To be fair he knows what I’m like with cars. His face said everything!
There’s always one thing you can bank on: repairs always cost more than expected.
Yes indeed. The small dent to my offside front wing was repaired last week, and you'd never know that anything had happened, but at the cost of £450. Such is life.
On the subject of door mirrors, my Mark 6 TDI had a similar wipe-out by some moron in a Corsa, but luckily the coloured mirror cap, indicator LED's and everything except the (heated) mirror glass was salvageable, so a few minutes on eBay, £15 and a few minutes of my time had it sorted. My sympathies, Rebecca, but at least there's no other damage.