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Had the car less than 2 hours...pop into Tesco on the way home from buying the damn thing.....a nice local has put a fairly deep scratch into the two offside doors....amazing.....
Fairly poor on rant standards I know.... Wonder how much this will cost?,
DrP
You have my sympathy I will collect my new car on Saturday, was thinking that on a 63 plate it is less likely to be keyed, perhaps not!
Ouch.
I get anxious every time I have to park in one of those places.
Took me about 6 weeks before someone took out the rear bumper and wing of my new car then f#%^{d off
Blimey, if you will park an Aston Martin in the local Supermarket!
...or a 57 plate octavia....!
DrP
That is maddening, to say the least.
Couple years ago a friend bought a new car and got rear-ended as he was pulled up at the exit at the dealership by a 16 year old with no insurance---about $6K in damage.
DrP you have my sympathy. Some people are just bastards.
...or a 57 plate octavia....!
Cor! How the other half live!
p.s bastards!
That sucks....unless you parked it over the white line taking up two bays. Then you are just asking for it! 😉
Durrington Tesco DrP? Chav central.
CCTV in supermarket ? You never know
Such a cowardly, detestable thing to do.
CCTV in supermarket ? You never know
My first thought too.
Whilst I don't agree with them, I can understand many crimes. If you're on the breadline or an addict and you're stealing to buy food / your next hit, I can understand the logic, the desperation.
Vandalism I've never got. You've got something nicer than me, so I'm going to **** it up. This bus shelter stops old ladies getting battered by the elements, so I'm going to stove its panels in. Look at that freshly painted wall, it'd be so much nicer with my name spray-painted all over it. It's not even testosterone, belting seven shades out of something I can understand, but dragging a key down a car? It's just bloody odd and I don't get it. You gain nothing other than giving a complete stranger a bad day.
It happened to my brand-new Passat - the dealer delivered it to my office and at lunch time I went down to the local ASDA for some fruit. Got back to the car and spotted a huge crescent-shaped scratch right across one side of the bonnet - either done deliberately or possibly by some idiot swinging round with a handbag over their shoulder. Called the dealer in distress and he told me to bring it round to the paint shop - they put a polisher on it and managed to disappear it. Modern cars have a layer of lacquer on the paint and when it's scratched the lacquer goes white.
Sorry to hear that, new cars are so precious especially when you buy them yourself (not a company car).
Were you parked where you shouldn't have been? My dad's car got keyed when he parked in a mother and child space.
Polished and repaired my lease car in Dec. The day before handover I went to Tesco's. Parked in a child bay for 15mins and when we came back out bingo someone had used a trolley into a rear door. £60 dent repair.
Cheers stressed and dishonest/woman whoever you are.
It was just parked in a normal bay, in a mostly empty car park, between the white lines....
Oh well!
I'm with cougar on this - there's logic in taking something you can't afford (it's not right, But makes sense). There's no benefit for anyone with this sort of thing though....
DrP
Parked in a child bay for 15mins and when we came back out bingo someone had used a trolley into a rear door.
Did you have the obligatory child with you tho? Or at least a car seat in the back?
Yep. Most of those bays are full of cars with neither. But thats another topic...
Thats a sucky thing to happen.
My sister and family came to stay last Christmas and some lunatic mentalist vandalised nearly twenty cars along our quiet street. Not the odd scratch either-they etched loads of racist stuff on doors, bonnets etc.
Horrific stuff.
She then got stung with a £750 excess at the airport as the car was rented.
There are some tossers around.
i love the fact that some folk think its part justified if you didnt align your vehicle with the painted lines on the floor or dared to stand against the preferential parking offered to some...
Yep there are indeed oddly bitter arseholes out there.
The nicest car I ever owned (was about 6yrs old at the time) got scratched within a month.
It also got spray painted (along with about a dozen other cars) and also got reversed into one night with about £1k's worth of damage and no note. Although I did track down the culprit later that day....
We've also had wingmirrors beaten off multiple times and even footprints on the roof more than once.
I wouldn't mind but it wasnt a bad area, but i think it was morons coming back from the pub.
We've moved 1/4 mile away now to a nice quiet cul-de-sac and not had any damage since.
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i love the fact that some folk think its part justified if you didnt align your vehicle with the painted lines on the floor or dared to stand against the preferential parking offered to some...
Whats the problem with preferential parking?
Are disabled people or parents with multiple children to herd not to be allowed a bit of help then?
Sorry to hear that....
Happened to my OH's Ka, a few weeks after someone working for another company that shared our car park got the same car as her in the same colour. She'd been parking their for ages and never had a problem.
We think it was someone trying to vandalise the other woman's car, but got the wrong one; a deep key mark all the way from the rear bumper to the front bumper. Had to get it repaired on the insurance.
Also happened to a friend when we went to Le Mans. He had a gleaming red Escort GTi and it was parked on a quiet road in Le Mans for perhaps an hour. Came back to it and one side had been keyed along it's whole length. Always wondered whether the UK plates provoked it...
It amazes me that some cars don't get scratched - those t*ss bags that park diagonally 6 inches away from another parked car. How the hell is someone supposed to get back into their own vehicle without scratching yours!? Sorry for the drift but saves me starting my own rant thread...
Sorry to hear bout your car OP, mine got pinged with the end of a trolley leaving a 5p sized dint in the passenger door. Gits.
Many years ago I was 'rammed' by a fully laden trolley (which is quite an impact) whilst sitting in the passenger seat - being a sulky teenager not wanting to help with the shopping. When I got out to examine the damage, the bint went mental for me daring to suggest that she was at fault. Que exchange of views before tubby little mentalist husband walks into sight leading to demonstration of how placid the bint was in comparison. From a distance you would think 'normal middle aged couple' - goes to show how many dicks there are doing things like that.
Have also seen mid twenties woman emptying her shopping into her boot and watching the trolley roll off down the hill straight into other parked cars. She didn't even fetch it - just drove off!
I'd better stop now...
I can see some tosspot singling out a brand new motor for an envy scratch, can't see why anyone would key a 57 plate Skoda though. I'd have thought it would have been just some careless idiot with a trolley.
Not sure that's hugely comforting though.
I don't consider it justified at all but you could atleast see a [i]possible[/i] reason for the miscreant doing what they did. As cougar said some crimes you can see the reason for whilst still deploring them, others are a complete mystery.i love the fact that some folk think its part justified if you didnt align your vehicle with the painted lines on the floor or dared to stand against the preferential parking offered to some..
I get pissed off about people abusing the "preferential" parking, it's a minor thing but the epitome of the entitled car culture we have, I don't feel the need to key their car for it tho - but then, I'm not a nobber (much)
A dint from a runaway trolley is careless, a long scratch just says 'I don't give a toss' or worse. I just can't understand the mentality of some people we share the planet with.
Much as I'm tempted to let down the tyres of people who take the disabled bay then jog into the store.
Hmmm some little darling decided to drag a stone down our car and most of them on our street, we'd only had it 2 months... one of the very rare occasions I've seen Mrs C cry... I'm not a violent person but i would have genuinely snapped the perps fingers off and shoved them down his/her throat.... we don't park on our street now so it's not en route to the pub local shop etc...
The road above our cul de sac- one section (say 20metres) - ALL cars their get keyed.
Last week, I was popping back. First time I ever parked there for 20mins.
Yep- car keyed.
It HAS to be the people who live in the house(s) there. Too much of a coincidence for it to be a passing chav.
setup a sting operation hora, you lay in the back seat get your mrs to park the car and walk away, await the tell tale *scccccrrrrr* of key on paint work then jump out and apprehend them.
Hiding in the back seat always seems to work for kidnappers and serial killers on telly so I assume it would work for anyone else.
Not quite the same but my Dad drove me over to pick up my new Puma back in 2001, we walked over to have a look at it and swung open the door right onto a post - hadn't even paid for it.
Mine made it to 6 weeks before someone opened the drivers door of a LR Disco into the passenger door in Guisbrough Sainsbury's. I know it was them as I parked next to them, left loads of room, and the impact was quite high and foreward so had to be a 4x4 and the door would need to be fully open to scuff the paint like that without leaving a propper dent.
Some people just don't care.
3 years on I dont give a flying poop, it's picked up plenty more from bikes leaning agaainst it, and a DOT5.1 handprint in the bonnet where I pushed it back after bleeding the bikes brakes. I'd be mortified if I bumped someone elses though.
This is the kind of thing that is putting me off getting a half decent motor.
That and the fact I scraped the current one down the side of the house 😳
The mentality of people these days beggars belief, there are some real ****wits out there.
I noticed a load of scratches on my car roof the other day. I'm pretty sure I haven't rolled it so assume they were done intentionally by someone. Either that or an angry seagul.
It HAS to be the people who live in the house(s) there.
You were probably parked in "their" spot.
Whats the problem with preferential parking?
Often, it's ill-conceived. Like, I can understand why "parent and child" spots need more width to manoeuvre prams and such. But why do they have to be right next to the door, does being a parent prevent you from walking more than ten feet? And moreover, why not just make all the spaces large enough to comfortably accept something larger than a Micra, then Q5 drivers don't have to park diagonally across two disabled bays?
Our local Tesco has the front two rows of the car park as disabled bays. Which is fine, but it means that there's about 40 bays, and the ones at the far end of the row are half a mile away from the entrance. I think the most I've ever seen in use at any one time is two.
Our local Tesco has the front two rows of the car park as disabled bays. Which is fine, but it means that there's about 40 bays, and the ones at the far end of the row are half a mile away from the entrance. I think the most I've ever seen in use at any one time is two.
Wonder if they get tax breaks for including disabled facilities?
It can only be one of two houses. One has really really OAP's and the other seems to be a middle-aged Mum with teenage children.
Not quite the same but my Dad drove me over to pick up my new Puma back in 2001, we walked over to have a look at it and swung open the door right onto a post - hadn't even paid for it.
And not quite the same as your notquite the same, but I had an almost brand new Puma too - about 6 weeks after I bought it. We were at a wedding in Wales, pulled up next to a low wall, said to my girlfriend 'be careful of that low wall', she snapped back saying she knew, that she had seen it, she wasn't stupid etc.
Then smacked the door straight into it. I fumed right through the service 👿
And moreover, why not just make all the spaces large enough to comfortably accept something larger than a Micra
In America they have large and compact spaces in most car parks - makes sense to me.
we had some workies in the works carpark - foreman in the drivers seat - feet up on his door with his door on my door - his lackie was in the back riding a pogo stick while looking for something judging by the way the van was rocking - all the while scraping up and down mine.
when challeneged i got "but its just a van" -aye but its my van.
trailrat now [b]that's[/b] piss boiling content
pretty sure I've told this story before. On a course from work, lunch was provided at a pub down the road, one or two drivers kindly took the rest of us cheapskates/hippies who weren't in cars. Nice lady drove us to pub parked a decent distance from cars on either side, fatty in the back seat swung door open til it hit the car next to us, hefted his corpulence out of the car unweighting the suspension causing a vertical scratch up the car to complement the initial impact, slammed door and walked off without a glance back/apology.Some people just don't care.
minimise how far you have to drag children across car parks? not the most child friendly of places.But why do they have to be right next to the door, does being a parent prevent you from walking more than ten feet?
They should put the large spaces at the far end of the car park so that fatties in their range rovers have to walk further. Fine them if they park in the compact ones!
we had some workies in the works carpark - foreman in the drivers seat - feet up on his door with his door on my door - his lackie was in the back riding a pogo stick while looking for something judging by the way the van was rocking - all the while scraping up and down mine.when challeneged i got "but its just a van" -aye but its my van.
...then what happened?
Vandalism I've never got. You've got something nicer than me, so I'm going to **** it up. This bus shelter stops old ladies getting battered by the elements, so I'm going to stove its panels in. Look at that freshly painted wall, it'd be so much nicer with my name spray-painted all over it. It's not even testosterone, belting seven shades out of something I can understand, but dragging a key down a car? It's just bloody odd and I don't get it. You gain nothing other than giving a complete stranger a bad day.
Absolutely. Years ago a work colleague was out with a mate and their two SO's. Stopped at a takeaway and left the girls in the back. Car was a coupé, a Colt Starion, or something like that, anyway, the girls are chatting, and they see this bloke walk past, stop, walk back a bit, pull his keys out of his pocket and run them down the side of the car! He couldn't see them in the back, and they watched him carry on and key all the other cars down the road.
They shot into the takeaway, grabbed the blokes, and made off after him, and saw him actually go into a house.
Report to the police, with the address, and he was picked up.
He was a VAT Inspector in his fifties!
My new car, parked in France on holiday, at the far and quiet end of the car park, I witnesses a crappy car park next to it, and whack my car with their door as they all piled out laughing.
I can't repeat here what I did.
^^ please do!
I noticed a load of scratches on my car roof the other day. I'm pretty sure I haven't rolled it so assume they were done intentionally by someone. Either that or an angry seagul.
Steven?
£312 quoted so far...
DrP
Just chopped in my old car (had from new) for something cheaper to run.
First there's the piss off factor that people think its perfectly fine to bang the trolley into it, scratch it with their handbag/trolley/anything else dangling from them (delete as applicable), open their car doors into it and / or clip the bumpers/doors while going in to/ out of a space.
To add to the fun the old car (Nissan) seemed particularly tin like and any kind of car park mishap couldn't just be a scratch.. it had to be a dent of some kind at least..
Thanks.. feel better now! 🙂
My late mum used to own a black Fiat Punto. Not the flashiest car in the world but she took a pride in keeping it clean and waxed. One day some scrote decided to key it for her. I have no idea why some scumbag did it but having seen how upset my mum was at having her pride and joy damaged I would have happily beaten whoever did it to death. That old Fiat is long gone (as sadly is my mum) but my attitude to people who key cars remains.
I make a point of parking at the farthest end of any car park away from the majority of idiots these days. Lifes too short for an assault charge...
I had it kind of the other way round, the day I sealed a sale on my old Focus, someone drove into it in my work car park then scarpered. Sale was mostly based on the cosmetic condition which was pretty much perfect til then 🙁
Current car came to me with parking scrapes on all the corners, a nice big dent in a door and 2 sets of key marks- much easier. And also nobody wants to park beside it.
Can the scratch be polished out? Remember polish actually removes the lacquer and smooths the pains because it contains very fine grit like particles so wax the area after polishing it. Sometimes they look worse than they actually are. Also CCTV would be useless I guess. At best it would probably show someone standing near your car so there won't be any evidence of the offence actually being committed.
If the scratch can't be felt with your nail then there is a good chance it can be polished out without a trace.
I bought my new car on a Monday and some scrote kindly keyed it for me on the Friday.
DrP sorry to hear this, in the grand scheme of things £300 isn't too bad. Can be much worse if they've deformed the panel.
OP, I really feel for you, mate! Having had a similar experience a few years ago I now park in the distant parts of supermarket carparks, even if it means a long walk with the trolley.
It's a fairly good going scratch...
Some parts probably could be polished out, but about 30% of it is through the paint.
I suppose running over 2 panels doubles the cost, regardless of how much of each is scratched!
DrP
Not quite the same but,
I once bought a new (to me) car, took it out the day I'd got it, and came back to find all four door panels kicked in.
Turned out that it was my new girlfriend's ex who had done it out of spite, so at least there was a reason for it. Turned out worse for him in the long run as apart from the court appearance it cemented our relationship, as I was more concerned about her than the car.