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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: Misterp on 04 August 2014, 23:19
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Parked out side my office in a leafy part of birmingham, left the office as normal to pick the little one up from nursery parked in the nursery car park in a different spot as my usual spot was taken, pick the little one up and I return toy car to find this
(http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p689/misterp86/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zpsac2aa873.jpg)
(http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p689/misterp86/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps35f10e47.jpg)
No sign of any one around. After my initial disgust, anger and foul mouthed rant I called the nursery to ask if their car park cameras would have picked anything up. Lo and behold no camera over looking the spot where my car was parked.
Not on to finding someone who will carry out a repair. The scratch on the quarter panel is deep enough to run a nail through. So I suspect will need to be properly repaired as opposed to a smart repair. I have called the guy who repaired my chip on the passenger door after the last plonker let his door open on to my car. But this may be too much for a smart repair and due to the size and location of the damage I want a good job done. Not impressed to say the least. The lack of care, respect or honesty of the individual really vexes me
Anyone know someone in the birmingham/West Midlands area that people have used that would be able to assist.
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That's more malicious damage than an accident. Looks like a key or a stone etc. Watch out for someone looking at you when you go to the nursery next. I can't understand why people do this sort of thing other than jealousy.
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That's more malicious damage than an accident. Looks like a key or a stone etc. Watch out for someone looking at you when you go to the nursery next. I can't understand why people do this sort of thing other than jealousy.
A part of me thought that but then I was thinking, can't be ppl aren't seriously can't be that f'd up
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Really feel for you fella. I hate seeing any kind of malicious (or not) damage to people's pride and joy.
What's probably happened, given it was at nursery, is somebody parked too close, in a rush, pulling pram out of their car and swung it into yours. Shocking.
As you say it's the blatant dishonest which gets you mad. They're probably deeply embarrassed too and couldn't bring themselves to own up.
Hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction.
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Really feel for you fella. I hate seeing any kind of malicious (or not) damage to people's pride and joy.
What's probably happened, given it was at nursery, is somebody parked too close, in a rush, pulling pram out of their car and swung it into yours. Shocking.
As you say it's the blatant dishonest which gets you mad. They're probably deeply embarrassed too and couldn't bring themselves to own up.
Hope you get it sorted to your satisfaction.
Thing where I was parked it is impossible to park on that side. I have put a call out to a few ppl lets see how it goes.
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scumbags :angry: my tailgate was keyed the day after I got mine horrible feeling.
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Jealous f**k*rs and absolutely brainless!
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Looks like there are a few of us suffering in silence. Does anyone know of a good bodywork place where I could take the motor around birmingham
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Looks like there are a few of us suffering in silence. Does anyone know of a good bodywork place where I could take the motor around birmingham
Misterp who did you use to repair your paint?.........I'm in Birmingham and like yourself my wife's GTD has been damaged not once but TWICE over the last weekend. First one was at Costco in Coventry where a car door was opened onto her drivers door, we know what car it was as there is CCTV cameras on the car park, however due to the fact the CCTV does not show the car door being opened onto the wife's GTD then we do not have a case :angry:
The second damage was caused by a 'flying' clothes rail at a car boot sale on Sunday which caused a golf ball sized dent and crease over the N/S rear quarter, this is 99% a body shop repair!! Car is only 3 months old!!! To top it off the wife has been informed that as there has been 2 incidents she will have to pay her excess twice :angry: :angry: these insurance companies really do take the pi$$!!
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this just annoys the hell out of me, will not stereotype but i see this on a daily basis and there is a distinct type shall we say
i park far away or on the roof in multi storeys as the 'type' do not migrate that far as too much effort
wife's car is in at the detailers before the 7 arrives and we have 5 smart repair dents to be fixed on all doors and rear wing as well as some polishing to remove a childs grubby hand prints whilst covered in sun tan oil
the location of your encounters probably meets my general stereotype
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Gtd184 sorry for late reply. I had a similar ding at BHX went to pick my old man up and whilst in the car a guy let his door open into my passenger for a guy called jag (company is Dent Tech) mobile repair. Absolute quality came to my office and sorted. He is so busy he has booked me in for October but has just coulees the scratch in for now. If you are around botanical gardens give me a buzz/pm and I can meet up with you. Let me know if you want Jag's number.
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Gtd184 sorry for late reply. I had a similar ding at BHX went to pick my old man up and whilst in the car a guy let his door open into my passenger for a guy called jag (company is Dent Tech) mobile repair. Absolute quality came to my office and sorted. He is so busy he has booked me in for October but has just coulees the scratch in for now. If you are around botanical gardens give me a buzz/pm and I can meet up with you. Let me know if you want Jag's number.
My wife contacted Jag (Dent Tech) a couple of days ago but he has not returned her call, and he only lives around the corner from me!! :rolleyes:
My concern looking at Dent Tech's repair process (and is the same for all mobile repairers) the paint does not appear to get fully 'baked' as in a body shop booth. Colour matching would also concern me as the 2 body shops I have been to have confirmed that they will have to 'blow in' the rear quarter, door and in part the roof shoulder.
The door damage may get away with a smart repair depending on how skilled the technician is.
Decisions, decisions!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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What about this?
http://www.drcolourchip.co.uk/
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Gtd184 sorry for late reply. I had a similar ding at BHX went to pick my old man up and whilst in the car a guy let his door open into my passenger for a guy called jag (company is Dent Tech) mobile repair. Absolute quality came to my office and sorted. He is so busy he has booked me in for October but has just coulees the scratch in for now. If you are around botanical gardens give me a buzz/pm and I can meet up with you. Let me know if you want Jag's number.
My wife contacted Jag (Dent Tech) a couple of days ago but he has not returned her call, and he only lives around the corner from me!! :rolleyes:
My concern looking at Dent Tech's repair process (and is the same for all mobile repairers) the paint does not appear to get fully 'baked' as in a body shop booth. Colour matching would also concern me as the 2 body shops I have been to have confirmed that they will have to 'blow in' the rear quarter, door and in part the roof shoulder.
The door damage may get away with a smart repair depending on how skilled the technician is.
Decisions, decisions!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
At the risk of making excuses for jag I saw the guys diary he is absolutely rammed ATM.
Out of curiosity what body shops have you been to. I am concerned about the scratch (the cause of this post) may be more serious than I envisaged. I have to say the work on the small chip on the door was fantastic.
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At the risk of making excuses for jag I saw the guys diary he is absolutely rammed ATM.
Out of curiosity what body shops have you been to. I am concerned about the scratch (the cause of this post) may be more serious than I envisaged. I have to say the work on the small chip on the door was fantastic.
I assumed he would be busy based on his customer feedback. I have managed to contact him today and forward to him a couple of images of the damage......just waiting for him to contact me now to discuss the repair in more detail.
The body shops I visited were both VAG, Porsche, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston Martin and a few others :rolleyes: approved and include City Centre Car Care Ltd (Bradford Street, Birmingham) and Individual Specialist Cars Ltd (Western Road, Hockley)
I am more worried about the colour match than the actual repairs and the potential for more issues like over spray etc!
What colour is yours? and is the third party paying for the damage to your car?
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At the risk of making excuses for jag I saw the guys diary he is absolutely rammed ATM.
Out of curiosity what body shops have you been to. I am concerned about the scratch (the cause of this post) may be more serious than I envisaged. I have to say the work on the small chip on the door was fantastic.
I assumed he would be busy based on his customer feedback. I have managed to contact him today and forward to him a couple of images of the damage......just waiting for him to contact me now to discuss the repair in more detail.
The body shops I visited were both VAG, Porsche, Ferrari, Mercedes, Aston Martin and a few others :rolleyes: approved and include City Centre Car Care Ltd (Bradford Street, Birmingham) and Individual Specialist Cars Ltd (Western Road, Hockley)
I am more worried about the colour match than the actual repairs and the potential for more issues like over spray etc!
What colour is yours? and is the third party paying for the damage to your car?
I haven't been to individual specialist. I wasn't impressed with city centre car care after my door had a half inch scratch and they wanted 500 quid as they 'had to paint' and blend the whole door.
I'm going to contact individual at some point next week to see how much they will quote.
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I haven't been to individual specialist. I wasn't impressed with city centre car care after my door had a half inch scratch and they wanted 500 quid as they 'had to paint' and blend the whole door.
I'm going to contact individual at some point next week to see how much they will quote.
I had the same response from both ISC and CCCC, they wanted to paint and blow into the rear door and roof!
I have personal experience of CCCC from a previous repair to my wife's Phantom Black Audi A3 in 2010. It was only a bumper change but the paint match was good, the problem was how they cared for her car whilst in their possession, it came back covered in swirls and buffer marks as they attempted to polish out some scuffs they had inflicted on the rear doors, roof and bonnet :angry:....Audi UK reimbursed her the full cost for a detailer to spend 2 days on a full paint correction detail :rolleyes:
Had a quick look at your previous posts and I cannot believe how VERY similar the damage is to both your car and my wife's.........the drivers door damage is pretty much identical and the scratch you have on the rear quarter/wheel arch is the same place as the dent my wife has on her GTD and both cars are Pearl Black!
I wonder if we would get a discount if we took both cars in :grin:
Like yourself she is worried about insurance claims although she has protected NCB.
Did Jag repair your door scrape?
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He did yes. He came by my office to repair a colleague's White X5. I had a look at the work he did I. The x5 before I let him have a crack at the GTD. The repair on that was fantastic so I let him loose on the Gtd. Due to how busy he is he has just coloured the scratch in for now so it's not as visible and then will do the repair in October.
I will ask him to sort summat out if you are happy to go with him.
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Damage doesn't look as if someone has used a key! It's came from the front of the car to the rear and it hit the door first, then the quarter panel. Looks like an evenly spaced tram line. Keyed would have meant a linear scratch and it would have been on the same level. If you look at the door, small scratch it hit hard on the quarter panel where the deepest gouge is.
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Damage doesn't look as if someone has used a key! It's came from the front of the car to the rear and it hit the door first, then the quarter panel. Looks like an evenly spaced tram line. Keyed would have meant a linear scratch and it would have been on the same level. If you look at the door, small scratch it hit hard on the quarter panel where the deepest gouge is.
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Some images of the damage to the wife's GTD
Drivers Door
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p21/Beemer4meX5/DSC00276.jpg) (http://s124.photobucket.com/user/Beemer4meX5/media/DSC00276.jpg.html)
Rear quarter damage
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p21/Beemer4meX5/DSC00278.jpg) (http://s124.photobucket.com/user/Beemer4meX5/media/DSC00278.jpg.html)
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That's more malicious damage than an accident. Looks like a key or a stone etc. Watch out for someone looking at you when you go to the nursery next. I can't understand why people do this sort of thing other than jealousy.
I was looking at this quote as to a key or stone and then looked at the picture. It was neither of those 2 objects quoted!
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Because key and stone quote was for the original posters pictures not the ones you've linked to thanks!! Look at post no 1 please and check before commenting!!
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I stand corrected, that English teacher was right...read the story thoroughly.
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Haha no probs. I even double checked myself to make sure :grin:
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As to the damage on GTD184's golf, picture above our posts....it was a meatorite travelling at a velocity of 130m/sec and it's a "Vauxhall"...no amount of filler is going to fix that door :grin:
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Will probably be able to push/pull most of that out seeing as though you can get access to it from behind but the metal will have stretched way to far and it will need filled and resprayed I would imagine.