Thread: Broadway Multistorey Car Park Sydney - General Damage Q

<span style="color:blue">there was some work being carried out in the qvb loading dock....

a small dump truck...daihatsu dyna....was unloading sand.......
directly under the sprinkler.....

it popped the connection off the pipe and by the time it drained the entire buildings
sprinkler system....the loading dock was 4 inches below sea level.....

i found it amusing.......others apparently didnt....</span>

CraigE A friend had a simmilar case in Sydney except their car was a total loss. The Bell boy crashed it in the underground car park. 50m skid marks in a 100m parking lot ending in a pole which the car bounced of hitting a merc with such force it moved it an entire parking space. The night manager requested they get their car moved as it was blocking the parking garage. At least they won their battle.

As for this current issue I would go the measuring tape first

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>i remember a carpark had the sparkies in once to replace all the flouros
after a 4wd had smashed them all with its aerial....... [/b][/quote]
Umm, have done that twice now. Once in my Disco with the big mobile phone aerial into a drive through bottle shop and took out all their fluro's. I had been in there before without hitting them, but they remodelled.
At the local garage company vehicle and as we have to have large flag poles for visibility, they remodelled the lighting and cahnged the orientation of the lights hit about 6 when fuelling up. After about a dozen people had done it the changed the lighting system again.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>CraigE A friend had a simmilar case in Sydney except their car was a total loss. The Bell boy crashed it in the underground car park. 50m skid marks in a 100m parking lot ending in a pole which the car bounced of hitting a merc with such force it moved it an entire parking space. The night manager requested they get their car moved as it was blocking the parking garage. At least they won their battle.

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That is about par is it not? I will not valet park my car anymore, most of the valets have no respect for anyone else's property and think the car parks are a race course. Just go to any major hotel and sit in the parking garage for a while. the shameful thing is that these hotels then do not want to take any resposibillity for their employee's or contractors actions.
The thing that really ****ed me off was the fact that they admited liability and then waited until we got back to WA, to change their mind, knowing full well that it would not be worthwhile for us to come back and fight it. For a 5 star hotel it is unacceptable and will never stay there or at any of their hotels again or recommend them. May be termed slanderous, but I still have all the photos and correspondence so I'd love them to have a go.

Cheers for all the replies chaps all very much welcome.

Have a mate going over there today to do the measuring/photo stuff for us,seeing as we are off up north today.

My guess is that it was a sprinkler that had drop a tad judging by the damage looks like it has gouged and then lifted up the back seal a tad.

Spoke to the car park dude yesterday and he seems ok about it all,will be seeing them on our return for photos etc etc etc that he needs to take.

Reckon we might be ok but Im keeping the legal thing in my back pocket just in case.

CraigE The bell boy that pranged the friends car actually was found with the pass keys to most of the top hotels in Sydney. He had been joy riding in the cars for a long time before this accident. Down side was it was a Lotus Esprit. Total damages $250,000.

Good luck Expat.

Ed,
at least my damage was a hell of a lot less than that and was mainly cosmetic.