Some **** keyed my car

Aleksandrs said:
my old Golf was keyed on the driveway. I reckon it was the postman.
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When I am on delivery there are a lot of cars that barely fit in the driveway and I have to "suck it in" to squeeze past. It's always a toss up between "no access" on the letters (leading to moaning) and trying to make sure my bag clip doesn't brush against their car (leading to moaning). I haven't damaged anyone's paint job so far, but it's kind of inevitable as I will probably slip one day.
 
That sucks... I had it done to me at the end of last year (oh what a minute, I mean end of the previous year now). They keyed the hell out of it at the start of December and got the car back after the insurance claim and 3 days later it got done again :-(
 
I live near a school with a 6th form and the kids park in our road sometimes - I came back from work (walking) one time and there were a bunch of students around all looking at their cars. Every single car down the side road by my house had been keyed, apart from my car - basically all the cars belonging to the students. I reckon it was either the dustmen who were out that day and couldn't getthe truck past the cars, or the neighbour opposite. It really annoyed me because leaving my car obviously makes it look like I was the one that keyed the others!
 
Wicksta said:
I live near a school with a 6th form and the kids park in our road sometimes - I came back from work (walking) one time and there were a bunch of students around all looking at their cars. Every single car down the side road by my house had been keyed, apart from my car - basically all the cars belonging to the students. I reckon it was either the dustmen who were out that day and couldn't getthe truck past the cars, or the neighbour opposite. It really annoyed me because leaving my car obviously makes it look like I was the one that keyed the others!
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What a ****, I really hope all these ****ers who do it get caught sometime and get their hand cut off and bones broken. What gives a **** the right to cause thousands in damage to many people ?
 
tis annoying. Someone keyed my 5 when it was parked outside my flat. I'd only popped back in after taking it out of the garage for 5mins. It was long but the majority was not deep, only an 1.5inch or so through the paint in length.
 
When I had my megane somebody keyed their name in to my door in foot high letters, annoyed the hell out of me but luckily it was a company car so they paid for the repair.

I'm actually thinking about ripping up the front garden to make a driveway before I get a new car as I can't bare the thought of the same thing happening to a car that I have bought myself!
 
EvilDreams said:
When I am on delivery there are a lot of cars that barely fit in the driveway and I have to "suck it in" to squeeze past. It's always a toss up between "no access" on the letters (leading to moaning) and trying to make sure my bag clip doesn't brush against their car (leading to moaning). I haven't damaged anyone's paint job so far, but it's kind of inevitable as I will probably slip one day.
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I can kinda understand that, but my driveway definitely had enough room. It looks more deliberate.

I should add that the Golf had a fresh respray at that point and was kinda obvious it had been recently resprayed. Maybe someone was jealous.
 
Sp00n said:
When I had my megane somebody keyed their name in to my door in foot high letters, annoyed the hell out of me but luckily it was a company car so they paid for the repair.

I'm actually thinking about ripping up the front garden to make a driveway before I get a new car as I can't bare the thought of the same thing happening to a car that I have bought myself!
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just get some big square tiles + a few bags of sand and you dont need to rip your garden up.

cheap as hell aswell its what my parents did and they havent had any issues with the tiles sinking etc
 
Liquidfox said:
Had someone put self expanding foam up the exhuast of my car, caught the pricks on CCTV though. They won't be doing it again, put it that way ;)

Mysteriously my car got keyed again a couple of weeks later, looks like i'll be paying another visit since the police did absolutely nothing even when i did have CCTV footage of it being done.
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This!

A guy over the road from me heard some kids "running" over his car late at night; rushed out of the house and chased them up the road; a few nights later, some (almost certainly entirely unconnected) people smashed his windscreen and a side window and threw bricks at his car, denting panels and scratching the paintwork. He now expects the process to be repeated regularly :(


gillywibble said:
... I can't understand that kind of mentality at all.
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Amen to that.
 
arknor said:
just get some big square tiles + a few bags of sand and you dont need to rip your garden up.

cheap as hell aswell its what my parents did and they havent had any issues with the tiles sinking etc
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Can you expand a little more on that?

Unfortunately I do have to do some work as there is a pretty large bush running along the properties boundary which I plan on taking a chainsaw to and there is a weird long grass type thing in the middle of the front lawn which needs to be dug up which will leave a hole that I'll have to fill. It's also not even close to being level.

Apparently I also need to get permission from the council as the entrace will be crossing a public footway (read; pavement).
 
arknor said:
just get some big square tiles + a few bags of sand and you dont need to rip your garden up.

cheap as hell aswell its what my parents did and they havent had any issues with the tiles sinking etc
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Do not do this! The extra time and effort it takes to do a proper job will be rewarded with a decent looking finish that will resist sinking. Your ground might be very different to the ground of others and the quality of the groundwork makes more of a difference than any other factor.

Sp00n said:
Can you expand a little more on that?

Unfortunately I do have to do some work as there is a pretty large bush running along the properties boundary which I plan on taking a chainsaw to and there is a weird long grass type thing in the middle of the front lawn which needs to be dug up which will leave a hole that I'll have to fill. It's also not even close to being level.

Apparently I also need to get permission from the council as the entrace will be crossing a public footway (read; pavement).
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It is a bit backbreaking but basically if you do it yourself it shouldn't cost much at all. Basically you need to dig down a few inches (so that the final level is well below your damp course), put in a layer of hardcore, compact it down (you can hire a tool for this for basically nothing from any tool hire place), pour in a layer of sand, lay the flags and make sure they are firmly banged down into the ground and then finally brush a dry mix of sand/cement into the cracks.

Having re-laid driveways 3 times now, the only way to make sure you dont end up with a crap looking driveway is to make absolutely sure that you've done the stuff you wont be able to see properly - you never want to have to try and fix the layers underneath months later, it is a nightmare.
 
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