Post by alf on Mar 19, 2018 11:40:51 GMT
Mrs ALF is recovering from minor surgery so I have been doing the food shops and school lifts for a few weeks. I've used her car quite a bit but often take mine since although it does half the MPG of hers for a 6 mile round trip to the supermarket (15 vs 30) that's not actually a lot of fuel in total and its my main chance to listen to music on the amazing stereo!
Anyway on Saturday morning I took mine to Waitrose in Winchester, which has an underground car park (not owned by the store) with a bastard of a curved ramp to negotiate in a car like mine but OK spaces. I reversed parked with a pillar to my left, as far across as possible. I put my shopping in the left side then walked around the front and got straight in - dimly aware the silver focus on my right had left and been replaced with a large blue car (possibly an E60 5 series estate but I'm not sure). Unfortunately when I got back home I found I had a huge scrape down both doors on the offside, with a fairly significant (i.e. it will need filling not just painting) dent in the driver's door of my car. Naturally no note was left.
I was only there for 15 minutes! Some tosser has obviously come along and used the fact I was well over, and angled slightly away from them, to just front park it in there, bouncing off my driver's door on the way. It seems hard to believe that all but the most decrepit driver would not have noticed, and I don't think my car is in "oh well, I doubt they will mind" territory. The scrape on my car was blue too, so they not only did this, they left their car right next to mine after doing it! I'm kicking myself for not seeing it, but when you squeeze up between two cars in a poorly lit underground car park and the damage is quite low down, it's hard to notice. And my dash camera was no use in this instance as I reverse parked when that car was not there, and went out to my left when I left the space, it's not captured anything except the exact time I arrived/left.
I should have known better - Mrs ALF's has twice been damaged in there, once requiring a Chipsaway respray, and the two of us once watched an SLK hit another car - hard - there before moving to another space and parking. We took the details of that car to the customer service desk! It's like a perfect storm of old people in big cars that can't effing drive. But is it too much to ask that people leave a note when they have caused you hundreds of pounds of damage? I have just shelled out a grand for the next year's warranty on my car, £500 for tax, and it needs two new front tyres when the summer wheels go back on in a few weeks, it's proving an expensive little time for a car I will be changing at some point this year...
Lastly, if I see a Blue E60 Touring in there with a big grey paint embedded scrape on the front offside, I will be letting at least two tyres on it down
Anyway on Saturday morning I took mine to Waitrose in Winchester, which has an underground car park (not owned by the store) with a bastard of a curved ramp to negotiate in a car like mine but OK spaces. I reversed parked with a pillar to my left, as far across as possible. I put my shopping in the left side then walked around the front and got straight in - dimly aware the silver focus on my right had left and been replaced with a large blue car (possibly an E60 5 series estate but I'm not sure). Unfortunately when I got back home I found I had a huge scrape down both doors on the offside, with a fairly significant (i.e. it will need filling not just painting) dent in the driver's door of my car. Naturally no note was left.
I was only there for 15 minutes! Some tosser has obviously come along and used the fact I was well over, and angled slightly away from them, to just front park it in there, bouncing off my driver's door on the way. It seems hard to believe that all but the most decrepit driver would not have noticed, and I don't think my car is in "oh well, I doubt they will mind" territory. The scrape on my car was blue too, so they not only did this, they left their car right next to mine after doing it! I'm kicking myself for not seeing it, but when you squeeze up between two cars in a poorly lit underground car park and the damage is quite low down, it's hard to notice. And my dash camera was no use in this instance as I reverse parked when that car was not there, and went out to my left when I left the space, it's not captured anything except the exact time I arrived/left.
I should have known better - Mrs ALF's has twice been damaged in there, once requiring a Chipsaway respray, and the two of us once watched an SLK hit another car - hard - there before moving to another space and parking. We took the details of that car to the customer service desk! It's like a perfect storm of old people in big cars that can't effing drive. But is it too much to ask that people leave a note when they have caused you hundreds of pounds of damage? I have just shelled out a grand for the next year's warranty on my car, £500 for tax, and it needs two new front tyres when the summer wheels go back on in a few weeks, it's proving an expensive little time for a car I will be changing at some point this year...
Lastly, if I see a Blue E60 Touring in there with a big grey paint embedded scrape on the front offside, I will be letting at least two tyres on it down
