My lovely 205 GTi got its rear indicator cluster bashed in in a car park in Dartmouth years ago. Some kind soul left a note on the windscreen explaining it was a VW camper van and giving the reg number. They didn't leave their name. The helpful bobby at the station across the road said it wasn't enough evidence without the witness' details. That sucked.
Finding a new cluster in a scrap yard for £3 and fixing it myself was satisfying, though. I kept the reg to hand for a few years in case I saw a camper van in the hope of repaying the favour. No joy. 🙁
Scumbag does bad things to an undeserving person but leaves them powerless to react....hmmmm....where was George Osborne at the time of the incident?
Happened to an ex's parents, & their week old Golf. 4x4 swung into a bay taking out their rear quarter, both doors & wing. Left the car at almost 45degrees to straight. And they just drove off sharpish. Witness gave details but fuzz couldn't have cared less.
Annoying as it is its just life. And it's just a car. Walking around all pent up with rage does you no favours. Move on. Focus on something betterer.
but don't you think it is just a little bit bizarre that a lot of people spend *many* thousands of pounds on something that they then leave parked in public places
Well they cost thousands of pounds for mechanical not cosmetic reasons, and it's kind of hard not to leave them in car parks isn't it?
It's not the actual damage that's the issue, in minor cases - after all we get stone chips and shrug it off - it's the fact that someone else is responsible yet has ducked their responsibility. That's what makes it bad.
My wife reversed into a very old knackered car in a car park once. She was distraught. We really couldn't tell if any of the bumps and scrapes on the car were ours or not - we couldn't even tell if the car was abandoned or not. We still left details.. and nothing came of it either.
done it thrice where i have hit a car and then left my details/sorted it. Never driven off and have once been hit by a car towball in my door once - oddly at work and we watched the colleague do it, get out , inspect and then drive off without doing anything. they then denied it the next day. I pointed out how many had seen it and just said I would leave it as office gossip that they were the kind of person who lied and did this. It was a knackered car anyway
First one turned out to be a mates new car[ did not know it was his] and I paid to fix the scratch on his new car door- I think he may have chinned someone else for this tbh and killed me had I been seen.
Second time guy said let me walk round my car - he then asked where i hit and he said nah cannot see anything we drove off
Third time some teenage lad tried to get £100 or a tiny bump that left no mark on a knackered old beat up piece of crap- loads of dings and scrapes. I laughed offered him a tenner he refused. I walked off he took the tenner- i was seen doing this by a neighbour and I think i would have left as there was no damage at all and it was a total shed.
