They have now beaten me

[aubrey]

I give up !!!!!!

2 months ago someone put a crease in my rear bumper, £120 had it filled and painted.

Last month was shopping at the local supermarket, came back to the car and a big key scratch down the bonnet. I thought I was Mr Unlucky with this car but £180 later had the bonnet resprayed.

Came back home from work tonight and look at this by the Rear Nearside

I give up. I'm just going to put touch up paint on it at the weekend, I have had it with this car - Never again.

I wonder if it is because I washed it yesterday or I'm I just being paranoid.

[Decron]

Aww mate, that is just plain badness. Have you at any point been nasty to any kittens? It really seems like someone has it in for the poor Roomy :(

Seriously, try Chips Away, it may not cost as much as all that.

[Captain Sisko]

You really have to be careful no matter what car you drive.

This elderly woman had her car keyed a few weeks back.

[mdk1]

Sorry to here your woes, hope you get it sorted with little outlay.

[vRSLen]

Rule number one, never give up

[Oharse]

:( bas*ards hang them all by their boll*ks

[Stephen McVicar]

You are not alone, within a week someone put a small crease down the drivers door in a supermarket. My wife managed to scrape one of the plastic door guard strips. Thge rear bumper now has a large scratch across the top after a visit to the tip. Rear NS passenger door recently aquired a crease from a supermarket, bonnet has a few stone chips...

A few people at work now deliberately park right on the white line to block 2 parking spaces to stop this. Don't try it in a car park that you pay for though! My view is that if you don't get hurt then you are fortunate. Best to live with these minor annoyances. My last car was no more lucky!

[sms]

sorry to hear about it mate, not everyone in this world is as cruel as these jealous spitful little s---s who do this to your car, i expect they have been brought up with no idea of the word respect.

[Little Jo]

My Fabia was only seven weeks old when someone damaged the bumper for me. We think he was rammed with a pushchair.

It's infuriating, particularly when it's my very first brand new car.

[Stephen McVicar]

You are not alone, within a week someone put a small crease down the drivers door in a supermarket. My wife managed to scrape one of the plastic door guard strips. Thge rear bumper now has a large scratch across the top after a visit to the tip. Rear NS passenger door recently aquired a crease from a supermarket, bonnet has a few stone chips...

A few people at work now deliberately park right on the white line to block 2 parking spaces to stop this. Don't try it in a car park that you pay for though! My view is that if you don't get hurt then you are fortunate. Best to live with these minor annoyances. My last car was no more lucky!

I'll add to the list as of last Friday the front badge has been stolen who the heck wants a Skoda badge (apart from me?) & a 40cm scratch down the NS rear panel. Who would own a new car?

Just priced up the badge at £11.70 including VAT. I guess it was nicked to order at that price.

Edited 22 October, 2008 by Stephen McVicar

[Mr Statto]

Our Roomster was delivered with a dent! When the dealer was filling the tank a doddery old dear parked next to it and opened her door right into our rear wing :eek:

We took it back after the weekend and they sorted it out and filled the tank up again as an apology (even though it wasn't their fault), so to Crawley Down

[Stephen McVicar]

It is nice to meet other nice people!

[Stephen McVicar]

Just had 2 door dents knocked out & the rear panel re-sprayed by Chips Away. £190 including VAT. The guy collected the car from work & returned it within a couple of hours. Good colour match & no trace of the dents without removing any trim. I asked about treating the bonnet stone chips. Ironically the guy said they don't do stone chips!

[Stephen McVicar]

The bloody car is fated. Entering the car park at work on Tuesday, a Volvo S60 was stopped in front of me, then proceeded to reverse into my front end. The lady driver did not even look. I was stationary, with the road junction behind so had nowhere to go. I sounded the horn twice but had no choice but to wait for the crunch. She pulled forward & asked "Did I hit you? I didn't know you were there". Luckily the air bags didn't deploy. Front bumper cracked in two places. £111 from Skoda + paint + fitting. Glad I'm not paying. With driving standards like this, there is no blooming point in trying to keep your car in decent condition.

[KenONeill]

The bloody car is fated. Entering the car park at work on Tuesday, a Volvo S60 was stopped in front of me, then proceeded to reverse into my front end. The lady driver did not even look. I was stationary, with the road junction behind so had nowhere to go. I sounded the horn twice but had no choice but to wait for the crunch. She pulled forward & asked "Did I hit you? I didn't know you were there". Luckily the air bags didn't deploy. Front bumper cracked in two places. £111 from Skoda + paint + fitting. Glad I'm not paying. With driving standards like this, there is no blooming point in trying to keep your car in decent condition.

Make very sure that her makeing the highlighted statement is recorded for the insurance; They will get her, and do it legally!

[chrisw880]

She pulled forward & asked "Did I hit you? I didn't know you were there".

They should force people to retake their driving test and an eye test if they can't see cars behind them, before they are aloud back on the road

[Duffelcoat]

The bloody car is fated. Entering the car park at work on Tuesday, a Volvo S60 was stopped in front of me, then proceeded to reverse into my front end. The lady driver did not even look. I was stationary, with the road junction behind so had nowhere to go. I sounded the horn twice but had no choice but to wait for the crunch. She pulled forward & asked "Did I hit you? I didn't know you were there". Luckily the air bags didn't deploy. Front bumper cracked in two places. £111 from Skoda + paint + fitting. Glad I'm not paying. With driving standards like this, there is no blooming point in trying to keep your car in decent condition.

This is why I am not a fan of these so called parking aids, it makes people not look at what they are doing and even then start to ignore the car making them oblivious to all around.

As for dents and stuff, I remember a classic incident when I owed a 200k mile passat that was scuffed all over the place... This beamer came driving towards me overtaking a parked car thought I would get out of the dozy bimps way, but of course I didnt, what did I have to lose? She swerved at the last minute and bang went the wing mirrors! My cacky black plastic one simply went in and popped back out no damage at all, where as her expensive beamer wing mirror exploded into a million bits! How I laughed!

Now have a superb which I try and keep nice and tidy, but long for the old passat battle bus days where I could simply shout move it or loose it and keep on going!

:P

[Stephen McVicar]

When I was young & poor I had a Lada Riva. There, it's out. It was built like a T72 tank. I once locked horns with a Volvo on a crossroads, we both went for the same space at the same time & hit the front O/S corners. The Volvo crumpled at the front & left bits all over the road. It needed a whole new front end. I bent a channel section Aluminium bumper & chipped the headlamp lens. New headlamp was £10 & I straightened the bumper myself on the anvil at work with a big hammer (I only had 3rd party fire & theft insurance those days). Happy days with crappy cars...

[StuartBell]

When I was young & poor I had a Lada Riva. There, it's out. It was built like a T72 tank. I once locked horns with a Volvo on a crossroads, we both went for the same space at the same time & hit the front O/S corners. The Volvo crumpled at the front & left bits all over the road. It needed a whole new front end. I bent a channel section Aluminium bumper & chipped the headlamp lens. New headlamp was £10 & I straightened the bumper myself on the anvil at work with a big hammer (I only had 3rd party fire & theft insurance those days). Happy days with crappy cars...

I ran into the back of an Escort on a roundabout. I was in an Austin A40, The Escort needed new boot, new bumper, and some straightening out. The A40 needed a new sidelight bulb because the spring-mounted cover had retracted, breaking the bulb. The Escort's boot had a nice 7" diameter circular depression, caused by the (intact) headlamp glass of the A40. Crumple zones? Pah! ;-)

Stuart

[Stephen McVicar]

The bloody car is fated. Entering the car park at work on Tuesday, a Volvo S60 was stopped in front of me, then proceeded to reverse into my front end.

PS. the woman concerned is now trying to deny involvement in the incident, saying she does not think it was her fault. She claims to have looked in her mirror prior to reversing & says I was not there (Oh yes I was!), in spite of me following her into the car park. One snotty phone call later, & I now have the CCTV footage for the insurance company to use. Will keep you posted...

Steve.

[KenONeill]

The bloody car is fated. Entering the car park at work on Tuesday' date=' a Volvo S60 was stopped in front of me, then proceeded to reverse into my front end.

PS. the woman concerned is now trying to deny involvement in the incident, saying she does not think it was her fault. She claims to have looked in her mirror prior to reversing & says I was not there (Oh yes I was!),

Steve.[/quote']

Irrelevant anyway; her obligation is to keep observing in the direction of movement at all times whilst she is in control of a moving vehicle. Saying "I looked before I started" is threateningly close to "I wasn't looking" IMO.

[VWD]

Now to a tail of joy to all who've been shunted in a supermarket car park (Sounds like a bit from Up Pompii:rofl:).

Was parked in a seniour citazens supermarket ,eating lunch (bit of rabbit food ) when I felt the vehicle shake .Looking in passenger mirror ,see an old female dear ( no -no horns ,was a female ,dear ),move forward and reverse out .

Looking out of driver's side I could see ( and recorded reg ).Looked at rear of vehice -no damage .

Next thing - a police vehicle drove up to the pick up point .So I wandered up to the car ,gave PC details of offending car and asked him what to do -he thought he might like to visit ol gal and ask her why she'd not stopped to give details :eek:.After all -a Transit High top ,LWB in an odious shade of red is a bit hard to miss :rofl:

[KenONeill]

Now to a tail of joy to all who've been shunted in a supermarket car park (Sounds like a bit from Up Pompii:rofl:).

Was parked in a seniour citazens supermarket ,eating lunch (bit of rabbit food ) when I felt the vehicle shake .Looking in passenger mirror ,see an old female dear ( no -no horns ,was a female ,dear ),move forward and reverse out .

Looking out of driver's side I could see ( and recorded reg ).Looked at rear of vehice -no damage .

Next thing - a police vehicle drove up to the pick up point .So I wandered up to the car ,gave PC details of offending car and asked him what to do -he thought he might like to visit ol gal and ask her why she'd not stopped to give details :eek:.After all -a Transit High top ,LWB in an odious shade of red is a bit hard to miss :rofl:

Demonstrably so; well she didn't, did she?

[daximo]

Similar thing happened to me. Parked at night in well lit car park waiting for teenager to come out of youth club.Woman in row in front reversed out towards me hit my n/s wing and continued scraping the whole length of car -5 week old Vaux Astra. Her first words were ' You didn't have any lights on!!!!!!!!!!' Well no its a CAR PARK.:confused:

That car was fated too.Hit five times and all while parked.

Mo

[suze]

Sometimes it's accidental and people will just walk away, sometimes it's ignorance (idiot with a shopping trolley) and sometimes people are just nasty and don't like anyone having something they dont.