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

Originally Posted by travelrover

Not quite a parking incident but recently had new tyres fitted to our puma shorty. The tyre centre at one point had it raised on four floor jacks which I thought a little odd as there were 8 bays with conventional chassis support hoists. When I got home (an hours drive away) i noticed two deep dents on the panel above the right rear wheel. Perfect imprints of the handle of a floor jack. As I was unable to ‘prove’ they were responsible for the damage there was nothing I could do though someone at the tyre centre clearly knew of the damage and said nothing!!! I will not be going back to them but our shorty is off to the panel beater next week.

Hah ... I never let my cars out of my site. Last time I told the guy if he didnt listen to me I was getting in the car and going elsewhere. I watched him go ot jack it from 3 different places.... Three times I went into the workshop (where customers are not allowed) and told him DO NOT JACK IT FROM THERE. the final time he was about to jack the entire front of the car from a cross member under the motor ............. Only that wasn't a crossmember, just a light weight rail that carried all the hydraulic lines.

He did get ****ed off with me and tell me not to tell him how to do his job............................ But hey, when its my car and I KNOW WITHOUT A BLOODY DOUBT where is can be jacked from..... I'll say my piece ... and tell them to get the **** away from my car, and leave the place.

If someone says to me "we don't know what to do with this weird piece of crap" ............. I'll be one happy guy.... I'd MUCH rather a tyre fitted ask me "do I know how to jack it", than them bend the **** out of my car ( and I have had them ask ).

Usually these days, I just take my wheels in without the car.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Hah ... I never let my cars out of my site. Last time I told the guy if he didnt listen to me I was getting in the car and going elsewhere. I watched him go ot jack it from 3 different places.... Three times I went into the workshop (where customers are not allowed) and told him DO NOT JACK IT FROM THERE. the final time he was about to jack the entire front of the car from a cross member under the motor ............. Only that wasn't a crossmember, just a light weight rail that carried all the hydraulic lines.

He did get ****ed off with me and tell me not to tell him how to do his job............................ But hey, when its my car and I KNOW WITHOUT A BLOODY DOUBT where is can be jacked from..... I'll say my piece ... and tell them to get the **** away from my car, and leave the place.

If someone says to me "we don't know what to do with this weird piece of crap" ............. I'll be one happy guy.... I'd MUCH rather a tyre fitted ask me "do I know how to jack it", than them bend the **** out of my car ( and I have had them ask ).

Usually these days, I just take my wheels in without the car.

seeya,
Shane L.

Yeah I take the wheels in now as well.

I took the Disco 2 for new tyres once and came back to see it lifted by the sills on the body!!

Now if I take anything in I stay with the car or go elsewhere as well.

I often have to park in CRAZY places like Morwell shopping centre lol.

So cars dinging each other happens like every 5 seconds there i think. Seen so many there its insane.

Comes in handy having my car. Steel bullbar, Steel rock sliders, steel rear bar, tow bar always on.

Yep they can try hit me all they like. I would not even notice. They would though



So every chance i get now days i practice bad parking incase i need to scratch em back.

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just another reason to install a dash cam with nudge activation to film these fleeing scumbags and get their rego.

There was an interesting discussion around that yesterday in our office, one of the blokes at work had his vehicle damaged in his absence and had a note from someone who had seen the perpetrator and written down their rego. Insurance company charged the excess unless Name, address, rego, and phone number could be supplied. Cops took around six months to find the guilty party through their rego, person involved denied doing it, Cops could do nothing more, end result was that the bloke in our office paid the excess with no recourse. Not sure how much, if any difference having dashcam footage would make in this circumstance.

Regards,
Tote

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Too right "Parking Accidents" are why when one parks in a disabled zone, one has to park across two spaces so that the car doesn't get scratched by wheelchairs. Before I get flamed, I'm only joking.

A friend has a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. A very big car and the last of the big cruisers. He is 79 y.o. and has it on full rego. so he can get a good bit of use out of it before he bundies off. Our local shopping centre parking slots are not sized for 76 Caddies so he parks across two spaces and often gets abused for it.

I read above that someone damaged another car with his bulbar and didn't realise and that's sometimes understandable. I'm very wary as I turn in that I can't see that bit down there so really make sure I'm clear unlike many.
Saw just such an incident many years ago in a shopping centre where a bloke in his "lifted and locked" scraped a car so reversed out and parked elsewhere. I sat there waiting for the Cook (always waiting for the Cook somewhere....) and the owner of the damaged car came back and saw the scrape and I got out and told him who it was. Someone else confirmed it as well.
He went straight to his boot and got a hacksaw and cut the end curved bar off the blokes bullbar and left it on his bonnet. Ally bar tube cuts easily and quickly. Obviously not a bloke you would want to tangle with from the look of him either.
Don't know what happened when the "lifted and locked" owner came back but I would have loved to have seen his face.
Car park damage is the major cause of claims these days I believe.
AlanH.