My worst year of car ownership ever!

Hawk Tuah

Hawk Tuah

Hawk Tuah

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Well, I'll start off by stating that I'm still 100% happy with my choice of car. However, after 8 years of claim free driving, this year has been a disaster.

Firstly, three weeks after getting my car, someone decided to drive into the side of it and drive off. Great, 2 new doors via insurance and I have to accept liability.

A few months ago in a car park, someone decided to open their door rather hard into mine, and leave a sizeable dent. I waited around till they returned and got their insurance details off them. Another door but fortunately no liability this time.

After my first service, my fuel economy dropped and it seemed to take a long while warming up. I returned to Ford and they fobbed me off saying it must be the cold weather, bring it back when it warms up if its still happening. After a while I decided to take a look myself, and I realise that some monkey at Ford left the air hose that goes between my airbox and turbo off. :rolleyes:

Now - I have returned to my car and found that some scrote has decided to climb up the bonnet and jump on my roof. The bonnet has a dent in it and the roof - well the metal is as thin as you get, so you can imagine what condition it is in. Gaaaaaa! :mad:
 
1 - Kings Hill Conference Centre. (one of the safest postcodes in the world).
2 - McArtur Glen Shopping Centre.
3 - My companies headquarters. Same place I've been parking for many years.

So, three 'accidents' in one year, and I've been nowhere near the car for any of them.
 
Two ways of looking at it

1) its cursed - get shot of it now while you can
2) back luck comes in threes, so heres hoping thats the last of your bad luck.

I know we all derided you over your car choice, but nobody deserves that to their car.
 
Can sympathise with you its a horrible feeling.

Similar thing happened to me when I bought my 200sx.
Few weeks of ownership someone pulled across and smashed the front in
got it back from repairers after a whole new front end and someone reversed into it in a carpark, another new bumper and wing.

Then two attempted break ins, smashing the rear quater lights and damaging paint.
Then bad weather and several roof tiles hit it smashing the front windscreen and denting the bonnet and wings.

Then to top it off someone reversed into the rear quater causing damage and the boot to fill with water when it rained.

In the end I just gave up caring about and thought it was really was cursed.
 
I thought about this a lot but since I got my car I'm starting to learn it's best not to worry, since I had it all this has happened:

Various small scratches appeared everywhere, some might be accidental, some are prolly made by some ****'s who should be shot, 2 were made stupidly by me ( one while failing when filling it up, hit my car with the nozzle near the fuel cap, and one from something metal from my pockets when I was leaning against it, or even the zipper from em).
One or 2 smallish dents from doors.
More damage from doors, paint chips where people opened their doors into mine :mad:, about 5 of them.
Medium dent in the bonnet and a big paint chip, as it it was hit by a sharp rock or something :(.
Rear left sidemarker broken and a nearly invisible scuff mark on the black plastic bit.
Scuff/undeep scratches on the drivers side stretching about one third of the car, from my front door to my rear door, from some imbecile who couldn't park recently.

The car was pretty much spotless when I bought it, a few small shallow scratches here and there, but it looked far better than most 5 year old cars I see in town while it's 14 years old now.

I try parking it in safe places and avoid being near cars I think have rubbish drivers, but occasionally I do go and leave it at dodgy places.

The next car I'll buy will probably be a car that is in less than ideal condition, in fact I'll prolly buy a car already filled with dents and scratches because I can haggle on that as I'm starting to believe it's impossible to keep your car undamaged if you actually go to a lot of places except work and have to park on a public parking or the street rather than a private garage or at least a drive...

The idea of buying a fast & comfy car that looks like a cheap dog is very tempting, no more worries about leaving it anywhere and I would even leave it at stations ( at the mo, I outright refuse to leave it at stations for half a day, I'm worried if I have to leave it for 30 minutes at places like that).
 
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private double driveway out front and a single space in a secured carpark out the back for the win!

:D

other than that, its a secured garage at work.
 
Work is in town centre, i have a fob for the gates.

i park upstairs on what is a largerly unused second floor carpark at my nearest morrisons, no one bothers as the walk is longer and its never that busy its full.

:p

Have to park in the street at some friends though ;) :(
 
That's not good at all, I feel sorry for you. Casual vandalism and or just a total disregard for people's property makes my blood boil :(
 
mjt said:
I'm impressed that you didn't notice the lack of power when the pipe was left undone :p
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There wasn't any obvious difference. Perhaps a rolling road would have picked it up, but when you're driving for economy its the mpg meter you notice it on more than your 0-60.
 
dont worry last month some pregnant retard plowed into my ST whilst it was parked outside my house, after a shiny new rear bumper i notice today that some **** has scrapped it as there is a nice rubber mark about 7inches long across it. its no wonder people go postal!
 
Since owning my car since september I've had:

1: She scraped it parking it all down one side.
2: Someone hit it in the rear and drove off.
3: Pizza driver had an accident with me tagging the other side of it.
4: It's been keyed
5: Dent from car park door ding presumably

All three main areas of damage exist and I've done nothing about any of them yet. The insurance claim is still pending for number 3.
 
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