Hit and Run

tyrone2014

Hi All

Long story short got a ford fiesta and its my first year of driving
insurance is £2000 a year and someone has hit the back of my car when it was parked and as the back bumper is plastic its smash a hole in, who ever did it didnt stop, is there any think that should or can be done ?

McKneff

Not much you can do unless there is some CCTV about and you can access it.

Try a scrapyard for a new bumper.

scheming_gypsy

buy a new bumper from the scrap yard, fit it yourself and forget it ever happened.

mutter a word of it to your insurance company and that £2000 will jump right up.
As there's no witnesses and no idea of who did it, there's not much you can do to trace them.

tyrone2014

Thank you for your replys well hopefully karma will come back to them
also just makes me think im not that upset as the car aint worth much but if i have a better car in the future and the same thing happens then that would be horrible shame there is not much that can be done same as when someone feels like they wanna run there key along your car

scheming_gypsy

Karma did get them.. they smashed the front of their car

red_eye

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Karma did get them.. they smashed the front of their car

prob cracked number plate

Lum

Don't report it to your insurance company. The cost of next year's premium will be higher than just getting a new bumper.

Either get a new bumper from a scrapyard, ideally a traditional one that will let you take it off the car yourself ( = free practice run!) or just put some gaffer tape over the hole.

red_eye

Lum wrote: »

Don't report it to your insurance company. The cost of next year's premium will be higher than just getting a new bumper.

Either get a new bumper from a scrapyard, ideally a traditional one that will let you take it off the car yourself ( = free practice run!) or just put some gaffer tape over the hole.

sadly there is nowhere that will let you remove the parts thanks to the bloody heath and safety farts

Lum

I'm told there are a couple in Cardiff. No idea where the OP lives

Rolandtheroadie

red_eye wrote: »

sadly there is nowhere that will let you remove the parts thanks to the bloody heath and safety farts

Theres one near Edinburgh too. I was like a kid in a sweetie shop, used to love going to them years ago.

U-pull-it as well, unfortunately you're buying access to the car for a few hours so not worth it for one or two items.

Print_Screen

Lum wrote: »

I'm told there are a couple in Cardiff. No idea where the OP lives

Really Wow!
I'm surprised that the health and saftey Nazis have not banned this, in fact I'm surprised they haven't closed scarp yards altogether for being too dangerous