So I bought my RX8 about a year ago, since then I got 3 problems resulting in damages:
First about 3 months ago, 1:30AM driving back from work after a very long day, exit the highway, enter the exit ramp, what do I see 3 feet in front of me? a huge raccoon crossing the road ( yeap we have raccoon in Los Angeles ), at that point I am doing only 35 mph but he was too close, hit the brake but too is too late he cracks my front skirt.

One month later, at work they force us to use 100% valet parking, I worry about them flooding my baby but that is not was I should have worried about. One morning, 3AM again after a long day I pick up my car and then I feel some bumps on my steering, look more closely, and there are 3 long scratches on the leather, like someone has took a key and run it across the wheel.
I tell the valets to be more careful. 2 weeks later more scraches, this time on the other side. They insurance won't pickup the tab to do the repair.

3 days ago, driving in the morning going to work, the car in front of me urses its blinker preparing to park in the street, I brake and all of sudden I see this huge Ford Expedition with metal tubes in the front in my rear view mirror braking like crazy, losing traction, swerving to the right but there was no space, BANG! hit me in the rear.

I am telling you, I am cursed!
Does anybody know a good witch to lift up this curse?

 

Man, sorry to hear about your bad luck streak. They say things happen in "3s" so hopefully that is the end of the bad things and the good will start to come...

 

In traveling the united states, I found the people in CA and NJ/NY the worse to be around on the roads. Not just in terms of driving skill and etiquette, but also patience.

It could be luck of the draw, but in under 2 years I had three cars totaled in NJ, and no problems anywhere else. I've never been at fault in any car accident.

 

NY/NJ might be the worse roads, but IF you master it and you are able to cut off cabbies and make them curse at you....you can drive almost anywhere in the US. But I think for some ppl is about luck and stuff. My dad bought a new mazda 626 in 1994, a few months of owning it....bam! someone hits it parked in a parking lot. Then he gets into an accident, where the stupid bus driver broke his left shoulder. Then in 1997, we buy an accord 1997 and 3 months later, he gets sandwiched between 2 cars after a big gasoline truck cuts left without noticing another small car next to him. So my dad has given up on buying new cars :p

Al