Some dirtbag has keyed my car (with pics)

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My Clio is left outside in the street as I don't have a driveway or garage, as is the Z4. I've normally been parking my Clio outside of my house on the kerb slightly as there is little room to pass on the road (as my neighbours park their flat bed Transit on the road itself) but this week someone bent my door mirror back on two occasions so as not to ps off any more pedestrians I thought I'd best rethink.

So I have been parking outside my neighbour's house the last few nights and this morning I saw that it had been keyed. As you can see by the photos it isn't at all accidental. I have no CCTV and no witnesses and no evidence. It isn't exactly the nicest area of the town I live in.

Now, do I knock on his door and ask if he'd seen or heard anything, or should I just contact the police and let them do their own doorknocking (or not as the case may be)?

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MJK 24 said:

Can you still get the Williams stickers? Unfortunately, you're going to need one.

I've got a proper set waiting to go on

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The plot thickens. This was left under the wiper of my Z4

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This is the parking area in question. It is a sort of lay-by with room for three cars. The suspected letter writer lives in the house whose gate you can see just above the roof of the Z4. There is a space behind the Clio which either she can use, or her neighbour can use as they both have 1 car per household. Her other neighbour does not have a car.



She seems like quite a nice person and I really don't think that she would be responsible for the damage. Now, the Clio goes in for a full respray in a fortnight so I really don't want to have it damaged again and I am all for an easy life so I might just park it outside my house on the kerb (last time I did this a pedestrian bent the mirror right back hence why I don't park it there any longer) but there is no room for a pram or pushchair to get passed. Also, another neighbour has a flat bed Transit which takes up quite a lot of room so if I do not park the Clio up on the kerb then no other cars would be able to get passed and certainly not a fire engine or thelike.

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FreeLitres said:

Difficult situation OP. (Nice fleet though!)

So, there are are 3 spaces in the layby - you take up 2 of those, and the 2 neighbours have a car each. So where does the neighbour have to park when the layby is full?

Thanks I love the Clio, but the Z4 is very 'meh'.

And the other neighbour parks her car adjacent to the layby, on the kerb. It's not so bad there as there isn't the Transit flat-bed in the way.

Also, I can't get a drive put in due to the angle of the garden (it's incredibly steep).