So, some lovely person rammed my car into the fence sometime last night early this morning while it was parked up. I feel like killing that person right now, but will probably never find them. It's going to be put on a trailer Monday to get repaired. Only had it 9 months, my pride and joy. Damage front O/S and N/S, as well as there must be damage underneath, as I did leave the vehicle with the front wheels straight. Hopefully not a right off, but you never know.

  

Bastids 🤬

 

Is it parked off road?

 

Gaz

That must have made some noise, nobody saw it I guess.

It is in our private residents car park and nobody heard a thing. Going to go round the other residents to see if they had any visitors late last night, but I don't hold out much hope. 

sorry to hear about your woe's, I'd be having a walk around the local area looking for a car/van with damage.  Any coloured paint from the other vehicle, if so the police can/could  match the paint to a manufacturer.

 

judging by the way is park now it must have been some impact.

 

 

Edited 15 February, 20206 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Bloody hell! Sorry to hear that, hope it gets sorted asap.

 

Happened to me a few years back, but not with such a sweet motor. Luckily the guy was honest and left a note.

 

 

That’s terrible. 
Have an ask around to see if any one has CCTV that could see a damaged vehicle leaving the area?

I don't think I will get a lot of help from the police, as nobody was injured. I have made out a police incident report online though. None of the neighbours I have talked to so far heard anything. 

That looks suspiciously like the back end of a lorry has reversed into your car. The main damage is about where the long metal bar of a lorry sits, and looks like that sort of shape. If it was a big lorry or artic, the driver may not have even realised he's done it. Do you have any regular deliveries or anything round your way, or do lorries use your car park to turn round in? Just a thought. Gutted for you anyway 😞

7 minutes ago, Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

That looks suspiciously like the back end of a lorry has reversed into your car. The main damage is about where the long metal bar of a lorry sits, and looks like that sort of shape. If it was a big lorry or artic, the driver may not have even realised he's done it. Do you have any regular deliveries or anything round your way, or do lorries use your car park to turn round in? Just a thought. Gutted for you anyway 😞

 

You might be right, you would have though with that Impact the other car/van might have been undrivable 

Another clue to it being a lorry is that luckily for you there was no deployment of the airbags.

 

My Yeti even being scrutinised by eye in good light showed no visible signs of damage apart from a cracked number plate, one tiny scuff on the painted bumper and 3 of the plastic grille slats broken (same grille type as yours) yet it had deployed 3 airbags and the seatbelt pyrotechnics rupturing the dashboard and writing the car off.

 

I think the suggestion was right that the car was slowly pushed into the fence hence why nobody heard anything.

 

I really feel for you.

Someone somewhere will have a recording of that if it’s a lorry. They nearly all have cctv record these days.

2 minutes ago, J.R. said:

Another clue to it being a lorry is that luckily for you there was no deployment of the airbags.

Not true, one of the test that manufacturers have to do is to check that the airbags DON'T deploy if the vehicle speed is less than approx. 20mph - and since OPs car was parked the airbags wouldn't have deployed however hard the impact was.

 

When I was working for an automotive consultancy it was quite sad watching several vehicles being crashed into the "approved" block of concrete at just under 20mph and considerable damage being done but no airbags being deployed.

Point taken regarding the ignition being off.

 

There was no way on earth that the impact my Yeti suffered was anywhere near 20mph but there will always be exceptions to the rule, I have not done a single thing to the bumper and even when informed of the history you would have to look very very hard to see the scuff.

 

Whatever it hit or hit it must have been very soft and compliant which is exactly what the bumper and the foam insert behind it (also re-used) are because they had transferred the impact to the steel bumper beam without being damaged but the short crumple zone on the longitudinal box section part of the steel inner bumper beam was deformed on one side, no deformation whatsoever on the vehicle chassis rails, panel gaps were all good.

For around £150 you can get a front and rear dashcam with motion detection. Hardwired in. 

I have a front and rear car cam in the screen, but I so wish I had it hard wired in. I turn it on before every drive and leave it on when I have to park among members of the public. Sadly, the only time it is off, is when it is parked off road at home, bugger. 

Its really apauling that whoever the driver was,  simply drove off to leave you with such a headache. 

 

Dont get too hung up on the dashcam.  When I was (alot) younger, all my car stereo (12inch custom made Alpine bass bins head unit amps  etc) walked off out of my car with some one else whilst on my drive. Window smashed and I heard nothing despite being close to it. And my alarm was not working because i'd disconnected it to do some other work on it....

 

Feel for you

 

Edited 15 February, 20206 yr by paulski
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That sucks. Hopefully the GAP and main insurance will kick in.

 

Were you bins collected that day?

2 hours ago, lpt100 said:

That sucks. Hopefully the GAP and main insurance will kick in.

 

Were you bins collected that day?

No mate. The bin truck or men don't come into the car park anyway. I don't think I will ever find the culprit, but the way I feel at the moment, if I did find them, the old way of dealing with bad people might easily come out! Still sat here mad even now. 

What a bummer, feel sorry for you. If it's any consolation, the damage looks worse than it probably is, but I agree the front wheel turning may lead to expensive problems.

 

Have you reported it to the police? Agree there's probably not much they can do but having a crime reported / incident number may help with insurance.

 

You say it happened at night / early hours of morning?  With my Sherlock Holmes hat on you'd think that would rule out deliveries, council collections etc. And if nobody heard it, then it was probably a very low impact speed. Given the headlamp is intact, the height of the vehicle can only be a few feet off the ground? Is there no 3rd party damage lying around like broken indicator lens? I'm thinking someone reversed a flatbed or beaver tail trailers in to your car - like the ones landscape gardeners use to transport their lawnmowers or mini JCB diggers?

 

 

Hopefully it'll get fixed and your car is back like new again.

Edited 15 February, 20206 yr by Guest

17 minutes ago, Scot5 said:

What a bummer, feel sorry for you. If it's any consolation, the damage looks worse than it probably is, but I agree the front wheel turning may lead to expensive problems.

 

Have you reported it to the police? Agree there's probably not much they can do but having a crime reported / incident number may help with insurance.

 

You say it happened at night / early hours of morning?  With my Sherlock Holmes hat on you'd think that would rule out deliveries, council collections etc. And if nobody heard it, then it was probably a very low impact speed. Given the headlamp is intact, the height of the vehicle can only be a few feet off the ground? Is there no 3rd party damage lying around like broken indicator lens? I'm thinking someone reversed a flatbed or beaver tail trailers in to your car - like the ones landscape gardeners use to transport their lawnmowers or mini JCB diggers?

 

 

Hopefully it'll get fixed and your car is back like new again.

Yes incident report filled out this morning. As for what hit my car, I was initially thinking something like the rear footplate/step on the back of a van, but who knows. We will never know I guess. Third party damage, all I found were a couple of very small pieces of plastic, shiny black one side and dull green the other. 

Stobart lorry 😂

 

Not a laughing matter, but if the green is paint, it might be worth holding onto it.

10 hours ago, cheezemonkhai said:

Stobart lorry 😂

 

Not a laughing matter, but if the green is paint, it might be worth holding onto it.

I don't think I have a hope in hell of catching the culprit. Just got back from the gym and took some of my aggression out there. Did it help calm me down yet, no!

Get it posted on your local facebook group for where you live and set it as public and ask people to share. Sooner or later, you never know, someone might come forward with info...

34 minutes ago, NikTheGeek said:

Get it posted on your local facebook group for where you live and set it as public and ask people to share. Sooner or later, you never know, someone might come forward with info...

I am ahead of you mate, or my good lady is as she suggested it. Already posted.