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help. i've just pranged my car!
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I think if you go back and speak to the garage nicely or slip the guys in the bodyshop £50 they will repair the bumper while they fit the sensors. You will be amazed what a flash of cash does in a garage.
Ask to speak to the guy who painted the bumper the first time say you want to discuss the paint finish then talk him into repairing it. He will do it no doubt0 -
Perhaps a smaller car would be a better idea for the future?
I find it very worrying when people drive large cars without the spacial awareness to do so safely.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »Perhaps a smaller car would be a better idea for the future?
I find it very worrying when people drive large cars without the spacial awareness to do so safely.
You worry too much.0 -
As Flyboy and Hubert say have a word with the garage, explain what happened if they have to repaint the new bumper when it arrives they may well do you a deal!0
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Strider590 wrote: »Perhaps a smaller car would be a better idea for the future?
I find it very worrying when people drive large cars without the spacial awareness to do so safely.
Who said it was a large car?0 -
^^ Well... if it was a small car i'd be telling OP to rip up their driving licence
It's just one of those things that's been getting on my nerves lately......... (Nothing aimed at the OP)
People driving about in stupidly big cars and particularly down country lanes, they can't reverse the damn things so it ends up with 5 or 6 cars all having to reverse out of the way for mommy in the huge 4x4 doing the school run........“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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You knew the reversing sensors weren't working, so you should have taken more care when reversing. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but if you reverse into a wall it's entirely your fault."You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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What an unfair and mean post. Try to have some sympathy, have you never bumped into something when reversing?
Yep. Difference was I was in a vehicle that was 53ft long, 8ft wide, 15ft high, which bent in the middle, weighed 44 tonnes and only had side mirrors and no rear window and it was pitch black. I misjudged it by two inches.
I wasn't in a car with good all round visibility and probably in good lighting conditions.0 -
So, you have never, ever, hit anything whilst reversing in a car?Yep. Difference was I was in a vehicle that was 53ft long, 8ft wide, 15ft high, which bent in the middle, weighed 44 tonnes and only had side mirrors and no rear window and it was pitch black. I misjudged it by two inches.
I wasn't in a car with good all round visibility and probably in good lighting conditions.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
Not that unusual maybe? I've been driving 12 years, and I've never reversed into anything.0
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