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Accident prone, moi!

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Tried to drive the car into the garage with the boot up. Quite surprising how far I got in. Even managed to rip off one of the ceiling lights.

Frame badly bent around the upper brake light so probably need a whole new boot. Insurance will cover with only a slight excess and no claims bonus protected. Just the embrassement, hassle and inconvenience to get over now. :mad:



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To say I was effing fuming would be an understatement. Excuse, I wish there was one. Just utter stupidity. I’ll be going to UK on Monday to help brother (who’s just had double heart by-pass) to tame mother’s garden which has been untouched since before his op. I’ve a car I can borrow but that’s Euro4 diesel so adds an extra £12.50 per day ULEZ .🤬
 
Sacre bleu, zut alors and bless my soul! I bet that's what you said. :)
 
Don’t be too hard on yourself over it - no one was hurt, the car can be repaired and we’ve all done something similar!
 
Just blame the missus for it Andy. As long as she's out of earshot you might get away with it. :sneaky:

I had the opposite happen donkey's years ago. Promotion meant a move to Beverley near Hull, had a brand new high spec company car and my wife came with me for a couple of days house hunting. I had some important meetings so she left the office in my car, turned out of the gate and took in the side of the car front to back against a bus stop barrier. I had to leave the car in the main car park for 3 days before it was collected and no one believed it was my wife who damaged it. Was I bovered? Bet your life I was. :rolleyes:
 
You were doing a J-turn to pick up a wounded kitten from the middle of the road, You needed the rear door open to put down supressing fire.

I’ve seen it in what I call a documentary, and my partner calls a Hollywood crock of…

If it makes you feel any better, I’ve reversed a Subaru (one of the good ones) at speed out of the garage, not realising the steering was a turn out, and ripping off both the entire front wing, and the garage door. Ho hum. Just wait ‘till I grow up.
 
Thanks for trying.
I guess in a few weeks time the whole episode will become an hilarious after dinner tale.
Hopefully Sunday night will cheer me up.
 
Oh yes, week old company car, backing into a friends drive, worried about scrapping the drivers side and took out the bumper and rear cluster on the passenger side. 🙄
 
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Oh yes, week old company car, backing into a friends drive, worried about scrapping the drivers side and took out the bumper and rear cluster on the passenger side. 🙄
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I can offer a more satisfying story about a company car. I left a company in the late 80s in acrimonious circumstances, and on my last day I parked the company car in the car park and was walking upstairs to hand the keys back when I heard a big crash outside. I handed the keys in and led the director to the window to show him where it was parked.....to see it had been utterly wrecked by someone who had misjudged a corner and run off the road.
 
Just remembered another "stupidity / accident". Bought my wife's first ever brand new car a Fiat 127, on the first day of the A prefix letter (1983), parked in our drive and the inlaws visited so I had to move it. I jumped in and reversed but hadn't shut the door properly, the wind blew it open and it folded in half on a conifer no more than 3ft high. It was humiliating as the car was only a week old. o_O
Those Fiat bodies were made out of tin cans and it was a rustbucket after 4 years, great little engine though.
 
Certainly not on your own Andy, drove a fairly new Volvo 240 into a French supermarket car park that had a height restriction bar across the entrance, the two bikes on the roof rack transmitted all the force which meant a complete new roof on the car. And I bet my zoot allors was equal to yours! Amazingly no damage whatsoever to the bikes.
 
I think Ian’s bike on the roof rack takes the biscuit so far. Certainly made me wince .

When the works can get scheduled (awaiting confirmation from insurance assessor due Monday) we wont need a curtesy car as we have FIL’s. The missus will need a car though while I take that car to the UK so our ever so friendly garage at the end of our road is letting us borrow a car for the 5 days I’m away. :)
 
My sympathy Andy.
It is even more annoying when you caused it.
The translator to French does not like my Dutch words :)

My company car rolled backwards down the drive with driver door open while changing drivers.
Door hit the wall, badly bent door, broken window, all had to be replaced.
Embarrassing filling in the claim form.
 
My boss and I visited our Uxbridge factory, he then flew out from Heathrow and I had his car to get back home, then in the next few days I took possession of his brand new replacement.
The next weekend we used it ( I had the boss’s blessing to use his car whilst he was away) to visit my brother. On the way home, a small voice from the back seat said “ I’m feeling sick “ number one son then projectile vomited all down the back of the driver’s seat. That set off number two son!!
 
Ouch Andy, I can sympathise. We had a visitor to our house about 6 months ago, who was parked in the turning area of our driveway, just outside the gates. Sun shining low in the sky, I reversed my truck out at my usual speedy pace, full right lock, boom! Tow ball right through her plastic bumper!
 
Ok , so I am not the only one with class one ID 10 T qualification . However company car mishaps are really not in the same class. Apart from the embrassement and micky taking from colleagues my guess is the problem gets handed over to someone else to solve and new car is found with no financial hit to the driver. :)
 
An apology of some sort Andy is required on my behalf; you can blame ten years of working for the MoD and with squaddies for my response. Those who have worked with or for the military will understand - Rob
 
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