Thread: Beach Idiots

That is at least a $1500 - $2000 claim so I would be putting in a no fault claim - I hope you got his details.

^^^ 100%. The attitude of the guilty party immediately deserves a damages claim. " Not my fault" 😡🤬 so who's was it then?? The man in the moon???
Had the same issue when, In a horrific wind, a woman let go of her door and it caused $1700 worth of damage to our LS430. Her response? " oh that wasn't my fault, it was the wind!" 🤬🤬. Needless to say she got hit with the whole claim via our insurance company..

Idiots.

That attitude really gets me. We all try to look after our rigs,then some moron comes along and does that.

you mentioned the beach entry, normally there’s separate entry and exit tracks to avoid “meeting” halfway. If you were entering, then the guy that hit you was going the wrong way, ie exiting from the entry route.

best of luck with insurance claim.

That'll be worth more than your excess for sure I'd say plus the extra bonus of dipping into the tool's wallet.

Your insurance company will pay for your car .... and I doubt that will be cheap at all.....and they will pursue him.

Hope you got his details and witnesses will be really handy too.

Word of advice though .... do some research on your repair options. I had a minor ding in my tailgate due to some tool reversing into me .... an unobscured D4 is pretty hard to see apparently …… but the monkeys that RACQ use as repairers did more bad than good. 27 defects in the first place's attempt. Second mob were a fair bit better but struggled with things like alignment of badges and didn't really know how a D4 goes together.

Ended up at a LR approved mob who stated they wouldn't have wasted their time repairing the tailgate and would just have replaced all parts in toto.

Anyway …. lesson learned.

Good luck mate.

Kev.

Be stuffed straight to your insurer no mucking about
Well this be another spot ill just put on my do not go list

Got his details but you know what insurance companies are like. Knew it was a claim as soon as I saw it. I had 3 passengers but no other witnesses. You don’t have to be Einstein to figure out fault when you look at the damage.

The entrances at Straddie are both ways. I always drive past to have a look first and try and go on straight. I sat there and watched for a while as others used the exit/entrance and the number of people driving up to road from real accrue angles to a blindish turn really amazed me.

Stuff happens but why always me....

Light cluster is around $500 alone (my car has had one replaced). So add some panel and you’re talking a $2k insurance job ( with some profit, corruption etc).

If it's entrance/exit and you don't have independent witnesses then I'd don't like your chances. When he gets contacted by the insurance (and he will) he can deny he caused it, make up a lie, or even just ignore the letter altogether....He can do that believe it or not. I've seen it happen on more than one occasion. The insurance company will probably have to file it in the too hard basket.

Good luck though. No harm in trying.