My daughter returned to her parked car to find the bumper badly damaged. Impaled in the damage was a squarish piece of plastic that looks to me like a towing eye cover plate: i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g456/bathtubshare/bumper-plate_zpsya3cbps0.jpg
It's not off her car!
I reckon I can make out the following characters moulded in the plastic as :
RH 52527 B2040 /B2070 >PP+E/ P-T20
The >PP+E/ P-T20 would seem to indicate the material specification. I presume the other characters give the part number.
I've found a foreign website that gives a clue to the make and model and if correct, there's not a lot of them about. I'd be grateful if anyone else could give me more information before we go looking for the car with the relevant damage (and my daughter's paint on it).
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Pointless. Even if you discover the car's identity and locate that model of car with corresponding damage, you won't be able to prove that it was that actual car that damaged your car. These things happen, it is part and parcel of car ownership. Move on.
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The same thing happened to me, sadly all I can do is spend £300 of my own money getting the damaged fix. A few years later when I accidentally scraped a car I left a note on the other cars window. I always like to think karma just did its thing.
Was actually a nice chap who was very patient with me while I decided what to do (the damage to his car was just deep scratches). In the end I decided to go via my insurance company as my car had more damage.
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>> I've found a foreign website that gives a clue to the make and model and
>> if correct, there's not a lot of them about. I'd be grateful if anyone else
>> could give me more information before we go looking for the car with the relevant
>> damage (and my daughter's paint on it).
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Haven't you now tipped off the driver to replace the bit of plastic and clean off any incriminating paint?
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I'm afraid I agree with Boxsterboy.
Even if you find the right car still with the damage; when the owner/driver, even though obviously lying through his teeth, says "Not me" what can you do next?
If he was prepared to drive away after the incident I can't see a sudden dose of honesty occurring on his doorstep, so to speak.
Infuriating, but IMO you just need to let it go.
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>>If he was prepared to drive away after the incident I can't see a sudden dose of honesty occurring on his doorstep, so to speak.<<
unless the drivers wife/child/ friend had borrowed the car and not been entirely truthful. You may then get a result or just the threat of reporting it to the police may be enough to tip the balance of conscience.
However an approach is not entirely without risk. I would not use my own car, and make sure that you have a very large friend with you :) And if the location is at all suspect, do not go near the address! Just remember
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None starter. You ID the car but that is not going to give you a reg. number. If its something like a works car park which is regularly used by the same drivers then a look round might reveal a vehicle with the part missing and corresponding damage. In which case a very public return of the offending part would give some satisfaction.
If the location was a road or public place the letter of the law says you must report to Police as soon as practicable and in any event within 24 hours if name and address of owner, reg. no and details of driver were not exchanged. Not that there would probably much in the way of investigation.
CCTV coverage? That can be an avenue of investigation if you are intent on looking further into the matter.
As other have said, unfortunately, it comes with car ownership. Think supermarket car park damage.
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One of my neighbours used to have a white Sprinter. It gained a red blotch at the same time my red Focus gained a white scrape on the bumper. Did he ever admit bumping my car - did he heck.
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>> One of my neighbours used to have a white Sprinter. It gained a red blotch
>> at the same time my red Focus gained a white scrape on the bumper. Did
>> he ever admit bumping my car - did he heck.
Thats cos you did it.
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Years ago my brothers Escort was hit by a vehicle whilst parked up outside his house.
Further up the street was a damaged car which had the same colour as my brother's car down the side.
Went to police, they weren't prepared to do anything about it. Said they wouldn't be able to prove anything without witnesses so no point in wasting their time.
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Unlikely to succeed with a prosecution but may succeed with a civil claim as burden of proof is different.
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I know someone who witnessed their car being damaged in a car park, and the driver drove off. The police did not want to get involved as there was no personal injury, but this person bided her time and a few weeks later there was a scenario involving root vegetables, a broom handle and an exhaust. I have no idea of the outcome, and i was quite frankly amazed at what she did being a fervent church goer.
It happened several years ago and I still don't know whether I should applaud her actions or severely condone them.
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>> It happened several years ago and I still don't know whether I should applaud her actions or severely condone them.
Do both. Much better than pooh-poohing her actions or kindly condemning them.
:o}
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Tue 3 Mar 15 at 14:02
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Identifying car involved in hit & run - Boxsterboy
