What happened to decency?

[Crackle]

That is the damage done, £200 worth to be more precise. View attachment 34236

Blimey, you underplayed that a bit Gavroche, you sure you haven't become too Anglicised over the years. Looks like it's been an extra on X-men movie.

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 2820393, member: 259"]Probably another thread for another place though? (says the last person on earth suitable as a moderator).[/quote]

We did all this recently in a thread about someone getting in a tizz about their car being damaged by children playing. This thread may have pretty much run its course but the special status afforded to cars is what it is really about.

 

[Crackle]

Is that the last word now? Because if it isn't can someone move this to CAD.

 

[Fnaar]

A visitor left skidmarks on my toilet.


That's the last time I'll let him bring his car into the house.

 

[Rapples]

You have a gift for understatement. That's not a dink that's a disgrace.

Hang on you nobber...........

What about the fact it's not the amount of damage money it's the principle

 

[400bhp]

That is the damage done, £200 worth to be more precise. View attachment 34236

Is it worth the bother getting it sorted?

It's not a particularly clean looking car anyway. Just give it a good clean and polish?

Claybar treatment then a decent wax would probably get rid of a lot of it.

 

[400bhp]

So are cars a special case then when it comes to damaging other people's property? All the people who sign up to the "its only a car" philosophy, would you own up if you accidentally damaged someone else's car?

What if it was someone's house, say you were clumsy with a ladder and put through a neighbours window, or bit of fence or something. "its only a house" doesn't quite cut it.

I can see both sides of "its only a car", owning a cheap banger for day to day and something nicer for the weekend. I think it depends what value (which may not simply by monetary) it has to the owner though, not what the person inflicting the damage thinks it may be worth (i.e. "its only a car" so I can take less care opening my door near it)

It's on their land though, not in public.

Question. If someone was clumsy with a ladder and smashed a window of a car parked on the public highway should they stump up the cost? Should a child stump up the cost for damaging a car on the public highway if, say, they were playing football and scratched a car?

I have said previously, in an ideal world everyone would own up, but it just doesnt work like that so we should be a little more realistic.

 

[400bhp]

Or try a black felt tip pen first?

permanent marker though-otherwise it will wash out.

I once got a repair job like the OP had - a week later the same panel was damaged again. Feckin pointless.

 

[Archie_tect]

[QUOTE 2820401, member: 259"]He usually only uses me for Christenings and Barmitzvahs, but for the right price, I'm anybody's. [/quote]
Come on down if the price is right.... 10 shillings for a circumcision.... 12 for a papal blessing.

 

[Archie_tect]

My mum got their 1 year old black Mazda repaired on the cheap by the local garage bodger after she's scraped the back wing. Everything was OK for a few months until the paint finish started to ripple. My Dad took it back to the Mazda main dealer to complain. They took one look at it and told him some idiot had used the wrong lacquer for the respray and voided the warranty.... he was relatively calm later.....

 

[User482]

You are getting this the wrong way around. It is not that it doesn't matter because it is a car. It is the fact that many people make a greater thing about it for a car than anything else.

I think many people are making a lesser thing about it because it's a car.

 

[ayceejay]

This a quiz:
you went to the shops and then return to your car, you find three unusual things
1) a dent in your cars door
2) a note under the windscreen wiper
3) a leather wallet on the ground.
Which one do you react to first?
Then when you discover that all three are connected:
1) the note refers to the dent
2) the wallet with credit cards and stuff and £350 belongs to the person who left the note
What do you do next, in all decency?

 

[User482]

In absolute or relative terms?

Political terms.

 

[donnydave]

I wonder how this thread would have gone on a car forum

 

[GrumpyGregry]

If I play a gig in a crowded pub/club and leave my bass* on a stand between sets and it gets accidentally knocked over and the finish dinked but it is in otherwise perfectly playable condition should I expect to find a note of apology and an offer of repair under the strings?

*my fetish object of choice.