Someone parking hit my car, I see, they deny!

[Filibuster]

M-SportMatt said:

dme123 said:

it is 100% inevitable that your car will acquire scratches like that if you use it.

Only if other people are tossers IMO

I never will subscribe to the theory that i must accept damage to my car as inevitable due to other peoples careless actions and just accept it with no recourse.

Although you are right and I'm 100% with you, sadly dme123 is also right

[berlintaxi]

CraigyMc said:

KAgantua said:

Doner or Shish?

Chips or it didn't happen.

On the back bumper...oh no, that's a tiny scuff.

[ds666]

I had the same situation except I was standing next to my car when the OAP hit it twice and still denied it . After scraping paint off his number plate screw he accepted he'd hit mine and offered me £20 .I suggested he keep his money and I do £100 worth of damage to his car , based on his costing process and I'd give him the money ( minus the £20 of course) .

I eventually got £40 .
It cost me £90 to fix ( which I knew it would as we regularly use a company on site to fix our vans ) , so I am £50 out of pocket .. but short of violence ( which is patently stupid) what can you do ?

[paulr23]

People are right you will have to declare it as a non fault accident, however, some insurers mine for instance doesn't increase your premium for a first time non fault accident. Mine didn't go up a penny after someone side swiped me on the motorway nearly killing me.

[anonymous-user]

Filibuster said:

M-SportMatt said:

dme123 said:

it is 100% inevitable that your car will acquire scratches like that if you use it.

Only if other people are tossers IMO

I never will subscribe to the theory that i must accept damage to my car as inevitable due to other peoples careless actions and just accept it with no recourse.

Although you are right and I'm 100% with you, sadly dme123 is also right

People being tossers is a force of nature, like the tide, and should be considered in the same manner. You're just as likely to hold back the tide as you are to find somewhere that people aren't tossers so you might as well just learn to live with it.

[SantaBarbara]

paulr23 said:

People are right you will have to declare it as a non fault accident, however, some insurers mine for instance doesn't increase your premium for a first time non fault accident. Mine didn't go up a penny after someone side swiped me on the motorway nearly killing me.

It is not even an accident. It is a mere blemish no proof it was done by that guy

[lj04]

4 years ago I stopped at a cash point, and a taxi reversed into my Elise and drove off. I was probably 20 meters away and got his reg. no. Police were useless, and when I was honest to my insurance company and said I hadn't actually seen the accident but had turned round after hearing it, they used that as an excuse for not taking if further.

[Sheepshanks]

ds666 said:

.. but short of violence ( which is patently stupid) what can you do ?

You could have sent him the bill, or even got on to his insurance company. But you'd be doing it out of principle, it isn't worth the hassle.

[lewishollings]

SantaBarbara said:

It is not even an accident. It is a mere blemish no proof it was done by that guy

So it's fine, you can hop on your high horse as much as you like but imagine watching someone hit your car, walking over and seeing a clear mark they caused and then someone else saying there's no proof they done it... pfft like I've said previously, they DID do it.

[lewishollings]

lj04 said:

4 years ago I stopped at a cash point, and a taxi reversed into my Elise and drove off. I was probably 20 meters away and got his reg. no. Police were useless, and when I was honest to my insurance company and said I hadn't actually seen the accident but had turned round after hearing it, they used that as an excuse for not taking if further.

I'd be gutted, especially if it was an Elise too.

Was the damage bad or just minor? Mine is below minor if that's even a thing haha.

[lj04]

Hole in the front clam, and 5 years of higher premiums.

[ToothbrushMan]

thats a weird bit of damage like an odd squiggle and cant really see how that could have been caused by the other car just pushing into yours parallel unless maybe it caught a reg number screw head but even then youd need to be on full lock and pressed right up against the car I reckon to get a squiggle into the paint like that................mystery.

[lewishollings]

ToothbrushMan said:

thats a weird bit of damage like an odd squiggle and cant really see how that could have been caused by the other car just pushing into yours parallel unless maybe it caught a reg number screw head but even then youd need to be on full lock and pressed right up against the car I reckon to get a squiggle into the paint like that................mystery.

on full lock coming in, the offside of the number plate scraped coming in, I would draw a diagram but I'm too lazy.

[JM]

lewishollings said:

So it's fine, you can hop on your high horse as much as you like but imagine watching someone hit your car, walking over and seeing a clear mark they caused and then someone else saying there's no proof they done it... pfft like I've said previously, they DID do it.

You don't mention in your opening paragraph that you saw them hit your car, just that they seemed "too close for comfort". Now you are saying you saw them hit your car.

[lewishollings]

JM said:

You don't mention in your opening paragraph that you saw them hit your car, just that they seemed "too close for comfort". Now you are saying you saw them hit your car.

Them being too close for comfort made me watch them.

You can say I'm lying as much as you like, but you're wrong so move on.

[KAgantua]

ds666 said:

I had the same situation except I was standing next to my car when the OAP hit it twice and still denied it . After scraping paint off his number plate screw he accepted he'd hit mine and offered me £20 .I suggested he keep his money and I do £100 worth of damage to his car , based on his costing process and I'd give him the money ( minus the £20 of course) .

I eventually got £40 .
It cost me £90 to fix ( which I knew it would as we regularly use a company on site to fix our vans ) , so I am £50 out of pocket .. but short of violence ( which is patently stupid) what can you do ?

you bullied an old duffer at the side of the road into giving you £40
youre going to hell

[Agent XXX]

Still waiting to see evidence that his parking on double yellows was permissible

[anonymous-user]

Agent XXX said:

Still waiting to see evidence that his parking on double yellows was permissible

What relevance do yellow lines have on this occasion?

[Agent XXX]

janesmith1950 said:

What relevance do yellow lines have on this occasion?

Shouldn't have been parked there. If he hadn't none of this mountain out of a molehill for a teeeny scratch would have happened. OP claims that it's allowable to park on those double yellows.

[Benjijames28]

Agent XXX said:

Shouldn't have been parked there. If he hadn't none of this mountain out of a molehill for a teeeny scratch would have happened. OP claims that it's allowable to park on those double yellows.

Careful you don't fall off that high horse.