Unbelievable! (someone crashed into my car)

blastman

I know the last thread I posted on this was locked, and I'm not trying to have a row or looking for sympathy, so let's not have a repeat of the snide comments from it.







[RANT]Seriously, do people actually look where they're going AT ALL when reversing a car? This is the second time in as many months one of my cars has been hit while stationary outside the house (once outside my own house, once outside my brother's). I'm absolutely furious, to put it very mildly!![/RANT]

And yes, I did get the culprit, but that's not even the point any more. It's going to be a severe pain in the ar$e trying to get this put right because the paint is non-standard for starters, and because of where it was hit. I don't know, I must have been Hitler in a previous life or something....

Volvoboy

Sorry to hear that Blasty,

Yea noticed that the paint wasnt standard, it'll need to be pulled by the looks of it.

I dont know how the ins will vue it (early 90's CRX?) but it could be more than the old girl is worth, just hope it aint a loss:o


Keep us updated.

peasant

Don't want to de-rail your thread, and sorry for what happened there...

...but, you seem to have a case of the old tinworm going on there too.

Tails142

looks like your arch is mostly made of rust

Halfdog

Perhaps getting a to bar fitted. It will definitally save the rear end of your bodywork especially if there is a lot of rot and pon in it. Count your self lucky that you are not driving something fresh.

Phaetonman

Your car looks a junker anyway so I wouldn't be too pissed.

mondeo

What is that stuff on the tail lights? electrical tape?

Cyrus

Phaetonman wrote: »

Your car looks a junker anyway so I wouldn't be too pissed.

that is uncalled for

peasant

Cyrus wrote: »

that is uncalled for

it is indeed ...Phaetonman, consider yourself warned.

Volvoboy

Phaetonman wrote: »

I am a Troll.

:cool:

Phaetonman

Seriously, why do people get so upset when their not so nice cars have a little bit of superficial damage.


Volvoboy I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth, its against the charter.

peasant

Pheatonman, blastman has every right to be upset about the damage to his car. Some eejit didn't pay attention and he has to suffer the consequences.
Whether you deem his car to be "nice " or not is not the issue.

Volvoboy officially warned for "faking" a quote

vectra

Dont get me wrong now but in fariness..
If there is that much rust hidden with fresh paint and filler ...What is the rest of the car like??
I agree that it should not even be on the road

No disrespect intended.

Volvoboy

peasant wrote: »

Volvoboy officially warned for "faking" a quote

/Sits in bold corner:(

JHMEG

What model is that, Bman?

Mailman

Sorry to see that Blastman, especially after all the trouble you went to sourcing the car in the first place.

tiredmam

Tut tut that is awful, i know id be seriously peed off if i came out and found that. Actually i did one morning, but it was a skip that did the damage.

Steve

Sorry to hear that blastman.

Despite what the hecklers say, it's soul destroying when someone does that to a car that obviously someone cares about (as opposed to an A to B utility).

S.I.R

looks like a crx... either way.... it could use some work...

also electrical taped lights.... just asking for a nct failure.... :rolleyes:

Masada

jeez thats a rough deal man., dont take any notice of the haters just because it isnt 2008 on the reg with a ferrari badge.,
did i see this car on a honda site before? hondadublin maybe?

Run_to_da_hills

No offense but he should have done you a favor and rear ended those illegal rear lenzes. You wouldn't stand a chance in court if someone rear ended you and got killed or seriously injured because you have 50% of the vision of those lights masked out. Your insurance would definitely be nullified because of this illegal alteration.

cabrwab

Jesus dramatic there run!

Id say those lights are not illegal, they are strange ones but obviously he'd of heard about it already. if they are illegal.

If your driving too close behind him to die as your behind him its still your fault. Can't complain i couldn't see his lights because i was driving too fast as you go through the pearly ones!:rolleyes:

As i have started a thread on this recently i feel for the OP its his car its the second biggest purchase most of us make, and it takes most of our money!!
So rust or no rust, some GIMP has damaged his car because they cannot drive/park a car. OP hope you get this fixed at least you know who did it.

Ferris

Not trying to be smart but do you reakon the fact that your car keeps on being run into is because you've covered your reflecters with tape?

KTRIC

Chunks of rust are actually visable on the road under the car. You'd seriously want to take a look at the condition of your body work when you're getting this fixed. No point in painting over rust.

Run_to_da_hills

cabrwab wrote: »

Id say those lights are not illegal, they are strange ones but obviously he'd of heard about it already. if they are illegal.

Just like those illegal non standard custom registration plates.

cabrwab wrote: »

If your driving too close behind him to die as your behind him its still your fault. Can't complain i couldn't see his lights because i was driving too fast as you go through the pearly ones!:rolleyes: .

What if visibility was poor on a wet night and he stopped to turn right and a guy on a motorbike ran up his a** and got killed. It goes to court, dose the Judge state that the person behind is at fault because he did not see the car or dose he say that the masked off reflectors contributed towards the accident.

cabrwab

I don't know but is it not always the person behind to be aware. Surely his car would've being NCT'd these would pass/fail no?
if the lights work do they need to be of a certain size?
Yeah but the fuzz love nothing more then pulling these guys over to find problems, like custom reg, wrong tinting or too much tinting.
I'd rather this guys lights infront of me then the sup'd up punto i saw with his heavily tinted rear light cover, making it alot harder to see.


Either way i was just saying that we are missing the point of the substantial damage done to his car under the weird lights around the rust everybody is obsessed about!

peasant

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What if....

emm .. the car was hit while parked by someone maneuvring in or out a parking spot.

Run_to_da_hills

peasant wrote: »

emm .. the car was hit while parked by someone maneuvring in or out a parking spot.

His rear parking lights may have been impaired

S.I.R

Ferris wrote: »

Not trying to be smart but do you reakon the fact that your car keeps on being run into is because you've covered your reflecters with tape?

Shoulda gone to spec savers

vectra

Has anyone given thought to the fact that the OP may have backed into something himself ?

Do I see another dent in front of the wheel down low ? :cool:

blastman

For your information, the car was not being driven but was parked up beside my house as I know it needed some work to be done to it. The tape on the rear lights was not done by me, is not to my taste and I have replacement standard lights in the garage to be fitted to the car, so those of you who were worried about my NCT needn't bother (and the tape allows most of the light through anyway). For the information of those same people, the car is taxed and insured in case they thought I might be trying to pull a fast one there, too.

To those that asked, it is a CRX and a bit of a special one as well (despite the work needed ). Like I said, I wasn't looking for sympathy and I definitely wasn't looking for snide comments from the ill-informed who think they know everything, I was just ranting about how careless and stupid people are as this is the second time this has happened to me in two months. No matter how many people I have offended with my funny rear lights, I don't think this is justified. I also dread to think what would happen if a smaller target, like a child, had been in the same spot my car was on both occasions.

Tails142

Children hardly dent your bumper at all when you reverse into them :cool:

peasant

Tails142 wrote: »

Children hardly dent your bumper at all when you reverse into them :cool:

not funny

plissken

peasant wrote: »

not funny

To you, I personally laughed out loud.

Phaetonman

I laughed hard then I thought of this poem and reminded myself of the grief involved in having a child die when their head impacts a bumper.

Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney

I sat all morning in the college sick bay
Counting bells knelling classes to a close.
At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.

In the porch I met my father crying--
He had always taken funerals in his stride--
And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.

The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram
When I came in, and I was embarrassed
By old men standing up to shake my hand

And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble,"
Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,
Away at school, as my mother held my hand

In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.
At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived
With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.

Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops
And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him
For the first time in six weeks. Paler now,

Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,
He lay in the four foot box as in his cot.
No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.

A four foot box, a foot for every year.

bazzachazza

Note to self don't park on the road.

Hence the reason most insurance companies ask where will your car be parked in a drive-way/garage or on the road.

At least you caught them this time.:D

blastman

And the last time. Some consolation I suppose, but I'd prefer if they just didn't bloody do it in the first place!

Lord Nikon

I would look out for cars in the area that may have some front or rear damage. Chances are if there is a motor out there with the damage, with some custom paint like yours, they may have hit it.

Not much you can do about it now, but it's nice to get some closure. Not that i'll be getting any, after some bastard robbed the dustcaps of my car in Liffey Valley the other day.

Esel

neuromancer wrote: »

I would look out for cars in the area that may have some front or rear damage. Chances are if there is a motor out there with the damage, with some custom paint like yours, they may have hit it.

I would read the thread before posting. :pac:

Lord Nikon

esel wrote: »

I would read the thread before posting. :pac:

Weird, how did i miss that part.....

S.I.R

blastman wrote: »

For your information, the car was not being driven but was parked up beside my house as I know it needed some work to be done to it. The tape on the rear lights was not done by me, is not to my taste and I have replacement standard lights in the garage to be fitted to the car, so those of you who were worried about my NCT needn't bother (and the tape allows most of the light through anyway). For the information of those same people, the car is taxed and insured in case they thought I might be trying to pull a fast one there, too.

To those that asked, it is a CRX and a bit of a special one as well (despite the work needed ). Like I said, I wasn't looking for sympathy and I definitely wasn't looking for snide comments from the ill-informed who think they know everything, I was just ranting about how careless and stupid people are as this is the second time this has happened to me in two months. No matter how many people I have offended with my funny rear lights, I don't think this is justified. I also dread to think what would happen if a smaller target, like a child, had been in the same spot my car was on both occasions.

what where you looking for then, a hug ?? maybe a joe dolan ballad sung to you by a monkey on a unicycle ?? give me a break. :rolleyes:

milltown

plissken wrote: »

To you, I personally laughed out loud.

Me too.

I didn't think Paetonman's was nearly as funny though. Weird sense of humour that guy has :rolleyes:

blastman

S.I.R wrote: »

what where you looking for then, a hug ?? maybe a joe dolan ballad sung to you by a monkey on a unicycle ?? give me a break. :rolleyes:

Do you have difficulty reading? I've already said at least twice already what my point was, if I don't speak your language I apologise, but there you go.

congo_90

OP, just out of curiousity it wasn't a ford escort driven by a youngfella?

sorry to hear about your car.
dont mind half the c*nts in here slaggin it. Its your car and a i bet if it was theirs they'd be on here ranting too.

Seth Brundle

time to close methinks!