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Haven't posted here for a while, and I usually ramble about car shit, so here's another one:
Had some twit who couldn't drive reverse into me today. Was behind another car on a side street trying to turn onto a main rd; he wanted to cross traffic and turn right, I wanted to turn immediately left.
This guy takes off from the kerb, so I pull up to the kerb. He stops halfway across because of oncoming traffic, and just sat there, holding up oncoming traffic from the other direction - everybody starts beeping him. What does he do? Sticks his car into reverse and backs into me, without even checking in his rear vision mirror... I saw it happening almost in slow motion, beeped him madly, he took no notice, and by the time I tried to get the car into reverse gear, was too late - bang.
Thought the front would have been demolished given the speed he reversed at, but the damage is really quite minor - the licence plate holder is a bit bent, but the most of it is just some minor paint scrapes along the front bumper and a bit of my bottom bumper lip melted/dented from where his cannon exhaust (it was a corolla, lols) hit me.
I was pissed off while in the car, but calm when out of it and saw the minor damage - car still drivable, and that's what insurance is for, right? The guy (teenager) turned a bit nasty though and tried to claim that I drove into him. I explained he reversed - claimed he didn't reverse at all. I then had to point out to him he was in the intersection, and I was still on the other road... he promptly shut up then.
His girlfriend then tried to call me ridiculous for getting details to make a claim because it was only 'minor damage'. Fuck it - resprays/bumper repairs are NOT CHEAP.
Put the claim in earlier with my insurance agency, so we'll see how decent they are. They seemed nice/easy to deal with on the phone.
Annoying, though - I'm heading to the US for a fortnight on the weekend, and I had planned to get some new mods fitted when I got back (VF43, bigger TMIC, fuel pump, strut bars), ready for a hillclimb event mid-April, but that may need to wait until the bumper is fixed first. Not too keen on leaving my car at a crash repairer for 2 weeks.
Had some twit who couldn't drive reverse into me today. Was behind another car on a side street trying to turn onto a main rd; he wanted to cross traffic and turn right, I wanted to turn immediately left.
This guy takes off from the kerb, so I pull up to the kerb. He stops halfway across because of oncoming traffic, and just sat there, holding up oncoming traffic from the other direction - everybody starts beeping him. What does he do? Sticks his car into reverse and backs into me, without even checking in his rear vision mirror... I saw it happening almost in slow motion, beeped him madly, he took no notice, and by the time I tried to get the car into reverse gear, was too late - bang.
Thought the front would have been demolished given the speed he reversed at, but the damage is really quite minor - the licence plate holder is a bit bent, but the most of it is just some minor paint scrapes along the front bumper and a bit of my bottom bumper lip melted/dented from where his cannon exhaust (it was a corolla, lols) hit me.
I was pissed off while in the car, but calm when out of it and saw the minor damage - car still drivable, and that's what insurance is for, right? The guy (teenager) turned a bit nasty though and tried to claim that I drove into him. I explained he reversed - claimed he didn't reverse at all. I then had to point out to him he was in the intersection, and I was still on the other road... he promptly shut up then.
His girlfriend then tried to call me ridiculous for getting details to make a claim because it was only 'minor damage'. Fuck it - resprays/bumper repairs are NOT CHEAP.
Put the claim in earlier with my insurance agency, so we'll see how decent they are. They seemed nice/easy to deal with on the phone.
Annoying, though - I'm heading to the US for a fortnight on the weekend, and I had planned to get some new mods fitted when I got back (VF43, bigger TMIC, fuel pump, strut bars), ready for a hillclimb event mid-April, but that may need to wait until the bumper is fixed first. Not too keen on leaving my car at a crash repairer for 2 weeks.