I am so so livid. Been away for a couple of days in Lincoln, so parked the car up and came back to the rear door smashed in, rear wing scraped big time and the rear of the car pushed across the road about 6" into the kerb. No note on the windscreen from whoever did it, or from any witnesses (and there must have been some as its a busy-ish road. From looking at it, some moron has reversed into it big time. 3.5 years the wife has had her A1 and not so much as a stone chip. Now about £2K's worth of damage and loss of her no claims due to some ignorant arsewipe. I'm fuming, plus it kind of put a downer on what should have been a couple of nice days away. :furious:
I know just how your feeling at the moment Dave,it's happened to me twice,,I know for certain I could never do this to anyone and drive away ,the guilty person was probably not insured or maybe not even legally allowed to be here,,
Ye it just pisses me off i feel for ya .. my daughter had it done to her there just Aholes !
Gutted for ya mate. That's just crap. Bloody mongrels!
Bastards :furious: :furious:
:rant: :rant: :rant: Absolutely hate erseholes who do this sort of shite - happened to my good ladies car lucky enough I was able to repair and paint but still cost me the time and like you Dave I like all the family cars to be smart and very clean :rant: :rant: :rant: :rant:
Real bummer Dave, no chance of any cctv from surrounding buildings?
Pigs??? Barmy ...even under pressure you are still a gentleman! I would have been using much stronger descriptive word than that. The things some people do defies words.... feel for ya!
This sort of incident really boils my p*ss...People have no bloody respect whatsoever for other peoples property :furious: :furious:
Hope you get it sorted out Dave.
I came out to my car a couple of years ago to be greeted with this....
Feel your pain Dave. Weve all had similar happen by low life. Just a mongrel act.
FFS Dave, that is a real pisser. Here's hoping the scum get something very painful to die from soon.
Quote from: Red Biker on Friday, 20 April 2018, 05:51 AM
Real bummer Dave, no chance of any cctv from surrounding buildings?
I was hoping for that Nigel, but just out of view. Typical.
Off to get an estimate tomorrow. I was hoping it might "just" be a door skin and a rebuild of the back wing with some filler, but closer inspection reveals a fold in the door behind, even a dent on the rim of the alloy - must have given the poor girl a real hard whack.
As for me being a gentleman ARH, hmm, you would not have want to have heard what I said when I saw it last night when we returned, very ungentlemany (this place however is more public so I tried to be more discrete. Yesterday though, livid was rather an understatement!
Unfortunately as you have all said, it seems to be a way of life these days with many having no respect for others property, which is rather a telling shame on the society we live.
Sorry for you, thats disgusting Dave and sad to have taken the gloss off your time away.
Enough has already been said about the pedigree of the person that did this.
I am driving around in a fairly late model van that l repaired from a total loss. I go to the shops and as im getting out a woman carrying a child opens her car door into my van. I say "you could be a bit more careful" she says "just fcuk off" nice lady....not !!.
Can't wait to sell it and start driving a heap of shit again. Nobody wants to park near you then.
Your rear door shell needs replacing, it will have bent the intrusion bar.
I'm the same Dave, gentlemanly & discrete on here. Never see anything a bit rough coming from my keyboard. Think I should change my handle to St Col . . . :whistling:
That sucks Dave! As mentioned any CCTV nearby?
People do suck.
I had been to the bottle-O and stocked up on beer for a party (a large number of cartons). It was in the boot out of sight.
I drove to near where the party was, parked up and went off for about 20minutes.
Came back and in that time someone had jemmied the boot open (lock stayed shut so boot was bent at 45 degree angle from lock to hinge) and all the beer was gone. So no beer and no money and a bent boot. :furious:
Quote from: Kiwifruit on Friday, 20 April 2018, 09:13 AM
Sorry for you, thats disgusting Dave and sad to have taken the gloss off your time away.
Enough has already been said about the pedigree of the person that did this.
I am driving around in a fairly late model van that l repaired from a total loss. I go to the shops and as im getting out a woman carrying a child opens her car door into my van. I say "you could be a bit more careful" she says "just fcuk off" nice lady....not !!.
Can't wait to sell it and start driving a heap of shit again. Nobody wants to park near you then.
Your rear door shell needs replacing, it will have bent the intrusion bar.
Ah forgot that about the intrusion bar - of course. Bugger. Complete new door then, but probably that's for the best.
Strangely we have the same type of people here who open doors onto one's pride and joy and are as polite. Somehow I think they think the world owes them a living.
Quote from: VladTepes on Friday, 20 April 2018, 10:54 AM
That sucks Dave! As mentioned any CCTV nearby?
Unfortunately not. Checked the hotel CCTV and just out of range dammit.
That indeed is a downer after a nice weekend away :thumbs_down:
This would classify as a hit and run..right? Why risk doing jail time when the insurance can sort it :whatever:
Hope it won't cost you to much to get it fixed.
We ( Dutchies ) have a special national fund..started by a coalition of the big insurance parties .. on which we can ( partialy) claim damage done by fender benders anonymous.
- Maybe you UK guys have that to? They do not advertise their existence so you might have to ask your insurance company
This explains the construction a bit:
Who are we and what do we do?
The Motor Traffic Guarantee Fund was established in 1965. The "Waarborgfonds" is for people who have suffered damage as a result of a motor vehicle such as a moped, car or tractor and can not go to an insurer with that damage. For example if the causer has drowned or if he is not insured. Damage caused by a stolen motor vehicle can also be reimbursed.
We therefore only reimburse damage by a motor vehicle. We do not compensate damage caused by, for example, vandalism.
The "Waarborgfonds" is a non-profit foundation. We are financed from annually fixed contributions from Dutch motor insurers. A part of all WA premiums for motor vehicles goes to the Guarantee Fund.
Sorry to read what some scumbag has done Dave. I look after my car & it's a company car. Only had my New Skoda Superb a couple of months and always careful where I park etc, but already a ding in the door from some arsehole.
Doesn't matter how hard you try, they just don't give a rats & boy it makes me mad.
Doesn't help you, but I hope they stuffed their car up a lot. :furious:
Quote from: KiwiCol on Friday, 20 April 2018, 10:11 AM
I'm the same Dave, gentlemanly & discrete on here. Never see anything a bit rough coming from my keyboard. Think I should change my handle to St Col . . . :whistling:
St Col, I think we all know your back doors will have been smashed in before! :laughsign:
Why Yes young Red, you is correct that I've had my share of 'smashed doors' in the past. So yes, I'm familiar with wot Lord Barmy was feeling at the time.
Took for a quote this morning, as I suspected new rear door required, estimate of £1600-£1800 so it will def be an insurance job.
Thanks for all the replies, amazed how many of us have been "victims" of so many twats. Grrrrrr!!!!
Oh boy, I am getting old and senile :confused1: Thought I had never been a victim but now I remember 2 instances. No hit and run though.
1. Returning to car parked on public parking lot and discovered some vandals had slashed the tires on my "heap of junk". I was so mad at this that I kicked the rear fender. I put all I got into that kick. The fender gave way to my kick so that my standing leg got twisted so bad that the result was a spiral fracture topped by a blood clot (thrombosis) for which I had to poke myself for a couple of weeks to administer a blood thinner. :rofl2: Taught me the value of anger management.
2. Bought 20 bottles of beer, took 1 bottle with me and left the rest sitting on the seat as I was to lazy to carry the lot. At home I took a sip of the beer and spit it out. It was NASTY shit. Went to the pub and got my fill. Dreading to have to return the beer next day. When I got to the car, the beer was all gone. I got a real good laugh out of this as I pictured the scum drinking the sewage. :cheers:
That's shite, some bastard just did the same thing to my nieces car and left her to stump up £900 to sort it out.
think weve all had our share. wifes car, few yrs ago, big yellow lines and dents where a truck or 4wd went up over boot. no notes etc left.
Quote from: Blubber on Friday, 20 April 2018, 05:33 PM
That indeed is a downer after a nice weekend away :thumbs_down:
This would classify as a hit and run..right? Why risk doing jail time when the insurance can sort it :whatever:
Hope it won't cost you to much to get it fixed.
We ( Dutchies ) have a special national fund..started by a coalition of the big insurance parties .. on which we can ( partialy) claim damage done by fender benders anonymous.
- Maybe you UK guys have that to? They do not advertise their existence so you might have to ask your insurance company
This explains the construction a bit:
Who are we and what do we do?
The Motor Traffic Guarantee Fund was established in 1965. The "Waarborgfonds" is for people who have suffered damage as a result of a motor vehicle such as a moped, car or tractor and can not go to an insurer with that damage. For example if the causer has drowned or if he is not insured. Damage caused by a stolen motor vehicle can also be reimbursed.
We therefore only reimburse damage by a motor vehicle. We do not compensate damage caused by, for example, vandalism.
The "Waarborgfonds" is a non-profit foundation. We are financed from annually fixed contributions from Dutch motor insurers. A part of all WA premiums for motor vehicles goes to the Guarantee Fund.
We have similar, pays out 90% of the claim, I've forgot it's name though ABI or ABD maybe.