This isn't worth it is it!

[Zephyr Speedshop]

Just got home From taking my daughter swimming. To notice a whacking great dent in my passager door. So I went back down and to get the reg and ask them to do the right thing. They flatly Denied it and started arguing about paint transfer. I had to leave before I ttted him.

My cars only been next this orange Renault in 2days and it didn't have the dent yesterday.

So the question is it actually worth going to the insurance it's not is it. Probably ended up costing my no claims and excess

fking crater


Clearly they do it alot!

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Happened to have a tape measure in the car there's even a chip at the same hight.

I'm fumming an I know the answer but need some moral support before I do something stupid like lose my no claims over a £200 dent

Edited by Zephyr Speedshop on Sunday 9th October 10:11

[SebastienClement]

Why not instruct your insurer with their registration? You might have to pay your excess but you'd get it back once it's concluded.

Looks a pretty open and shut case?

[xstian]

You are never going to prove who done that without video evidence or a witness. It could just as easily been you daughter opening the door onto something.

Get it repaired via insurance or own pocket and move on.

[Zephyr Speedshop]

xstian said:

You are never going to prove who done that without video evidence or a witness. It could just as easily been you daughter opening the door onto something.

Get it repaired via insurance or own pocket and move on.

Normally I'd agree, and I also agree it's hard to prove . However I categorically know it was them. My car was in the garage over night. There was no car next to me when I parked. And when I got back to it. They were unloading the kids so I got my daughter in the drivers side. She 6 so not really the car door swinging age yet.

[anonymous-user]

It know it isn't the 'right' answer, but unfortunately some berk ttting your door once in a while is something that you just have to accept as part of owning a car in modern urban society, I've always thought. I couldn't deal with owning somethat that I'd get upset about if it happened and then leaving it in public car parks waiting for the inevitable. It's going to happen sooner or later.

As for insurance, OP just give it to your local dent reapair outfit to sort, it'll be less aggro.

[xstian]

Zephyr Speedshop said:

xstian said:

You are never going to prove who done that without video evidence or a witness. It could just as easily been you daughter opening the door onto something.

Get it repaired via insurance or own pocket and move on.

Normally I'd agree, and I also agree it's hard to prove . However I categorically know it was them. My car was in the garage over night. There was no car next to me when I parked. And when I got back to it. They were unloading the kids so I got my daughter in the drivers side. She 6 so not really the car door swinging age yet.

Sorry didn't mean to sound like an arse, I'm sure it wasn't your daughter, but i still don't think you have much chance. Ultimately its your hunch, against them saying they didn't do it.

[Super Sonic]

Are you sure it was that car? You only noticed it when you got home, so if you missed it when you left the pool, how do you know it wasn't done earlier? Also not sore what you mean by it's only parked next to the orange car for two days.

[sanguinary]

Mine was bashed with me only a few feet away. Caused a dent in the door, which the third party agreed to cover. They kept that pretence up right until the car was fixed and I sent them the invoice, which they had already agreed to pay.

There on they simply denied it had ever happened and the dent must have been there beforehand.

Even witnessing first hand doesn’t always help either. As annoying as it is, get a quote and use your insurers if you have to and then just move on.

[oobster]

If it hasn't damaged the paint then a paintless dent repair guy should be able to get that out for £40 to £60.

[GranpaB]

Sorry but that doesn't look like the car that dented your door. All the profiles seem way out, and the chips on their door are on the concave part of it.

[Yellow Lizud]

SebastienClement said:

Why not instruct your insurer with their registration? You might have to pay your excess but you'd get it back once it's concluded.

Looks a pretty open and shut case?

Does it? Why?
One car has a small dent in it (as do millions of other cars) and one car has a small chip on the door edge (as do millions of other cars). Trying to match the two cars without CCTV or witness is impossible, there's not even a photo of the two cars parked next to each other.
Even the OP doesn't know for sure the other car was involved, his logic of 'it must have been him' won't carry much weight.

I do believe it was the other car and I can understand the OP being angry. However back in the real world it is one of the annoying costs of motoring.
Live with it or sort it out and move on, unfortunately these things happen.

Personally I wouldn't bother with insurance because it can never be proved who dented the car. But that choice is up to the OP.

[Sheepshanks]

My wife spends her life in shopping centres etc and her car is covered in dents - even with stick on side bumpers I put on. There are even chunks out of those.

I had a pdr guy look at it and he got rid of them all, including one that looked just like yours. Annoyingly the only one he couldn’t make invisible was one I’d done when my wife refused to drive home from an evening with our friends and in the dark I ‘touched’ the side of the car on sticking out fence post leaving a crease on the edge of the door.

[N111BJG]

A while back a bloke reversed into my year old BMW in Sainsburys car park. I suspect it was regular occurrence as all he said was get an estimate & email it to me. He handed me a card that had his postal & email address on it. I offered him my details but he declined to take them.
It was a scuff / scrape / shallow dent so got a quote from ChipsAway & sent it to terrible driver, about £250.
A day later the Chipsway bloke rang me to say he had been paid.
The repair was done the next week.
Nothing is truly predicable.

[xstian]

Sheepshanks said:

Annoyingly the only one he couldn’t make invisible was one I’d done when my wife refused to drive home from an evening with our friends and in the dark I ‘touched’ the side of the car on sticking out fence post leaving a crease on the edge of the door.

A cop pulls over a car in the middle of the night:

-Sir, do you realize how badly your car was swerving between lanes?

-I've had 8 drinks, officer.

-That's no excuse to let your wife drive...

[Zephyr Speedshop]

For alittle more context, my car hasn't been parked next to any other cars in the last 2 days. Yesterday evening the dent wasn't there. It's been in the garage over night. The only way the dent could have happened is at swimming.

I didn't notice it, when I left swimming. Because they were unloading there kids so I got my daughter in the back from the drivers side. I didn't look at the passager side until I got home and got my daughter out. It's that big I noticed it immediately.
When I got back there there was another car in the space I'd been in.

The only other way it's happened is if someone did it and moved there car. The fact they regularly hit the door it has multiple knock out of it lends weight to them being carless.

As I said I'm probably just going to have it fixed. Was kinda hoping I might get some good suggestions like hammering frozen sausages into his lawn or something! I presume I'll see them at swimming next week which will be fun

[Zephyr Speedshop]

oobster said:

If it hasn't damaged the paint then a paintless dent repair guy should be able to get that out for £40 to £60.

Fingers crossed it's through a swage line this so think it will need more work.

[Zephyr Speedshop]

N111BJG said:

A while back a bloke reversed into my year old BMW in Sainsburys car park. I suspect it was regular occurrence as all he said was get an estimate & email it to me. He handed me a card that had his postal & email address on it. I offered him my details but he declined to take them.
It was a scuff / scrape / shallow dent so got a quote from ChipsAway & sent it to terrible driver, about £250.
A day later the Chipsway bloke rang me to say he had been paid.
The repair was done the next week.
Nothing is truly predicable.

If only this guy was honest

[Zephyr Speedshop]

How petty shall I be next week ? My daughter does the lesson before them. So when we're leaving there arriving

[xstian]

Zephyr Speedshop said:

N111BJG said:

A while back a bloke reversed into my year old BMW in Sainsburys car park. I suspect it was regular occurrence as all he said was get an estimate & email it to me. He handed me a card that had his postal & email address on it. I offered him my details but he declined to take them.
It was a scuff / scrape / shallow dent so got a quote from ChipsAway & sent it to terrible driver, about £250.
A day later the Chipsway bloke rang me to say he had been paid.
The repair was done the next week.
Nothing is truly predicable.

If only this guy was honest

Maybe he was, even you say someone could have done it and then moved the car.

[Torquey]

A paintless dent repair for about £60 of your own hard earned is going to be the easiest solution. And will look better than any body shop painting it.