Advice please, step daughter has crashed the car.

It will need new clips. You can see one of the plastic white coloured kind of push in clips. But she is missing either the bit attached to the car or the bit attached to the bumper.

Ok fine so need to bodge a solution. Again I don't fix things like this, never had too. So I am clueless other than take it to the garage. I fix servers and desktops, mechanical is another world for me :-/ But fine i'll look into this. Worth a go at least!

Previous incidents, well to be honest she panicked and drove off. Was minor bumper bumps. However I doubt the owner of the brand new mini thought it was minor.
 
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Yeah, well one argument at a time. Between step daughter crashing, step son failing GCSE's and I am changing job I need things to slow down a bit. . . .
 
darknite said:
I just think her driving is unsafe. If that was a person instead of a concrete post she hit that would have broken there leg or crushed it if she panicked and raised the clutch. She drives once a week mainly and takes my younger step son in the car. Would hate to lose them both because she's dangerous. She had 2 years worth of lessons, and 4 tests. She is a very angry girl. That has not changed from when she was 14 til now. I'm not angry with her, guess I am angry because I am EXTREMELY worried when she does use the car.
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darknite said:
She had 3 instructors and I took her out in her own car. I would say her driving has got worse not better.
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chroniclard said:
Get her to do the IAM course/test to improve her driving. Would at least improve the safety aspect of her driving, if she manages it.
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Some more tutoring as a minimum sounds necessary.
 
See if you can replace the clips (you probably can) - if you can't, drill a hole through the bumper and cable tie it back on. If it was mine I'd have it back together at a total cost of around 10 minutes :p
 
I'd just be doing something like this on a cheap car which from the sounds of it will only be crashed into something else in the near future.
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Got a StopWatch ?

Ride shotgun with her and time her driving "Her Way" then do the whole shooting match again doing it "Your Way"

Then show her the timings. I 'll hazard a guess they will be practically identical only your way is considerably less stressful etc !

Hopefully she'll calm down but be aware, some people never do

In my professional career I've known two grown men (separate companies) where management has pulled them off the road because they just won't calm down.

One of them, who we call "Shiny Shoes" is psychotic.
 
Outcast said:
Got a StopWatch ?

Ride shotgun with her and time her driving "Her Way" then do the whole shooting match again doing it "Your Way"

Then show her the timings. I 'll hazard a guess they will be practically identical only your way is considerably less stressful etc !

Hopefully she'll calm down but be aware, some people never do

In my professional career I've known two grown men (separate companies) where management has pulled them off the road because they just won't calm down.

One of them, who we call "Shiny Shoes" is psychotic.
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Great. . . . Well she's 19 and as she's told me before she "passed" her test so "can" drive. To be honest I think her driving would be better if she drove more than once a week! But she does not like driving. . . . When I was her age I loved it! Couldn't get me off the road. Offered to drive people here there and everywhere. But she's 19 and spends everynight with a cup of tea (or 5) the cat and trash TV. Its just ARGHH at the moment. Think I am venting too much on a forum :(
 
Home now so the pics load.... thast deffo a self repair jobby
Done even entertain the notion of taking it to Ford.

Looks like iit could be pretty much bashed back into place.
Failing that a breaker for the Bumper.

Must say I'm with the above... let her sort it out
 
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