Scratch List
Posted: Fri 11 December, 2009 Filed under: Driving, Travel 2 Comments »So, following on from yesterday’s post, a list of the scratches on the car. (Just for laughs, it’s nowt special)
- Rear nearside wheel arch – scraped down a wall in Devon three days after I got the car. (Stuck on a single-track road, reversed, didn’t know the length/width of the car. Scratch)
- Slight dent on rear bumper – on the same trip in Devon, not knowing the length of the car and reversing in a car-park.
- Rear nearside passenger door – scraped on the bumper of another car. (Yes, that’s the one in the multi-storey car park in London)
- Rear driverside doors – scraped on the tight entrance to the car park at Little Ouse Moorings
- Another dent on rear bumper – reversed into in Reading while pulling out of a parking space
- Rear driverside door – the new scratch from yesterday, courtesy of Mr M 521 BNH
Along the way there’s also been the damage done by two collisions with deer, and the smashed driver-side mirror when got whacked by someone coming the other way.
And today it’s in the garage for a service and replacement handbrake cable. *sigh*
Living in the country as well, our car has the marks of a few wildlife encounters such as deer and rabbits. But the one that gets me is the pheasants – I’ve had my foglights smashed at least 3 times, and I’ve given up having them replaced.
Like you I’m also running our car into the ground, which is why we haven’t repaired the dent in the back where my wife reversed into the gate post…
Don’t those beep beep beep gadgets that you can now retrofit have any appeal? 😉
I love the way they go beep……beep……beep when you are far away from anything, beep,beep,beep when you’re really close, but I always want them to go “OH FUCK!!!!” when you’ve hit something.