Was sat in our local shop car park a couple of weeks ago, waiting for the missus to pick up some milk, and the old guy parked next to me opened his door into the side of my car.
Got out to have a look and there’s a big dent in my door.
“You’ve just put a big dent in my door.”
“No I haven’t, I never touched it.”
“The dent has paint from your door on it and your door has paint from my car on it.”
“No it hasn’t. It wasn’t me. See some sense.”
“Okay. just let me get your registration details and a few photos and I’ll let the insurance company sort it out with your insurance company.”
“If you’re looking for trouble, Ill get my son down here…”
“Ha, ha… Go on then…”
Luckily a couple of other people also saw him do it, so he ended up paying the couple of hundred quid it cost to repair.
Even when he was giving me the money he was claiming it was my fault for parking too close to him, despite the fact that he arrived and parked after me.
I’m sure he’ll do it again, but will probably get away with it.
In the meantime I’m still waiting for the insurance company to deal with a claim from November when someone drove into the side of my car in a car park. The third party’s insurance company is trying for ‘knock-for-knock’ despite it being 100% their customer’s fault. Nightmare.