FFS why even bother....

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caring about your car when a simple 30 minutes in public produces this.

1/2 full car park at the cricket pavillion in the village for only 30mins whilst I got my haircut in the salon about 100m away aorund the corner.



The only car near was 2/3 spaces away. Does this look like a car has reversed across the front whilst reversing out of a space, or a possible kicking? That is dirt aroudn teh large area and could be off a shoe but more likely a tire.

Doesn't matter anyway, might as well just get a new front bumper as it has a scuff on one side down to the previous owner and is now a bit broken at the bottom. Expensive haircut :/

 

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I feel your pain.

I have had 2 cars damaged by other people being idiots. It properly depresses you when you look after your car all for a split second of stupidity from someone else to ruin it.

Tbh, if its dirt it could be off any part of a car at the moment. Most cars are covered in muck from the whether so could have been a bumper or anything. Im assuming no detail were left and nobody saw anything?

Finally I get to feel the pain that many others like yourself have done

No details, there were quite a number of cars in the car park compared to normal (mothers meeting/mummy aerobics in pavillion maybe), but as ever I parked well away from anyone.

Weird thing is that the paint has really splintered, especially behind the number plate. if the was done by a car then it would have been a nigh on 90 degrees to my front end when doing this.

No details of course

 

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you went to a salon and got a haircut?? rofl

Took that many hours for someone to respond to that, I am disapoint!

In my village and costs £13, pretty much less than anywhere else I have tried, gives me a better cut than anywhere else and the ladies are pretty

any CCTV?

Nope, nothing. Was considering a roadhawk the other week, maybe an idea now.

Will look at repairing the bumper myself, already have a special can of NH-0 paint (with a fancy spray nozzel to mimmick a proper spray gun), laquer, primer and plenty of wet n dry. No point in spending loads on making it look perfect as **** happens and will probably happen again.

Something similar happened to my Teg in the spring (although not as bad as that). TGM do some great spray rates

Wasn't at the meet was it ?

Yup rates are good, but even their spraying isn't perfect

 

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I can't see you spending hours and hours doing it yourself and probably having it flake off at a later date is going to be any better than the what? £50-100 a backstreet bodyshop will charge you if you take the stripped bumper into them?

No confidence in my prep and spray ability

It's a fair point though, I could probably prep it myself and get a bodyshop to give it a cheaky spray. Certainly don't intend on travelling many miles and leaving the car away somewhere as it is only a front bumper and it will get chips once she hits the track next year.

 

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Hairdrier in one hand for pre-bake then heat gun in the other for main bake + a steady arm

Will get some prices together then depending on what I feel like spending, will either touch it up or mess around myself. Most likely the touch up route with the money and time spent on teh car recently, plus new alarm being fitted next week too which means $$$$

 

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Thanks for the comments lads, really have lost faith in many people these days. Maybe punching their child in the face whilst proclaiming 'It's only a child' would learn them a little

Nobody breaking one on ebay or forums with an intact bumper? Might be cheaper to find a decent replacement.

Oh and +1 on the local village salon with the fitties. £10 and an eye full plus some decent conversation too. Shame they don't do 'extras'.

Bumpers are selling for around £200, with scuffs and chips. Dreamers!

This cost me £300 to repair, no new parts, just repaired

At a local bodyshop place

Ahh yes forgot about your repair good effort and the spraying looks great. Need to sort my black plastic part that effectively reinforces the bottom lip as mine has broken plastic mounting there. So possibly pepair and glue or jsut cut it all out and put some sublte black mess aroudn the mouth of the bumper. Not decided yet though.

i expected salons from smart car owners but not a proper type R driver

bad news with the car though. i hate the general public's lack of consideration for other people's stuff

and @ Dup. Good to know I'm not alone here. Untapped potential there, but alas no happy endings

A typical ITR driver has been well documented and desbribed as:

DC2s are for forward thinking hardcore chaps, the kind of people who would think nothing of disarming a terrorist about to blow up a tube train, to use themselves as a human shield and even after the explosion and subsequent injuries, find time to adjust their clothing to ensure they looked good. Then they would pull a survivor of the attack and take them home for a damn good rogering.

EP3 drivers though:

EP3 owner would stand behind you during the attack, lean out from behind you, shake a fist and say "YEAH". Then slope off with a fat bird who was a bit dazed from the blast."