Soldato
Get the quote to fix is and then run a couple of quotes based on an additional claim and work out the price increase over 3 yrs. See which is less
**** Halloween.
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Get the quote to fix is and then run a couple of quotes based on an additional claim and work out the price increase over 3 yrs. See which is less
Soldato
Got any pics of the pumpkin?
Only that. There's some bigger fragments scattered on the glass across the road. I'm guessing someone hit the car then smashed it on the ground, or foxes have taken most of it off.
Didn't seem worth taking pictures of the rest of it, I'm hardly going to launch a full crime scene investigation.
Soldato
I think it’s pretty safe to say that some scrote thought they were a badass by smashing up someone’s nice car and they were out misbehaving under the excuse of “Halloween”.
Soldato
Ouch, feel for you
i dont get halloween, must be an age thing.
I got home last night to cars everywhere and not being able to park. I live in an area with lots of american service personnel so its a really big thing here.
I suspect some people have cottoned on and are driving in to go round and collect the goodies.
Luckily my other half is away so other than she left her can on the drive I could avoid halloween by having no lights on the front of the house.
There is a thing round here where they don't knock if you haven't made it obvious your partaking. So either dress up your house a bit or put a pumpkin out. The americans get it, the brit hangers on knock anyway.
I suspect some scrote thought it would be funny to steal a pumpkin and smash it up. Throwing it against a car was an easy way, unfortunately they are damn heavy, about 75%+ water by volume.
i dont get halloween, must be an age thing.
I got home last night to cars everywhere and not being able to park. I live in an area with lots of american service personnel so its a really big thing here.
I suspect some people have cottoned on and are driving in to go round and collect the goodies.
Luckily my other half is away so other than she left her can on the drive I could avoid halloween by having no lights on the front of the house.
There is a thing round here where they don't knock if you haven't made it obvious your partaking. So either dress up your house a bit or put a pumpkin out. The americans get it, the brit hangers on knock anyway.
I suspect some scrote thought it would be funny to steal a pumpkin and smash it up. Throwing it against a car was an easy way, unfortunately they are damn heavy, about 75%+ water by volume.
Soldato
My nearside door mirror got ripped off by kids last night. Feral kids and parents that don't bring them up right are to blame... 
I was trying to think of a polite way of pointing out that it had probably been painted before, but thankfully you already know.
Soldato
Some teenagers can be utter *****! There one was young girl who keyed around 30-40 cars in my parent's street. Not sure what happened to her in the end.
That is pretty disgusting. I went to the local shop last night and the car park was packed but the shop itself empty. I wondered if people were putting their car out of harms way from the estate round the corner.
I'm pretty lucky with our side of the village. The parents get together and plan a route of houses that are taking part and it is a strict no decorations, no knock policy that everyone follows. Some people really go to town and the kids love it all accompanied by their parents. The new estates on the other side... just kids (teenagers) running wild last night
I'm pretty lucky with our side of the village. The parents get together and plan a route of houses that are taking part and it is a strict no decorations, no knock policy that everyone follows. Some people really go to town and the kids love it all accompanied by their parents. The new estates on the other side... just kids (teenagers) running wild last night
Soldato
Wow. Just looking at that is making me rage and its not even my car.
I have had similar things done to my car. Someone last year left some lovely dented claw like marks on the front wing.
I can only hope karma get these people. It's absurd people thing its ok to damage other peoples property leaving them with a financial penalty to pick up.
I have had similar things done to my car. Someone last year left some lovely dented claw like marks on the front wing.
I can only hope karma get these people. It's absurd people thing its ok to damage other peoples property leaving them with a financial penalty to pick up.
Man of Honour
I doubt if it would make any difference. Little ***** don't care about anything and have no respect for anyone or anything. They probably thought it was fun and being big to do that with their mates egging them on. I just don't know what is wrong with them these days. They have so many more things to do in their spare time than my generation did yet we never went around smashing stuff up, stealing things and generally making life a misery for people. Then again we had discipline at home and at school which probably goes some way towards explaining the way they behave these days.
I feel for you Conscript, it looks like that is going to cost quite a bit to put right.
Soldato
Does the car have an alarm? I'm surprised it didn't trigger it!
Soldato
What a nightmare 
Have you checked if any neighbors have CCTV?
Have you checked if any neighbors have CCTV?
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statistics? the ones they like to make up.
it will be reported under something minor. it won't be classed as vandalism as they weren't targeting him specifically but rather random.
they love to fluff the numbers because then the MP's look good.
Soldato
To be fair i imagine that there were probably plenty people in your generation who'll have done things like this. There always have been probably going to the middle ages because "kids". Just the same as there'll be a much larger percentage of people in the generation of these numpties who wouldn't do anything like this.
Soldato
get a wireless CCTV camera overlooking your car!
I'd be peeved! :| sorry to see that.
my lexus got messed with too, one day parked at the gatwick airport and scratch on the side and rear bumper! people have 0 care about others property.
I'd be peeved! :| sorry to see that.
my lexus got messed with too, one day parked at the gatwick airport and scratch on the side and rear bumper! people have 0 care about others property.
Just took the car down to have it looked at by someone I know who's done some bodywork for friends. Luckily he's quite experienced with pearlescent paint so knows what's involved - small repairs aren't really possible, it will need most of that wing painted and blended into the doors and lower sills.
He quoted about £420, and he's also going to look at the scuff on the bottom of the front bumper which has been bothering me for a while. A better quote than I expected to be honest, although obviously not something I want to pay for at the moment. However, not worth going through insurance for that, so I'll just suck it up and move on :/
Didn't hear a thing. Our bedroom is at the back of the house though, which might be why. Stupidly, I forgot to check the dash when I got in it earlier - the immobiliser light flashes faster if the alarm has been triggered since it was last locked, I think.
I know that neither of my immediate neighbours have CCTV, and there's no one opposite. Other houses up and down the road are mostly elderly couples, so unlikely to have CCTV.
I have decided I'm going to start parking it on the driveway again though. We stopped doing it as it bottoms out on our heavily sloped driveway and it was just less hassle to park mine in the road and use the driveway for my girlfriends Sorento. But now I don't have to drive the GT everyday, I think I'll just put up with the effort of negotiating it on and off the drive when I need it - it'll be sat in front of the garage door too, so maybe time to invest in some CCTV overlooking the drive.
Just about calming down no that I've got it booked in to be repaired. Still fantasising about what I'd like to do to the perpetrators though
He quoted about £420, and he's also going to look at the scuff on the bottom of the front bumper which has been bothering me for a while. A better quote than I expected to be honest, although obviously not something I want to pay for at the moment. However, not worth going through insurance for that, so I'll just suck it up and move on :/
Didn't hear a thing. Our bedroom is at the back of the house though, which might be why. Stupidly, I forgot to check the dash when I got in it earlier - the immobiliser light flashes faster if the alarm has been triggered since it was last locked, I think.
What a nightmare
I know that neither of my immediate neighbours have CCTV, and there's no one opposite. Other houses up and down the road are mostly elderly couples, so unlikely to have CCTV.
I have decided I'm going to start parking it on the driveway again though. We stopped doing it as it bottoms out on our heavily sloped driveway and it was just less hassle to park mine in the road and use the driveway for my girlfriends Sorento. But now I don't have to drive the GT everyday, I think I'll just put up with the effort of negotiating it on and off the drive when I need it - it'll be sat in front of the garage door too, so maybe time to invest in some CCTV overlooking the drive.
Just about calming down no that I've got it booked in to be repaired. Still fantasising about what I'd like to do to the perpetrators though