What do you reckon - daughter telling fibs?

RetiredGreyFox · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:40

My youngest just came home from her boyfriends and said she woke up to find this done to her first car which she had about 3 weeks ago.
I reckon another vehicle couldn't do that and she's gone into a post or something.

Neo4 · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:42

Without any damage to the front wing? Some precision driving by the offending car right there.

knip · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:42

Looks like shes reversed into something low down like a post, or driven forwards and couldnt see it maybe.

Scuzi · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:51

knip said:
Looks like shes reversed into something low down like a post, or driven forwards and couldnt see it maybe.

I doubt it was a reversing accident given that the metal on the door is sheared and bent backwards. It looks like she has turned left into a post which has caught on the door's hinge side and ripped it out.

I very much doubt that another car impacted her's when it was stationary. As said, it would have been a precision bit of driving to do that damage to the door without touching the front wing.

Also, if another vehicle hit the car hard enough to do that damage, there'd be a lot more scrapes and scuffs in the paintwork around the door and wing. There's no way the damage would be as "clean" as that.

Jokester · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:53

Only thing I could see causing something like that is a left turn into something sticking out as their doesn't seem to be any damage to anyother panels or the sill. Doubt it's been hit by another car as I wouldn't expect that to tear the metal like it has.

Lopéz · 18 Jun 2008 at 07:54

Any foreign paint left on her car? If not I'd have to agree with the others.

At least it will be a cheap repair. Replacement door should not be too expensive (just get a second hand one from a breakers yard) and fit it yourself, it's only a nuts and bolts job. You'll need to hold the door steady while someone puts the bolts in though

RetiredGreyFox · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:01

Its not like my kids to tell me fibs so I reckon its one of those embarrasing moment fibs.
She'll come clean later.

kaiowas · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:01

Not sure what all of this 'precision driving' nonsense is about. The fact that the wing avoided damage was good fortune whether the corsa moved something else or whether something else moved into the corsa.

One way in which that damage could have been done by another vehicle is if it was something square like some sort of commercial vehicle with some sort of stell framwork on the back which may have reversed into it. The damage is too regular and square to be a car but something like the big metal bar on the back of an HGV trailer could easily have done it.

Jokester · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:06

kaiowas said:
The damage is too regular and square to be a car but something like the big metal bar on the back of an HGV trailer could easily have done it.

Could be that, did she say where it was parked at the time?

paradigm · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:45

kaiowas said:
Not sure what all of this 'precision driving' nonsense is about. The fact that the wing avoided damage was good fortune whether the corsa moved something else or whether something else moved into the corsa.

Agreed, except for the corsa part, its a clio

kaiowas · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:47

paradigm said:
Agree'd, except for the corsa part, its a clio

Doh didn't really pay that much attention.

randal · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:55

Reckon she's squeezed it past a T-bar on the back of a Merc Sprinter type van, about the right sort of height and shape to do that damage. Must have really given it some gas to rip the door skin like that though.

Demon · 18 Jun 2008 at 08:58

I've seen similar damage before on a car, the person reversed with the door open, not realising there was a post in the way, and the doot bent back, and the hinge mechanism ripped the door skin back.. but that wouldn't explain the more dented section...

It was a bit embarassing, as the person had just picked up a TV I was selling... Cheap TV, expensive repair bill..

Scuzi · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:02

The more I look at it, the more I'm convinced that the impact has been at a very shallow angle. If I'm right, then the likelyhood of that damage being caused by another car whilst your daughter's was stationary is pretty low as it would require a car/van/lorry with a big protruding bit of metal to do it without damaging the other panels.

I just cannot see how that could have been caused by another vehicle. It if was an artic trailer, the wingmirror would have been torn off as well.

utajoker · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:05

agree with the others

tell her your leaving it like that till she tells you the truth

Maz · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:07

Quite possible, as the wings are plastic so the wing would have bent in and then bent back out.

I'd get the torture kit out and interrogate her for the truth!

Jonny69 · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:14

Get her on here, we'll interrogate her good and proper

Scuzi · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:17

Maz said:
as the wings are plastic so the wing would have bent in and then bent back out.

Now there's a point. That changes the possibilities quite a bit although if something did hit the wing there would almost certainly be scuffing and scrapes.

Got any better pictures?

Trifid · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:17

Maz said:
Quite possible, as the wings are plastic so the wing would have bent in and then bent back out.

I'd say that was very likely as the indicator has been popped out on the wing.

IAmATeaf · 18 Jun 2008 at 09:18

Maz said:
Quite possible, as the wings are plastic so the wing would have bent in and then bent back out.

I'd get the torture kit out and interrogate her for the truth!

Didn't know that the wing on a Clio was made of plastic?

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