Car scraped by relative - Not admitting

[Casa1862]

If someone scraped your car, would you expect to see traces of paint transfer on both vehicles? Mine has his red paint, but I can't see traces of my black paint on his. Is this normal, possible? With his car being relatively old it has damage on every corner and he's only recently passed his test. The front bumper on his does have a scrape down to the white primer, i suppose he could have removed any of my black paint as I didn’t notice until the day after.

My relative is denying hitting mine but his was the only car moved that day and has traces of his paint but still this appears to not be enough evidence for him. Tricky as I don’t to go in guns blazing being a relative but I’m very annoyed to say the least.

[roachcoach]

I misread the title, thought it read 'scrapped'.

Seemed like a practical joke gone a bit far!

[Cub911]

You have a relative who may not have the decency to admit he has damaged your car?

I'd disown them....

[Casa1862]

Cub911 said:

You have a relative who may not have the decency to admit he has damaged your car?

I'd disown them....

I'd like to disown 90% of the feckers! I can just see the lads father (ultimately he's going to sort it out) saying why is there none of my paint on his car, doesn't explain how his paint is on mine.

[Fastdruid]

Some idiot misjudged getting into a parking space and scraped his vectra into my mondeo in the works car park, took all the paint off his bumper. Didn't touch the paint on the mondeo.

So yes you can have paint on one and not the other especially if one is made by GM!

[Casa1862]

Fastdruid said:

Some idiot misjudged getting into a parking space and scraped his vectra into my mondeo in the works car park, took all the paint off his bumper. Didn't touch the paint on the mondeo.

So yes you can have paint on one and not the other especially if one is made by GM!

Thanks, this is the info I was looking for.

[KMud]

Fastdruid said:

Some idiot misjudged getting into a parking space and scraped his vectra into my mondeo in the works car park, took all the paint off his bumper. Didn't touch the paint on the mondeo.

So yes you can have paint on one and not the other especially if one is made by GM!

Likewise, Skoda metallic beige will peel Hyundai flat red without leaving any Skoda paint on the Hyundai.

[andyroo]

If you think about it, you can't swap paint. Car one car will have extra paint from car two, whereas car 2 will be missing paint which will be on car 1.

[retrorider]

When i did smart repair for a living a few years ago i went to a retail customer with a bumper scuff.He said his wife had done it against a concrete post in a multi storey.As i walked away from his back door to start the repair i could see paint along the wall of the house which made me smile.

I'd been doing the job for about 20 minutes when his neighbour comes over to see what i was doing.Told him i was repairing some damage his wife had done.Neighbour pipes up that customer isn't married.Made my day but he paid up thinking his little white lie was in his safe hands.

Men would never say they had caused the damage,it was always someone else.Women were always honest in my experience and would always tell you how they had done it within a couple of minutes...

[Pints]

This is most definitely possible. I was unfortunately witness to a scrape with one of my cars in our office car park.
Paint gone from my car, but the other car just rubbed the offending paint away.

[Kiltox]

Pints said:

This is most definitely possible. I was unfortunately witness to a scrape with one of my cars in our office car park.
Paint gone from my car, but the other car just rubbed the offending paint away.

Someone at my work was actually caught on CCTV getting a cloth out their boot, rubbing the paint off and then parking in a different space!!

[Casa1862]

Thanks for the useful info.

Still not admitting it was him. I was think of telling him the only way to get it sorted is to call an independent expert, if it's their fault (which it is) then they pay the experts cost and repair, if not I'll pay the bill. Hopefully, it might concentrate their minds to own up.

I appreciate it won't be cheap and a little extreme but it's not about money any more. I'll start to google accident investigators or similar.