How long until new car is damaged?
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I just wondered what the PH record is for damaging a brand new car?
I've had people pull out on me which is normal these days.
But in less than one week of ownership I had a VW transporter driver cross over the white line on a 60 limit road and drive at me and swerve out of the way just in time before a head on, presumably for a bit of a laugh.
Last night a cement mixer was bouncing huge pebbles out the back as it drove along in front of me which were bouncing at 3 to 5 feet off the road behind him and I had to go evasive, swerving left and right like I was in an arcade game!
This made me think, how long is it going to be??
I've had people pull out on me which is normal these days.
But in less than one week of ownership I had a VW transporter driver cross over the white line on a 60 limit road and drive at me and swerve out of the way just in time before a head on, presumably for a bit of a laugh.
Last night a cement mixer was bouncing huge pebbles out the back as it drove along in front of me which were bouncing at 3 to 5 feet off the road behind him and I had to go evasive, swerving left and right like I was in an arcade game!
This made me think, how long is it going to be??
My mate snapped the towbar electrics cover off after 36 hours of me getting my new car last week.
Not massive but still...
ETA: A previous company car that I was meant to be having was written off when the guy unloaded it from the transporter and promptly drove it straight into the low wall outside the dealers.
Not massive but still...
ETA: A previous company car that I was meant to be having was written off when the guy unloaded it from the transporter and promptly drove it straight into the low wall outside the dealers.
Edited by Sixpackpert on Thursday 19th August 13:02
Had just got my first car 3 years ago when my dad borrowed it and reversed it into a gate! I've not yet had any of my cars damaged luckily.
However one t
t in Tesco car park let his door fly open in the wind onto my door, and then let it keep banging in the wind against it! Luckily no damage apart from a tiny dint.
However one t
t in Tesco car park let his door fly open in the wind onto my door, and then let it keep banging in the wind against it! Luckily no damage apart from a tiny dint.
i was talking to a dealer the other day of used prestige motors and she said a Chinese businessman came in to buy a Porsche, paid for it out right and collected it a week later, he refused to go on a introductory course to learn how to drive a performance sports car, GT3 i believe the car was, least to say he made it no more that 200 feet down the road, foot to the floor in second and put it strait into the garden of a local residence!
Pints said:
Took possession of the car on the 8th and someone had taken it upon themselves to give it a keyjob on the 13th (Friday the 13th incidentally).
I hope they fking burn in hell.
Makes you mad!I hope they f
king burn in hell.Mindless.
I had a lovely e30 318i and had all the paint done by someone I knew for a good price and the finish was superb, it was black and like a mirror.
Within 3 days some idiot went right down the passenger side with a key.
I was so upset!
Good old Tony had it back and repainted the passenger side free of charge - bless him!
My Dad arranged a new Fiat Tempra for my uncle, it turned up at work and he asked my brother to pick it up and take it home. My uncle lives about an hour away. Driving back to our place some dozy bint reversed into him whilst he was waiting to join a roundabout. Her driveway backed out onto that stretch. She admitted liability straight away as it was the fourth time it had happened.
Uncle had to wait a while longer to see his new car.
Uncle had to wait a while longer to see his new car.
Back in 2000, I ordered a Lexus IS200 for my company car & waited about 8 weeks for it to be delivered. The day arrived & at about 10.30 in the morning, I saw a lorry reversing down the drive to the office complete with my brand new car. I went outside to watch it be offloaded & sign the paperwork etc. The next thing I knew the car had dropped off the top deck of the car transporter & smashed into the ground, completely destoying it.
I then waited another 6 weeks for a new car to arrive. To be honest, I should have taken it as an omen, as about 3 weeks after receiving the replacement car, an old chap pulled out about 30 feet in front of me whilst I was doing 60 on an A road. He was bloody lucky that I managed to get some brake & lock on so that I hit his engine bay & not his drivers door. My car was written off.
I got a BMW after that.
I then waited another 6 weeks for a new car to arrive. To be honest, I should have taken it as an omen, as about 3 weeks after receiving the replacement car, an old chap pulled out about 30 feet in front of me whilst I was doing 60 on an A road. He was bloody lucky that I managed to get some brake & lock on so that I hit his engine bay & not his drivers door. My car was written off.
I got a BMW after that.
I've had two cars where it's been less than a week - When I'd had my Octavia about 3-4 days I came home from work, parked in the garage and decided to get my laptop from the boot - bootlid promptly crunches into the roof of the garage. You'd think I'd have realised that as a hatchback the boot would open higher than that of my previous saloon car 
and the first day I took my current WRX to work someone dinged the driver's door 
and the first day I took my current WRX to work someone dinged the driver's door Let's see..when I bought the Corsa...it was damaged by the apprentice 'moving it gently from the wash bay' who reversed it into the wall thus damaging the rear bumper soo badly it needed to be resprayed....
I was forced to take it as they had no room to keep it apparently, so there I was brand new car (well 26 miles on the clock) with a knackered back bumper.
I was forced to take it as they had no room to keep it apparently, so there I was brand new car (well 26 miles on the clock) with a knackered back bumper.
When i got my Alfa spider (new to me) quite a few years ago, they replaced the pads, and did something wrong. That night (before I was due to collect) it rolled into a post, new bonnet/rad/bumper.
I then got it a week late, 1st day I had it someone came around a corner at work. I saw them coming, I stopped, they cut it can went into the front.. New bonnet/rad/bumper again.
I then got it a week late, 1st day I had it someone came around a corner at work. I saw them coming, I stopped, they cut it can went into the front.. New bonnet/rad/bumper again.
I can't beat having mine fall off a car transporter but I picked up a car from a dealer a few years ago and as it was a trek home drove into the obligatory petrol station next door to fill up, pulled up at the pump and the old duffer infront chose reverse insted of first and plowed straight into the front of the car, so picking up to accident 5 minutes tops
Edited by Gibby78 on Thursday 19th August 15:01
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