Dinged someones car door and drove away

Someone pinched my wing mirror from outside my mums house, that was annoying but how brazen some people are. It was only Ford Fiesta but obviously someone had a broken one and didn't want to pay for a new one and swiped mine. I thought at first the mirror had been hit but it had been removed.

I really look after my car, I try to change them at 5 years/100k. Carpark dents i detest so always park at the most distant place away from everyone. This person squeezed in next to you, over the line so obviously some duffer with no pride in their car, the fact you noticed and realised tells me you have awareness. Don't worry about it.

Even if she's a non-driver herself, somebody urgently needs to explain to your friend about the basic concept of mirrors - and how essential it is to check them before opening your door where anybody else could possibly be passing.

She's lucky it was a car passing, and the damage was only done to some pieces of metal. If it had been a cyclist or motorcyclist, they could very easily have been hospitalised or even killed because of her carelessness and negligence.

Thank you. No not everyone does it.

Someone scuffed my wheel arch, it obviously happened while it was parked, I haven't bothered to have it repaired as the cost isn't worth it as I generally keep cars for years. A lot of small dings happen in car parks.

It is, but there's a massive difference between deliberately damaging someone's car, and accidentally bumping the door and not causing any harm.

Not everyone does it. Arseholes do it and I suppose this thread is an opportunity for some of them identify themselves.

Even if they do, doesn't make it right FFS!!!

Yes, this. Cars travel at up to 70 mph and share the roads and car parks with thousands of other cars. They aren't museum pieces that are carefully stored in climate-controlled glass display cases.

Serious damage needs to be dealt with, but anybody who buys a car and doesn't expect it to ever get a tiny ding or fleck of paint from another car's door on it just is not a realist - especially if they ever use any public car park these days, with ridiculously narrow spaces.

What happens if their paintwork gets slightly chipped from loose stones on the road kicked up by other cars - or indeed by their own car?

If you leave your details, loads of people would fill their boots and claim on your insurance for everything wrong with their car that they can possibly find - or demand you pay them the £XXX that they claim it will cost to repair and just leave it and pocket the money.

You didn't open the door very gently if it left paint on the other car. You could see it was close, in that situation I would always put my hand between the door and the other car.

I have to park in a busy car park with tight spaces 5x days a week, my door has been dented quite badly, I have had a scratch the shape of an egg timer carved into my door, numerous random scratches, someone hit/kicked my petrol cap so now that permanently hangs open. No one has ever left a note. So no you’re not the first & I have no way of knowing who did it, so what can I do? It is annoying though. Saying that, if they parked over the white line I’d say that’s fair game and if their car got damaged that’s their fault.

Everyone doesn't do it.

I accidentally left handbrake off once. It rolled into another car. I waited so long and no one returned. I had a school run to get to. I asked the supermarket to take my details and also left the details on their windscreen to call me.
They did but actually said don't worry their car ' was a heap an old banger' for work (in their words) and said to not worry.
.I remember being so worried as I'd not long passed my test .

Keying cars is such a spiteful mean spirited thing to do.

Just saying how annoying it is when people act like dickheads around cars.

Most door dings are easily repairable with T-cut anyway, I have had a few in the past. They're not worth even bothering insurance.

How is that remotely comparable to the OP’s situation?

That's not really comparable to OP's situation where there's no damage, though.

I think most people would be pissed off to find their car had been keyed, but I wouldn't even notice a single fleck of paint!

No sympathy. I hope you are worried. I have discovered that someone has keyed my car almost the full length of one side today. Majorly pissed off. No reason for it. I never park too close. Just a spiteful wanker trying ti make themselves feel better.

I drive a Fiat and have adopted an Italian attitude to minor scrapes and scratches, I really don’t care and never get them repaired. Having lived with a horribly narrow steep drive and now with a ludicrously tight underground car park with poorly placed pillars the odd scrape is just part of life’s tapestry. I would own up if I damaged someone else’s car but people have left marks on my doors before and life’s too short to fret about it.

Dings happen.
Personally I don't think it's a big deal. I have dings on mine - doesn't bother me. If you'd done this to my car and left a note, I wouldn't have contacted your insurance company (because I don't get them fixed...)

If it happened to my car I wouldn’t even notice. I doubt most people would.

There’s no ‘friend’.

Would you be so unconcerned if someone damaged your car and then just drove off?