Bit miffed off really - bit of a rant post I'm afraid!

Have spent a lot of the afternoon vacuuming and waxing the car - suffice to say it was looking awesome....

Went out to check the tyre pressures at Sainsbury's, who have an odd system there where you have to reverse back out of the bay once you're done. There was a guy infront of me waiting for the guy to finish his pressures. As the guy came out of the bay, the guy infront of me decided to reverse straight into me....

I realised what the guy was doing and hammered on the horn like mad. I didn't have time to start the car, put it into gear, take the handbrake off and reverse.

The cheeky swine then drove forward into the bay, got out and started doing his pressures without so much as a care!!! I got out, had a look, to find that he's mangled my brand new pressed plate from the group buy. GREAT :-/

Went over to him and to be fair he came over to 'have a look'. Like I was lying to him or something. I explained to him about the plate being pressed etc... so he coughed up what I asked for (the normal price of a set of plates).

So now I have that to sort.... I'm sort of lucky that I hit the horn so much, because the guy hit me with his towbar. Any harder and he would've done some damage with that thing, as I had my handbrake on.

Rant over!!!

shame you didnt release the handbrake with the car in neutral you may have just rolled out of the way

Had a similar incident in a Tesco car park a while back. Luckily only my handbrake was on lightly and nothing was parked behind me. Think the Ford Focus came off worse - similarly I'd just waxed mine, and I suspect that helped protect the paint a little. All the idiot obviously wanted to do was get out of having to open his wallet or give his details.

I've seen some people who appear to think purposefully and intentionally driving into other people's bumpers is a perfectly acceptable way to park etc.

Time to buy a compressor perhaps?! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Automotive-RAC630-Automatic-Compressor/dp/B002Q560WE/ref=sr_1_1?s=automotive&ie=UTF8&qid=1357410480&sr=1-1

Edited 5 January, 201313 yr by anewman

Ha ha, unfortunately my hands were on the horn too much at the time!! You don't really think of damage limitation, more like damage avoidance - hence the horn!!

It's the fact that he had a tow bar on that did the damage. Otherwise I dare say there may have been zero damage, as he only tapped me due to realising after my 'horn' antics!

I'm just miffed that I've only just got the plates, now I have to sort another front one out. A hassle I could do without at the minute.

as for the plates they are pretty cheap on ebay you just send your reg no and they appear in the post a few days later ... not had any trouble with mine yet despite a few lengthy followings by the police

my luck i would have taken the handbrake off and rolled farward into him slightly as he was reversing...

Anyway, This also happend to me! but abit worse by the sound of it...

It was in an industrial estate with tight parking spaces, i asked a work van (it didnt have a tow bar but one of them big metal steps going into the back of the van) if he could move farward as he was blocking me from reversing out. he moved farward, i started to revese out the bay and i seen his revese lights come back on i knew exactly what was going to happen and also beeped my horn and actully held it on and he hit my car... i was still behind him and he just reversed right into my car damaging the bumper and smashing the reg plate. His back step left a nice big line all the way across the bumper. The paint around the area went into sort of a spiders web? like it had all cracked into a milion pieces but was all still in place.

He knew what had happend and offerd to pay all the damage etc.. his excuse was he thought i was long gone and couldnt see me in his mirrors. obviously didnt hear my horn either the knob.

bad times really....