I've had my car 3 months and so far.....

[Alfahorn]

I've covered 6,000 miles, scratched one of the sills, got a puncture, a dent on the roof and now I've got a cracked windscreen!

[12gauge]

How did these things happen?

Were they your fault or someone elses?

Did you catch the buggers?

[FranKinFezza]

[gareth.e]

I feel the same, although my car is technically a crappy old french hatchback.. I seem to have caused considerable wear on the interior, bodywork and mechanics in less than 6 months

[FraserLFA]

That's the real world for you. No matter what you try, sooner or later, you'll suffer damage.

[robsco]

If it's one of the Alfas or the Fiat, they all do that. If by any chance it's the Golf, then that's very unfortunate Alfahorn. You've been incredibly unlucky.

[Kentish]

I feel for you, bloody disheartening!

I dare say a hole bunch of folks will post to say "it's only a car" but we know they are on the wrong site and just stumbled across this one to use as a chat room

[shirt]

pah!

in 6mths I've covered 16k miles, cracked a windscreen, had a new front wing and 2 driveshafts.

[redstu]

Just for balance...
In 15 months I've covered about 2500 miles and had nothing go wrong at all.

[Compo_Simmonite]

We had a massive loan (for us) to buy a 6 month old D reg Metro City mainly for my wife to use. Three weeks later it got two nice, sharp, dents on the side where someone had carelessly opened their car door. I was devistated as it was the first decent car I'd ever owned.
BTW the car went on in true Metro fashion to fall apart - both boot hinges seized and snapped off when wife opened tailgate, nearside door had to be replaced at 4 years old due to holes you could get your hand in on the lower edge, gearbox locked up, TX tyres lasted 14-16000 miles, exhaust rotted away, waterpump and alternator failed, 1st MOT needed rear wheel cylinders as leaking, suspension sagged on one side, front and rear valances shed their factory paint and rotted along lower edge, and numerous little problems. This wasn't a high mileage neglected car but garaged, serviced, maintained, looked after second car that had done less than 40000 miles when we sold it at just under 5 years old !

Paul H

Edited by Compo_Simmonite on Tuesday 28th December 09:45

[XJSJohn]

Alfahorn said:

I've covered 6,000 miles, scratched one of the sills, got a puncture, a dent on the roof and now I've got a cracked windscreen!

7 months and 17,000 KM.

1 Puncture
1 cracked / replaced windscreen
1 scuffed front bumper
1 chip in A pillar (no idea how that got there)
2 replaced window motors (on warrenty)
3 speeding tickets
10 + parking tickets

not bad going realy!

[scorcher]

Alfahorn said:

I've covered 6,000 miles, scratched one of the sills, got a puncture, a dent on the roof and now I've got a cracked windscreen[/Alfahorn]

FranKinFezza said:

Perhaps we could get C5 to do a six part series on the day to day life of you in the same vein as Eddie Stobart/white Van man etc?

[Jimbo_vx]

car 1 - 6 years 32k miles, absolutely nothing gone wrong.

car 2 - 8 months 15k miles, absolutely nothing gone wrong

car 3 - 3 months 4k miles, yep you guessed it, nothing gone wrong.

[Snoggledog]

XJSJohn said:

Alfahorn said:

I've covered 6,000 miles, scratched one of the sills, got a puncture, a dent on the roof and now I've got a cracked windscreen!

7 months and 17,000 KM.

1 Puncture
1 cracked / replaced windscreen
1 scuffed front bumper
1 chip in A pillar (no idea how that got there)
2 replaced window motors (on warrenty)
3 speeding tickets
10 + parking tickets

not bad going realy!

That's normal for you thouhg

[XJSJohn]

[mybrainhurts]

Jimbo_vx said:

car 1 - 6 years 32k miles, absolutely nothing gone wrong.

car 2 - 8 months 15k miles, absolutely nothing gone wrong

car 3 - 3 months 4k miles, yep you guessed it, nothing gone wrong.

Brace yourself, old boy, you're about ready for the big one....

[greggy50]

Had the car 2 months done 2k miles
Had to fit - New radiator, 2 new thermostats, new heater control valve, re-torque down head and flush system to solve overheating problem and lack of power it had.
Also had someone scratch back arch whilst i was parked and have a crack in the windscreen.

[Horns]

How on earth do you get a dent on the roof?

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Compo_Simmonite said:

We had a massive loan (for us) to buy a 6 month old D reg Metro City

Your Pistonheads membership has been revoked, please leave.

[james_tigerwoods]

09 plate Golf - 20 months - 45000 miles - Missing front grill (for the past 20k), broken fog light and big dents in the side where the OH reversed in to it (my fault apparently ). 6 tyres and 3 services.

Clearly not trying hard enough...