Raging

[matchboy]

Really gutted for you. It's the worst feeling in the world.

Something happenned to me at the weekend that whilst not as bad, still makes me fume.

Picked up my teenage daughter from a party on Saturday night. She asked if I could give a couple of her friends a lift as well. Being the nice guy that I am I said yes. We hadn't gone more than 200 yards when one of her friends vomited all over my lovely new car.....Needless to say the new car smell has gone 

I have had the new car smell replaced with something less nice too (my own fault).

Anyone else glad this ended up being cheese?

 

[monkeyhanger]

Really gutted for you. It's the worst feeling in the world.

Something happenned to me at the weekend that whilst not as bad, still makes me fume.

Picked up my teenage daughter from a party on Saturday night. She asked if I could give a couple of her friends a lift as well. Being the nice guy that I am I said yes. We hadn't gone more than 200 yards when one of her friends vomited all over my lovely new car.....Needless to say the new car smell has gone 

Any fabric protection on there? I take it she won’t be getting a lift again.

[joet]

Really gutted for you. It's the worst feeling in the world.

Something happenned to me at the weekend that whilst not as bad, still makes me fume.

Picked up my teenage daughter from a party on Saturday night. She asked if I could give a couple of her friends a lift as well. Being the nice guy that I am I said yes. We hadn't gone more than 200 yards when one of her friends vomited all over my lovely new car.....Needless to say the new car smell has gone 

Any fabric protection on there? I take it she won’t be getting a lift again.

No protection unfortunately. Luckily I had some really good upholstery cleaner that has cleaned it really well. So no staining. But the smell - that's going to take time.

And no - she will most definetely not be getting another lift!

[mk7gti]

I have to say I am gutted. The worst thing was even before it happen I was walking back to my car and I said to myself I bet that door is going to swing open. It was like having a sixth sense.

[JoeGTI]

One thing about new cars, including the MK7 is the lack of "protection" on the doors, bumpers, etc. It looks much better and cleaner but has obvious drawbacks! E.g. The MKV had door rub strips, so chances are if someone smacked your door they'd hit that plastic strip and you'd only have to repair that and not repaint the whole door 

[ChrisJL]

I thought my teeny tiny stone chip that I've got already on the bonnet was bad enough

Feel physically sick for you  At least you witnessed it to sort thing, but also horrible at the same time 

[Brenbo]

I have had the same thing happen on my previous brand new civic type-r.  I pulled up at my parents house and the wind was blowing down the drive.  I said to my wife watch your door doesn't hit the wall!  the wind had caught her door before I managed to say the 'wall' part of the sentence.  It had caused similar damage and creased the edge of the door in.  I was not a pleasant person to be around.  I had to take it in and get the door panel fixed and resprayed. 

I also had my wife's, brothers friend (a girl who had just passed her test) reverse in to my other brand new Type-r in my Parents in laws drive (which is huge).  She damaged my bumper and scuffed a load of paint off.  The drive is really huge, you could turn a lorry around in it. 

The moral of my ramblings is, I feel for you mate.  If it were me I would have it sorted out properly by your VW dealer.  The bad thing is if they respray the door they will also have to fade it in to the surrounding panels as well.  So for such tiny damage it could cost a fair bit.  If you can get the women who caused the damage to pay for it.  It may teach her to be more careful next time even if it was an accident.   

[jrc193]

Regrettably I too have joined the club. I took my grandson to school 2 days after collecting the car and on my return journey met up with an impatient school bus driver on a narrow  bend and his manoeuvring forced me into to taking avoiding action which culminated in me kerbing my nearside wheel. My daughter was mortified as she blamed herself , obviously unjustifiably,for asking me to take my grandson to school . You have my every sympathy.

[Jules Winfield]

I had the same thing happen to a five week old Mini.  The very same day, I discovered that some idiot had put a 4" scratch down the  rear left corner of the car.  That night, it was someone's stag do, and as I don't drink, I was on driving duties.  We pull up into a car park and my passenger flings the door open, right into another attendee's 4x4.  Result: a lovely chip on my nice new paintwork.

After expressing his dismay and saying he would pay up, he and everyone else wandered off, leaving me seething (I should gave gone home immediately).  When later he realised that there was another scratch on the car and I would need to get some respraying done anyway, he changed his mind and refused to pay for repairs.  We had a "discussion" about it on Facebook, but he was adamant he wasn't going to pay.

I haven't spoken to him or otherwise been in contact since.  It wasn't so much the damage that annoyed me (that could happen to anyone), but his "couldn't care less" attitude.  Still, there was a good side, as it made me re-evaluate why I was friends with him at all, as it wasn't the first time we'd had "issues".  Some people just aren't worth bothering with.

OP: that's terrible!  Did she offer to pay for repairs?  Hope you get it sorted soon.

[mk7gti]

She did offer but she was a 60 year old woman driving a wreck of a car. She probably think £50 will fix it. I'm going to have a chat to my friendly sales man and see what he says. Best to ask the experts