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.

soobalias – Member
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 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 don’t consider it justified at all but you could atleast see a possible 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 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 4×4 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 f**kwits 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.