Asda Customer Let Trollet Damage My Car - How To Proceed?

EdGasket

Is a Trollet a baby troll?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

T Cut, and cheaper than your excess!

Silver-Surfer_2

londonTiger wrote: »

the problem you have is that your car is so unusual that it draws out road users in to have a look at your vehicle and some will park near to you.

also the other [new] tip don't park at the bottom of a decline.

What car has he got that draws attention?

mcpitman

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

T Cut, and cheaper than your excess!

No, no, no never use T Cut on anything you want to look nice afterwards.

Use a proper polishing compound. Or wet and dry technique, but T-Cut is the paint equivalent of sanding the paint directly.

straighttalker

Hasbeen wrote: »

His insurance wont pay.

Claiming against your own insurance will lose your excess and your insurance premium will probably go up at renewal as you will have had a claim.

If you have his contact details you can get estimate and try for payment.

If he's not willing to pay then I would think LBA and small claims court route if you want?

I never said his insurance WOULD pay. I said sue him directly which is exactly what you've recommended in your last sentence.

As other's have said, if the OP doesn't want to claim from his own insurance, he should just suck it up and pay for the repair himself. Alternatively, if the OP is adamant he wants to make a recovery from the third party, he needs to issue proceedings directly against the third party. Even if he gets a judgment, will it be satisfied?

gibby9

It's a straight forward public liability claim against the guy in control of the trolley.

He should have public liability cover under his home insurance. That's if he has home insurance.

megaginge

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

What car has he got that draws attention?

The post he quoted clearly mentioned a Classic Maserati.

Which I'd probably also want to look at, though I'm not sure it'd influence where I park

londonTiger

mcpitman wrote: »

No, no, no never use T Cut on anything you want to look nice afterwards.

Use a proper polishing compound. Or wet and dry technique, but T-Cut is the paint equivalent of sanding the paint directly.

tcut has apparantly changed, it's isn't the abrasive compoud it was in the 90s. It's much more finer now to polish out clear coat to a shine.

Although I would imagine a freewheeling 20kg+ trolly would have built up a fair bit of momentum and done some noticable damage. and not just marr the clearcoat that could be buffed out

boliston

Liability would depend on things like how steep the incline was - sometimes a trolley can move unexpendedly on what looks like an almost flat surface. If you are wanting to take it to court it would help if there were any independent witnesses and you would need a name and address as the car reg would only give you the registered keeper name and address who may not be the same as the person who lost control of the trolley.

EdGasket

mcpitman wrote: »

No, no, no never use T Cut on anything you want to look nice afterwards.

Use a proper polishing compound. Or wet and dry technique, but T-Cut is the paint equivalent of sanding the paint directly.

Umm ....isn't wet n' dry sanding then?