Sitting on the fence

[lacroupade]

mmm-five - is your car dinted on the front wing or is the pic playing tricks?

It's dinted due to a cock in a lorry deciding he didn't want me to use lane 2 of a merge lane, and deliberately came over from lane 1 to block me.
I stopped, he didn't and he scraped along my wing - although of course his version of events is different to mine.

That's why I had the e92 M3 for the North Wales run the other weekend.
Should get mine back this week once the paint has had time to cure (7 days) for them to be able to fit the paint protection film once again (can't do it quicker as the paint might stick to the film when it's time to be removed).

what is it with these lorry driving f*ckwits and merging lanes :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: ....sorry to hear about your ding and hope the asswipe ends up getting the full blame as he should.

 

[Mr Whippy]

Had you been moving that scuff on the tyre would be much longer. Ergo, you were stopped, thus, the lorry driver was moving past you.

Dave

 

[cj10jeeper]

I hate those asses that do that:
Clear breach of Highway code rule 134 where you're supposed to line up to the merge point then merge in turn in such conditions

Rule 134
You should follow the signs and road markings and get into the lane as directed. In congested road conditions do not change lanes unnecessarily. Merging in turn is recommended but only if safe and appropriate when vehicles are travelling at a very low speed, e.g. when approaching road works or a road traffic incident. It is not recommended at high speed.

Hope you're not paying for this knock

 

[mmm-five]

Even if the insurance company wusses out of a fight, the most I'll lose is my excess, 20% of my NCB/D and have increased premiums for a few years

If it does get settled in my favour then there's the £2k repair bill, plus the £350/day for the 'pleasure' of driving an e92 M3 to work & back at 16mpg (which is up to 10 days so far as they didn't realise they needed to pre-book Paintshield to come & fit my film). I've also got the cost of the M3 covered in case it doesn't get resolved in my favour, so I will not end up out of pocket for that either.

However, the directionality of the damage is clear due to the depth of the dent (it gets deeper as it goes forward, even though the wing comes in further at the front), and the paint film is pulled forward - and I've got close-ups to show this properly.

There wasn't even much impact and initially I thought he'd just missed me, but the sound made me think otherwise and I jumped out and started waving in his mirrors for him to stop, and instantly started taking photos so that he couldn't claim it was another driver, or that I'd tried to push in.

 

[Mr Whippy]

Even if the insurance company wusses out of a fight

My brother had similar with a coach pulling across the front of his car. It went 50:50...

Stupid really, because it was clearly the coach drivers fault. My brother said to keep pressuring the other party but they said they wouldn't do. My brother was wondering why we pay that 'legal fee' cover we get these days when the insurer then chooses not to bother persevering with a full-fault claim and just chooses to go knock for knock.


Does anyone know what 'legal fee' cover actually does these days? It doesn't seem to give you more power to do anything because the insurer still decides what to do on your behalf anyway.

Dave

 

[pvr]

Good question as I have legal cover on all 4 cars, so that is a fair whack in total.

Would also be good if you could just have 1 policy instead of having to buy cover for each car all the time.

 

[Incompatible]

One small benefit of a layer of tint film is that on tempered glass (all but windshields) it tends to reduce and sometimes prevent the "spray" of glass fragments into the passenger compartment of a car when the window is broken. You've all seen how broken tempered glass breaks into small cube like shapes. A tint layer, if applied correctly, acts somewhat as an adhessive layer.

 

[Hotride]

im thinking about doing back and sides, (legal tint) does it make a big difference inside the car?