Tesla Model Y

I've only made one comment on this particular situation but fair enough.

Thanks for all the inputs. Sorry it took a bit longer to reply. I was out all day yesterday and didn't get a chance to pull the footage and blur the face. That's done now.

This is the first clip of when he arrived and dinged the door.

This is the second clip when he left

I'll pop down to the local Garda station today and get it recorded. Hopefully they can get him to contact me and sort it outside of insurance. I might see him again in the meantime this week, good idea on having it on the phone as suggested.

@sk8board, I certainly have no intention of claiming it on my own insurance. It will be the other person's.

Looking at the footage it seems he deliberately tried not to hit your car. By all means report it at your local Garda station but unless the damage is serious I can't see them doing anything about it.

It's an unfortunate incident but you may just have to bare the cost yourself. The problem is spaces in car parks are just too narrow.

I don't drive anything special but I usually park as far away from everyone else as I can.

You guys didn't see the door bounce back on the first clip? This is the one that did the dent.

The second clip he was at least trying to be careful and I don't think that hit at all (at best resting against), that I agree, I only load the second one for comparison.

As I said in the initial post, it is very difficult to see the vertical dent line unless at the correct angle.

I know people will say the dent is minimal, nothing to see here and move on. It pissed me off to no end that I have to fork out repair for someone else's carelessness. Car park space can be small but any decent person would at least put their hand behind their door when opening so that at least their hand comes in contact first, not swinging out the door hoping for the best.

Anyway, I have my answer from earlier response, I'll pursue it and see how it goes.

Yeah exactly,he hits it the first time and then tries not to the second time- simple.

50 quid? Not happening.

Because they know they've already dented it.

the video doesn’t show the car being hit - any Garda loo

you’re going to take those two videos to the guards and claim a fellow parent at the school damaged your car?

Again - this is just bizarre!

It’s annoying, it’s unfortunate- but if you think this “twat” had conclusively damaged your car, I can’t wait to hear what the guards say.

(I know it wasn’t you who called him a twat, or that they’re somehow “getting away with it”)

Sometimes security camera just serve to make you madder.

99.9% of door dings go unpunished. It’s happens to every single one of us.

You need to see an 'optician'👀

Who did you get it done with if you don't mind sharing? I might get a quote

I'm not seeing how the contact shown in either clip could possibly cause any damage.

I’ll tell you one thing, you’ll have paid for a full respray of that car in wasted battery charging if you keep using sentry mode. It eats battery.

Whoa nelly, get off your high horse there. Garda a public service (all tax payers paid for) and objectively I am in need of said service to help me track down the owner (What is so entitled about it??). I didn't ask for any special treatment. You need to remove that chip off your shoulder. Just because you didn't deem it worthy does not make my situation any less legitimate. God forbid that you need said service one of these days and someone call you entitled for it. Ridiculous.