Rear Ended.

Pull the bumber off and have a look around. Otherwise I envisage you dropping the back seats and removing the boot trim in your near future.

Fraser

Thanks.

I've dropped the seats and removed the trim but I'm buggered if I can see what's wrong. I'll have to take it to a garage tomorrow.

It's really pissed me off because I'd just got the car to a point were I was happy with it and I could start enjoying driving it instead of working on it every weekend :-(

Ouch, if the rear hatch is locked by the impact, the damage may be done. Opening it will just show it when the hatch won't close again.

Otherwise, as Frazer has said, it may have just tawatted the latch, and some "manual" intervention and the key might be needed.

When someone rearended my Astra like that, the rear quarters ended up being angled in. It was subtle enough not to see but enough to cause the problems you had. Had to used a ram to push them out.

:-( I hope it's not as bad as that.

Harsh - was the other dude insured?

He is insured fortunately but I'm hoping he'll settle without my having to claim off his insurance. Although having said that, I have contacted my insurance company and informed them of everything.

It actually sounds worse than it is. The repair needed no painting and took a morning.