Thread: Bastards that run into your car and then nick off

My wife's car is alwaye getting damaged at the shops with people opening doors on to hers & letting shopping trolleys run away, never enough damage to clame on insurance , so the car ends up with more hits than Elvis. We owned a Rover 3500SE a few years ago I washed it early one Sunday then went down to paper shop to get the paper . When I parked the car there was on other car in the car park & when I came out the front spoiler was damaged & not another car parked near it. Would have only been away from the vehicle for 2 minutes. New front spoiler was $800 plus painting. I kept the spoiler & did a fiberglass repair on it to keep as a spare. I had to change it a couple of times, I eventually made a alum nudge bar for it. Problem is people don't care any more , I was always taught to treat other peoples propity as I would treat my own .

Have been hit twice in last 2 years while parked outside my house. Been parking in the same place for the 10 years have lived here. Both times it was the rubbish truck. Clue was in the layers of special colour paint they must apply regularly with a broom it was so thick. Would have been nice if they had left a note.

Its been mentioned before that you live in a Top Class area Mario,bloody toerags!!!!!
Cant you buy a door from a wrecker in the same colour rather than waste $550 with the insurance mob????
Andrew

Dashcams. About the only way to go in this day and age.

Originally Posted by Davo

Dashcams. About the only way to go in this day and age.

unfortunatley dash cams don't necessarily pick up direct side impacts.

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Its been mentioned before that you live in a Top Class area Mario,bloody toerags!!!!!
Cant you buy a door from a wrecker in the same colour rather than waste $550 with the insurance mob????
Andrew

Andrew,, LOL, top class area, PFFFF! I seriously thinking I need to move somewhere quieter, re the door unfortunatley I haven't got the time to run around all the wreckers looking for a pristine door, (the vehicle is well was in unmarked pristine condition)
I have too much on my plate to start pulling doors off and fitting trims, mirrors etc, and doors are not that cheap anyway.
I'm lucky that I have a life time no claim bonus so at least the insurance premium won't go up because of it. As for the $550 wasted, I just eat hamburger mince for the week instead of a BBQ lamb chop.
Cheers, Mario

Te guy who lives across the road just did this to my parked ute . He was turning into his driveway with a camper van & did not allow for the over hang behind his back wheels & was too close to my ute when he turned . I was in the garage & saw it happen. The back of the camper has hit behind the front wheel then scraped the Tyre before braking the front off & braking the corner off the indicator. I can not see any damage to the camper. IMAG1056.jpg IMAG1057.jpg

I have just written a let to our local council about the situation,we have had 4 hit runs now on our vehicles, my neighbor tells me one of the tradies working on his house next door 2 days ago had a hit and runner do his ute my other neighbors have also been hit a couple if times. People are using our street as a quick avoid the traffic lights the next street ahead, trucks keep taking out the traffic island sign at the end of my street as it does not give a turning room, the street is narrow and 2 cars can not pass each other, so something needs to be down, I asked previously in years gone by to get it blocked off to though traffic, but council came up with excuses, not it is becoming a financial joke for us residents have to pay for damages to our vehicles.