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have just found the first bit of damage on my new car - the paintwork has been all scratched off at the front below the headlight. I've only had the car since the start of July and am absolutely devastated - feel so sad everytime i see or think about it - part of me wants to get it repaired but know if i do that everytime it gets damaged it will cost a fortune and i'm far from being able to afford it! Always try to be so careful with the car but looking at my poor car i wonder if maybe i'm not as good a driver as i like to think i am!! Does seeing scratches /damage on your car ever get any easier?
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Yes!
I bought an old Kia Pride for fifty quid. Funnily enough I don't think it's been marked since I got it.
Years ago I had an old rusty, dented A35 with great patches of primer on various panels. Even London taxi drivers got out of the way of that one when they saw it coming ;>)
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I was in the retail motortrade for 20 years having a new demonstrator 4or5 times a year, approaching 100 new cars. Not one of those cars got past 1000miles without collecting some sort of minor damage. I would also estimate that about 50% of the new cars I delivered had some type of damage., aquired beetween the factory and the handover point. It used to really annoy me but you just have to accept it. As my first used car sales manager put it to an overly fussy schoolteacher "sir you are buying a piece of machinery, not a work of art".
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As my first used car sales manager put it to an overly fussy schoolteacher "sir you are buying a piece of machinery not a work of art".
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>and you sir did you work for lada or wartberg?
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The used car place specialised in sports cars ferraris porsches tvr's aston martins ,jaguars MG etc new cars VW/Audi 8years , BMW7years , the BMW situation was worse than VW
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Yes it does get easier. I know how annoying it is when new un-marked things get damaged albeit very minor damage, but it is a fact of life that it happens. The second scratch/dent/mark won't worry you anywhere near as much as the first.
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i bought a scratched , minor dented daewoo for 400 notes but under the bonnet its as sound as korean dollar, dont get all watery eyed cause your new motors got a scratch, its lost 2grand since july just admiring it from your lace curtains
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they are called venetion blinds these days but well spotted on the old depreciation front milky
no offence blondie
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hey bb the korean motor was swmbo,s idea i still prefer to drive the fiasco
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I bought a three year old C Max with scratches to front and rear bumpers and got them repaired. Six days later, I scratched the front bumper myself and the following day, my wife caught a gatepost with the nearside front door handle. Am I bothered? No, not really, it's a car and these things happen.
If scratching your car upsets you so much, buy a secondhand one with some scratches on already and keep the money saved in the bank.
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Normally I'm not too bothered about scratches and small dings etc, but last night took the biscuit.
After driving 50 miles back home from having to watch my aunt die of kidney failure at the age of only 40, I stopped off in town to get a pizza. This was about 2.30am.
Some little bar-steward walked past, and for no reason whatsoever kicked a huge dent into the near-side rear door of the Primera.
Unfortunately (or fortunately perhaps) I didn't manage to catch the little get, or else I may just have spent the night in jail. My brother and I were ready to kick the carp out of him.
I can't really ignore this particular dent, it's too big. Thankfully the paint wasn't broken, but it's still £50 down the drain because of some stupid little scrote.
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Well my C-Max is now over 1 year old, and in that time it's accumulated quite a few minor scratches. The problem is that it's a dark colour, and the primer is white, so every little scratch shows.
The only one I've had fixed was a largish scrape on the front bumper, which mysteriously appeared after parking in a supermarket car park.
At first I was upset, but with each new scratch I've become more philosophical about it. If I ever sell the car, then I might get some of the more obvious ones fixed.
It hasn't been helped though by my son being prescribed shoes with metal heels, because of the way he walks. I was wondering where the nice scrapes on the door sills had come from...
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As Ravenger says! Go to France. Sit in suitably attractive, tree-shaded market square, with citron presse etc etc. Observe the old, and new, vehicles with assorted dents thrown around. Its transport - not an ad-mans demi-paradise. If you want perfection, make sure you are rich enough to have a chauffeur. Otherwise there's always someone likely to bash into your repaired panel again, when your back is turned:)
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No... my pristine (but not new) Accord got scraped by my sister when she drove past it. Then I took it up a dodgy farm track and took all the paint off a little strip under the foglights, put a dent in the sump, and cracked a foglight lens. All this in the first week of owning it. Oh, and I took a chip of paint the size of a 5p off the front bumper when carefully parking next to a flowerpot.
The Xsara handled the hill with no problems at all, but the Accord is heavier and lower to the ground. Now I park at the bottom and walk up!
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Hmmmmm - interesting. How many of you remember David's lament when his sister ('some twerp', I seem to remember) scraped his car? Why do I not recall hearing about the strip, dent, crack and chip in the same week? Do hope you were very nice to sister after that!! ;~))
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Ravenger, I believe you can get stick-on kick plates for the C Max that may help with your son's shoe scrapes.
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Does finding damage on your car get any easier?
Yes it does. But it takes a while
I have had 10 brand new cars since 1980. Only recently have I managed *true* gallic indiference to that first dent, ding scratch on a brand new car. Any ding now on a brand new car gets a genuine shrug and a "cest la vie"
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< Ex RF, Ex TVM >
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Once a car has a bit of patina - small scrapes, lines of black paint and so on - new marks become increasingly difficult to spot, and decreasingly painful.
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But RF, your cars are not your own. I lent my (elderly, near worthless but still in shiny condition) car to somebody last week who drove it up a drive with bramble bushes and didn't think to go up the middle away from the bushes. Result, scratching to side of car. I feigned indifference, but annoying nonetheless.
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I only buy sh cars.
We live with roads with no pavements and brambles and hawthorn hdges.
So scratches are a way of life.
Did I mention the tar spots?
Or the horses that trot up and down the road to the local riding scholl - just far enough away to require an exhaustion of carp.. on the way down.. and also on the way back up again.
And of course the tractors leave straw and cow dung on the roads.
I don't like damage to cars .. but if I got upset about it.. I'd be in an asylum and...
EDIT: by Mrs Madf.
The white coated men came to take him away so I've finished his post . He forgot to mention he polishes his car after every drive and goes mad if there is the slightest scratch...Men!
madf
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My solution is to use the two car method:-
1) Your car - only use for journeys were there is no sure fire risk of damage. ie anything not involving a supermarket car park
2) Wife's car - use when likely to park in supermarket car park.
This method always finds me cool and calm when returning to "my" freshly damaged car when I return from a trip to tesco's, etc.
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good idea dieselconvert but there is a flaw in your fiendishly devilish plan
you go in wifes fiesta to do the shopping with wife,plan working fine so far as a fiesta can easily be placed in the narrow parking spaces beloved of modern supermarkets (including my favourite netto) you return to car with trolly full of everything modern british man needs,you open boot,
boot is full of rubbish and potted plants books umbrellas and everything else ,wife says,oh i was going to clean all that out this weekend
shopping gets piled on back seats yoghurts bust open in bag to smell the car out to eternity----------------
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Bellboy
Are you having it off with my wife - sounds just like her car - thought she was only one like it. :-))
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