Car dented in car park

[jb182]

just hope they get a good match as a different colour door is going to stand out a mile

you shouldn't have to pay excess if you are claiming against their insurance

I agree, I shouldn't have to pay my excess, but I do agree with other people that as soon as an insurance company get wind that you are possibly claiming whether it was a third party or myself they will price hike next year premium regardless if a claim is made or not.

Now that you have a price to fix it, why not get back in touch with the offender as maybe they also would get hammered by their insurer for making a claim, and so they might settle for that small sum or most of it at worst, is that worth doing do you think? There is only one time to get money back from them and that is before you have started getting it fixed!

I still don't have there details at the moment, they walked off when it happened and wasn't able to find them in the shop - by the time I had been to the customer service desk to see if they had CCTV (they didn't) the person managed to slip past me and drive off...

just hope they get a good match as a different colour door is going to stand out a mile

A good bodyshop would blend the new paint into the adjoining panels.

OP; not sure from your picture if your car is white or silver. If it's silver, then it can be quite a difficult colour to get a good colour match, but by blending the new paint with the existing paint into the adjoining panels makes it possible to 'loose' any colour shade differences between the new paint and existing paint.

Hopefully, the bodyshop confirmed that they'd blend the new paint as above. If not, might be worth checking with them that they'll do this.

They did confirm that they would blend it, car is silver so like you say I know that it can be a paint to blend silver. That being said, it was booked in but the bodyshop have now cancelled me because the have more important insurance work to do! The car is actually being traded in at the end of this month, so had a word with the dealer and they are only going to charge me £200 for it, so it is there problem if it is blended wrong.

Thank you for the advice though, much appreciated!

I'm sure the urge to show off all your wrestling moves in front of everyone in the car park was immense. Luckily someones only hit my door when I was in a work van at 5 in the morning so I didn't car since it wasn't my own car couldn't have been arsed dealing with it so let it slide, if it were my own police would need to be called to protect the other person.

Indeed! they didn't hang about by the time I got out the car and saw what had happened with just a "sorry" heard in the distance



Once again, thank you all for your comments much appreciated

[Willni]

I'm sure the urge to show off all your wrestling moves in front of everyone in the car park was immense. Luckily someones only hit my door when I was in a work van at 5 in the morning so I didn't car since it wasn't my own car couldn't have been arsed dealing with it so let it slide, if it were my own police would need to be called to protect the other person.

There are lots of inconsiderate parkers out there who don't seem to care if they damage some else's vehicle. I really dislike having to park in public car parks. I had someone plant a nice ding in my nearside rear wheel arch last year when I had no option but to park in a busy car park when I went to the dentist; it was the only place to park.

Fortunately the paint wasn't broken, so the local PDR guy was able to sort it and completely remove the ding. Still made me very angry though, and my wallet £70 (I think) lighter.

I'm that guy that's walking 5 miles in the car park to stay away from these morons, when is it really that hard to take a bit of care for 5 seconds. Also if you can you should wait and get a lot of people to go to a PDR at the same time then you'll get a far lower rate.

[SRGTD]

I'm that guy that's walking 5 miles in the car park to stay away from these morons, when is it really that hard to take a bit of care for 5 seconds. Also if you can you should wait and get a lot of people to go to a PDR at the same time then you'll get a far lower rate.

Me too. I'll always look for a space that's in the emptiest part of the car park, farthest away from other cars. But..........more often than not, when I come back to my car, someone has parked close up next to me when there's load of other spaces they could choose . Why do they do that?

[RUM4MO]

I'm that guy that's walking 5 miles in the car park to stay away from these morons, when is it really that hard to take a bit of care for 5 seconds. Also if you can you should wait and get a lot of people to go to a PDR at the same time then you'll get a far lower rate.

Me too. I'll always look for a space that's in the emptiest part of the car park, farthest away from other cars. But..........more often than not, when I come back to my car, someone has parked close up next to me when there's load of other spaces they could choose . Why do they do that?

Ha Ha, but yes, what is that all about?

[Willni]

I'm that guy that's walking 5 miles in the car park to stay away from these morons, when is it really that hard to take a bit of care for 5 seconds. Also if you can you should wait and get a lot of people to go to a PDR at the same time then you'll get a far lower rate.

Me too. I'll always look for a space that's in the emptiest part of the car park, farthest away from other cars. But..........more often than not, when I come back to my car, someone has parked close up next to me when there's load of other spaces they could choose . Why do they do that?

That happened me before too, it was another polo driver though so I think they just wanted to be my friend , they didn't park super close though left a good wide door opening. It's hard being the coolest in the car park