Its impossible to be oblivious though. You'd feel resistance and/or noise.
See my previous post. I didn't feel anything presumably due to the lack of resistance offered by the tinfoil door, nor did I feel the noise despite the recommendations from Slade.
Trust me. I can't park for toffee 
If that sort of damage is concerning you, never ever move to London you will be a nervous wreck.
Right, the missus has called the local plod for some advice.
They are sending a dibble round today to have a look and take a statement 
Girlfriends brother was their nextdoor neighbours reverse into my car a few years ago. Girlfriend was best friend with their daughter, all on good terms, invited to parties together etc. etc. - think we was reversing it back to get some space to swing it into the drive before slinking back into the house.
He completely and flatly denied putting a fist sized dent into the rear panel with the towing bar of his car. Couldn't have been him, never felt a thing, blah blah blah.
In the end we made him get his car out and lo and behold putting the cars back to back the damaged matched perfectly with the tow bar. he sheepishly agreed it must have been him and coughed up for the repair.
Have a quick word. if nothing else maybe you;ll know whos car it is. Like people say, maybe the son or daughter borrowed it that day.
Worth having a quick word, but when the same thing happened to my car the closest I got to an apology was '**** OFF' despite clear evidence she'd done it (mark on her car which matched the damage on mine exactly).
Then the next course of action is wait a month or so and nitromores at night.
Not a good idea hora, really. Esp if plod are aware of the situation. You'd find yourself up on criminal damage claim.
You need to acquire some bombers.
Worth having a quick word
Trouble is we don't know who to have a word with. It's not our immediate neighbours as we know all of them.
Anyways plod are involved now so we'll see what happens...
Trouble is we don't know who to have a word with. It's not our immediate neighbours as we know all of them
Block their car in. You'll find out soon enough. 
GrahamS - where do you live fella? I'm amazed that the police are actually coming to look into the problem. Unless - a few years ago we did have a couple of PCs visit each house for a couple of streets round where I live as there had been multiple incidents and they were seeing is there were other minor ones that had not been reported or if anyone knew anything.
Both times I have had bikes stolen I have had to go in to the police station to report the thefts as there was no interest in coming out to see the crime scene.
Just another indication of the car-centric society we live in. No offense Graham but I suspect that the value of my bikes was at least as much as if not simply more than, what it is likely to get your wifes cars damage fixed, even at a main dealers.
Hora - yeah nitromores the suspect car cos that won't lead to escalation will it. I'm not saying the culprit should get away with it but do you really think anyone of the mentality that you are alluding to is likely to just accept it as a fair cop? yeah, right.
Right, Dibble has attended (must have been a very quiet day!). He confirmed that it looks like the same paint, at the same height, and looks very much like the other car struck us.
But because we first noticed the damage on our car at them end of September it happened too long ago to be worth pursuing.
Apparently we should have contacted them as soon as we noticed the damage on our car.
Ah well. Back to Plan A. Note on the windscreen.
Should I write in blood, faeces or words cut out of newspapers?
Any suggestions for the wording? 
Attach a politely written note to the handle of the pick axe thats embedded in the cars bonnet. 
handle of the pick axe thats embedded in the cars bonnet.
according to the Met nothing wrong with that either
Hora - yeah nitromores the suspect car cos that won't lead to escalation will it. I'm not saying the culprit should get away with it but do you really think anyone of the mentality that you are alluding to is likely to just accept it as a fair cop? yeah, right.
So you are suggesting the person will automatically think 'its that **** across the street whose car I scratched'?
Walks across road and bangs on OP's door 'I know it was you as I was the one who drove into your car and kept quiet about it'.
To be fair the Police response that its too long is obvious. You should have reported the 'crime' sooner.
Personally I'd have done it the other way round. Asked the neighbours first, called the Police second. That would have saved the Police a lot of time, effort and money.
Geez
Regardless of Plod being powerless (its a civil matter, no crime can be proven) he is I believe bound to give you the registered keeper deatils of the other vehicle, you can also ask the DVLA this yourself as you have a genuine reason, or your insurance will tell you if you report it.
Plod has confirmed the paint from your car on their car, so you are home dry on that and I think anyone looking at those photos would surely agree they are much more likely to have been reversing into you than the other way round - civil proof being balance of probability = you win.
Keep at it gently but firmly and you should get enough repair money without having to shoot anyone (or evacuate your bladder in their galoshes)
You should have reported the 'crime' sooner.
Never occurred to us to report it when we first noticed it, as we had no idea when it had happened or who did it - so it seemed pointless.
But the officer maintained we should have as they could have checked for witness statements and CCTV footage (which seems like a hypothetically thorough investigation for a scratch).
That would have saved the Police a lot of time, effort and money.
The missus only called them for a bit of advice about what to do. They insisted on sending someone round. She explicitly said to them "Isn't that a waste of police time and money?" and they said "Oh no madam, I crime has been committed".
yeah nitromores the suspect car
Nitro Mors is old skool. Gallium is where it is at (assuming Pugs are made from aluminium):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaMWxLCGY0U
I'd be 50:50 on confronting them, the downside would be if they counter-accused you of doing the damage to their car, could end up as an insurance mess. Given there are no witnesses you would just be relying on their goodwill to fess up if you did confront them, seems unlikely in this day and age... Ofc without giving them the chance to fess up/compensate then you can't really retaliate either so you're stuck either way :p
he is I believe bound to give you the registered keeper deatils of the other vehicle
He said he could confirm it was "registered locally" but couldn't tell us where.
The vast majority of cars on the road are made from steel, so a gallium attack may not be your best option either.
Update: well in an interesting turn of events, enquiries made to our other neighbours suggest the car belongs to a guy in another street, who may be a consultant at the hospital where the missus works.
Ahhh...
can of spray paint in "bilious vomit green" & stencil "oops" on the panel above their wheelarch ?
Edit following update: just key it instead
(I used to work at a hospital where one of the senior nurses' cars was keyed in the carpark. CCTV showed a consultant doing it )
I never really understood why people key / scratch / intentionally damage someone's car for no reason at all. Tit for tat I can sort of justify, but mindless damage just doesn't make sense to me.
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