help. i've just pranged my car!

GEEGEE8

Oh dear, the ego's have landed... !

OP, try not to worry, like another poster said, you and bump are safe and that's the main thing..

mikey72

Flyboy152 wrote: »

As an aside, it might be worth your while to negotiate a deal with the repairers. Talk to them calmly and logically. Explain what happend and play a little on their conscience. Play the pregnancy card (you've got it, you might as well use it ). They just might feel guilty enough to fix it for a fraction of their normal rate.

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

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 doubt

That was good advice though.

DUTR

Flyboy152 wrote: »

What an unfair and mean post. Try to have some sympathy, have you never bumped into something when reversing?

Have to disagree, many of us have reversed into something at onetime or another (or yet to do so), the difference is those that have or may do, won't be laying blame elsewhere, most cars don't have sensors on, and have not been reversed into anything, and some cars do have sensors on that work and still manage to be involved in minor collisions.

Homersimpson

Hammyman wrote: »

In short, you're in the position in because quite simply, you can't drive.

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.

So the OP has a car licence and bumps their car and therefore according to you can't drive.

You have an HGV licence and bump into something but obviously you are a much better driver and that wasn't your fault. Whether its light or dark should make no difference, maybe you should ask the DVLA to make your licence a daylight only HGV licence?

Or maybe these things happen and both you and the OP are good drivers but have been unfortunate?

Personally i'm hoping for the latter, especially when your out in your 44 ton truck hammyman!

Hammyman

Homersimpson wrote: »

Personally i'm hoping for the latter, especially when your out in your 44 ton truck hammyman!

No longer doing it due to ill health but in my time, I never hit another vehicle. The outcome of car vs lorry is never good for the car.

Gene_Hunt_2

Hammyman wrote: »

No longer doing it due to ill health but in my time, I never hit another vehicle. The outcome of car vs lorry is never good for the car.

That's good, no more errors of judgement.

lostinrates

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.

I drive a 7.5 tonne horse lorry with no difficulty, and the LR dh crunch last week, and find no trouble reversing a horse trailer attached to it but find my father's slightly smaller car a nightmare to park. Its not always about size of the vehicle. Until I my father's car I'd only experienced this..difficulty... with very long vehicles, like Audi 8.

clever_username

Hammyman wrote: »

No longer doing it due to ill health but in my time, I never hit another vehicle.

Just pedestrians then?