Broken Wing Mirror Advise needed.

mikey72

I've lost a few this way down our high street, when traffic coming the other way overtakes parked cars onto my side of the road, I usually have a stick on glass in the car ready. It's not even worth stopping for any more, I report it at the police station to the village bobby later on.

pulliptears

Similar thing happened to me last year. I was coming through a row of double parked cars, 3/4 of the way through when he came tearing around the corner and through the cars, there was nowhere I could have gone to avoid him, my window was open and it showered me and most of the back seats in glass. I was bleeding and testament to the speed the idiot was going was the fact that he had managed to belt the mirror into the back seats!

Karma prevailed though, my little old clio just needed a bit of a repair and new glass (£3.99 local motor factors), his all singing all dancing electric mirror was most definitely beyond repair hehe

Adaline

I had a similar experience with a driver coming towards me too fast and over the white line on the brow of a hill, and wing mirrors clashing and both breaking. I would probably have left it as us both paying for repairs, except that after we exchanged details, he sent his wife to sit back in his car, and then said he was going to claim that it was my fault, and threatened to 'fill my face' if I disupted this. I immediately reported this to the police, who spoke with him and told him to leave me alone (they wouldn't come out though I was a woman on my own, as it was a Friday evening). I reported the whole thing to my insurers, and after year of wrangling, it was actually proved to be their fault. But the cost of replacing the wing mirror was less than my excess, so I had to pay for it, and of course the incident sat on my insurance premium for five years. So it may be worth you just replacing your wing mirror, even if through gritted teeth.