You'll never believe what just happened

[miniyazz]

I went down to Reading to see someone and thought I'd test-drive one of the new 59 plate Corsas while I had the chance (no forecourts up here seem to have them for some reason) 'cause someone said they were decent little cars, once you stuck some decent coilovers in there anyway. So anyway, there I am getting the feel of how it handles in some slow-moving traffic heading towards a NSL road, and some tool on a bike rides past, punches my wingmirror, and rides off.. seriously wtf? So shocked I didn't even get the plate.

Had to pay the dealer £800 for repairs and loss of market value 'cause it was a new car. What possible reason could the ****** have had, he looked at me as he went passed and deliberately ****ed the thing

 

[miniyazz]

Thing that shocked me even more though was the fascia on the dash falling off when he hit the wingmirror, must've been quite a thump the build quality's meant to be pretty decent on those things isn't it?

 

[miniyazz]

New wing mirror would be £200 tops. 'loss of market value'? Load of tripe

Something to do with it being declared category 'D' I think.

So you were on an unaccompanied test drive, the wing mirror got smashed and they charged you £800? Have you paid this already?

Well my insurance covered it but I've lost my NCB so pretty peed off

Edit: and I was with someone but they apparently didn't see it happen and say I drove into the motorbike

 

[miniyazz]

maybe op cut him up / nearly knocked him off and he was having a bad day.. no biker is just gonna damage a car for the hell of it.

i've done the same once to a rolls royce, but only as a last result for revenge after I was physically assaulted at petrol station (he tried to strangle me lol) ...that wing mirror prolly was £800, made me feel a lot better.

Well like I say, I was doing some low-speed manoeuvering in my lane when no one was really going anywhere very fast, seeing how light the steering was at low speeds, and then we set off properly again and this happened So unless he really didn't like Corsas, or for some reason really didn't like me moving around,

 

[miniyazz]

In his first post he states it like he's paid it, then he states his insurance paid the cost, so which is it?

If you want to tell us a story least get it right in your own head first.

Also, why didn't the dealer claim on its insurance, max excess from your point of view of £500 iirc and no loss of claims on your insurance.



TBH.

Well they told me it should go through my insurance and I was so mad I wasn't thinking straight and just went along with it

 

[miniyazz]

Sounds more like a CAT C to me.

Miniyazz take note, they will realise this mistake soon enough and send you a request for the rest of the monies owed.

well hopefully I can get my insurance to refuse the claim or something?


Edit: Argh they just emailed me and turns out there was a note attached to the car key fob I didn't read and it said I'm liable for any damages to the car??
guess that's why they wanted my insurance

 

[miniyazz]

you cant do that in heavy traffic, you prolly almost killed the guy, it would have appeared to him that you were trying to block / knock him off.

you deserved it

Well surely he could've asked questions first, punched later??

If this thread is serious go through the garages insurance and pay the excess, how old are you?

Also more to the point how does your car insurance cover you to drive someone elses car?

20 yo but I have DOC with DirectLine (named driver), anyway shouldn't the forecourt cars have trade insurance or something so I can drive them anyway?