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your in a supermarket car park and just parking you knock a wing mirror of another car in doing so you the back plastic bit falls of as title say what would you do?
 
The answer to that is what you want to happen if someone did that to your car
 
I don't understand why you're asking the question. If you broke it, you pay for it.
 
If it ain't broke, put it back on again, chances are if done at parking speed, it won't be broken.
 
Reverse out, find another space quickly and look around to see if anyone is looking at you.

Failing that leave your contact details on the windscreen and say you will pay for any damages.
 
If it was your fault pay for it.
 
SpikeK6 said:
Failing that leave your contact details on the windscreen and say you will pay for any damages.
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and take photographs in case they try to bill you for something else on top
 
True story - I had a mate who crashed his car into a tree whilst drink driving. He walked home and grabbed a can of petrol, walked back to the car and set it alight.

So in answer to your question - i'd set it alight to remove all evidence.
 
I can remember I was walking between two cars in a car park and I lightly brushed against a wing mirror (barely touching it) and the damned thing fell off!
 
OK the daughter did this today. was upset. i took the reg number and got the service desk to tanoy the number. i did this because !. i wanted to be honest. 2. i wanted to offer to pay for it. 3. to give her our details.

She went home her hubby snapped the part back on and then she phoned me to say thank you for being honest and that her hubby had fixed it so not to worry about a thing.
 
nilagin said:
If it ain't broke, put it back on again, chances are if done at parking speed, it won't be broken.
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gumbo-67 said:
OK the daughter did this today. was upset. i took the reg number and got the service desk to tanoy the number. i did this because !. i wanted to be honest. 2. i wanted to offer to pay for it. 3. to give her our details.

She went home her hubby snapped the part back on and then she phoned me to say thank you for being honest and that her hubby had fixed it so not to worry about a thing.
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I'd like to say I'm shocked at some of the comments about driving off but unfortunately I've had too many dinks and scrapes from morons that don't have the common decency to admit they can't park and to pay for the damage.
 
neil_g said:
I'd like to say I'm shocked at some of the comments about driving off but unfortunately I've had too many dinks and scrapes from morons that don't have the common decency to admit they can't park and to pay for the damage.
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I have had dings and damage (like a large scratch along a door) which I have had to pay for, so would probably drive off. Do unto others as I have been done too!
 
Leave this note on the windscreen...

"Lots of people have seen me damage your car.

They all think that I'm leaving my details on your windscreen.

They're wrong."
 
Hell, I'm skint and I still say you broke it you pay for it.
 
Just Dave said:
Ive been driving 35yrs and never had a prang myself, I have been involved it one accident as a passenger
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So as far as the OP's question goes....your point is????
 
Try and fix it, if it can't be fixed you pay for the repair. I'm amazed anyone needs to ask, and more amazed some people would just drive off.
 
Jamie i asked because of the shock of the lady, at me being honest enough to go track her down to talk to her.
 
I wish someone had been that honest when they scraped down the side of my car back to front and caused £300+ worth of damage!!! Not a nice thing to come back to!!
 
I'm amazed that there are some that would disregard their own ethics and morals purely because someone has done that to them!!! I mean seriously??!!
 
slr10 said:
I wish someone had been that honest when they scraped down the side of my car back to front and caused £300+ worth of damage!!! Not a nice thing to come back to!!
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It may well have been one of the people on here who said that they would simply drive off if they did that.:)
One of our neighbours used to get drunk regularly, and had hit my car a few times (the police were not interested), so when he did a bit more damage, and we went out and confronted him, he started getting stroppy. I called the police, he was three times over the legal limit, he got a fine and was banned.
His family now don't talk to us because we "dobbed him in".
There are some people in this World who do not know the difference between right and wrong, but they are the first to scream when something happens to them.
 
robrevens said:
Leave this note on the windscreen...

"Lots of people have seen me damage your car.

They all think that I'm leaving my details on your windscreen.

They're wrong."
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thats the best post in this thread.

Ha!!!!! Funny!
 
Good on you and A, Terri. Far too many people would do what Mr Scrivens think is funny. I can assure him that it definitely isn't funny when it happens to you - and I could say that I hope it does happen to him but that would just lower me to his level.
 
Nod said:
Good on you and A, Terri. Far too many people would do what Mr Scrivens think is funny. I can assure him that it definitely isn't funny when it happens to you - and I could say that I hope it does happen to him but that would just lower me to his level.
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i said it was a funny post. Not that it would be funny if it happened.

dear oh dear! the drama of it all
 
Nod i think you have known me long enough to know that there was no question to this being what we would do. and have to say i am rather shocked that not only was the lady shocked that we did but also that most of the staff standing by. sorry state of affairs when you can't be honest without being being shocked.
 
Definitely did the right thing Terri and I think most decent people on the receiving end would react in the same way.

My ex's car got damaged in our company car park, we even had crystal clear CCTV images of the passenger getting out of the offending car and it was totally obvious the car door was in contact as the (rather large) lady got out, the scratch went upwards where the open car door lifted as the weight was removed from the car.

The owner/driver of the car's attitude was "Well it says you park at your own risk in this car park, you can't prove 100% that damage wasn't there before so tough luck"...... she was such a delightful woman!

On the flipside, if she'd said sorry and made a gesture to put the damage right we'd have probably said not to worry about it......

I'll always fess up if I've caused damage.
 
was waiting for the Mrs in a pub car park (parked in my car), when an old bloke in an escort tries to squeeze into a narrow space. In doing so he scrapes all along the side of a brand new Range Rover Vogue!! ouch!!!, he realises what he's done, reverses out and flees the scene.
I did nothing...will i go to hell? do i care? nah! if they can afford a brand new Range Rover they can afford the repair bill!
I know i should have done the decent thing but :shrug:
 
another time i came back to my car to find a note on the windscreen apologising for the damage leaving his details.
Wasn't much damage, about the size of the palm of a hand, but when i rang him he was adamant it was sorted out through insurance.
To cut a long story short, they gave me a hire care while mine was off being fixed to which someone did the same to , but didn't leave their details this time, so i ended up paying £250 excess to pay for the damage!!! :razz:
Karma for the above incident? maybe.
Also the damage/repair report for the damage to my car was almost fraudulant! about a dozen pages of what they repaired, must've come to thousands of £'s. you wouldn't believe the amount of stuff they replaced just to fix a tiny dent.
No wonder all our policies keep going up!
My car now has so many dents/scratches that now i just cannot be bothered...it's a Skoda FFS!!!!! :LOL:
 
Carlo said:
.it's a Skoda FFS!!!!! :LOL:
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A Skoda?! Right here we go then:

Whats the difference between a Jehova Witness and a Skoda?
You can shut the door on a Jehova Witness!

Why does a Skoda have a rear window heater?
To keep your hands warm when you're pushing it !

What do you call a convertible skoda?
A skip.

A guy goes into his local garage and asks "Do you have a windscreen wiper for my Skoda?"
"Sounds like a fair swap" replied the man in the garage.

From a newspaper's classified ads:
"To the person who stole my Skoda in minus 10 degrees of frost. Keep the Skoda, but please tell me how the hell you started it!"
 
DorsetDude said:
A Skoda?! Right here we go then:

Whats the difference between a Jehova Witness and a Skoda?
You can shut the door on a Jehova Witness!

Why does a Skoda have a rear window heater?
To keep your hands warm when you're pushing it !

What do you call a convertible skoda?
A skip.

A guy goes into his local garage and asks "Do you have a windscreen wiper for my Skoda?"
"Sounds like a fair swap" replied the man in the garage.

From a newspaper's classified ads:
"To the person who stole my Skoda in minus 10 degrees of frost. Keep the Skoda, but please tell me how the hell you started it!"
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:LOL:
 
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