|
|
Post by clunes on Oct 14, 2023 15:50:21 GMT
I seem to recall someone here had minor damage (car park perhaps) shortly after getting a car but can’t recall how soon after that happened. Anyway, having done less than 250 miles in the RCF I was picking up the kids from gym and after having done so waiting to exit the gates. Stationary, foot on brake waiting for car infront to move away when - bump / crunch - an Audi SUV (Q7/8) rear ended me. At no more than a crawl but frustrating to say the least. Bumper and valance below that both dented with paint damage in the perfect shape of an Audi lower grill!!  |
|
|
|
Post by Martin on Oct 14, 2023 16:15:58 GMT
Oh, that’s super annoying! I hope they were suitably apologetic and are paying for it to be put right.
|
|
|
|
Post by Roadrunner on Oct 14, 2023 17:14:03 GMT
What a pain! I might have struggled to keep civil in that situation.
|
|
|
|
Post by Eff One on Oct 14, 2023 18:15:31 GMT
I used to lurk on a Porsche forum and remember one of the regulars sheepishly posting that they had spun their Boxster into a dual carriageway barrier on the way home from the dealer.
|
|
|
|
Post by clunes on Oct 14, 2023 18:20:20 GMT
She was (of course!) apologetic - I think it was likely driven by kid distraction and these things happen.
A week ago I wouldn’t have given a toss as it would have been the old car and wouldn’t have impacted the trade in but after less than 3 full days with the car and it having been more than 7 yrs since anyone else had scraped my car it’s very frustrating.
I will be getting quote for a fix first thing Monday and take it from there.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 14, 2023 18:57:23 GMT
It was the third day and under 100 miles for me in the X3 when a septuagenarian motorcyclist rear ended me in Northumberland. Hope it all gets sorted OK.
|
|
|
|
Post by clunes on Oct 14, 2023 20:06:26 GMT
It was the third day and under 100 miles for me in the X3 when a septuagenarian motorcyclist rear ended me in Northumberland. Hope it all gets sorted OK. Well you’ve matched me on days but well beaten me on mileage 👍 |
|
|
|
Post by LandieMark on Oct 14, 2023 20:08:51 GMT
That's annoying, hope it gets sorted.
I opened the Subaru drivers door onto a fence post in the first week of ownership.
|
|
|
|
Post by bryan on Oct 14, 2023 21:15:44 GMT
That is very annoying, I was once rear ended by an old Landrover at some trafficligts. In my first brand new car with about 500 miles on the clock and about a week old as I was going to show my mother my new SEAT Ibiza./cool s (Aircon no less!)
It is incredibly frustrating, hope easily repaired
|
|
|
|
Post by alf on Oct 15, 2023 8:15:13 GMT
Oh no !! I’ve been utterly paranoid since getting mine, largely due to the prep and ceramic coating it had. I feel really bad for you!! Clay bar and polish it, it might look pretty insignificant then until you get it fixed. I have plenty of experience in that (rarely as the driver I add).
Tina nearly wrote the red jag off a few months after we met (which in turn was just after I got that car). I have dash cam footage of that, epic oversteer both ways after she put a wheel on the mud on a too-narrow wet Belgian motorway roadworks section ! At one stage we were about 45 degrees out of shape, I was facing the barrier on my side thinking “that’s it for this car then - and I won’t be able to afford anything as good as a replacement” (having recently separated) with that lucidity you have in those moments…
Good luck getting it sorted !
|
|
|
|
Post by Roadrunner on Oct 15, 2023 9:47:37 GMT
Oh no !! I’ve been utterly paranoid since getting mine, largely due to the prep and ceramic coating it had. I feel really bad for you!! Clay bar and polish it, it might look pretty insignificant then until you get it fixed. I have plenty of experience in that (rarely as the driver I add). Tina nearly wrote the red jag off a few months after we met (which in turn was just after I got that car). I have dash cam footage of that, epic oversteer both ways after she put a wheel on the mud on a too-narrow wet Belgian motorway roadworks section ! At one stage we were about 45 degrees out of shape, I was facing the barrier on my side thinking “that’s it for this car then - and I won’t be able to afford anything as good as a replacement” (having recently separated) with that lucidity you have in those moments… Good luck getting it sorted ! Crumbs! A frosty atmosphere in the car for the next hour or two? |
|
|
|
Post by clunes on Oct 15, 2023 10:38:15 GMT
Oh no !! I’ve been utterly paranoid since getting mine, largely due to the prep and ceramic coating it had. I feel really bad for you!! Clay bar and polish it, it might look pretty insignificant then until you get it fixed. I have plenty of experience in that (rarely as the driver I add). Tina nearly wrote the red jag off a few months after we met (which in turn was just after I got that car). I have dash cam footage of that, epic oversteer both ways after she put a wheel on the mud on a too-narrow wet Belgian motorway roadworks section ! At one stage we were about 45 degrees out of shape, I was facing the barrier on my side thinking “that’s it for this car then - and I won’t be able to afford anything as good as a replacement” (having recently separated) with that lucidity you have in those moments… Good luck getting it sorted ! It’s only plastic and paint at the end of the day and the car wasn’t perfect so am being pragmatic about the whole thing. There is a very good body shop a few miles up the road so will take it there first thing for a quick assessment and quote. Your sideways adventure sounds intense!! |
|
|
|
Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Oct 15, 2023 12:00:14 GMT
Come to think of it I only had my Lexus 3 weeks before a Transit rear ended it on the A19.
|
|
|
|
Post by rodge on Oct 15, 2023 17:53:06 GMT
Never had damage early in the ownership of a car, large bus hitting me in February, almost a year after I got the car is probably the closest.
At the other end of the spectrum, the week before I put my X5 on the market when I moved back from California, I got rear ended at a stop sign, cracking the rear bumper but it wasn’t really noticeable unless you looked.
|
|
|
|
Post by Alex on Oct 15, 2023 18:07:50 GMT
What an utter pain. Really feel your annoyance but at least she apologised and took responsibility instead of trying to argue it was somehow your fault. I think the Insignia I used to have had its first run in with another car when it was just 2 days old when a neighbours managed to leave the handbrake off on their Mondeo.
|
|
|
|
Post by PG on Oct 24, 2023 6:36:31 GMT
That's really annoying.
On a new (to you or really brand new) car and you're lucky, you get some bit of trivial damage out of the way early. Relaxes the whole "tension of a new car" thing. If you're unlucky, it's a body shop and / or worse. Mrs PG scraped the Shogun on a gate post when it was a week old. I backed my Freelander into a parked car when it was about a month old.
A friend of ours had his work van written off last year by an elderly couple who had managed 400 yds from the VW dealer in their new i3.
|
|
