for a couple tiny chips in the hood paint and a few small chips in the windshield, the body is unscathed.
Fate is not my friend!

[RUNCHARGER]

My friend has a 76 Black Trans AM he bought new and he has really looked after it in it's 20,000 miles. I remember we were out in it one day and it was pretty windy. He didn't want any sand blast damage so he ran it home and into the garage. You know what happened, the window in the garage blew in and put a dent in the original paint front fender. It's a no win situation some times.

[challengermaniac]

Insurance would possibly cover it, but then your rates may suffer especially if you have a subsequent claim. 

Another issue may be that the paint won't perfectly match and you will likely see a different hue in different lights. 

I started life out being a perfectionist, and then allowed myself to enjoy life more with all of it's imperfections........

[JH27N0B]

Comprehensive claims don't raise rates, collision claims do.  That being said, I'm sure if a customer made a bunch of comprehensive claims, he'd be at risk that his insurance company would drop him.
I've made a few comp claims over the years and never had my rates go up afterwards.
But you are correct that matching the blue would likely not come up perfect. Though Ryan here, Automotive archeologist or whatever he calls himself, has had a number of times his B5 09 Challenger has been damaged, and even after body and paint work, it looks pretty good to me.
I can't live with this damage, I agree sometimes some patina adds character, but this just looks terrible.
I was out at the airport today and guys out there agreed that wayward golf balls were the most likely culprit, and I think going forward when I drive the Challenger to the airport, I will park it in the hanger after we pull the plane out, the golfers will need to find another car to target parked inside the airport fence by their damn golf course!

[kawahonda]

State Farm would consider that collision. Similar situation.

Just pay the $100 in PDR and be done with it.

[RUNCHARGER]

Dang: That's not good. I guess being a new car that could be golf ball damage. I'd have to get it fixed too.
Up here we call that Comprehensive. Collision is when you hit something to cause damage to your car and it is your fault. Comprehensive is when it gets damaged by an unknown cause or cause without fault like a rock into the windshield, or burning to the ground.

[JH27N0B]

I've been down the comprehensive road before more than a few times over the years sadly, and I'm pretty well versed in what comprehensive entails versus collision.  One day around 10 years ago, I was driving down the highway and something flew through the air (it looked like a shoe!), and hit my bumper, knocked the turn signal lens out which rattled against the bumper until its wire broke and it flew off.  I called State Farm and they said it was comp, if something hits your car it's comp, if you hit something with your car it's collision.
A couple years ago I'm driving down the tollway heading to work when a bin container truck in front of me blew up, tire exploded I think, I drove through a cloud of debris, chunks of tires etc. Behind me I see cars swerving all over the place.  The car seemed ok and like a total moron and late for work, I kept driving rather than stopping.  Get to work, check my front bumper to find scuffs and tears, and later driving home check engine light goes on, I later found the active grille shutters on the car were damaged.  At work I called the State police hoping they had a record so I could make a claim against the trucking company.  They were completely worthless not surprisingly.
So I called State Farm and emphasized how I drove through a cloud of debris from the exploding POS Mack truck (I engineer International trucks    ) instead of saying I hit stuff on the highway. So my agent says he needs to check on this.  My deductible on comp is $100, collision is $1000, so it's a big deal.  Anyway he calls me back and says you are in luck, it's comprehensive! So the $1500 bill was covered except $100.  Of course, that doesn't change the fact I was a moron not to stop!
So my question is, what if you hit a deer?  If it's standing there and you hit it, collision, but if it's leaping and leaps into your moving car is it comprehensive?

[71-440]

That's a pretty big dent for a golf ball.

My buddy has a 09 he bought the same time I bought mine. He works at Hartsfield airport. A aircraft mech.
His car got the vandalized twice. Burn marks on the bumpers and dents.

Don't park your car at an airport.

[kawahonda]

Dang: That's not good. I guess being a new car that could be golf ball damage. I'd have to get it fixed too.
Up here we call that Comprehensive. Collision is when you hit something to cause damage to your car and it is your fault. Comprehensive is when it gets damaged by an unknown cause or cause without fault like a rock into the windshield, or burning to the ground.

I wish that was the case for a ding that was caused on my Ram.

Got my tailgate PDR'ed. Beautiful work, looked perfect.

Two days later I noticed a white scratch on it, and saw that there were two dings under the scratch. It's obvious that something had hit it. A shopping cart perhaps? Some other act of god? I didn't even lower my tail-gate down since then, so I have no idea.

That was considered collision for my insurance company.

[JH27N0B]

Another time I had parked next to a plane on a airport ramp.  Left my car door partially opened while I went and opened up the airplane, before getting something out of the car to put into the plane.  Came back and found that a gust of wind had caught my door and swung it open where it broke a wingtip light. 
State Farm covered it under comprehensive.
I'm glad I have State Farm!