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OhToBeASeahorse · 20/08/2020 14:16

Got a new (well second hand, but new for us) car in March. Much bigger than I've ever driven but I've practised in it a lot and now feel much more confident.

Today I was pulling in to our drive and completely misjudged the distance - I somehow (very slowly) drove against the corner of our bay window.

The only damage is a very neat dent in the bumper -.probably an inch and a half long. I'm so embarrassed, I've no idea how I did it.

I'm dreading telling DH. He wont be angry or anything but he will think it is a but worrying which it is really.

I could keep shtum but I've never kept anything from him.

What would you do!?!?

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EvilPea · 20/08/2020 19:19

When I found out I was pregnant a friend warned me my driving skills would suffer. A week later I Kerbed dh’s car. Hadn’t kerbed a car in years.

Luckily DH was on holiday, so went to the alloy wheels repair shop and didn’t tell him. Kept my reputation intact

JonHammIsMyJamm · 20/08/2020 19:21

Oh and I once drove into the back of DH’s car, no damage as it was such a low speed bump but it happened nonetheless.

Yet, I’ve never had an accident on the roads Grin

Bramleyapples13 · 20/08/2020 19:28

I'm 5'3" and struggle to see over my OH steering wheel in his car. I dread driving it and he's got angry and said he's taking me off the insurance because I'm being silly and can see. I'd love to drive it into a bay window and leave a little dent to prove him wrong 😂

KatnissMellark · 20/08/2020 20:06

Oh gosh. I drove my qashqai into our driveway post about a year ago. DH was well chuffed as he'd reversed into a boulder the week before and I'd taken the piss. Still haven't heard the end of it ConfusedBlushGrin

EvilPea · 20/08/2020 20:20

@Bramleyapples13

I'm 5'3" and struggle to see over my OH steering wheel in his car. I dread driving it and he's got angry and said he's taking me off the insurance because I'm being silly and can see. I'd love to drive it into a bay window and leave a little dent to prove him wrong 😂
BMW?
Supermarketworker06 · 20/08/2020 21:47

The neighbours across the road were having a full on, shouting screaming match once. It was summer so I had the car window down. I reversed REALLY SLOWLY onto the drive (listening intently to the row, obvs!) not paying attention cos it was getting quite heated and reversed straight into the garage door! Car was fine, door was a bit bent but then they stopped arguing and went in. Mean!

Bramleyapples13 · 20/08/2020 21:51

@EvilPea a Skoda Octavia Scout. Like a massive long submarine. Where it looks as if I'm sat on the floor peering like a little old lady through the wheel 🤣

billy1966 · 20/08/2020 21:57

What a nice man.

I have unfortunately scratched our cars more times than I care to remember.

Husband has been so kind every single time. When must he think though🙄.

Hard not to love a partner like that❤

TeetotalKoala · 20/08/2020 22:17

I drove my first car into the corner of the pub I worked in. I swung into the car park too wide and put the corner of the car into the corner of the wall. The landlord came out to see what the noise was and told me the pub shook. Wrote the car off. It wasn't long after I passed my test. That was 16 years ago and DH still takes the piss occasionally.

I later reversed into a massive artic lorry a couple of years later. I didn't look see it. I was turning round in a car park of an industrial estate next to my house like I'd done a million times (it was always empty) and I swear this massive lorry and trailer appeared from nowhere. Just a smashed brake light, easily repaired. Not a scratch on the lorry but the driver was pretty pissed off.

DH reversed my last car into a lamppost. He has parking sensors on his car. I've never had them. I say they make him a lazy driver.

Accidents happen. DH won't let me drive his car and to be honest, I'm relieved. I'm a good driver but shit happens and I wouldn't want to be responsible for his pride and joy, plus I can't see out of it properly anyway. It's really low down, has tiny windows and is a convertible so the back one is plastic. I have a Grand Scenic. I'm high up and I have massive windows. It's like driving the Starship Enterprise.

Bramleyapples13
I'm 5'3" and struggle to see over my OH steering wheel in his car. I dread driving it and he's got angry and said he's taking me off the insurance because I'm being silly and can see. I'd love to drive it into a bay window and leave a little dent to prove him wrong 😂

Has to be a BMW. I'm 5'0 and DH is 6'3 so he doesn't understand the issue.

EvilPea · 20/08/2020 22:21

[quote Bramleyapples13]@EvilPea a Skoda Octavia Scout. Like a massive long submarine. Where it looks as if I'm sat on the floor peering like a little old lady through the wheel 🤣[/quote]
That really surprises me. I’m shorter and volkswagen stuff is absolutely fine for me. I’ve driven a few skodas for work and found them fine - once I’ve pumped the seat up and set the front thigh bit down.

Bmw & Aston Martin different story, just a no go. So that’s the reason I drive an old car not an Aston WinkGrin

I think when your short you have to be the right proportions of leg or arm to depend which car suits.

EvilPea · 20/08/2020 22:24

@TeetotalKoala

I drove my first car into the corner of the pub I worked in. I swung into the car park too wide and put the corner of the car into the corner of the wall. The landlord came out to see what the noise was and told me the pub shook. Wrote the car off. It wasn't long after I passed my test. That was 16 years ago and DH still takes the piss occasionally.

I later reversed into a massive artic lorry a couple of years later. I didn't look see it. I was turning round in a car park of an industrial estate next to my house like I'd done a million times (it was always empty) and I swear this massive lorry and trailer appeared from nowhere. Just a smashed brake light, easily repaired. Not a scratch on the lorry but the driver was pretty pissed off.

DH reversed my last car into a lamppost. He has parking sensors on his car. I've never had them. I say they make him a lazy driver.

Accidents happen. DH won't let me drive his car and to be honest, I'm relieved. I'm a good driver but shit happens and I wouldn't want to be responsible for his pride and joy, plus I can't see out of it properly anyway. It's really low down, has tiny windows and is a convertible so the back one is plastic. I have a Grand Scenic. I'm high up and I have massive windows. It's like driving the Starship Enterprise.

Bramleyapples13
I'm 5'3" and struggle to see over my OH steering wheel in his car. I dread driving it and he's got angry and said he's taking me off the insurance because I'm being silly and can see. I'd love to drive it into a bay window and leave a little dent to prove him wrong 😂

Has to be a BMW. I'm 5'0 and DH is 6'3 so he doesn't understand the issue.

I hear you on the bmw.

They are a tall persons car.
My DH “oh yeah this is really comfortable, I can get the seat just right, I love this car”

Me with my nose on the steering wheel, can’t see over the speedo.

Met a service adviser who worked for bmw she was 5ft 1, she never accepted a company car for that reason.

TeetotalKoala · 20/08/2020 22:32

@EvilPea

I'm so glad it's not me. DH is now on his 3rd BMW. I've only ever driven the middle one, a 1 Series and it was fecking awful. It wasn't helped by the fact we were in France and I was also trying to concentrate on staying on the 'wrong' side of the road. We went about 1km and I made him swap back. He's got another 1 series now and I am perfectly happy in the passenger seat thank you. They are so low! He had a Z3 first and had it whilst I was pregnant with DC1. That was interesting getting in and out of when I had my massive bump.

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 20/08/2020 22:42

My car is tiny and I managed to scrape 2 panels getting out of a parking space approximately the size of the Titanic. We've all done it.

Bramleyapples13 · 20/08/2020 22:43

I put the seat up as high as it will go too! And the wing mirrors are tiny. Our cocker spaniel has bigger ears than the wing mirrors on the car. Can't see a bloody thing. And I can't climb out of it gracefully, it's like a ninja move to roll out then stand up.

I'm used to high up cars. And drive a van at work so am used to literally seeing over the top of pretty much everything.

Solongtoshort · 20/08/2020 22:45

We have this stupid little metal hook on the outside of our garage wall. I have cracked 3 number plates on it, dh paid for it last time as l asked him to remove it the second time l done it 2 days after my MOT and only 4 days l had replaced it the 1st time. I broke my toe kicking the stupid thing in frustration as well, which raised eyebrows at the hospital. I need to get this licence plate till the 9th of September so l am virtually parking on the road.

PhilCornwall1 · 20/08/2020 23:01

I smacked my brand new, straight off the back of the delivery truck car straight into the garage door within 30 minutes of having it.

It has one of those emergency stop features where if it thinks you are going to hit something, it puts the brakes on. I tried it and smacked the fucker right into the door. The bastards at the factory hadn't switched it on!! Well, it wasn't their fault, it was off by default.

I told my wife and she just called me a twat from what I can remember.

Only good news out of it is, it's a company car, so it wasn't me that paid out for the car.

Kelsoooo · 20/08/2020 23:19

I drove my car into my fence post the other day.

The car I've been driving for three years.

Into the fence post that has been in the same place for eight years.

It. Was. Mortifying.

Did I mention the bunch of men that stopped to watch me drive on (getting an SUV between a bloody massive new estate car and fence post and the pricks thought it was hilarious)

So do I actually, I do it every day. I just ... Misjudged the angle of my swing into the drive by a degree perhaps. Literally the tiniest amounts.

Walked in, greeted DH with "just dinged Pebble. That's a first" and we laughed and he went to check the post.

In compliments to DH his post did more damage to my car than I did to it , and it's only a waist high post.

Namechange6005 · 20/08/2020 23:26

I don't have any bumps but I have some very noticeable scuffs Blush

Vodkacranberryplease · 20/08/2020 23:27

Blame the car! Tell him you pranged it because it's too big and wouldn't you be better off with a sports car?

saleorbouy · 20/08/2020 23:34

As previously mentioned use boiling water to make the bumper softer and malleable. The dent might pop out, if not you might be able to get access from the rest of the bumper and persuade it out with a wooden spoon or similar implement. Sometimes a suction cup can be used, do any of your kids have a toy with one on, a suction arrow for instance?
Good luck, if you can't it shouldn't cost much to press out at a body shop.

Letmegetthisrightasawoman · 20/08/2020 23:45

I drove for 45 minutes down unfamiliar winding roads. Then got distracted looking for a parking spot and drove into a lamppost. Wrote the car off whilst going less than 10mph. We were on holiday too, in the arse end of nowhere. I don't drive anymore.

lolalolalol · 21/08/2020 00:06

I take out alloy plus bodywork insurance because I know I'll have a ding and it'll annoy me forever more.

I scraped my wing mirror in a car park, told DH someone else had done it.

Ladybyrd · 21/08/2020 00:50

My other half came in looking like someone had died the other day. He explained that someone must have hit my car - had anyone knocked on the door? Nope. Honestly, I was relieved that was all it was from the look in his face when he walked in. He said it must have been a white van judging by the marks on the car.

Except...

The marks got worse a couple of days later, when he saw the mark on the wall. Turns out the resistance I felt wasn't me going up the curb as normal. It was me scraping the wall. Twice. Possibly more.

I had a baby in June and haven't driven in a long time. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. I was less pissed off when I thought it was the white van driver, but it isn't the end of the world really.

MuseumOfYou · 21/08/2020 06:45

In tight carparks, I always park next to the newest, flashest car I can find. Those drivers are the ones who WON'T open their door into my car, because they won't want to chip their own paintwork. Whereas an old car, the driver won't care

I don't drive a shiny new car because I live in the country and am always bring forced into hedges and ditches by tractors, emergency stopping to avoid deer etc.

I do, however, respect other people's property and I think your attitude is very snobby and dismissive.

I'm not bothered by scratches and minor dings on my own car but I am able to appreciate that others who have invested a lot of money in theirs, will be.

Even though my DC's are adults, I still warn them to check as they open the car door, if we're parked next to anything else, sometimes running round to hold it for them as they exit.

Shesapunkpunk · 21/08/2020 06:47

The only damage is a very neat dent in the bumper -.probably an inch and a half long. I'm so embarrassed, I've no idea how I did it.
Will he notice an inch dent for real? Fucking hell,