Towbar trashed my boxster is this legal
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Hi
some advice please - whilst parked at some shops - a nice person with a large towbar hit my car and gouged the bumper - obviously they denied it and claimed "it could have been like that already"
fantastically honest world we live in!
anyway - i want to know if this type of towbar is legal as it has large vertical uprights with no protection
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22206294...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22214221...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22206291...
the towbar doesnt appear to have any BS / ISO (94/20/EC) approval which is required after 1999 and as you can see its on a 54 plate BMW
Anyone with any advice it would be much appreciated
Thanks !!
some advice please - whilst parked at some shops - a nice person with a large towbar hit my car and gouged the bumper - obviously they denied it and claimed "it could have been like that already"
fantastically honest world we live in!
anyway - i want to know if this type of towbar is legal as it has large vertical uprights with no protection
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22206294...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22214221...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21519591@N05/22206291...
the towbar doesnt appear to have any BS / ISO (94/20/EC) approval which is required after 1999 and as you can see its on a 54 plate BMW
Anyone with any advice it would be much appreciated
Thanks !!
Edited by wibbleone on Saturday 26th January 19:48
qooqiiu said:
Looks perfectly legal to me, if a little different to the usual ones you see. The mountings either side of the knob dont protrude farther than the knob itself, so i dont see any reason to doubt its legality.
They look like the type I have that are for a bike carrier, perfectly legal.
wibbleone said:
no need to get personal! of course the joy of owning an unreliable liquidated TVR must be thriling!
A candle that burns half as long burns twice as bright...Besides, I am willing to bet that if the guy with the towbar damaged a TVR, he might have been more sympathetic and apologetic!
Either way, whether it is legal or not is irrelevant, if you are looking for him to compensate you for your damage, you would need things like the dimensions of it exactly so you could prove beyond reasonable doubt that he did in fact make the damage should it go as far as court.
thanks
firstly it was a blonde female! not a guy - she was probably hairdresser and borrowed her boyfriends car and left her boxster at home (see at least i have a sense of humour)
i dont think theres much chance of anything going legal - its hardly worth it - i just wondered if these large towbars were legal considering the damage they can do
and remember me when some moron dings your car - i'm the person with the big grin on his face saying what goes around comes around
i very much doubt someones likely to fess up just because you own a TVR - god you all have to get out more!
firstly it was a blonde female! not a guy - she was probably hairdresser and borrowed her boyfriends car and left her boxster at home (see at least i have a sense of humour)
i dont think theres much chance of anything going legal - its hardly worth it - i just wondered if these large towbars were legal considering the damage they can do
and remember me when some moron dings your car - i'm the person with the big grin on his face saying what goes around comes around
i very much doubt someones likely to fess up just because you own a TVR - god you all have to get out more!
JustinP1 said:
wibbleone said:
no need to get personal! of course the joy of owning an unreliable liquidated TVR must be thriling!
A candle that burns half as long burns twice as bright...Besides, I am willing to bet that if the guy with the towbar damaged a TVR, he might have been more sympathetic and apologetic!
Either way, whether it is legal or not is irrelevant, if you are looking for him to compensate you for your damage, you would need things like the dimensions of it exactly so you could prove beyond reasonable doubt that he did in fact make the damage should it go as far as court.
1/ It's balance of probabilities for a civil court,
2/ A candle's brightness does not depend on how long it burns and,
3/ Wasn't Porsche's (that's the car company not father or son) first car produced in 1949? That makes TVR a little older.
I'm not even sure the bloke would have behaved differently if he'd damaged a TVR.
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