Car Park Trolley Effed My Bumper
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Suspect these tales are ten a penny but there seems to be no definitive answer.
Long story short I parked in a retail car park space (inside the lines), one of the ones 'managed' by some firm. It has more CCTV and NPR cameras than you could ever imagine.
Parked up and nipped in for supplies, came out and some rusty old trolley from the overloaded trolley bay about. 20ft away (not a branded trolley belonging to any store in the retail park) was sitting at the back of my car touching the bumper. It has caused damage to the paint work and no polish or t-cut will remove it.
Got the number of the management company and plan to give them a call tomorrow. I expect to be fobbed off as they seems to have disclaimer signs all over the place. The stores don't own the car park so don't want to know.
However I believe the trolley bay was overloaded and the stores have a duty to make sure their trolleys are secured and collected when the bay is overflowing. I was in one of stores when the trolley struck so there is a possibility a customer (lazy b
d) could have just pushed it away when they had finished.
Who is liable if anyone. From looking at the damage it's through the lacquer and paint so could potentially be looking at a full respray to getting it as mint as it was. The car in question is immaculate so to say I'm a bit peeved is an understatement.
Long story short I parked in a retail car park space (inside the lines), one of the ones 'managed' by some firm. It has more CCTV and NPR cameras than you could ever imagine.
Parked up and nipped in for supplies, came out and some rusty old trolley from the overloaded trolley bay about. 20ft away (not a branded trolley belonging to any store in the retail park) was sitting at the back of my car touching the bumper. It has caused damage to the paint work and no polish or t-cut will remove it.
Got the number of the management company and plan to give them a call tomorrow. I expect to be fobbed off as they seems to have disclaimer signs all over the place. The stores don't own the car park so don't want to know.
However I believe the trolley bay was overloaded and the stores have a duty to make sure their trolleys are secured and collected when the bay is overflowing. I was in one of stores when the trolley struck so there is a possibility a customer (lazy b
d) could have just pushed it away when they had finished.Who is liable if anyone. From looking at the damage it's through the lacquer and paint so could potentially be looking at a full respray to getting it as mint as it was. The car in question is immaculate so to say I'm a bit peeved is an understatement.
Edited by BlueHave on Thursday 16th August 00:44
Is there any CCTV to rule out aforementioned lazy twunt and confirm your assertions. If so I reckon you might just get somewhere with the management company as the disclaimer signs are meaningless and just there to deter. Who is responsible for collecting the trolleys and returning them to the stores? Presumably will difficult to find out or prove.
I would guess that the cost of getting it touched up professionally will be negligible compared to the time and effort spent attempting to find out who to pursue and then actually managing to successfully do it.
Pop a whinge on the twitface page of the offending supermarket with a photo of large trolley queues and the damage you might get a few discount vouchers offered, but that's as much effort as I would expend.
Pop a whinge on the twitface page of the offending supermarket with a photo of large trolley queues and the damage you might get a few discount vouchers offered, but that's as much effort as I would expend.
The problem is, trying to keep a car "mint" is nigh on impossible if you are going to actually drive it places. So you could go through all this bother and time and effort, to get someone to give you £500 for a bumper respray, only to find it will look worse as the bumper wont then match the rest of the car!!
Or, if by some miracle it looks ok, you'll carry on fretting and worrying every time you leave it in case it gets another ding.
You can have a tidy car and look after it, even with the odd ding and scuff. Think of it like a supermodel who when you're banging her, you can see a little scar on her back! She's still a supermodel, and you can still bang her. Whereas if you focus on the tiny scar, you will end up living on your own in a bedsit scouring the dating apps for "perfection"!
Or, if by some miracle it looks ok, you'll carry on fretting and worrying every time you leave it in case it gets another ding.
You can have a tidy car and look after it, even with the odd ding and scuff. Think of it like a supermodel who when you're banging her, you can see a little scar on her back! She's still a supermodel, and you can still bang her. Whereas if you focus on the tiny scar, you will end up living on your own in a bedsit scouring the dating apps for "perfection"!
Happened to me a few times.
I feel that it's probably Karma from the time that I changed the oil on the Mrs 205 in the early 90s and overfilled it due to some imperial/metric incompetence.
The oil filter blew off on entering Sainsbury's car park in the wet.
I didn't notice until I returned to the car after a leisurely hour or so stocking up on Saturday night goodies.
It was like an ice rink, I'm not sure what code the store give to this situation but it was a lot more urgent than the 'afternoon rumble' that they seem to call for every other time I visit.
Mayhem.
I feel that it's probably Karma from the time that I changed the oil on the Mrs 205 in the early 90s and overfilled it due to some imperial/metric incompetence.
The oil filter blew off on entering Sainsbury's car park in the wet.
I didn't notice until I returned to the car after a leisurely hour or so stocking up on Saturday night goodies.
It was like an ice rink, I'm not sure what code the store give to this situation but it was a lot more urgent than the 'afternoon rumble' that they seem to call for every other time I visit.
Mayhem.
WJNB said:
NEVER take a nice car to a supermarket unless you can park miles from everybody else & the trolley storage areas. Tesco Asda Lidl & Morrisons seem to attract the lowest of life.
Better still run an old banger & use that.
Thing is, even when you park well away from other cars, you get back to yours and there's always someone parked next to you!Better still run an old banger & use that.
Also, the number of people who just abandon trolleys is incredible. Watched a women the other day who loaded up the boot then just pushed the trolley in the direction of the trolley park / bay. Needless to say, it stopped well short but with enough room to get her car reversed out of her bay and then drive off. Was tempted to push it back behind her car but wasn't quick enough!!
When supermarkets had the trolleys with the £1 lock they were never abandoned, time to go back to that!
Short Grain said:
WJNB said:
NEVER take a nice car to a supermarket unless you can park miles from everybody else & the trolley storage areas. Tesco Asda Lidl & Morrisons seem to attract the lowest of life.
Better still run an old banger & use that.
Thing is, even when you park well away from other cars, you get back to yours and there's always someone parked next to you!Better still run an old banger & use that.
Also, the number of people who just abandon trolleys is incredible. Watched a women the other day who loaded up the boot then just pushed the trolley in the direction of the trolley park / bay. Needless to say, it stopped well short but with enough room to get her car reversed out of her bay and then drive off. Was tempted to push it back behind her car but wasn't quick enough!!
When supermarkets had the trolleys with the £1 lock they were never abandoned, time to go back to that!
BlueHave said:
Suspect these tales are ten a penny but there seems to be no definitive answer.
Long story short I parked in a retail car park space (inside the lines), one of the ones 'managed' by some firm. It has more CCTV and NPR cameras than you could ever imagine.
Parked up and nipped in for supplies, came out and some rusty old trolley from the overloaded trolley bay about. 20ft away (not a branded trolley belonging to any store in the retail park) was sitting at the back of my car touching the bumper. It has caused damage to the paint work and no polish or t-cut will remove it.
Got the number of the management company and plan to give them a call tomorrow. I expect to be fobbed off as they seems to have disclaimer signs all over the place. The stores don't own the car park so don't want to know.
However I believe the trolley bay was overloaded and the stores have a duty to make sure their trolleys are secured and collected when the bay is overflowing. I was in one of stores when the trolley struck so there is a possibility a customer (lazy bd) could have just pushed it away when they had finished.
Who is liable if anyone. From looking at the damage it's through the lacquer and paint so could potentially be looking at a full respray to getting it as mint as it was. The car in question is immaculate so to say I'm a bit peeved is an understatement.
The notices you refer to have been illegal since the 1978' Unfair Contract Terms' law. The signs always say 'No responsibility for damage ' etc, but if it appears that an employee of the store / shop is at fault, you may have a claim. Worth checking out.Long story short I parked in a retail car park space (inside the lines), one of the ones 'managed' by some firm. It has more CCTV and NPR cameras than you could ever imagine.
Parked up and nipped in for supplies, came out and some rusty old trolley from the overloaded trolley bay about. 20ft away (not a branded trolley belonging to any store in the retail park) was sitting at the back of my car touching the bumper. It has caused damage to the paint work and no polish or t-cut will remove it.
Got the number of the management company and plan to give them a call tomorrow. I expect to be fobbed off as they seems to have disclaimer signs all over the place. The stores don't own the car park so don't want to know.
However I believe the trolley bay was overloaded and the stores have a duty to make sure their trolleys are secured and collected when the bay is overflowing. I was in one of stores when the trolley struck so there is a possibility a customer (lazy b
d) could have just pushed it away when they had finished.Who is liable if anyone. From looking at the damage it's through the lacquer and paint so could potentially be looking at a full respray to getting it as mint as it was. The car in question is immaculate so to say I'm a bit peeved is an understatement.
Edited by BlueHave on Thursday 16th August 00:44
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