Car park ding- they drove off- now what?

Car park ding- they drove off- now what?

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gt500nick

960 posts

139 months

Thursday 4th June 2015
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Buy a cheap run around car for doing the shopping And other nonsense so u don't care when it gets sings, scrapes and scuffs. And don't take your nice car to tescos anymore problem solved.

Trailhead

2,628 posts

148 months

Thursday 4th June 2015
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gt500nick said:
Buy a cheap run around car for doing the shopping And other nonsense so u don't care when it gets sings, scrapes and scuffs. And don't take your nice car to tescos anymore problem solved.
I hate this argument. So when can you drive your nice car, when you're not going anywhere?!

Granfondo

12,241 posts

207 months

Tuesday 16th June 2015
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Zod said:
Just noticed yesterday evening that at some point yesterday some fker swiped the front nearside of my car while ti was parked. The paint left is green. The wheel arch is cracked in two spots, so it was hit quite hard. No note of course. With paint blending, this is going to be a several thousand quid insurance claim. rolleyes
And it will never be the same again!

DUMBO100

1,878 posts

185 months

Tuesday 16th June 2015
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I just returned to my car to find a fresh new dent in the passenger door and no one around to explain. It's broken the paint and dented it right on the crease which looks like it might be difficult to repair. It's a new (leased) Golf R with 3000 miles on it

Zod

35,295 posts

259 months

Tuesday 16th June 2015
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Granfondo said:
Zod said:
Just noticed yesterday evening that at some point yesterday some fker swiped the front nearside of my car while ti was parked. The paint left is green. The wheel arch is cracked in two spots, so it was hit quite hard. No note of course. With paint blending, this is going to be a several thousand quid insurance claim. rolleyes
And it will never be the same again!
Thanks for that - you've made me feel so much better!

M+A Coachworks are very good.They sorted my DB9 after some bd keyed the bonnet.

saaby93

32,038 posts

179 months

Tuesday 16th June 2015
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The other problem is the 'not wanting to get involved' how much paper work will you have to fill in and be registered on some data base somewhere and the endless phone calls

The other day a not so old dear reverses gently out of her parking spot into the side of car, you know car parks where they have a row of cars at the edges that are parallel parked to the kerb.
There must have been hundreds of people who saw it, well maybe 5 -10

It was only the pop of the door panel that made me look up and walk over. She said it had felt squishy at first then there was this bang.
Well it would do smash
Metal flexes a bit then loses it's shape with a bang.
She looked surprised at this rare Nosy person and 'decided' to write a note to put under the windscreen.
Despite the car park being full everyone else conveniently looked the other way afterwards as if 'not by business'.

What would you do?