Re: car vandalised :(

I think you could start off a trend. Imagine ALL cars having NICE ROVER on the side. Imagine Racer Boys ditching their LED screen washers and party flashing tubes on the bonnet and having NICE ROVER on the side instead.

You could patent it.

--Nick.

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Someone did the same to a row of cars here. We all washed it off with thinners. It'll be fiddly getting it out of the crevices, but not impossible.

And commiserations.

That was classic when Geordie Mike (I think) changed "Cock Piss Partridge" to say "Cook Pass Partridge". Brilliant!!

Peter

Does it damage the original paint work doing it this was though?

I did think about it but was scared to try, mainly because if I bolloxed it up I'd have no comeback on the insurance and would have to pay out even more for someone to do it anyway.

If the headlight and indicator repeater hadn't melted I'd probably have tried to wash it off, but since they'll need replacing too, probably at great expense(!) I've left it for the insurers to sort out.

Probably wished I hadn't come renewal time, although my NCD is maximum and protected... Hindsight's great isn't it?

Yeah, but even the cost of getting a proper sprayer to remove the paint as best possible, plus the cost of a new lens or two (even full headlamps) can't equal the excess, plus cost in increased premia.

Peter

Yeah, watched that episode on DVD earlier to cheer me up a little :)

That one and the Valentine's day episode are classic.

"So tell me jill, what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich City Centre. Afterall the trader's need access to diiiiiiixons"

yeah spares for the lights came to £120 from the Rover dealer I phoned, and since the Excess is 100 quid and I have max protected NCD I just went for it. Atleast they gave me a courtesy car while it's being sorted.

That's what I'd have thought to be honest. Set of lenses (headlight look like glass so that will be OK) can't be more than 50 quid at most

- 100 or so with the headlight.

An hour cleaning and polishing - dunno - another 50 or so quid perhaps?

I bet the whole job is 300 quid or less done in a paint shop, or 50 quid if DIY.

NCD may be protected, but they will still load the premium next year (and the following years) so will probably cost the OP far more than

Yeah, you're probably right. 10 years of no claims and you still get screwed. Geez, I may aswell have crashed into someone elses car at entirely my own fault and destroyed it and got some money's worth out of it.

Not as if I could have done anything about it in this case, which makes the pain worse and gives the type of people who do this sort of thing an awful lot of power to cause so much trouble with 30 seconds of dumbness.

Sux don't it :(

Exactly - or taken the car out into the country and torched it in a lane...

It's certainly not an ideal world!

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Didn't on the wife's Clio, the other bloke's Nissan, the woman over the road's Pug 406 and the Merc.

:( They gave me a crime # and that's it. Didn't even bother to come out...

Is it a 1.4 K series? Make sure you religiously check the coolant level. Literally, with a little ceremony :-)

Peter

Ah, don't worry about comeback on the insurance, just give it a go and claim ignorance and say it was like that :-)

Heh! In all fairness it probably won't result in a massive increase anyway, but it really does suck.

What annoys me in situations like this is that a claim (and someone correct me if I'm wrong here) for vandal damage goes under the same category as if you'd smashed it up yourself (fault claim). Surely it would make more sense to group it with fire/theft claims i.e. your car got damaged and subsequently repaired, but it was due to no fault of your own.

At least with going the insurance route it's by far the most minimum hassle route - drive car in to bodyshop, pick up courtesy car, drive that around as per normal until they call you telling you it's finished, drive back to collect car, pay excess, drive away. Job done.

Peter

Peter

Nah, it's a 1.6 - and I do :)

• Insurance claim is £500 higher because of price of courtesy car.

--Nick.

In article , Andrew Ratcliffe writes

I read that as 'cat flap' and started to think "why would a car have a cat flap?"... Must get some specs.

By the way, I can't see anything on the link you posted. But commiserations anyway.

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I recently did a live radio interview. The broadcast car turned up, put up it's monster extending aerial and we went on air. At which point my cat which had followed me up the road climbed into the back of the radiocar and started treading all over the buttons.

Trying to do a serious interview when you're giggling fit to bust isn't easy.

Regardless of the merits of the car, or not - it's the fact that somebody senselessly has defiled your property.

When it's happened to me, it's always been the senselesslness of it - the fact that I've never understood why. If I'd had a fued or argument with somebody, at least I could have at least conceived of a reason.

I think you will - it might not seem it now, but I think you'll feel fine.

I know it's a hit on your insurance costs (likely) but at least when you get it back it should (hopefully) be perfect, and undetectable - if you're anything like me, you'll soon forget about the effects on the car itself. But the pointlessness and pevishness of it, for me, is what still grates.