Cars been keyed

Jotun

Jotun

Jotun

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Happened last Saturday night in Liverpool, I've been at a wedding yesterday so didn't get a proper chance to look at it till now. There is a pretty deep gouge on the door, and a lot of small scratches on the front wing. The wing mirror was smashed off too. My dad had a go at screwing the mirror back in but it doesn't fold any more.

I'm pretty ****ed off to be honest.

I was just after some thoughts on what to do as I was planning buying a new car and selling the MR2 very soon, I could sell it as it is and take a hit on the price, or pay for it to be repaired and hope I'd get that back. There's no point going through insurance, as my excess is £500 IIRC. I've thought about trying to get a replacement door as that's where the scratch is deepest but I don't know if I'd have any problems if the new one had faded.

For what it's worth, I was parked outside the gf's, I've been seeing her for about 6 months and parking there regularly so I'm kind of surprised. Also there's an Impreza down the street one way and a Maserati the other way, the Impreza looked fine as did every other car on the street. I didn't check the Maserati though as it's a one way system. I'd thought it might have been a reasonable area to park as my car is probably the oldest and cheapest there other than a couple of Corsas. Obviously I was wrong :( I can't really stop parking there though.

Also I've been planning on replacing my car (if anyone remembers my previous thread), since then I'd decided to get a 2.0 Mondeo for a couple of grand, so once I've got that then I'd look into sorting the MR2 out (or just selling it), should I do anything in the mean time to protect it? I kind of figure it's not worth paying loads to get it repaired if the same thing could happen again.

Here's a picture of the long scratch, it starts just after the mirror and runs about 3m to the back of the car

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I've got a laptop and webcam I could set up looking over the car next time I have to park there, but even if I did catch the culprits I'm not sure it'd do much good :(

Sorry for the long post, I've been rambling a bit but I'm pretty gutted about it all.
 
This happened to me a few years back, I had just had a full respray on the car in question and some tool decided to key a side. I really feel for you mate, I was livid for weeks when it happened to me. Cost me near on 800 to put right as well :(
 
VinceB1 said:
This happened to me a few years back, I had just had a full respray on the car in question and some tool decided to key a side. I really feel for you mate, I was livid for weeks when it happened to me. Cost me near on 800 to put right as well :(
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Yeah I've been trying not to think about it and enjoy my mate's wedding, I bought the car about 18 months ago for £2600 so I don't think I could justify £800 on it when I want to sell it, I'd never get that back I'm sure. I'm mostly annoyed by the fact that someone could have so little respect for anyone else's property, a minutes drunken fun in going to cost me hundreds :( My car was a bit dirty and there was a clean streak the length of the scratch where they had admired their handywork. I've been parking in Liverpool for years at uni though so I guess it was just a matter of time. It's definitely made me change my mind about moving there.
 
Id be tempted to DIY that.

get a tin of Toyota astral black 202, clean the scratch with pre-paint, carefully fill in the scratch with the paint via a fine tipped paint brush, leave it to dry, use 1500 grit wet and dry to flat the filled paint back to the correct paint level then buff up the area with a couple of compounds such as G3 to start with then move to something finer... polish up and wax

A bit of graft but it'll work
 
MofoKilla said:
Welcome to liverpool, some scouse chav was prob jelous so decided to deface it. :(
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I'm normally the one defending it as I've been studying there for the last 4 years. Not any more!

Relentless81 said:
Thats a shame, i've had worse repaired for about £80 by a mobile paint guy. Dents INC they are called if its any use
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Thanks, is this them - http://www.dentsinc.co.uk ?

Do mobile paint companies do free estimates? I could get a couple of quotes, that'll leave me with just the mirror to sort.


Dale V said:
Id be tempted to DIY that.

get a tin of Toyota astral black 202, clean the scratch with pre-paint, carefully fill in the scratch with the paint via a fine tipped paint brush, leave it to dry, use 1500 grit wet and dry to flat the filled paint back to the correct paint level then buff up the area with a couple of compounds such as G3 to start with then move to something finer... polish up and wax

A bit of graft but it'll work
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Thanks for the advice, I might give this a go depending what sort of quotes I get, sounds reasonably straightforwards.


fretted said:
Why do people do it?
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I don't know, I'm hoping it was just a one off drunk **** though. There's another possibility. When my gf or her house mates have people round they've had their neighbors to one side complain a few times about the talking and laughing before - normally around 8-10pm on a weekend or something so I don't think it's unreasonable. Last Thursday they had a few friends over and were playing charades, and about 9.10pm there's a police car which pulls up outside with the blue lights on, and a knock on the door. It turns out someone had reported to the police that they had heard banging and shouting... Could possibly be a neighbor with a grudge who has seen me entering and leaving, but that doesn't seem likely as they have shown they will call the police over some noise rather than checking everything was OK. I'd rather believe it was a retard who did it because he was drunk and not something specifically against me, as otherwise it could keep going on.
 
Yes thats them, they did all my dents and scratches and removed a scratch that was to the metal on one of my old cars, it was a guy called Alex that did it and they came to my works and did it in the car park, I was really pleased with the job they did
 
Dale V said:
Id be tempted to DIY that.

get a tin of Toyota astral black 202, clean the scratch with pre-paint, carefully fill in the scratch with the paint via a fine tipped paint brush, leave it to dry, use 1500 grit wet and dry to flat the filled paint back to the correct paint level then buff up the area with a couple of compounds such as G3 to start with then move to something finer... polish up and wax

A bit of graft but it'll work
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I've got a pot of Dr Chips Away (name? the group-buy on here a couple of years ago) for Astral-black 202 that is sitting in my shed gathering dust..
 
Hard to tell but doesn't look like it's penetrated all the way through the paint, and it's non metallic black.

Get a machine polisher on it with some G3, and might reduce it till it's barely visible.
 
Some old biddy did my e36 with a knife, I confronted her about it and told her I would be telling the police. She died a few days later. Karma is a bitch isn't it.
 
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