Next doors bin! Car damage

[2014GTi]

Thanks all for the advice, I have cancelled the body shop for now, but next door have literally come back and are happy to pay for the full repair. I will try and get full payment before hand or at least half before confirming, my neighbour hasn't tried to hide away and has been in full comms since it happened, which is great.

A good neighbour  maybe after everything has been repair just buy him/her a bottle of bubbly as a thank you? 

[noobmonkey]

Hehe nice gesture, although all the neighbour is doing is doing what he should do. (Which agreeably, is rare these days!) - at least a christmas card

Although the damage and situation is not good, it is good to see such a tragic thread have some light at the end of the tunnel... and these things do happen, so well handled so far

[CraigW]

I can't believe the abuse by people on here towards the OP's neighbour. From what i have read the guy has acknowledged that it was his fault and has agreed to make good. He made a simple error of judgement (albeit a rather silly one) and that was all.

I feel for the OP because it's a nightmare having something happen to your pride and joy especially when you have not had it very long. At least you seem to have a decent neighbour and im sure the car will be fixed perfectly.

A little perspective is required, its hardly a tragic thread. I can think of worse things happening out there.

[2014GTi]

I can't believe the abuse by people on here towards the OP's neighbour. From what i have read the guy has acknowledged that it was his fault and has agreed to make good. He made a simple error of judgement (albeit a rather silly one) and that was all.

I feel for the OP because it's a nightmare having something happen to your pride and joy especially when you have not had it very long. At least you seem to have a decent neighbour and im sure the car will be fixed perfectly.

A little perspective is required, its hardly a tragic thread. I can think of worse things happening out there.

Your right.... and its good that its going to end well 
My neighbour has reversed into my Polo... he seems to think its going to cost £150 approx as he said he would like to settle outside insurance companies.
I told him it won't be that cheap, to make things worse he has not protected his NCB 

My Polo needs the following:-

New front wing
New arch liner
Paint to wing and door
Laser tracking
Removal of bumper, mirror housing and windscreen shield to get to affected parts.

Total bill coming in just under £1300.

He's going to be in for a shock but it needs resolving.
I am not going to pay a penny nor am I going to let it affect my insurance.
I need to report it by 9pm tonight so going to push him for the direction he wants to take.

[monkeyhanger]

2013GTI: That will cost him dearly - not worth not going through his insurance, unless he's expecting his insurance to go up by a grand next year because he's currently paying £3k as a young kid, or has a stupidly high excess to keep premiums down - I assume that's not the case.

The worst thing about it is that having a non-fault claim does normally affect your next premium, if only by 5%.

[simoor]

Hi All!

My car went in on Tuesday and I have just collected the car, I can't fault the paint job at all, I have attached some images. Also next door has covered all of the work, he even popped round making sure that I was happy with the job.







Thanks for all of the help and advice!

[noobmonkey]

Yay! Christmas happyness!

Congrats Simoor, looks like a great job too! Great ending (Maybe not for the now poor neighbour )

[Poached]

Decent result.

Your neighbour could have been a right Prick about it if they wanted to 'Shouldn't have parked your car there'. Now that would be interesting...some people don't care about other peoples property.

[skippy]

Glad all is sorted successfully! Some years ago my car was parked in our shared driveway when next door had a visitor pull up in his car.

I happened to be looking out the window when at that moment a gust of wind caught the door of the visiting car and slammed into mine!

I went outside immediately to survey the damage and the door slammed so violently it caused a dimple in the rear bodywork.

I mentioned it to the guy that was stood there and he said it was not him that caused it! 

I could prove it though as  the impact damage lined up perfectly with the edge of the door on his car!

He sort of said something like, oh it's nothing and licked his finger and rubbed the impact damage! But I was angry!

Cut a very long story short I got his insurance details and it was repaired successfully eventually. What was surprising though, is that my neighbour (don't forget this guy was only visiting), never mentioned anything to me about it, I think they were embarrassed about it but no word like, so sorry that happened, even though we continued to be good friends with them. 

[Chris.]

Time for a bottle of vino for your neighbour!