[Closed] This made me angry to the point of tears

Lucky it wasn't a new one!

No just kidding, low trick mate/

It's not all bad. It looks like it'll make it to the scrap yard.

Not too bad a ding, bet it hasn't even bust the radiator. 🙂

people who drive into stationary objects as large and as obvious as a parked car should be looking at being charged with driving without due care and attention anyway.

standard of driving on our roads is scary.

CCTV? Looks like you were on a public road, so it may be somewhere...

That is what Derren Brown would call a c***'s trick. 🙁

standard of driving on our roads is scary.

Statistically, "our roads" are some of the safest in Europe.

OP - That's a shit trick - easy fix though by the looks...

[i]It's not all bad. It looks like it'll make it to the scrap yard. [/i]

Thanks for reinforcing my current view on mankind.

🙁

Unbelievable what some people do.

Hope it can be easily fixed... is it just the bonnet that's damaged?

Thanks for reinforcing my current view on mankind.

That's quite high, well above the bumper. Looks like a truck or pick-up that's done it.

yes im sure statistics are a great consolation when it happens to you.

Trying to avoid the obvious puerile joke, will that not just pop out again, or is the paint damaged?

Pride and joy? You already had the number plate held on with a zip tie 🙂

It's a crap thing to happen, but if the paint isn't broken a PDR guy will have that back in shape no problem. Chrome trim looks unbent as well.

Sorry to see that Mark 🙁

Get a grip.
It's not like someone drove into a family member and left them too die in the road is it....

Get a grip.

😯

To recap, some dude's damaged the OP's car and driven off... I'd say the OP has every right to feel upset and angry.

I was homicidal for at least a day after some scroat knackered by rear wheel arch on the same day that some (presumably other) git tore off my wing mirror as he sped down our street.

Get a grip.
It's not like someone drove into a family member and left them too die in the road is it....

hey... Otis has feelings too!

you can always rely on a sympathetic response from stw in a time of need, eh uselesshippy?

It was him

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Sorry about your car though, shit behaviour.

Big 53 sticker over that and it'll be right again. 😉

Hope it pops out. Not great behaviour really, is it?

Relying on my new self help book to help you through this;

Scenario: Someone has dented your car
Reaction: Its not all bad but it is annoying, no one is hurt, and it can be fixed
Emotion: You have every right to be angry, but that won't help the situation and will promote stress and anxiety
Revised reaction; Accept what is done, and that you cannot control what happends to you in life, nor will things in your life work as [i]you [/i]expect them to.
Revised scenario: Someone has dented your car, but you are calmly able to accept that you now should get it fixed.

I bet you feel better after that, eh? 😀

I had a '63 with 6v and cross-ply tyres, until changed to a 12v 1971, which had it's VW badge nicked during the craze, bugger!
If I win lottery want to restore '63...dream on, looks like a great car you have there.

Put this in perspective.
My bil was knocked of his bike. Left for dead in the road, and nearly died. 3 weeks in brain injuries unit, and now deaf for live in his right ear. Among other injuries.
That's a car. A ****ING CAR.
Go too the next vw auto jumble, buy bonnet, spray bonnet, fixed. About 200 quid.
It's not the end of the road is it.
Losing several pints of blood from the side of your head could be.
So forgive my lack of sympathy op.
But it's an inanimate object. Fix it.

If that was my wife's beetle bonnet someone rammed into I'd be raging

that's bad luck Mark, you need to teach Otis to wee on their shoes !

@uselesshippy.

Something shit happenign to someone else you've never heard of doesn't necessarily mean that you don't feel angry if someone damages your property and leaves you to pick up the bill.

No, you are right, I wouldn't feel a bad as I did when my bil stood in front of an express train and my sister phoned me asking how she was going to tell their two under 12 children that Daddy was dead but I'd still be cross if it was me.

So, rather than just going for the 'worse things happen at sea' approach maybe think 'actually in the course of most peoples day to day lives it's probably a ball ache they could do without'.

Sorry to see that mate. 🙁

I'm sure Jake has mates that'll see you right. 😉

I have to confess that personally I don't think I've ever been angry upon seeing a beetle bonnet 😉

the screenwash bottle is just behind there isn't it?
maybe someone got excited and decided to bash your beetle bonnet so that it would squirt everywhere...
tee hee.

Herbieeeeeeeeee!

Find them and burn them.
That's a decent ding and they must have felt it.
Some people don't recognise the emotional attachment to old VWs and just see it as an old banger.
So find them and burn them.

Any pictures of you "nearly" crying?

yes im sure statistics are a great consolation when it happens to you.

Calm down yer bloody drama queen.

Find them and burn them.

I concur.

I bet they drive an Audi too. 😉

I bet they drive an Audi too.

more likely a female in an uninsured Passat 😉

@uselesshippy

To. Not too. Btw just because people die and get hurt in life does not mean that all other problems become irrelevant and cannot be discussed.

Are you saying that nothing annoys you other than hit and runs now?

@Mister P

Bum deal, I'd be seething too.

You got my sympathy.If someone dented my VW van I'd be well cheesed off. It may be a work horse but has lots of great memories from weekend useage. Its just plain rude unless I backed into a BMW.

I don't think even she would stoop that low Klunk. She certainly didn't do it in her Mini, it probably would have come off worse than the Beetle.

Unlucky. However there is a positive to this.If the car is gonna get damaged at all at least the panel can be replaced hopefully. Same may not be true of other body panels which would deffo require a bodyshop. Think I'd be on ebay looking for a spare one, if they are around. Then there's a bit painting required. You may even be able to take the dent out yourself??
Think there's ways of doing it. Also you may find someone skilled enough to do this.

Looks like a slow push/press rather than a sharp jolt that's caused it.

Hardluck though..

I recon someone skilled could knock that back out if it's not creased.Might be worth making some phone calls. Might not come out perfect and you'd know it's there but I doubt others would notice it from front on.

there's a conveniently placed handle for pulling the dent out

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can't be @ssed getting in an argument on a friday afternoon.

In the time it takes to read this thread, the bonnet could be popped, and the dent kicked out.
Or shall we all just chip in for a few hours on the shrinks couch to get over the grief of getting a dent in a car?

if this issue is way up the list of bad stuff in your life, you are doing OK mate. It's a shilly thing for someone to do but get some perspective, get it fixed and move on.

OP- It's crap. We had a neighbour who did that twice in huge 4x4, twice. She had no idea she had done it.

You need Liam Neeson

thing is cars that old do not stay on the road without owners being concerned about them sometimes.

OP - I'd be upset too.

That is what Derren Brown would call a c's trick.

It's what I would call a c's trick too.

Yeah, it's only a car, and it's not the end of the world. But I'd be pretty pissed off if someone did that to mine, and my car's a crappy Renault Megane.

Rat look, dawg.

I usually argue that people should be a bit less stressed about the occasional door opening incident in a supermarket carpark. But that one is a proper crash, well out of order to drive away.

That's not damage, it's [i]patina.[/i]

more likely a female in an uninsured Passat

With a dodgy gearbox?

When someone smashed the windscreen of our bay window while it was parked up behind our house I actually did cry.
We get emotionally attached to inanimate objects, that doesn't lessen the severity of accidents or other unfortunate things happening to people. Bet if your bike breaks you feel unhappy at least.

It's just a car, they made millions of them just like yours. it will be cheap to repair and hardly worth claiming on the insurance.
I could understand getting upset about the money side of things but nearly crying? 😯 it's not exactly a rare Aston/Ferrari/Porsche just an old Beatle.

standard of driving on our roads is scary.

Statistically, "our roads" are some of the safest in Europe.

Both statements can be 100% accurate. 🙄

"I could understand getting upset about the money side of things but nearly crying?"
Quite - it's a car, get it fixed or get another one. Shit happens, get agrip and move on

OP yes that's bad ...

I miss driving my 1967 Beetle.

Bet they were not insured.

Why did you leave a classic car out of your sight?

It's only a car after all - they get damaged.

BTW - [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-24240127 ]This is what makes me angry[/url]

I just google imaged 'beetles bonnet' to add a suitable photo to this thread.

I reckon the banhammer will be heading in my direction if I post it though...

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So based on this thread, next time a 'my bike is nicked' thread is posted we can tell the op to get a grip when they are equally gutted?

So based on this thread, next time a 'my bike is nicked' thread is posted we can tell the op to get a grip when they are equally gutted?

Based on your post, you need to get grip.

And why would that be, mr patriot pro?

I actually know Mark and I also know how much work he's put into that car, it's been a true labour of love and for someone to do that to it out of sheer competence and moral cowardice is a real urine boiler. It's not 'just a car,' certainly not to him.

O.K. it's a fair way away from Pol-Pot on the sliding scale of pure evil but it's a depressing reminder of the lack of moral fiber many people display in their day to day lives. Which in a way makes it more depressing.

Also, for reference my van (and it's attendant tow bar) have a water tight alibi officer!

Forest Gump said something about things like this.

Or shall we all just chip in for a few hours on the shrinks couch to get over the grief of getting a dent in a car?

I would respectfully suggest that your irrational behaviour on this thread implies that a trip to the shrink might be quite a good for you in the long run.

[i]It's just a car, they made millions of them just like yours. it will be cheap to repair and hardly worth claiming on the insurance.
I could understand getting upset about the money side of things but nearly crying? it's not exactly a rare Aston/Ferrari/Porsche just an old Beatle. [/i][i]

That's pretty low tbh. It might not be some peoples idea of a nice car, but I think you'd struggle to understand the value of a 50 year old practical classic to a committed owner. They may have made millions of them, but how many do you see on the road now?

An old beetle is a classic car! It's not like you can just buy another is it? It's 50 years old! And even if you could you'd be suprised at the value of 'old Beetles' if money is the main factor which of course it's not.

Useless hippy my friend was killed when he had just finished a 12hr night shift and drove head on into a articulated lorry he was 21 at the time. While I sympathise with what happened to you it does not mean that everything in life has a trivial effect. OP just having a vent over something that means a lot to him at the moment. Tomorrow is another day! 🙂
Would 2nd a visit to get some professional help .

Personally I would be looking for CCTV etc and getting the arse who did it.

I'm amazed by some of the reaction above basically saying it's ok to go around damaging other peoples property.

Looks to me that some people on here just enjoy other peoples misfortune.

OP - Crap do for sure, some people have no respect and see a bump as costing them hence not hanging around

I'd be prop hacked off if that was my car. I have a fairly beat up Alfa 147 and some little toerag round here decided to key it. Its not the smartest car around by any means but it still thoroughly annoyed me.

Now, had it been my pride and joy I would find that upsetting - I think anyone would. Yeah, worse shit happens to lots of people (I have had far worse things happen to me than a keyed car) but that doesn't stop someone getting a bit peeved when their personal property gets damaged through no fault of their own.

If anyone wants to start a thread on my dog died, my bil got hit by a car today etc they can and they will get the usual STW responses ranging from full blown sympathy to the obligatory MTFU.

To the OP - I for one am up for a bit of vigilante justice. Pitchfork is freshly sharpened and its time I started to teach babybgoode how to make a really good flaming torch. Lets go a' lynching...

Cheers

Danny B

Ahhh that is a shitter! But as been said it should pop out easy enough unlike if you had a modern Eurobox...

My mate found a large dent in the nose cone of his '61 Ghia and that'll be Bitch to get out, so could be worse....

Anyway your car looks cool as a penguins dick even with the dent, don't get angry there's no point maybe just say **** it and ratlook it 😀 win win.....

LOL at

Get a grip.

Uselesshippy are you self appointed as the arbiter of what constitutes a justifiable online moan or have you been elected? Or is it a paid job and you worked your way up?

How do we gauge what moans are acceptable and to your standards? Could you post up a sticky?

Idiots.

Awwww. That is awful. I hate that some people do that and drive off. I saw a young girl making a hash of reversing into a tight spot right outside sainsbury once, when the rest of the car park was empty too. Walked past with my trolley of shopping marvelling at the effort she was taking to avoid walking 10m further... Then heard a crunch. Looked around to see her driving off and the car she had hit with a broken fog light. I sprinted across the car park to the exit, luckily she had to drive a big loop to get there, and waved..... She pretended not to see me. Oh well. I wrote a note, with her reg and my telephone number and left it on the damaged car, phone call from its owner, expansion from me, CCTV from sainsbury and a visit from plod.....

It felt good to ensure a foolish girl didn't get away with being horrible.

Shame you weren't so lucky.

Did I say it wasn't a bitch? No.
Did I say it was fair? No.
It's a car..... It can be fixed, in this case, easily and cheaply.
Now, if it was burning on the hard shoulder of the motorway. But it wasn't. It still got driven home.