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What is causing these scratches?
housebuyer143
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A few months ago I noticed some bad scratches on the drivers side of my car by the wing mirror and on top of the wing mirror. I thought someone had been careless when washing my neighbours drive and hit it.
Yesterday I noticed similar but more scratches on the side of the bonnet. The car is parked on my drive with the drivers side adaject to a wall, so if it was someone doing it they would have to walk up my drive, then damage it (while the security light comes on) and only damage it on the drivers side 🤷♀️ seems real convoluted and the area we are in, it doesn't seem likely.
I have had magpies scratch the car in the past by attacking it's reflection so thought maybe it's this again? They are not very deep.
Anyone have any idea what this looks like? I do routinely park in a multi storey and then usual road and supermarket car parks as well.
Yesterday I noticed similar but more scratches on the side of the bonnet. The car is parked on my drive with the drivers side adaject to a wall, so if it was someone doing it they would have to walk up my drive, then damage it (while the security light comes on) and only damage it on the drivers side 🤷♀️ seems real convoluted and the area we are in, it doesn't seem likely.
I have had magpies scratch the car in the past by attacking it's reflection so thought maybe it's this again? They are not very deep.
Anyone have any idea what this looks like? I do routinely park in a multi storey and then usual road and supermarket car parks as well.
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Cat or something jumping on car to get passed when on drive. Or people being careless walking passed car in car parks. Zips on jackets etc.
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That looks like something repetitive to me, rather than an incident, which might just leave a scratch. Especially as some are going in different directions.
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No not really. On occasion I had been next to the same car but it's not a regular occurrence. That's what I thought as well. I can't say I even know when it happened because I didn't notice it until I cleaned it yesterday 😕Sea_Shell said:That looks like something repetitive to me, rather than an incident, which might just leave a scratch. Especially as some are going in different directions.
Do you routinely park in the same spot, next to the same people every day?
Guess I'll keep an eye out to see if anymore occur. At least it's the drivers side as that's the bad side - the other one was resprayed last year when I knocked it, and it's still looking perfect 🤣0 -
They would walk the other side. There is no reason for anyone to go by that side of the car at my house 😞chrisw said:Postman with a heavy bag?
I wouldn't mind if it were an animal etc, but I don't like to think someone has deliberately scratched my car and maybe more than once.0 -
It could be supermarket trollies1
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Did you have the car from new or second hand? Could it have been there the whole time but detailed out?1
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No definitely not there.. I've had it 3 years now and I polish every few months so I would have noticed. It's happened in the last 2 months I would say.WellKnownSid said:Did you have the car from new or second hand? Could it have been there the whole time but detailed out?
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On another inspection, yeah the top of the light is scratched as well, so it's likely been hit when parked somewhere. Just a coincidence that it was also scratched a few months ago probably.MikeJXE said:It could be supermarket trollies
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