Car badly scratched twice in as many months

[daytimemom]

Bought a new car a year ago. Drove to a garden centre a couple of months ago and after enjoying a nice coffee got back to my car and saw a huge deep cut on the front bumper of my car. No note left. Paid almost £200 to get it fixed.

Just got home and discovered another huge deep scratch, this time on the back wheel arch. I can’t fucking believe it. Again no note left.

I know it’s only a car & it can be repaired but why does this keep happening to me. I did park near a school this morning so can only think it happened then. So depressing.

My car has more dents than panels . I will admit some are my fault but I've come back ( perfectly parked) to find a scratch or scrape . Most recent was across my wheel arch so quite a clout.

TBH, it puts me off buying a new car

I think you notice it more because your car is new and it is unfair and it is a pain.

Yes, you’re right because it’s new the scratch is more obvious. Puts me off ever buying a new car ever again. Back to the garage to get another quote on Monday.

I wonder if bad drivers ever feel any guilt when they damage other people’s cars?

I feel your pain OP. I came back to my car in a car park recently and someone had clearly opened their passenger door into the side of my driver side door and scratched/dented it. They didn't leave a note or anything, they just b*ggered off leaving my door damaged. Cost me £400 to get it fixed.

Since then I park in the quietest, most remote part of the car park. Despite this, someone has now slightly dented my passenger door. Again no note left. It makes me really angry that 1) people are so careless and 2) they do a runner afterwards. (There are plenty of spaces in the car park I use so there is no need to park so close to me that you can't open your door - especially as my car is quite small so I'm not even using up the full space I'm parked in).

My sympathies. It's crap, most recently it was a kick type dent on the back quarter, obviously intentional. Before we've had a scratch right along the front quarter (I assume from someone squeezing past).

I don't think it matters that it's a new car as such, ours aren't brand new but we work bloody hard to afford nice things - the fact that people are disrespectful of that makes my piss fizz.

I'm off to the docs now - parking there is awful hopefully we make it out unscathed lol

If it was me or DH that kept damaging the bloody car I wouldn’t care so much but it’s the fact that other people just don’t give a dam. At the garden centre I parked in the far away overflow car park to avoid the car being damaged, oh the irony.

Yes, I pay out every month for the car. The constant repair bills from the damage is making it an expensive purchase. But I need the car for work so have no choice.

That's bad luck

The fact that it's a new car will put people off from owning up. From what you've just said I assume it's on PCP in which case it has to be repaired by "an approved garage" (read total rip off). The result is that most people would have to claim on their insurance and the double whammy means people will run off if they can.

I'm not saying it's right.

Going to have front & back dash cams fitted maybe that will make dodgy drivers think twice before damaging the car and then driving off

I came back to my car the other day to find someone had dented and cracked my rear bumper! As with you, no note left and the whole rear bumper will need replacing so it'll be pricey to fix. People really can be such arseholes. Accidents happen, but to just drive away and not admit to it is so poor.

I had my new car 10 days when I got back to find the drivers door and the front panel scratched, someone had obviously hit it reversing into the space adjacent. I was livid.
Not as livid as I was when some fucker stole it a year later though.

Neither of them left a note.....

I got a dash cam after another driver lied to their insurance company about how she’d scraped my car. I then did my first damage to the car myself FFS.