Dunno. The "post incident discussions" were not friendly. He reckons it was my fault cos I pulled out and I reckon it was his fault cos he was driving down the wrong side of the road so after a quick shout at each other we swapped licence details etc and f'd off. I reckon the insurance companies will just shrug and blame both of us 50%! Easiest path to take with no witnesses.

Get a quote first, might be cheaper to just repair your own if possible...

should have smacked him one.... i would have


P.s your username has left me  handicaped

Suprauc wrote:

Get a quote first, might be cheaper to just repair your own if possible...

Luckily the Sube's insured in the wife's name with a perfect driving record and protected no claims status!!! Small excess and no other financial hurt! Oh, and with my skills it would end up way worse if I tried to fix it!!

PS: I apologise for the behaviour of my user name!:Pardon:

Flubble wrote:

Any other noobs done a nooda$$ thing and had their car in a panel beaters before it even made it to the service garage?

Not a noob thing as such, but I got a new company car last july.  Just 2 days old an some druggo scum throws a rock through the left rear door glass (the bigger one that goes up & down) while I was driving it.  Cops were chasing him on foot (they witnessed it) but he got away.  They knew his face so they waited for him to return home.....

That was $165.....and an afternoon with the vacuum cleaner. 

The cops were really good about it.  They basically told me I could have him charged with malicious/willful damage to property, and he would cop a fine, or I could broker a deal where he paid for the damage & lost time, and no charges would be laid.  I told the cop for the value of the glass, I'd rather pay it out of my own pocket and see the charges laid - and give him time to think about what he's done.

Then when it was 4 weeks old (3500km on it) a clown went through a stop sign in a rodeo because he "was tired from working all day and couldn't be bothered stopping & looking" - his own words.  Wiped the front off the car to the tune of $4500.

That's not the only one.....the car prior to that had a "new Australian" change lanes without looking.  Cops booked her and she still insisted on trying to blame me...... That was $7500 and took 4 weeks.

And this year, new job, new company car, and a P-plater licenced for less than 8 weeks ran a red light, wiped out the car & wiped me out for 6 weeks too.  No chance of repairs - they stopped at $22,000 before they even looked underneath!


I'm jinxed when it comes to company cars - that's 3 in 3 years (although none were my fault).  The law of averages isn't on my side though - I do around 5-6000km a month, and I see lots of stupid things on the road.