First unfortunate experience with my 12C in London

[giggsy]

My first unfortunate experience with my 12C last night..

Nothing major but still not too impressed. Parked my car in Central London near Piccidally Circus last night to have dinner.
When I went back to my car a couple of hours, the side panels and drivers side window all covered with probably fizzy orange drink. Some idiot must have thought my car was thirsty & took it upon themselves to give my a car a drink..
As you can imagine not too impress but I guess lucky that's all the idiot did..

Rant over... All cleaned up nicely now :-)

[b16a2_VTi]

Shame people dont have respect, i too am always worried about leaving my car in the city.
Glad it cleaned up well, could have been alot worse.

[The_Doc]

Sad.

But you're £20 lighter for a quick wash, and they are stuck in their jealous little go-nowhere life forever.

Mind you, if I'd been there to witness the act I wouldn't have called the police, initially....

[RankAmateur]

mate... the West End on a Friday night is filled with drunken revellers. I would never park my car there at that time - it's asking for trouble.

[MikeGoodwin]

Got a point. fk leaving that sort of car parked up - at any time of day!

Glad no damage was caused. Ive had my cars spat on, keyed, kicked twice. Not even expensive cars either. My old Clio GT suffered the most damage and it was only a 12k clio.

[matrignano]

Consider yourself "lucky".
I live and park nearby and my car has been the victim of countless acts of random vandalism.
2x wing mirrors, one large keying, careless parking against my bumpers etc.
Top trumps goes to the young lady who thought it would be fun to take a hike ON my car's bonnet, roof and boot. Nice.
Never caught obviously.

[ShampooEfficient]

Nowhere near the same level of prestige, but imagine my delight when I came home after a weekend away and found handprints and scuffs all down the roof of my Omega... Little gits.

[giggsy]

i have parked there many many times with various cars ranging from 360/430 to R8/GT-Rs/Astons as my office is nearby and I have never had an incident at all..

I guess it only takes one incident no matter how big or small to change or alter where one parks in future.. sad indeed.. guess it is the times that we live in now...

[Stryke]

RankAmateur said:

mate... the West End on a Friday night is filled with drunken revellers. I would never park my car there at that time - it's asking for trouble.

Exactly!

I'm not sure why OP is so surprised. That part of London is full of idiots by night.

[LITRBL]

Park in Cavendish Square car park then walk / cab to where you need to get to. It's secure, has extra wide bays and used by supercars regularly. I always use it. Behind John Lewis on Oxford street... One less thing to worry about.

http://www.q-park.co.uk/parking/parkingid/1954

[AWV12]

Poor guy (probably not a girl) who did this. What jealousy does with people......happily it got easily cleaned.

Once got half a milkshake (strawberry.....) on the complete side of my DBS when parked for a few hours (in rural Germany). How foolish can you be....

Edited by AWV12 on Thursday 21st August 20:34

[giggsy]

LITRBL said:

Park in Cavendish Square car park then walk / cab to where you need to get to. It's secure, has extra wide bays and used by supercars regularly. I always use it. Behind John Lewis on Oxford street... One less thing to worry about.

http://www.q-park.co.uk/parking/parkingid/1954

Thanks for that... Cheers

[squirejo]

I had someone in a rangerover throw what I hoped was the remains of a drink through the half open window of my classic 911 onto my wife recently. Which I thought was classy.

I was joining the A4 at north end road junction.

[Tony 1234]

squirejo said:

I had someone in a rangerover throw what I hoped was the remains of a drink through the half open window of my classic 911 onto my wife recently. Which I thought was classy.

I was joining the A4 at north end road junction.

What scum

[ZeusF]

As AWV12 said above, poor person.

You have to feel sorry for this kind of person because almost certainly he will never attain to become much with his life and waking up the next day in his sordid life is punishment enough.

You on the other hand still have the MP4 !

Not much to add other than I don't think its asking for trouble parking anywhere. It can be seen as more risky but never asking for it. We should be able to park wherever we chose as long as its legal.

[JB12C]

Park in Belgrave Square, it has 24hr armed Police on duty guarding the Embassies and Consulates. Grosvenor Square is the same, US Embassy is there.

[andyps]

Not a great thing to happen and shows a strange lack of ambition through jealousy many people have. But there are also many on PH who find that type of behhaviour to be fun and all part of the action at Le Mans each year - I have never understood how it is seen as acceptable there.

[croyde]

The scum that frequent the West End are by no means the great unwashed, they can't afford it, but more the young well to do that will probably be able to own a great car one day if not sooner.

Doesn't stop them being idiots though.

Glad it just a sticky drink mate, I've had a lot worse happen to normal old cars. Came back to mine once in Camden on a Saturday night (I was working) when someone had thought it funny to stove in both front windows. Nothing stolen, and surely you'd only need to break one window for that, yet years later and two big repair bills and the power windows have just never been the same

[wijit]

I have to be honest, what bothers me most is that you said "First", meaning you expect more. That is such a sad thing to think, that envy others feel makes you expect it.
I hope one day you will reflect on this experience as "only".

[matrignano]

croyde said:

The scum that frequent the West End are by no means the great unwashed, they can't afford it, but more the young well to do that will probably be able to own a great car one day if not sooner.

Mayfair, maybe.

But the Piccadilly Circus/Leicester Sq area + Soho definitely don't attract the best people London has to offer