What would you do?
Discussion
Yesterday I called to my friends house, I parked outside and went in,
I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...
)
If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...
)If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
, well if that option is there Sump Scraper said:
Yesterday I called to my friends house, I parked outside and went in,
I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...)
If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
Claim for whiplash, twisted ankle (when you fell over chasing her up the road), loss of earnings and the damage to your car. You'll be retiring on that payout!I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...
)If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
No but seriously, we only have your word for the one being 'extremely fit' suggest you sort out a decent digital camera, then return for our judgement.
Tell her you'll forget it for £70 (adjust up/down according to damage). If she really doesn't pay ball then you'll just have to forget about it. I wouldn't claim on insurance, no matter what. Claiming (even for something like this) will end up affecting your future premiums. It'll end up costing you much more then it's worth.
A similar thing happened to me a few years ago whilst I was running about in an old 206 - a yound lass simply drove into the rear quarter panel when trying to park her Golf in a B&Q car park... luckily I was walking back to my car and saw it happen. She wound down her window and muttered "oh did I just hit your car?" and then reversed out of the space hitting the same panel again!?!
Anyway, I got her details but in the end just couldn't be bothered with the hassle of sorting out the small amount of damage she'd caused and asking her to pay or claim on insurance.
So, my advice would be (as it's just a runaround for you) let it go and tell her to own up next time.
BUT if you can arrange a group shag for your inconvenience go for it!!!!
Anyway, I got her details but in the end just couldn't be bothered with the hassle of sorting out the small amount of damage she'd caused and asking her to pay or claim on insurance.
So, my advice would be (as it's just a runaround for you) let it go and tell her to own up next time.
BUT if you can arrange a group shag for your inconvenience go for it!!!!
I was in a vaguely similar situation many years ago. I stopped at a crossing; the guy behind didn't quite manage it as quickly.
Pulled in to the kerb and checked. His car was OK but his bumper had scraped the paint under my old s
tter's rear bumper and broken the wire to the rear fog light. I suggested cash to cover a new piece of wire and a can of spray paint. He dug in his wallet. We went on our ways.
Pulled in to the kerb and checked. His car was OK but his bumper had scraped the paint under my old s
tter's rear bumper and broken the wire to the rear fog light. I suggested cash to cover a new piece of wire and a can of spray paint. He dug in his wallet. We went on our ways.Sump Scraper said:
Yesterday I called to my friends house, I parked outside and went in,
I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...)
If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
I'd go for option 5 I was only there a few minutes when I noticed a Clio reversing off a driveway and caught the side of my car.
so I ran out just as the Clio was driving away and shouted and whistled and the driver stopped and walked back down the road.
Turns out it was a young lass,doubt she had been driving long, probably a student at the local college, she was in the car with another 3 girls. ( one was extremely fit)
She was a bit red faced and embarrassed looking but wasn't really all that apologetic at first and tried to play down the damage, we looked at the damage on my car, slight small crease and scraped the lacquer in a few places on the lower quarter panel.
She asked if I wanted it fixed and was coming across in a sarky kind of "its an old car and not worth fixing" type of way .
I told her I was more pissed off that she drove off with out saying anything, then she did apologise a bit more sincerely.
May be her mates egged her on to drive off?? who knows?
Now this is my dilemma......
The car is my recession run about, VW golf mk3 1.4, bought it quite cheap and its fairly clean for its age, I do take care of it, it gets serviced, washed and polished quite regularly, it does have its small dings here and there but overall its in good shape for its year.
I also put some BBS split rims and coilovers on it so it looks quite funky *(subjective i know,que the barrage of anti-VW insults...
)If she had been honest and not drove off and called in to the house where I was at and apologised I would probably have said not to worry about it but the fact she drove off pissed me off a lot!
1.So do I get a proper quote from a body shop and cost her a small fortune as pay back for her dishonesty?
2.I'm fairly handy at doing body work so get the price of sand paper,compound and polish and a few hours labour from her?
3.tell her not to worry about it and tell her next time she does something like that to be honest about it because next time it could be an absolute prick of a person and if they catch up with you, do you for hit a run and land you a massive insurance bill.
4.claim for whiplash courtesy of a no win no fee type outfit and request a like for like replacement and rock around in a new VW golf gti for a few months courtesy of everybody's insurance, jacking premiums up for everyone whilst waiting for my 5 grand whiplash compo to come through.
5.Ask for some type of special "favour" in lieu of payment,especially with her and/or with her extremely fit friend?
So what would you do?
Mr Pies said:
Claim for whiplash, twisted ankle (when you fell over chasing her up the road), loss of earnings and the damage to your car. You'll be retiring on that payout!
No but seriously, we only have your word for the one being 'extremely fit' suggest you sort out a decent digital camera, then return for our judgement.
Thanks for offering to be a witness to me twisting my ankle, should help strengthen my case.....*(10% of the claim still OK for you??)No but seriously, we only have your word for the one being 'extremely fit' suggest you sort out a decent digital camera, then return for our judgement.
I doubt I'll be able to get any photographic evidence of the extremely fit one but my mate also commented on the extremely fit ones fitness so I have one independent witness to the fitness of the extremely fit one.
Flat6time said:
You have her details? get a quote from a main dealer bodyshop to emphasise the real world cost of damaging someones car, then explain that a bodyshop you know (you with a few hours graft) can do it for haf the price, then spend that cash on getting a proper set of non chav wheels.
I was thinking of getting a proper quote just to show her the real costs of not paying attention, thank fook for chunky 90's door strips,took most of the hit.My wheels have only a small lip,basket weave design and only 15X7" with a 195/50 tyre.
What "non chav" wheel would you recommend?
Sump Scraper said:
Flat6time said:
You have her details? get a quote from a main dealer bodyshop to emphasise the real world cost of damaging someones car, then explain that a bodyshop you know (you with a few hours graft) can do it for haf the price, then spend that cash on getting a proper set of non chav wheels.
I was thinking of getting a proper quote just to show her the real costs of not paying attention, thank fook for chunky 90's door strips,took most of the hit.My wheels have only a small lip,basket weave design and only 15X7" with a 195/50 tyre.
What "non chav" wheel would you recommend?
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