car damage in car park

robbie1

hi all any advice or am i at a lost cause i was in liffey valley on saturday parked in the green car park went to the cinema anyway was there about 3 hours in total ,went home and when i got home i noticed a huge big dent on my car bonnet some one either in a jeep or van i reckon by the height of the damage done ,has anyone ever had anything like this happen i went back up today to the car park security they just took my number:mad:

Random

If there's no witness and no CCTV there's little you can do. Fix it through your own insurance (with your own insurance being effected), pay for it yourself or just don't fix it.

Sorry.

robbie_998

there actually is cctv... just not enough to see even half of the car park


talk to security ... they are sound lads about it.

Noffles

same thing has happened to me... got home after shops, never noticed anything, wasn't looking really... Monday morning walk around the car, large dent in rear wing, can only of been done by a heavy door... possibly the old range Rover that was next to me that the wife remembered...

It is very hard to keep things in good nick if you have to rely on strangers being careful... ****ing arseholes!

Vudgie

Pretty frustrating alright. Every little scrape or dent that I have on my car has been caused by others in public car parks.

I'm sure the centre is covered by a 'park at your own risk' policy so without a reg and cctv it would be difficult to do anything about it unfortunately.

PARKHEAD67

Vudgie wrote: »

Pretty frustrating alright. Every little scrape or dent that I have on my car has been caused by others in public car parks.

Same here.Its bloody infuriating.

Mar4ix

when i had nissan skyline, nice clean, very good shape body, lovely to look at it, and i had park her for number hours number times in public carpark (beside workplace), i was keeping as far as possible from other cars, didnt mind walk a bit.... but it never helps, there was always some eejit, who make a small dent to body , bumper and paint.... after half year, i didnt bother at all about car body, cos there was no way save cars good shape... people never give a f**k what they doing in carpark, over that .. it is other reason why i am driving punto now

V Eight

CCTV will probably not be clear enough evidence - I always try to leave my car with plenty of spaces around.....mind you you can leave it with numerous spaces each side and some idiot will always park right beside you......

Veloce

V Eight wrote: »

mind you you can leave it with numerous spaces each side and some idiot will always park right beside you......

Always the damn case.

jagblad

I always park miles away from anyone, partly to protect the car and partly as the time saved in being a little closer is always lost moving in and out of tighter spaces.

Anyway one time I did this, I noticed as I returned to my car that someone else had the same idea and had parked two spaces away from my car. Fine – I like to know there are people around nearly as wise as me . But what was odd was a car was awkwardly reversing into the gap between my car and the next one, despite there being spaces all over the car park and there was no need anyway to reverse in.

So I stopped, watched for a while and noticed it was a learner who was practicing, he or she would park in crookedly, pull out try again.

Practice is good but you clearly can’t win.. .