So my car got keyed

regulus · 30 May 2008 at 17:45

Came downstairs this morning to find two lovely key marks on the driver side rear passenger door. They really dug in and took most of the paint away exposing bodywork. Now that I've put the baseball bat down and relaxed, it needs to be fixed. First telephone quote I got was over £300, the 2nd one, not far better. Is that the going price? Should I blowout many years of NCB and get it fixed?

Reasteh · 30 May 2008 at 17:46

even if you do get it fixed, whats to stop them doing it again :/ life sucks

regulus · 30 May 2008 at 17:49

I like keeping my stuff clean, fixed and tidy. If they do it again, so be it, but it's not staying like this

Mikey · 30 May 2008 at 17:49

B@stards

Any obvious candidates?

McBain · 30 May 2008 at 17:49

Depends on how much your excess is? I would say pay the price, and take the hit.

Some people are just pure ****s, nothing but mindless vandalism.

regulus · 30 May 2008 at 17:53

Mikey said:
B@stards

Any obvious candidates?

Not sure. I live not too far from a big council estate with over 3000 suspects.

therealnerd2 · 30 May 2008 at 17:55

Really upset me when this happened to mine. Silver is a win though, it's quite difficult to notice really.

Stinky · 30 May 2008 at 17:58

regulus said:
Came downstairs this morning to find two lovely key marks on the driver side rear passenger door. They really dug in and took most of the paint away exposing bodywork. Now that I've put the baseball bat down and relaxed, it needs to be fixed. First telephone quote I got was over £300, the 2nd one, not far better. Is that the going price? Should I blowout many years of NCB and get it fixed?

they will need to spray the whole pannel.

is it just the one door?? any other pannels? seems steep for 1 pannel

Hxc · 30 May 2008 at 18:01

What car is it mate?

AHarvey · 30 May 2008 at 18:03

We had this on our car, after phoning around body shops and getting stupid quotes I popped to the supermarket and there was a Chips Away (i think) guy there.

Did they entire spray job for £180, absolute bargain and you couldn't tell.

regulus · 30 May 2008 at 18:07

Hxc said:
What car is it mate?

Only a W-reg Clio, but still..

regulus · 30 May 2008 at 18:08

Stinky said:
they will need to spray the whole pannel.

is it just the one door?? any other pannels? seems steep for 1 pannel

Just the one panel. Seemed a bit steep aswell. Might ring RAC and see if they can recommend someone.

Scottland · 30 May 2008 at 18:20

Check with your insurer, some will let you keep your NCB in case of vandalism

aftershxck · 30 May 2008 at 18:31

This really infuriates me.

My mum's Audi she had a few years ago got scratched when visiting my grandma in a ethnically dense area of Leicester, was only in the house a few minutes. The ****s :mad:

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therealnerd2 · 30 May 2008 at 18:31

Needs a bond-style electric zapping capability clearly.

Draeger · 30 May 2008 at 18:41

Time for the South African approach to car security, methinks :-

Seriously though, to the OP, that sux m8, the sad thing is there's not a fat lot you can do to prevent this.

Solari · 30 May 2008 at 18:50

Depending on the paint they might need to blend it in to match so not just a respray of the door panel AFAIK... Whereabouts in London are you - if you're SE I have someone I can recommend.

Shimmy · 30 May 2008 at 19:26

Insured by direct line by any chance?

They cover me for this iirc, never had to use it though.

byteagig · 30 May 2008 at 20:16

it seems like every where you look these days you see cars with big scratches on them.
its happened to me twice so far. got my first car, a new fiesta in november last year and about 2 days before christmas someone put 3 deep scratches on the passenger side above the rear wheel arch.
then a couple of months ago it got another above the passenger side front wheel arch. oh yeah also it was only 3 days old when the wheel trims got nicked!
i recon it must be the same person doing it, and as its always been outside my house when it been damaged i have installed a security camera.
i considered claiming on the insurance but decided not to as it will probably happen again.
but yeah, its not a nice thing to happen.

233 · 30 May 2008 at 20:22

know the feeling

some pleb recently targeted the neighbours porsche with paint stripper cue a big splash landing on our LCR

i mean cmon one of the octavia taxi sheds i wouldnt give a rats ass but the poor cupra