Car keyed by some crazy witch.

[1000rr]

you say she has a car?

Can you find out where she lives?

Then..... accidentally fill a spray bottle up with paint remover liquid and accidentally spray said receptacle on every panel of her car when you walk past...you could always borrow a neighbours dog/cat/llama and take it for a walk, cleaning the pavement of poo.... but some liquid accidentally sprays on every panel of her car?

Eye for an eye....and with you being of the religious persuasion, it says so in the Bible.*


*This advice is pure fantasy, and i found it on the internet.

 

[JoshW]

Absolutely sickening to see that happen to a car, I'd be absolutely devastated. As mentioned before, run your fingernail over the scratch - if you can feel it, no amount of polish/cutting compound will help. The only way for a perfect repair is to respray the panels.

However I have also had a very large key gash happen to my Honda Civic Type-R and I was pretty successful at reducing/removing it using a drop-fill technique. The general idea is to get some touch up paint mixed with clear coat, and to dab it with a cocktail stick/very fine brush into the key mark layers at a time, until it is slightly protruding/doming over the surrounding paint. You would then wet sand it level with the surrounding paint and polish the sanding marks out with compound. Quite an effective technique and a good temporary fix until you have it professionally resprayed, but very time consuming.

Demonstrated here: http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=20127

 

[Barney08]

VINCENT: You know what some f***er did to it the other day?

LANCE: What?

VINCENT: Fuckin' keyed it.

LANCE: Oh man, that's fucked up.

VINCENT: Tell me about it. I had the goddamn thing in storage three years. It's out five fuckin' days -- five days, and some dickless piece of s**t f***s with it.

LANCE: They should be fuckin' killed. No trial, no jury, straight to execution.

Chris I think your bleeper machine is on the blink... It was a bit inconsistent bleeping out the swear words there... :wink:

Gutting Kis, This is horrible. I had a similar problem with a No fault accident, car was parked up, I didn't make a claim, but my insurance premium went up!! Hate insurance companies. It may not be worth doing through insurance.

 

[Ewazix]

Relax. Send some pics to chipsaway and they will quote you a repair. They did a great job on my back wing. Repair is invisible. What you usually find is once they remove the lacquer there is very little damage underneath. Took 3 hours to do my wing and cost £168.

with respect thats one wing. this is 3 panels, silver being notoriously the most difficult colour to blend. based on your repair cost its still looking like the thick end of 500 quid. Might be worth going through insurance after all.

Cant quite tell from the pics how deep those scratches are but you might have some joy with a detailer wet sanding them & buffing them out.

Raymond's right, I've had 6 pieces of work done to various cars in the last few years including my 3 week old Mini, 2 silver cars and my Sterling Z4, scratches worse than that and dents. All done via a local 'magic' repair specialist using various techniques, all virtually undetectable including silver. Saved me a fortune (cheaper rates than Raymond's)

 

[lordgrover]

Sorry to see this OP.
I think BMWs in general are w*nk*r magnets. I've had cars keyed twice, both were BMWs, full length of the car.

I've left many and various other cars in the same spot with no trouble.

 

[Smartbear]

Couldn't you take her to the small claims court to get the money back from her? The stinking witch :evil:
Rob

 

[kis]

Thanks for the replies. I'm sure when the report comes through the post it'll have her details. So maybe 1000rr time :wink:

For the court related comments: Apparently it will be my word against hers? And I need an independent witness to back up my claim. As there wasn't anyone else there at the time... I've no witness. No proof. She denies doing it, so in essence unless I have a witness or video evidence they simply throw the case out? Well thats what I've been told anyway.
Looked into the court stuff and its £35 fee based on a £500 claim. Naturally I'll get two quotes for the work to be done. So this could go up? Possibly a viable option rather than doing nothing about it. £35 outlay and potentially significant gains...

 

[MDUBZ]

Have you considered a civil claim? Assuming the police have the name of the offender and charges have been pressed i think you would be in your right to claim damages for insurance excess and any subsequent increase in insurance premiums over the next 5 years as a result of a claim this could be persued through the small claim courts. Even if they cant pay an outstandimg ccj seriously affects thimgs like borrowing or credit so whilst you dont get to issue physical harm you can cause them hardship and difficulty for some time if that flicks your switch.

 

[firebobby]

Find out where the c@nt lives and go and burn her feckin eyes out :evil: :evil:

 

[Havard]

Have I missed something. Were you parked outside her house or was she just a complete mentalist?

Revenge is a beautiful thing. Need to find out her address and cost her a similar amount of money. New windows every 3 months would sort that after a year or so. People won't learn unless you hurt them in the same way.... :evil:

H.

 

[MACK]

Slash her tyres, even if she is driving an old piece of sh!t she will certainly care if she cant go anywhere in it. Keying her car or painting strippering it is all well and good but if she does care about what she drives it will have little effect. Immobilzing it will, particularly when you go back and do it again a few weeks/month later when she has had all the tyres changed! Keep going back and doing it ans she will eventually have to sell the thing or she will end up being sectioned. Eithers fine!

 

[Beedub]

your a better man than me because id have clean knocked her out... then claimed on my insurance.

Really sorry to see this... disgusting behaviour

 

[kis]

Have you considered a civil claim? Assuming the police have the name of the offender and charges have been pressed i think you would be in your right to claim damages for insurance excess and any subsequent increase in insurance premiums over the next 5 years as a result of a claim this could be persued through the small claim courts. Even if they cant pay an outstandimg ccj seriously affects thimgs like borrowing or credit so whilst you dont get to issue physical harm you can cause them hardship and difficulty for some time if that flicks your switch.

That's the problem. They can't press charges as she denies it. It's my word against hers. In essence I'm saying one thing, she's saying the opposite.

It's the usual law bollocks. You need proof to substantiate any sort of claim.

I'm considering putting forward a case anyway but don't know how likely things are to go my way as there is no "hard evidence" or whiteness to corroborate my story.

 

[kis]

Have I missed something. Were you parked outside her house or was she just a complete mentalist?

Revenge is a beautiful thing. Need to find out her address and cost her a similar amount of money. New windows every 3 months would sort that after a year or so. People won't learn unless you hurt them in the same way.... :evil:

H.

Parked outside a park, which happened to be in her neighbourhood. She's know to local police as a trouble maker. Clearly not all there in the head - not that that excuses her.

In respect to the second part of your message, I'm unable to comment if you catch my drift :wink:

 

[kis]

your a better man than me because id have clean knocked her out... then claimed on my insurance.

Really sorry to see this... disgusting behaviour

Figured that wouldn't do me any favours at the time I made my claim... so yeah I restrained myself. Plus when I called the cops and they find a body at my feet... well probably end up in cuffs, etc etc. Lol

 

[ronk]

The liberal left do good brigade are to blame. They've had their try at moderating society, now it's our try: Bring back the Birch !

 

[Havard]

Have I missed something. Were you parked outside her house or was she just a complete mentalist?

Revenge is a beautiful thing. Need to find out her address and cost her a similar amount of money. New windows every 3 months would sort that after a year or so. People won't learn unless you hurt them in the same way.... :evil:

H.

Parked outside a park, which happened to be in her neighbourhood. She's know to local police as a trouble maker. Clearly not all there in the head - not that that excuses her.

In respect to the second part of your message, I'm unable to comment if you catch my drift :wink:

I wouldn't condone that kind of behaviour anyway...... :evil: What you reap is what you sow.

 

[Beedub]

your a better man than me because id have clean knocked her out... then claimed on my insurance.

Really sorry to see this... disgusting behaviour

Figured that wouldn't do me any favours at the time I made my claim... so yeah I restrained myself. Plus when I called the cops and they find a body at my feet... well probably end up in cuffs, etc etc. Lol

id have no problem being put in handcuff after witnessing someone do that to my car for NO reason. no problem what so ever.

 

[blackabbot]

Sorry to see what some mindless moron has done to your car, just bought my 2007 2.0i sport its my pride and joy and it wont be seeing any supermarket car parks or left parked in any side streets for some jealous cretin to come along and vandalise it :violent1:

 

[Wylie1]

Having had a few cars keyed, I know how you feel.

Has your local BMW dealer got a 'Smart Repair' centre? I had a metallic black car keyed down both sides, across wings & both doors. It was down to the white underneath, but they told me it should polish out and quoted £60 per side. I thought he was mad, but it worked!!! I've had them sort out a few car park bumper scuffs too (left by others.... not mine!) and they've always done a great job.