Road Spillage Damages My Car......?

[Gorvid]

Someone up my lane dropped a huge tub of tile adhesive / grout in the road.
It's now all over my car.


Any advice on legal aspects of this...?

[wrinx]

Presume it hasn't washed off? Contact your insurers for advise, if you have the persons details they may chase for responsibility if you put a claim in.

wrinx

[Gorvid]

wrinx said:

Presume it hasn't washed off? Contact your insurers for advise, if you have the persons details they may chase for responsibility if you put a claim in.

wrinx

Feck...

Don't have proof where it came from...yet...

There is a house being built up the road though. Builders vans in a d out every day.

[wrinx]

Ahh...you might struggle to prove liability after the fact

wrinx

[WildCat]

Gorvid said:

wrinx said:

Presume it hasn't washed off? Contact your insurers for advise, if you have the persons details they may chase for responsibility if you put a claim in.

wrinx

Feck...

Don't have proof where it came from...yet...

There is a house being built up the road though. Builders vans in a d out every day.

You have as much chance of any one of these 'fessing up as driving at the speed Rudolph pulls that sleigh at this time of year. As in Never Neverland..

Could be any .. but tilers usually come in transit vans. They do around here anyway.


How hard set ist this grouting? I hope it not frozen on in the bad weather? Ist it splattered in small grains on the sill/mudguard? Or in huge clumps over larger panels?

I would try to hose off with a jet wash und then check the actual damage to the paint work.

[Gorvid]

I think my neighbors husband saw the van.

It turns out it's emulsion paint.......

[chockymonster]

emulsion will steam clean off.

[dhutch]

Think yourself lucky, my dad drove though a load of 'wet' white lines 4weeks after we bought the last montego.
- All up the ofside, stayed like that for the next eight years we had it.
- Only time you could see it was when the car was dirty, so we never cleaned it!

But yeah, what a pisser. The careless bastards!

[Hooli]

emulsion is water based. it'll come off.

[Parrot of Doom]

Vinegar removes cement, I wonder if it would remove grout?

Test elsewhere first.

[Mattt]

Which car was it?

[Glassman]

Hooli said:

emulsion is water based. it'll come off.

Smokey Robinson said:

I'm sick of that emulsion

[streaky]

Smokey Robinson said:

I'm sick of that emulsion

I hope a Miracle isn't required to get it off - Streaky

[gozomark]

I reckon you are looking at four miracles to sort out something like that

[bga]

chockymonster said:

emulsion will steam clean off.

The builders next door managed to emulsion my S2000. Luckily I was working from home that day and caught them doing it. They were painting inside and managed to flick a large volume of paint through a 1st floor bay window, over a hedge and onto my car. It's fair to say their boss tore them new ones. It got worse when one of them came over with a bottle of acetone and a rag to clean my (rubberised) roof!

Washed off very easily with warm water & car shampoo.