Argh! Car park accident
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Get a quote for fixing your car. Assuming it is about the same let him have a copy and say that you'll each pay your own repairs. You they have the option of just not repairing your car.
He has gone 50:50 and it hasn't cost you your NCD or any money.
He has gone 50:50 and it hasn't cost you your NCD or any money.
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Aye hodders idea 
As for your value, get a bumper price direct from VW and compare that to removal and repaint of your current one.
Like hodders says theres your 50:50 and everyone keeps NCD.
she reversed into you dont forget.
As for your value, get a bumper price direct from VW and compare that to removal and repaint of your current one.
Like hodders says theres your 50:50 and everyone keeps NCD.
she reversed into you dont forget.
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Messy situation but this is your best bet, maybe talk the mechanic to get the bill close to £300 if possible?
Not in places like Asda/Tesco as how do load the car up. I have seen too many idiots trying to get a trolly between two cars because they reversed in.
Sure, try and avoid a claim on insurance but I just don't understand the reasoning behind offering someone that hit you whilst you were stationary money, if it was me I'd have been chasing them for money to get my bumper touched up and pointing out they'd be better off just paying for their own repairs rather than claiming. If the situation really went as you've described it it's a 100% fault on the other party, you reversed then stopped and somebody else reversed out into you. She obviously didn't check her mirrors properly before moving.
I've got back into contact with the bloke and said he should pay his own repairs and we'll pay for ours and we won't go through insurance, for him, £300 to avoid going through insurance is still a good deal.
He said he'd get back to me, but I've now left it with my girlfriend as it is her car/policy so it's up to her how she wants to proceed, just hoping he agrees with what I've proposed, then we will pay nothing and not have to go through with a claim.
Thanks for all the replies, it is appreciated hearing everyone's opinions.
He said he'd get back to me, but I've now left it with my girlfriend as it is her car/policy so it's up to her how she wants to proceed, just hoping he agrees with what I've proposed, then we will pay nothing and not have to go through with a claim.
Thanks for all the replies, it is appreciated hearing everyone's opinions.
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Only time I ever go forwards into a space is at the supermarket, any other time I will always reverse however it makes no sense to reverse in when you know you will be coming out with a trolley load!
So, dozy bint smashes into you and for some god only knows reason you offer to pay for her repairs. Husband says no, but sorts a quote and has a change of mind about you paying for his car (funny thing that!). You then have a change of mind after sage counselling from the mighty OcUK'ers and say "no thanks".
How about telling the girlfriend you have no idea what you're doing and let a grown up handle it from now on?
Should have been your very kind offer to him otherwise it's an insurance job.
How about telling the girlfriend you have no idea what you're doing and let a grown up handle it from now on?
Should have been your very kind offer to him otherwise it's an insurance job.
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I thought the idea was to go 50:50 on the entire incident.
All you're doing is going 50:50 on his repair! Get a quote for your bumper (i'd suggest to a body shop that it would probably come in at around the £300 mark...) then tell him that you'll pay for yours and he'll pay for his.
All you're doing is going 50:50 on his repair! Get a quote for your bumper (i'd suggest to a body shop that it would probably come in at around the £300 mark...) then tell him that you'll pay for yours and he'll pay for his.
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Just deny you offered to pay to repair her car.
Just say she got the wrong end of the conversation and say you were asking if she was willing to pay for yours without claiming
Thats if its ever brought up
Just say she got the wrong end of the conversation and say you were asking if she was willing to pay for yours without claiming
Thats if its ever brought up
Well he rang me back and has said he refuses to take our repairs into account, he then said he'll go outside of insurance if we pay half, I refuse, and he then says that he really wants to go outside of insurance now because its not worth claiming so I reply pay for your own repairs then, he says he ain't prepared to do that so I say make a claim then and put the phone down.
So I'll see if he does actually bother to make a claim, be rather silly for the sake of £250 worth of repairs but oh well.
So I'll see if he does actually bother to make a claim, be rather silly for the sake of £250 worth of repairs but oh well.
lol love the fact he started with "FINE WE'LL GO THROUGH THE INSURANCE!!11!1" until he clearly looked at his excess and ran a few quotes for next year's premium and now he's begging to settle it outside of insurance.
Oh well, we'll see what he wants to do. Probably wasn't best to hang up on him though. That's just childish. You're grown adults who can sort these things out by adult conversation.
It wasn't like that as such, his a tad strange on the phone whereby sometimes when I finish talking and then expecting him to then say something he doesn't, then sometimes I'll literally repeat myself and he'll instantly come back with something, sometimes completely unrelated and not responding to what I've actually said. When it came to the end, I simply said that if he wants to go outside insurance he'll have to pay for his own repairs, then he didn't say anything for 5 seconds so I just say ok thanks bye and put the phone down. Maybe I was a bit quick to put the phone down but we had said everything that needed to be said and he just went silent.
Probably didn't help that I'd already been on the phone for what seems hours being completely messed about by Zenith insurance who are completely useless.
I have seen way too many idiots reversing out into the unknown and living to regret it!
(The most spectacular was an elderly bloke in what, I guess, was an Auto. After colliding "gently" with the vehicle in the "Aisle" (IYSWIM) he shot forward and hit the parked vehicle in front of him HARD and then shot back and hit the first vehicle he had already hit HARD!. The driver in the aisle vehicle (Who was just going down it, not backing out of another space like the OP's situation) was really shaken and said to me "I thought he was out to get me!")
I back in, but I also pick a location where I can access the car with the trolley (End row, far corner of car park etc) If I cant, I rest the trolley against the front bumper and just load up the bags. (#)
I drive a Land-cruiser! If I can manage this in an LC, focus drivers should be able to deal with it easily!
(# I do wish that supermarket trolleys would have brakes though, Slopes on SM car parks are not uncommon and trolleys that will run off all on their own when one lets go of them are a bit of a pain!)
I don't get the obsession with requiring trolleys to be 5cm from the boot anyway? The shopping's already in bags, you're going to have to carry them from the car to the house, why is it such hardship to carry them an extra few metres from the front of the car to the back, if required?
In case you hadn't guessed, I'm a reverse in man, unless I can drive forwards through two spaces so still lined up to pull out forwards..
In case you hadn't guessed, I'm a reverse in man, unless I can drive forwards through two spaces so still lined up to pull out forwards..
Problem with our ASDA is there are bollards at the end of every parking spot, so if you reverse in you can't actually open your boot. \o/