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Recovering cost of damage caused by cyclist

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  • davidjwest
    davidjwest Posts: 756 Forumite
    To the OP - I think you need to chalk this one down to experience, buy the part off eBay for a few quid and fit it yourself. The cyclist who hit your car was apparently under the influence of drink or drugs, if you pursue him further what's the odds of him taking it out on your car?

    Life is unfair sometimes, but for the sake of a few quid I don't think it's worth the potential aggro of taking it further.
    :A
  • Tilt
    Tilt Posts: 3,599 Forumite
    thelawnet wrote: »
    So how are you going to enforce that?

    With considerable difficulty.

    Driver can get it done on the cheap and maybe the other party will pay, or if not she will be out a few £££.

    Or she can spend a lot of money, the other party refuses to pay and then she has to take him to court and spend more time and £££ for court fees and at the end of it she might not get out with anything.

    Sometimes you are morally in the right, but there's not much you can do. My neighbour burned a hole in my trampoline with his bonfire, cost to repair would have been £50 but I just let it go.

    The same way as you would with any other road user; Court if necessary. If the OP has legal protection, her insurers may do the job for her or she could do it herself which is most certainly what I would do.
    PLEASE NOTE
    My advice should be used as guidance only. You should always obtain face to face professional advice before taking any action.
  • stan5001
    stan5001 Posts: 91 Forumite
    edited 31 May 2011 at 3:54PM
    As an aside, cyclists should be forced to have insurance and pay tax for the roads.

    You're going off tangent, but we should also force the two million uninsured motorists in the UK to pay insurance too. Most cyclists are probably covered under home insurance or separate (e.g. through cycle club membership)

    And as you know, there's no such thing as road tax, but an excise duty for motor-vehicles - some of which (>25 years old, electric) are exempt. Should we bring those into line with petrol cars?

    I'm a cyclist, pedestrian and motorist btw. No-one ever insists on pedestrians wearing helmets, being insured and taxed for crossing roads:)

    Back to the thread - my wife saw and photgraphed a van reversing into my car one morning when leaving for work. £20 worth of damage to light cluster, plus half an hour of my time replacing it. I phoned the company to ask for payment, but was stonewalled; with such a low sum you're looking at fighting it on principle.
  • At the risk of reigniting the whole cyclist car debate, I ended up getting the light from ebay. I was leaning towards not chasing the cyclist for the damage now I've calmed down. Unfortunately the light is bleeding broken and the seller is a comms nightmare. If any would like to help with this new prob I have a thread about it here https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/44968746#Comment_44968746 .
    Saving for a deposit. £5440 of £11000 saved so far:j
  • Rather amusingly it turned out there were no bulbs in the headlight, no wonder it didn't work. All now fixed and will probably not bother chasing up with the cyclist due to the likely agro
    Saving for a deposit. £5440 of £11000 saved so far:j
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
    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 mark
  • buglawton
    buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    replacement lighting quarter unit off Ebay - done the same meself once - keeps the motor repair trade a bit more honest when you can do the occasional DIY.

    Just make sure the rubber seal is nice & tight as water loves to come in through this route
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