Don't you just hate it when...

Thanks. I'm trying to look on the bright side...it could have been much worse and nobody was injured...small thing really but very annoying.

I've left the blue paint on my white cruiser for forensics :))

18 months ago some bleep er, left blue paint on my white l/cruiser front door.

$500 to fix.

What goes around comes around.

Cheers Steve.

I KNOW what a mess a collision between a doof doof and a Landcruiser makes to the doof doof. The culprit must have known....unless it was a 4wd of course.

As you get older, you like to think that you can keep your vehicle in reasonable nick. Too expensive to replace em.

Mine is not as old as yours, but it has a small dent in each of the 4 doors at about trolley handle height, from shopping centres.
Starting to think they are 'character' marks.

Like my brother in law. He has a big scare on his side from a sun cancer being removed. He calls it his 'shark' bite. Impresses the girls no end.

Have the occasional scratch from a trip. That was 96 at ------, that was 98 at ----.

But still don't want to collect too many!

Maybe we should be putting a sign on, 'battle scars, beware'.

Actually do have a bit of white paint on the left side step where a commodore tried to cut up the inside of me by making his own left lane and didn't judge the space too well. Evidently cost his insurance company about $1500.00 to fix, me just a can of black paint, when I get around to it.

But still a pain, had to report it and go through the paper work.

Oldplodder, makes you wonder just how many brain dead drivers there are out there.

I have two Senior Moments engraved on both rear mudguards and an eyesocket imprint on the left front where a skippy tried to assasinate it and scratches galore, a dinged sidestep and a broken rear dummy light and various marks on the bullbar where I failed to make the full U-turn in the Main Street and clipped a pole or street sign.....LOL Nissan is definitely second hand now.

Stay outta my way!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just as well I don't live in the Big Smoke.

Cars are just recycled earth.

Cheers

Footloose,

I think the bloke in the commodore thought I was a brain dead driver.

I had been following him for about 5km through suburbia.
He would take off from the lights like no tomorrow, then get caught in the wrong lane behind some one turning, and I would sail past in the other lane.

Couple of times, he was behind me at the lights, and I am never fast away from the lights, so he would pass after jumping lanes.

This time only one lane, and a bit of space on the left, so he decided to go for it.
He didn't see the island coming up and got caught between me and the island.
I hit the horn, but he kept coming.
Suppose he couldn't bluff me as easily as others, so I suppose he thought me brain dead. Now it going to cost me $5.00 for a tin of paint for the side steps.

At least he stopped and we swapped names and addresses for his insurance company. (I just reported it to mine, didn't make a claim, and passed on the name of his insurance company.)
Next set of lights, he got the wrong lane again, I passed him, then he shot past and gave me the finger. I was just grateful that he was out of the way, and I wasn't going to spend the next day chasing quotes from panel beaters like he was.

Hey,

Footloose thinks I'm young! :o)

It is not my age but that of the Paj that is significant. It is 16 years old and with almost no resale value so I look after the mechanicals and touch up any scratch that makes it though to metal to keep the rust at bay.

Now if it was the wife's car I would be concerned, and I am not looking forward to sometime in the next few years when we retire the Paj and upgrade. Then I will be worried about the scratches and dings.

Cheers

Pete

Yep, am going to bed tonight to see if I can dream of the ^&(*^&( and will probably yell in my sleep, "Karma's gonna get cha " :))))))))

Someone trying to drive the price down ?...Geez I'm a cynic again after today.

Nice looking S3 setup you have Russ. Yours is one of the few "modified" ones I've seen.

Happy traveling
Chris

Thanks Chris,

We're very happy with how it turned out. Mind you, the LHS side-step is a little worse forwear now...lol. Oh well, I wanted solid aluminium ones in the first place.

Cheers,

Russ.

Ye Gods ! I'd be furious.

It's only "not your fault" if you have the contact details of the other party involved... If you can't supply this and go ahead with the claim, you will lose out with you NCB...

There is a difference....well with NRMA there is
I have had a NOT AT FAULT claim, costs recovered from other party.
I have also had a NOT AT FAULT cost NOT recovered when stolen car side swiped me.

On BOTH occasions NCB remained at 65%

Cheers Stefan

I'm assuming that since I don't know who did it, my excess would be the first payment .

u always pay your excess

Oh Gramps. Now ya have to tell SWMBO ! No more lollies for you for a while :)))))))))))

Nooooo Footy, if it was SWMBOs vehicle I'd be headed for a deep dark hole around Coober Pedy or Lightning Ridge for a few years until she had calmed down.

This was only an employer's thingo but I'll cop heaps for it tomorrow :))))))

Gramps, oh you mean THAT boss. Much easier to live with. :)))

F'loosie, don't withold the lollies please, he needs a sugar hit ;-))))))

Years ago I backed into a woman who could see I was half out, and continued to come. I apologised profusely, and couldn't wait to swap details. I later found that she'd claimed considerable existing damage from my insurance company.
I'm afraid that the milk of human kindness is often sadly lacking these days.

"The most annoying part would not so much the damage, but the fact that some person didn't have the decency to stay and wait or leave a note."

Yep, a little common decency would be nice...

I've only once left without leaving my details but afaik the bugger deserved it... I parked in the last legal bay in a street in Fitzroy... The car in front left and some tool put themselves in that bay with seriously 2" between their rear bumper and my bullbar. Another tool parked illegally about 3" from my rear bar. 45 minutes was long enough to wait before I locked the hubs, selected low range and reversed their car out into the middle of the intersection... Damn that old Rocky was a tough bugger...

P.S I rang the cops before acting but they weren't interested...

Blue, was once intentionally parked in outside a library. I politely asked the guy if he could move back a bit and his response was "and what are YOU going to do about it ?"
When I got out of the library his car was still there...so I showed him what I was going to do about it !

Have you watched any of the "Stupid moron learner drivers" programme on Ch7?

The scary thing is that these people may one day scrape through their test by sheer luck but they won't be any less dangerous on the road.

Give people three tries at their licence I reckon and then ban them for life.

I'm certainly in agreement with tougher licensing, and perhaps re testing every 5-10 years.

I am so pleased when someone crashes into your pride and joy. Hopefully all your cameras have run out of battery on that day.

Then you can rant and rave about how bad Australians are while enjoying our hospitality whether you have been naturalised or not. I wonder why you still bother living here.

Almosty every post you put up on this forum you bag Australia or Australians. Either you shape up or ship out to wherever you have come from.

Geez Willem, I thought it was just me imagining things. I just ignore this wanker totally.

just stating facts..
not bagging anything ...
if you can't handle it ... your problem ...
have fun
gmd

Your facts and they are of no value. You just plucked then out of the air

Yes I can't handle your demonic obsession with bagging everything Australian. Why do you do it? You have obviously immigrated here, set up a business, done well, made lots of money(as you have told us ad nauseum before) and buy all your stuff from overseas because nothing is good enough for you here. Whats your point?

thats what you assume and make of it .. lol
communication is created at the receiving end !
familiar with that concept ?
it just depends for what you are sensitive and you are obviously
one of the many suffering from poppy syndrome otherwise
you would not read what you read ..
good luck
gmd

You never come with anything positive to this forum other than to drag something down and that being anything Australian

I am an immigrant and proudly Australian

My question remains: If you are so anti- Australian, why do you live here?

And you can shove your "have fun" and your "good luck" up your R's

Willem,

gmd is obviously less than impressed with his/her status, achievements and origin. He/she compensates by knocking everything else. Inferiority complexes are such a pain :))))))

Must be 'small banana' syndrome!

R Send, I was going to say "small mans" syndrome to be more polite.

Gramps, you quoting Paris indeed. LOL :-)))))) gmd can't blend either, sticks out like Paris but not so pleasantly to the eye and nor can he/she let the grammar work for him/her. Dead giveaway

R Send,

I think that just about sums it up :)))

JohnR,

I think young Paris is about the only constant in the universe at the moment :)))

I'm confused mate; in the last paragraph are we talking about the wife or the surf?

Both.

LMAO!

Thats fine, but I can think of a few conditions where people aren't bad enough to have a disabled parking sticker, but can't always park at a distance.

I just glare at the passengers until they have opened the door safely. Of course if they arrive after I've gone inside I have to take my chances :((