Maserati parks on top of my new GT3...
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What do I do?
I woke this morning to find a silver maserati parked 3 inches from my black GT3's bumper. I pulled back to inspect and had it clearly hit mine then moved slightly forward. It is parked horrible where it is (have pictures of this (front wheels three feet from the pavement, back wheels half a foot from pavement and bumper on mine)
There are clear paint rinkles caused by bumper warping, licence plate damage and deep scratches on my car and the area on the back of the maserati which came in contact with my from bumper is visable due to it being dirty and the contact removed the dirt and caused light scratching. I took photos of all of this but obviously the maser could be polished and cleaned and these scratches will dissappear into its silver paint.
The Maser has clearly hit everything it has ever parked next to as its bumper is littered with bumps and dents and the alloys are destroyed. Mine however is usually kept in a garage and these scratches are the only marks on it. You could argue that they are small scratches yes and paint rinkles are only noticable upon inspection but a respray would cost £1k and I hope you all feel my pain
What do I do?
I left a note but am I only relying on this person owning up?
If I hear nothing to I call the police or their insurance company?
I woke this morning to find a silver maserati parked 3 inches from my black GT3's bumper. I pulled back to inspect and had it clearly hit mine then moved slightly forward. It is parked horrible where it is (have pictures of this (front wheels three feet from the pavement, back wheels half a foot from pavement and bumper on mine)
There are clear paint rinkles caused by bumper warping, licence plate damage and deep scratches on my car and the area on the back of the maserati which came in contact with my from bumper is visable due to it being dirty and the contact removed the dirt and caused light scratching. I took photos of all of this but obviously the maser could be polished and cleaned and these scratches will dissappear into its silver paint.
The Maser has clearly hit everything it has ever parked next to as its bumper is littered with bumps and dents and the alloys are destroyed. Mine however is usually kept in a garage and these scratches are the only marks on it. You could argue that they are small scratches yes and paint rinkles are only noticable upon inspection but a respray would cost £1k and I hope you all feel my pain
What do I do?
I left a note but am I only relying on this person owning up?
If I hear nothing to I call the police or their insurance company?
Similar thing happened to me not long ago. I waited for the (lady) responsible to come back to her car and when she did she steadfastly said that she didn't hit my car, despite the yellow paint she had obviously implanted on my black bumper, and eventually said that if the cars had touched that it was me who did it and I was trying to con her. I was as close to knocking out a woman as I ever have been in my life. But, frankly, there was nothing I could do.
So I expect it will come down to whether the Maser driver is a reasonable person, or not!
So I expect it will come down to whether the Maser driver is a reasonable person, or not!
OCGT3 said:
What do I do?
I woke this morning to find a silver maserati parked 3 inches from my black GT3's bumper. I pulled back to inspect and had it clearly hit mine then moved slightly forward. It is parked horrible where it is (have pictures of this (front wheels three feet from the pavement, back wheels half a foot from pavement and bumper on mine)
There are clear paint rinkles caused by bumper warping, licence plate damage and deep scratches on my car and the area on the back of the maserati which came in contact with my from bumper is visable due to it being dirty and the contact removed the dirt and caused light scratching. I took photos of all of this but obviously the maser could be polished and cleaned and these scratches will dissappear into its silver paint.
The Maser has clearly hit everything it has ever parked next to as its bumper is littered with bumps and dents and the alloys are destroyed. Mine however is usually kept in a garage and these scratches are the only marks on it. You could argue that they are small scratches yes and paint rinkles are only noticable upon inspection but a respray would cost £1k and I hope you all feel my pain
What do I do?
I left a note but am I only relying on this person owning up?
If I hear nothing to I call the police or their insurance company?
Yes, I feel your pain but this is a sad fact of life when parking on street.I woke this morning to find a silver maserati parked 3 inches from my black GT3's bumper. I pulled back to inspect and had it clearly hit mine then moved slightly forward. It is parked horrible where it is (have pictures of this (front wheels three feet from the pavement, back wheels half a foot from pavement and bumper on mine)
There are clear paint rinkles caused by bumper warping, licence plate damage and deep scratches on my car and the area on the back of the maserati which came in contact with my from bumper is visable due to it being dirty and the contact removed the dirt and caused light scratching. I took photos of all of this but obviously the maser could be polished and cleaned and these scratches will dissappear into its silver paint.
The Maser has clearly hit everything it has ever parked next to as its bumper is littered with bumps and dents and the alloys are destroyed. Mine however is usually kept in a garage and these scratches are the only marks on it. You could argue that they are small scratches yes and paint rinkles are only noticable upon inspection but a respray would cost £1k and I hope you all feel my pain
What do I do?
I left a note but am I only relying on this person owning up?
If I hear nothing to I call the police or their insurance company?
The police will simply chuckle while the insurer will do nothing when the cost of a respray is less than the excess. Let's hope that your note was so worded as to elicit the correct response from the culprit and that he or she is decent enough to want to make amends.
You might find T-cut (go carefully) or (perhaps better) a good polish will mask those scratches, and you will be picking up plenty of stone chips on that PU in the near future (or you should be made to hand over that GT3 to a more enthusiastic owner!!).
If you really need to respray that bumper I don't think, even in Central London, you'll be paying £1000. It's £10-20 fopr a licence plate and I've had my PU resprayed expertly twice at £200 a go (up north where life is cheap). Silver metallic paint absolutely invisibly blended in each time.
Here's hoping for a good outcome. And enjoy that car.
t and there's nothing you can do. 
My wife parked her car once and some old fogey parked next to it. He reversed in and scraped his car all the way down ours. When he got out he flatly denied touching the car - even though there were paint scrapes all the way down!!!
Luckily there were multiple independent witnesses. Cost £2.5k to remedy.
Heard his old dear rolled her car and wrote it off the same week - a bad day in his insurers office that week!
Luckily there were multiple independent witnesses. Cost £2.5k to remedy.
Heard his old dear rolled her car and wrote it off the same week - a bad day in his insurers office that week!
Wait with your car until they return and speak to them very nicely about the unfortunate damage to your car and how they would like to proceed?
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
pete a said:
Wait with your car until they return and speak to them very nicely about the unfortunate damage to your car and how they would like to proceed?
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
Harsh....If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
but fair
pete a said:
Wait with your car until they return and speak to them very nicely about the unfortunate damage to your car and how they would like to proceed?
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
Careful!!!If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
.pete a said:
Wait with your car until they return and speak to them very nicely about the unfortunate damage to your car and how they would like to proceed?
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
Is that you Keith? If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
MTR
mollytherocker said:
pete a said:
Wait with your car until they return and speak to them very nicely about the unfortunate damage to your car and how they would like to proceed?
If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
Is that you Keith? If all goes well and they accept responsibility great, if they are in the mood to deny it or mess you about take out a pre-prepared hammer and start by putting a large dent in the back wing and then tell them you will do every panel on the car until they sort yours out, if they don't agree smash their car up lose the hammer and deny all knowledge when plod calls to talk about it.
No witness, no comment.
MTR
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