Car written off in car park

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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:15
Car written off in car park - JH
One of today's letters to HJ asks for advice on a replacement car after the current car was written off in a car park. Now, just back up a minute. Never mind the advice - how did it get written off? How on earth do you write off a car in a car park? You tease HJ! We want to know the facts.

In the absence of facts let's speculate!

JH
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:19
Car written off in car park - Altea Ego
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:20
Car written off in car park - JH
Too easy. And you'd have to have been pushing it or you'd not be thinking what to replace it with.

JH
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:23
Car written off in car park - Armitage Shanks {p}
Sideswiped by a supermarket delivery artic? I did think it was a bit odd! Perhaps it was a £500 car and beyond economic repair!
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:24
Car written off in car park - Lud
It was an old Citroen XM turbodiesel that had been overfilled with oil, was running on piston blow-by lube after being turned off and revved faster and faster until it blew itself up.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:26
Car written off in car park - DavidHM
Having read the letter, the car was a Scénic of indeterminate age. If it were a 1998 car, it could easily be worth a little over £2k.

A side swipe with panel damage around a pillar requiring a one-sided respray, plus storage and car hire costs, could easily amount to that at an expensive-ish bodyshop or main dealer.

(But I'm speculating of course.)
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:30
Car written off in car park - Hamsafar
Someone I know had a newish Shogun written off as a criminal's uninsured new Lotus was parked next to it and caught fire due to an electrical fault (wire snapped and the smoke leaked out?)
Could not get anything from the third party, and they were already 'known' to the Police, probably for drugs related matters.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:54
Car written off in car park - Smileyman
Hit by a shopping trolly cart

Or a man colleting them loosing control and the carts being caught is a gust of wind on an incline that causing them to slam into the side of an older vehicle's bodywork ... the whole side of the car.

Perhaps not so funny, but SWMBO's car now sports several dents after hit by several carts loose in the carpark on a very windy day, with no cart collector in sight.

Supermaket pointed to disclaimer signs on the light posts.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 17:57
Car written off in car park - bell boy
my sister in law drove into a lowered barrier just like mr bean did and she smashed the windscreen in a multistorey car park,come to think of it i havent ribbed her about it for a few years now
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 19:06
Car written off in car park - Navara Van man
The car was probably high mielage and worth comparitvly peanuts.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 20:09
Car written off in car park - Waino
My mate's daughter had her Corolla written off in a car park (along with several others) by a (very) old boy who hadn't quite got the hang of the automatic transmission in his new car. After the first one, panic set in.
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Sat 4 Feb 2006 20:36
Car written off in car park - NowWheels
My mate's daughter had her Corolla written off in a car
park (along with several others) by a (very) old boy who
hadn't quite got the hang of the automatic transmission in his
new car. After the first one, panic set in.


What a scary image, nicely painted.
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Sun 5 Feb 2006 12:08
Car written off in car park - JohnM{P}
Friend came back to her old but servicable BMW in a car park to find it damaged (which resulted in it being written off). Attached was note asking owner to contact local constabulary. Assuming that they had witnesses as to who had done it, it turned out that a panda car (do they still call them that?) had hit it whilst chasing local low-life...
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