I'm pretty sure that's the part of the taillight that's most proud of the rest, so an accidental tap makes more sense.
It's always possible that a stray projectile broke your taillight. I don’t know how urban your Amesbury parking lot was, but things happen in suburban and rural areas. As a kid playing street baseball, someone in our gang hit a “home run” into a neighbor’s house window. As a teenage juvenile delinquent, I did the whole bit with peashooters and high-powered slingshots. Years ago, one of my neighbors thoughtlessly plinked at squirrels in his yard with a high-powered air rifle, and the shot was zinging through my trees overhead. It could have broken any of our skylights or the windshield of any car parked in our driveway or zapped one of my eyes. I’ve also known of people hurt in suburban or rural areas by stray bullets from hunters who didn’t think how far their bullet might go if they missed the intended target. So, although it may seem improbable, I’d like to suggest that any one of a variety of possible stray projectiles might have caused damage to your taillight. For instance, the owner might have retrieved an errant baseball, leaving you no evidence beyond your broken taillight. Perhaps the damage occurred before you parked, e.g., en route in a noisy environment, and you only happened to notice it on the way back to your parked truck.
Yeah, but don’t do that and drive through San Tan Valley in Pinal County. You might end up in Fridays with Frank on YouTube.You sir, are a genius
My lightning took an arrow to the taillight with the same damage, but the culprit was one of my employees who was driving my F550 with a dump body. The height of the 550 meant that there was absolutely no body damage . I could imagine a similar situation happening to you.
frickin arrow to the knee. everytime.
I like to catch those guys at a stoplight.
"Where's the engine at?"
a) Teslas experience that a lot more than Lightnings. A lot more.
I can verify your $$$$ amount. I had a snow removal vehicle back into mine a month ago. Very disappointing. $2046 for the light. $9600 total damage to repair everything. It's still not repaired, but the body shop did replace the light so it was legal to drive. They had to go to the dealer to get the cross-traffic sensor(s), etc to sync again.
You can get replacement taillights in ebay for around $600. If you take the sensor out of your existing light and put it in the new light then you don’t have to get anything programmed. That’s what i did when mine got smashed. Saved me nearly $2k when you include the visit to the dealer.I can verify your $$$$ amount. I had a snow removal vehicle back into mine a month ago. Very disappointing. $2046 for the light. $9600 total damage to repair everything. It's still not repaired, but the body shop did replace the light so it was legal to drive. They had to go to the dealer to get the cross-traffic sensor(s), etc to sync again.
You don’t have to get the EV plate. I just used the regular plate from my previous vehicle (which was also an EV, actually). I didn’t feel much need to advertise that the vehicle is an EV.
