Can't have 'owt nice

[speedtwelve]

I had an old Honda Prelude as a snotter. It was in reasonable nick, but worth less than a grand and completely anonymous. Parked it at the far end of the car park in Tesco in Newbury, no other cars nearby. Came out 5 mins later to find it had been keyed nose to tail on both sides. WTF??? It could hardly be 'envy', and I'm pretty sure I hadn't cut anyone up on the drive in.

Newbury Tesco again, I'm sat in the car park in my Golf VR6. Middle-aged bloke with hag in tow comes towards the car attempting to steer his full trolley, which he smacks head-on into my front bumper. It bounces off and he continues past the car without missing a beat. I get out, find a fecking great scrape along the front of the car, then go and confront him over it. Denies everything, Baldrick. Wouldn't even entertain the idea that he's just smacked my car. What can you do? I don't fancy an assault charge... wker.

I go to Sainsbury's now...

[TotalControl]

This is the reason I choose to drive my Micra. All 1.0 litre of its 60 odd bhp glory. It's bloody covered in dents and scratches. Do I wash it? Nope, that's what the rain is for. I've gone as far as not caring about it so much that I never lock it. It's a satisfying feeling parking up and not caring too much about it.

But strangely, every time I find a new dent or scratch, it annoys me. Not because the car itself it damaged but, like the OP says, there's no note from anyone owning up to it. People really don't give a st anymore.

[Zedboy1200]

speedtwelve said:

Tesco again........What can you do? ...

Exactly this.... It's stereotypical, but this supermarket really stands out for being a magnet for cretins. I'd go anywhere but there.

[Devil2575]

Zedboy1200 said:

speedtwelve said:

Tesco again........What can you do? ...

Exactly this.... It's stereotypical, but this supermarket really stands out for being a magnet for cretins. I'd go anywhere but there.

I got to Tesco regularly and don't have any issues.

Mind you my car has been scratched and bumped elsewhere but I don't give a toss. It's a tatty old car so it really doesn't bother me.

[KAgantua]

speedtwelve said:

I had an old Honda Prelude as a snotter. It was in reasonable nick, but worth less than a grand and completely anonymous. Parked it at the far end of the car park in Tesco in Newbury, no other cars nearby. Came out 5 mins later to find it had been keyed nose to tail on both sides. WTF??? It could hardly be 'envy', and I'm pretty sure I hadn't cut anyone up on the drive in.

Newbury Tesco again, I'm sat in the car park in my Golf VR6. Middle-aged bloke with hag in tow comes towards the car attempting to steer his full trolley, which he smacks head-on into my front bumper. It bounces off and he continues past the car without missing a beat. I get out, find a fecking great scrape along the front of the car, then go and confront him over it. Denies everything, Baldrick. Wouldn't even entertain the idea that he's just smacked my car. What can you do? I don't fancy an assault charge... wker.

I go to Sainsbury's now...

mate i had to go newbury a few weeks ago for a business meeting, not far from where you describe, looking around the town centre theres a number of......... odd. People.

[siovey]

I bought my current mk iv golf 9 months ago with 135k on the clock. It was a one owner car and was pristine. I have to park it at the local railway station car park. Within 2 weeks of owning it, there were 7 different scratches, scrapes ,dints etc on it. People just dont give a st.
I'm totally bored of it now but dont know if i can face having something nice getting wrecked by other ts so i'll probably just keep it
In my previous car, some tt reversed into me while i was parked up , then claimed off my insurance saying i had hit him!

[speedtwelve]

KAgantua said:

mate i had to go newbury a few weeks ago for a business meeting, not far from where you describe, looking around the town centre theres a number of......... odd. People.

There's this enormous nutter to be seen around the town most days. Looks a bit like "yerr, want that one" Andy from Little Britain but without the wheelchair. Baseball cap, 'sportswear', sov rings on every finger, and absolutely dribbling batst crazy. Rather than have a job he'd spend hours in HMV at the counter, 'auditioning' albums with headphones on, screaming his (substantial) tits off to the lyrics in a 100dB monotone that sounded a bit like Elvis having a stroke. The staff were clearly too frightened to call a Police dog unit.

[Number 5]

I parked my car in a car park recently and when I came back to it somebody had poured a can of coke all over it, two weeks earlier I was in a different town (50 miles away) from where the coke incident happened and someone had spat on the windscreen.

[Hoofy]

Number 5 said:

I parked my car in a car park recently and when I came back to it somebody had poured a can of coke all over it, two weeks earlier I was in a different town (50 miles away) from where the coke incident happened and someone had spat on the windscreen.

And that was just the Golf!

[Stenn]

From my experience, this is getting worse. I've been driving for 16 years and until maybe 3 years ago I'd never had any damage done to my cars. Since then I've had 3 cars keyed and even a kid jump on the roof, denting it severely. None of the cars have been anything special, cheap daily drivers, and each of the instances have been in a different location - none of them I would have considered a bad area. I'd get no pleasure from owning a nice car now, sad state of affairs.

[lord trumpton]

siovey said:

I bought my current mk iv golf 9 months ago with 135k on the clock. It was a one owner car and was pristine. I have to park it at the local railway station car park. Within 2 weeks of owning it, there were 7 different scratches, scrapes ,dints etc on it. People just dont give a st.
I'm totally bored of it now but dont know if i can face having something nice getting wrecked by other ts so i'll probably just keep it
In my previous car, some tt reversed into me while i was parked up , then claimed off my insurance saying i had hit him

Nice work

[anonymous-user]

Somebody's just reversed into mine whilst it was parked at the train station and driven off. Split front wheel arch and scraped wing, no note, nothing. Mother fkers!

[speedtwelve]

Not the Monaro I hope, Wormus?

[Number 5]

Hoofy said:

Number 5 said:

I parked my car in a car park recently and when I came back to it somebody had poured a can of coke all over it, two weeks earlier I was in a different town (50 miles away) from where the coke incident happened and someone had spat on the windscreen.

And that was just the Golf!

[anonymous-user]

speedtwelve said:

Not the Monaro I hope, Wormus?

Fortunately she's safe in my garage. My poor disco on the other hand...

[carlove]

Just got back from a week in France, if you think it's bad here, don't go there. Every car has scruffs front and back where it's nudged/been nudged to get in or out of parking spaces. I saw several cars casually bump each other as they left a space. I just don't think the french care about their cars, all dirty, a lot looked abandoned, one in three cars seemed to have a large dent somewhere. Glad I didn't drive down.

I did see something back in the Uk, a Mazda with the headlight smashed and a badly damaged front end with the strangest thing on the windscreen, a note from the culprit with their contact details on!

[ch108]

the only issue i've had in the last few years was coming out my flat one day to find something like a 4x4 had scraped my rear bumper and rear wing. This was in our communal car park but none of my neighbours owned a 4x4, so can only assume it was a visitor. No note of course and ended up spending £160 getting Chips Away to fix it. Then a couple of months later a transit ran into the back of me at a roundabout! A bit more damage the second time which was fixed under the other drivers insurance, but my initial £160 repair was a bit of a waste of money.

My first car was an old mk1 fiesta. Some kids decided to draw all over it in crayon! Took ages to clean that off.

[Wills2]

I've just curbed my front wheels for the 4th time and I've only had it 3 months! I've worked out the issue, see the picture below you can only see the top ridge of the bonnet from the drivers seat leaving a foot of car to the right of it.

[Cliftonite]

Wills2 said:

I've just curbed my front wheels for the 4th time and I've only had it 3 months! I've worked out the issue, see the picture below you can only see the top ridge of the bonnet from the drivers seat leaving a foot of car to the right of it.

And someone seems to have pinched the grilles from the front of the car, making it look a right mess.

[blearyeyedboy]

speedtwelve said:

I had an old Honda Prelude as a snotter. It was in reasonable nick, but worth less than a grand and completely anonymous. Parked it at the far end of the car park in Tesco in Newbury, no other cars nearby. Came out 5 mins later to find it had been keyed nose to tail on both sides. WTF??? It could hardly be 'envy', and I'm pretty sure I hadn't cut anyone up on the drive in.

Newbury Tesco again, I'm sat in the car park in my Golf VR6. Middle-aged bloke with hag in tow comes towards the car attempting to steer his full trolley, which he smacks head-on into my front bumper. It bounces off and he continues past the car without missing a beat. I get out, find a fecking great scrape along the front of the car, then go and confront him over it. Denies everything, Baldrick. Wouldn't even entertain the idea that he's just smacked my car. What can you do? I don't fancy an assault charge... wker.

I go to Sainsbury's now...

Online shopping. You know it makes sense.