Advice on small car park scrape,

nightmare99

nightmare99

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Please excuse me I'm a bit of a noob with this sort of thing, is it possible to brush your motor past somebody elses car and take a big scrape out of the paint work with out taking any paint work off your own car?
 
nightmare99 said:
Please excuse me I'm a bit of a noob with this sort of thing, is it possible to brush your motor past somebody elses car and take a big scrape out of the paint work with out taking any paint work off your own car?
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Yes, but there would be paint transfer on your car still. If that makes sense...
 
Ok cheers as below,

First is the car I'm supposed to have scrpaed

http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=12042008001xc2.jpg

then is one of my motor where its supposed to have made contact (there is a small scratch about 5mm high going along the rear wheel arch but my missus reckons its been there for months, its her car by the way)

http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=12042008002sk4.jpg

I was expecting to see some black paint somewhere on the car if it has scraped the other guys, below is a picture of the wheel arch taken this monring not so blurry,

http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image=14042008009xi9.jpg

1p for your thoughts?
 
I reckon you'd know about it if you'd made a scratch that big and deep on another car.

And there'd deffinetly be a fairly large scratch on your car too.

My conclusion...unless there's something you're not telling us (this is the internet afterall) then it wasnt you :)
 
Check the height of the scrape on the other guy's bumper, it does look too low to have been hit by your wheel arch. Though it may have been your tyre that scraped the bumper
 
looks pretty high up to be a car scrape, did the bump strip have a scrape on it?
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Whoa don't start getting technical! If you mean the plastic strip that runs along the side of the doors thats not damaged, its pretty soft plastic and noticeable when it gets so much as a scratch.

Baiscally the car park was heaving and I did come into the bay at a really bad angle but really slowly and was looking out the rear left almost constantly, since i was only waiting to pick this missus up I decided not to bother making it straight due to the business of the car park. The owner of the car to the left turned up and said "you have hit my car" I was kind of like mate I'm so sorry (i was actually thinking hmm maybe i could have had a faint touch), looked at his car didn't really take much of a look at out car and swapped details. Got to mother in laws had a good look at our car and had amssive doubt in my head, there is nothing to say the car parked in the space before me didnt do it nobody actually saw it he/me were just guessing.

I think I'm going to phone him tonight and say I can't accept liability, I know he will probably be gutted but I'm not paying for it if I didn't do it.

What would you do?
 
Would it really be the wheel arch that made that mark on the "victims" car?
You'd surely know about it if you'd caused that damage, unless you were out your face on a combination of drugs and jagermeister...

How did the discovery of the damage come about? The driver of the other car causing a fuss? Could be possible they were hit by another car and didn't notice, or they're trying to pull a fast one.

Edit: If he's got your details then could it not be too late, especially if you'd already accepted fault? Phone him now.
 
kieranv said:
I reckon you'd know about it if you'd made a scratch that big and deep on another car.

And there'd deffinetly be a fairly large scratch on your car too.

My conclusion...unless there's something you're not telling us (this is the internet afterall) then it wasnt you :)
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Yeah i thought that, judging by the scrape on the other car, id have thought his would have looked worse than it does, doesn't look like his car done it to me. :)

You can tell it wasn't his car that done it, the wheel arch sticks out, yet the scrape on the other car goes way above his wheel arch, where his car wouldn't touch, as with his wheel arch protruding out, that would be the only part of his car to touch the other one if you see what i mean, so he can't have scraped it all the way up there above it.
 
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Would it really be the wheel arch that made that mark on the "victims" car?
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Again getting a bit too technical for me, its the bit that sticks out the most, but I have checked the whole left side of the car nothing is scraped etc,

How did the discovery of the damage come about?
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Biasically I was sitting in the motor with the kids waiting for the missus, he had come back with his shopping and he said "you have hit my car", I must admit I was a little shcoked and dissapointed that I could have done that and was in full gutted/apology mode not really thinking staright.

If he's got your details then could it not be too late, especially if you'd already accepted fault? Phone him now.
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I assume if he took it up with my insurance company they would ask for my side of the story he has no witness and was not there and I have no knowledge of hitting him I think its him that has to prove I hit him, I would just say I have taken the weekend to reflect what was said and inspect our car and have come to the conclusion that I could not have done it. I am going to call him tonight as I'm at work atte minute. I have mixed feelings at the moment if somebody else has done it I feel sorry for him and out of order for not taking the wrap myself, but on the other hand if he knew about it prior and is playing me I will be so annoyed, I would like to think it is the formal rather than the latter.
 
i have really dinged someone on a car park and it made a hell of a noise but nowhere near that damage. On my car there was a little black mark and little red mark on his.

(hit a mk2 Mondeo in a pug 406)
 
It looks like hes got a bumper sticking out to at the bottom, so to cause that scrape above the sticking out bumper, you must have to hit it with a bit of force to push the bumper in, so your car could scrape it above there, and also crushed your wheel arch in as well, as with that protruding out, thats the only part of your car that would hit it just by scraping, so id say someones actually bumped into his car, probably who was gona park there where you have, then quickly buggered off to another parking spot, then you innocently park there, he comes back, you've hit my car, ive seen that happen many a time, or he knows about it as its been there a while, and is just trying to pin it on you.
 
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Thanks for the useful info and insight guys, I didn't notice anything when parking and I was going very slowley as I knew I was close to his rear right hand side. I just want to make sure I'm not being out of order to him when I call tonight and tell him I couldn't have done it (and to clarify it in my own mind being as I'm a reasonably in experienced driver).

Cheers all
 
definately not your car.

the contact area on the victim is massive, like 6" high?

the contact area on your car is tiny, couple of mm?

also the shape of your wing is kinda sticky outy and there is only a small scratch on the furtherst point.

to create that scrape it would have to be a more flat surface area.
 
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