Is your car a damage magnet?

Is your car a damage magnet?

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bernhund

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3,767 posts

195 months

Tuesday 17th September 2013
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It'd be interesting to know whether you own or have owned a car that for some unaccountable reason just gets damaged all of the time. My wife bought a Juke about 4 months ago and it's had two people shunt it up the rear already and a brawl in the street that ended up denting the door to the tune of £1500! O.K, please start the 'Juke bullying' now , then let me know whether you've had a car that always got whacked when it wasn't your fault!

bernhund

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3,767 posts

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Tuesday 17th September 2013
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Fleckers said:
I had a ford onion back in the 80's

Nice car in black and a Gaia which at the time was top end

Car was 20 mins old when a rock came out of a skip truck going under Croydon flyover and smashed up the bonnet and in to windscreen

It was 3 days old when someone striped it down the passenger side with a key or something similar

It was 2 months old when I returned to it outside the shops in Sutton when the front was all smashed in, the people in the shop said that the alarm went off and they looked out to see a big green lorry munching the car

It was 6 months old when it was in a petrol station in Mitchum where I was paying to see a BT van smash in to the back of it
The following week in same garage the guy behind the counter told me that bloke has just smashed your window and is grabbing stuff

About 6 months later my mum was driving the bloody thing when the back passenger tyre burst as she was on the New Malden flyover which spun her round and she bashed the car up big time on the Armco

It was a right off, thankfully mum was ok

A mate asked me to buy it back from insurance company as he had his own body shop, he did it up and gave it to his sister who then parked the bloody thing in someone's front garden which was a big smash and was then crushed

It was a jinxed car
This is exactly what I'm talking about. No doubt that was the only car you've owned where this sort of thing happened?

bernhund

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3,767 posts

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Wednesday 18th September 2013
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Great example of a magnet Jamie!