OT-ish Key-ed paintwork

If it has only marked the surface (colour or lacquer) it may polish out with Farecla or other suitable rubbing compound, if not you're in the hands of a paint shop.

You could use touch ups or coloured pens, but in my opinion these usually end up a waste of time.

Stephen.

They look too deep to use a rubbing compound. :-((

Steve

Might be worth ringing insurance companies...

Ive seen that direct line now cover vandalism with no effect to NCB.

Interesting thought, I'll try and pursue that one.

Thanks

Steve, feeling very pissed off, for 1st January.

Snap!

I'm going to have to look at a camera and recorder, 2nd time in 8 months.

AJH

I have a couple of IP cams I've been going to deploy for too long.

Steve

How feasible and expensive would it be to mount a camera (I have an old VHSc video camera) IR light and recorder looking through the windscreen of the 110, which sits in the drive looking over the other car which sits just outside? Would it run off the 12V batterry without discharging it too much over night?

AJH

You can get wireless 12v camera and have the reciever in the house with AV Out and Sound out. You should find them aplenty on Ebay for around £30.

Cameras with alrert tones on are good - You get a bleep as the PIR is activated and then you can either have them plugged in to a 24 hour harddrive recorder or have your TV flick over to the camera automatically. I prefer the recording option as you can bet you'll miss the important bit otherwise.

Steve,

If it helps the chaps from Chipsaway are absoloute wizards and I'd have no problem recommending them to anyone.

The chap who came to do the bumper on the RR after the Mancunian Incident was honest about what he could / couldn't do. While the paint was drying he gave me some cracking tips about how to use my own kit when I come to spray the 110.

Lee D

bastards.

You can do a lot with something like g3 compound but not if its gone right through the top coat. I've got a load here which you could try if you are passing, or if i get chance to pop up to yours again at some point soon.

Going to have to be chipsaway or whoever, and I'll check my insurance. And no, its not parked on the pavement.

Steve

And issue a ticket to yourself or other driver for parking on the pavement (if in London, Greater London (General Powers) Act 1974 Sect 15) or a warning elsewhere as per the Highway Code Rule 244? Thought not...

If I have to squeeze through a gap and my belt buckle or push chair parts are sticking out or a mirror needs adjusting then so be it. The vehicle should not be on the pavement, full stop.

Deliberate vandalism when there is room to pass freely with a push chair or in a wheel chair or when the vehicle is parked legally and in accordance with the Highway Code is another matter.

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I fully agree!

I was just about to say the same thing. I walk to the railway station (and back) every day and in the evening I regularly find that the pavement area is significantly reduced by motorists who are visiting the takeaway on the opposite side of the road and believe that parking on the pavement negates the double yellow line. What is even more irritating is that they only park there beacuse being in a car they have lost the use of their legs and believe it is their right to park directly outside their destination - even when there are legitimate parking spaces further up the road (but would involve a 100 yard or so walk). I have see mothers in pushchairs forced to either cross the road or walk in the road to get around these anit-social motorists.

Whilst I would never condone deliberate scratching or damage to a car, if they constrain my legitimate pavement access because they are too lazy to walk and trying not to inconvenience their fellow motorists, then if any accidental damage is caused, so be it (as I don't see why my personal risk should be increased by having to cross the road and back again to avoid their precious car.)

Recently I even had an open wound and bruising on my hand because a motorist opened their door as I was walking past. That time they were legally parked on the road - they just didn't look!

=2E..just don't get me started on cyclists on the pavement.......

Happy New Year

Peter

Well I've had a quick look and nothing like this seems obvious. I guess I'm willing to spend a bit if it can record just when there is movement and with a decent resolution. My wife leaves this windows xp box on all the time so recording a file to hard disk and then burning a dvd as a record would be a solution.

As to parking on the footway, well two wrongs never did make a right. I take it there is a policy to turn a blind eye to parking partly on the footway in this street and in point of fact there were many cars parked partly on the footway which were not damaged, mine was parked on a tarmac access to my drive which crosses a wide grass verge which is between my boundary and the footway.

AJH

An old PC running ZoneAlarm on Linux would be a cheap and easy solution too. It includes motion triggering, and will accept a lot of cameras at once.

Steve

Have you got that name right?

AJH

Get a wireless web cam that has a standard AC->DC power supply then get one of these;

Of course that only applies if you want to run it in the car, if you want to set it up to record out of the window in the house then wireless webcams are readily available so it'd be hard not to be able to find one.

If you only want to record when something is happening then there's plenty of computer security products that do it, there's even a free bootable CD based on linux for the purpose;

zone minder.

Yes I already have one for the laptop.

It was finding one that switched on with movement and sounded in the house that I couldn't see.

Thanks Ian and Steve

AJH