Yeah the damage looks consistent with scraping a wall or something, you have horizontal scrapes all the way up the side. I can't picture how a bicycle would do that.
Cyclist damaged my MK7 GTI in Central London
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Yeah the damage looks consistent with scraping a wall or something, you have horizontal scrapes all the way up the side. I can't picture how a bicycle would do that.
I just paid the bill and moved it, it was for the best.
This, I aint buying that a whole bike frame managed to slide down the car in such a way to make marks in line with scraping against something with bad parking lol.
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+1 It doesn't look like damage from a cyclist.
But that's irrelevant to the issue though. I don't see how a smart repair is going to get that exactly as you want it.
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Damage looks form a bike to me, hitting the corner with the wheel and front fork would do that damage. The bigger mark at the top would be from the brake calliper and the deep one half way down from the quick release and/or pedal.
Only way to sort that properly will be a new bumper.
Only way to sort that properly will be a new bumper.
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Yeah right.. I couldn't be more sypathetic to cars and the law when cycling and 99.999999% of any near miss is always down to idiots in cars..
What happened to the OP is just the standard inconsiderate ass, the same as every single car park mark/ding on my car that some scroat of a careless oik has imparted..
And probably posted a Youtube video about it and how you are an aggressive, bullying car driver.
Seriously though, that is a SMART repair. That's the type of scuff a SMART repair really work on. Don't mess around with insurance and peeing about with body shops who can't match colours to save their life. Keep as much of the factory paint intact as possible. I reckon £80 for a repair and it'll look 98%. You'd have to press your nose to it to even see a imperfection.
For example: http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=254605
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you said he was manoeuvring between cars? how can you go quick when you're trying to squeeze by a car? I cycle everyday in london and betwen cars my speed is max 2-3mph no way would I cause that much damage.