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Here's that photo of the grill for what it's worth. http://www.flickr.com/photos/djfumberger/2448079493/ Yeah, no skidmarks at all which makes it harder to figure out. Hah, the redhead is my lovely girlfriend Amy, I'll pass on the compliments :) Hah was wondering when someone was going to get on the corollas side, I guess after all this is a corolla forum ! Anyway, thanks everyone for your help. It's really appreciated. At least now I've got a model to pass on to the police for what it's worth.

Oh ok, I was thinking the rear lights may have given it away. I'll post that pic of the grill when I get home tonight. Yeah they would have had to have driven away or the police would surely have known about it if they was there for any length of time. Going to have another scan of the back streets tonight as well, just see if the car has been dumped anywhere...

Hah, I actually just moved onto to looking at this side as well as opposed to the grill. I put some more pictures up that show the real lights a bit closer. - http://www.flickr.com/photos/djfumberger/2448330966/ I've again been looking out there at some pictures but can't quite match it up.. looking like a hatchback maybe ? Also on a side note.. for a bit of fun see if anyone can figure out how the accident happened. - The silver mazda was in front of the black holden by about 1 1/2 car lengths. - Both parked on the same side of the road (city bound on mt alexander road) - Looks like the rear of the corolla hit the holden (based on the rear lights being on the bonnet) - And looks like the front left of it hit the mazdas right side (based on the front bumper grill being left next to the tired, labeled 'LH'). So how does that happen ?!

KptzS Heinz Fred let me know that it's probably an Ascent/Conquest and he's probably right. The grill looks very similar to the Ascent. Though if anyones still interested when I get home I'll put up more a photo and more details on it.

Yeah, I've tried rining about 10 - 15 body works places asking if they have seen any blue corollas come in, but nothing so far. Yeah, and next step is to ask around the neighborhood. It's on a very busy road (Mt Alexander) so I'm surprised no one has come forward saying they saw anything, though it happened between 2 am and 10 am on sat night. We've got insurance, put the claims in and the cars are being fixed now. Though the insurance company didn't really sound as if they were going to be looking for the third party, just told us our no claim bonuses are 0% because the other person couldn't be identified. Yep, I can see it's going to be a difficult task, I just figure if I can get as much information about the car as possible it may help in some way, especially if it was an uncommon car (though that now doesn't look to be the case). I can at least let the police know the type of car that may have been involved which may trigger something, who knows, just figure it's worth putting a little bit of effort into. We've already figured we're out around $900 for the excess on both cars, so anything more at this point is a bonus. I'm figure *if* we could track down the car, there may be some evidence based on the damage that could put it at the scene, and whether the owner reported the crash and what their story is as far as how it ended up like that etc. But yeah, slim chances. Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. Just had a search for the facelift corolla and it seems to have the small parking lights in the grill part. Are the variations on this ? Because the grill bit that fell off doesn't seem to feature any lights. (You'll have to excuse any ignorance, as I'm not real good on the topic of cars)

Hey, Sunday morning we woke up to find two of our cars with a large amount of damage due to someone losing control (assuming anyway) and plowing into them. Happened in ascot vale, melbourne. Here's what the damage looked like: http://www.flickr.com/photos/djfumberger/ Reported it to the police but they couldn't really give much help as to suggest who was responsible. There was blue paint left on the black holden, so we know the car was blue. There were also parts of the car left around the place, next to the silver mazda there was a part from a front bumper labeled toyota (you can see it in the pictures next to the back tire, haven't got a better pic at the moment) I'm trying to work out what model this might have come from, I typed in some of the parts numbers and all I really got were some toyota corolla sites in russian. I've been checking out corolla pictures on the net and it *looks* like it's come from a Toyota Corolla Runx. Here's an example http://www.ototerminal.com/2004/Toyota/Corolla-Runx/42/. The part looks very much like that grill bit on the left/right hand sides of the bumper. It doesn't seem that the runx is sold here (from searches I've done) so either it would be an import or I'm wondering if there are any other models of toyota or corolla that feature those grill things similar to that corolla runx ? Anyone provide any assistance ? (I can provide more detailed information on the part when I get home if anyone wants it)