Mrs. Oobster's car nightmare continues....

[oobster]

As some of you may be aware, the Mrs has got a wee dark blue Peugeot 206, it's only just over a year old and she has allowed me to "mod" it slightly, with tints, alloys etc (plus private plate to match mine).

I posted up in here a few weeks ago about someone hitting the off-side back quarter when it was parked in Tesco's Bathgate (the culprit did not leave a note, so we are still in the dark as to who did it - plus £160 insurance excess lighter). The insurance recommended Premier Vauxhall in Sighthill as the repairer so it went in for 4 days recently to have the quarter-panel replaced. Unfortunately they didn't make a very good job of it and it went back in again (wasn't any better when it was handed back to us a 2nd time) so we were awaiting a chance (after the wedding) to take it in a 3rd time. (there is a run in the paint, as well as an area that looks like they have painted over the top of sand - they also broke the trim that runs half-way along the door).

Well, last night on our way to a party in Glasgow, the nightmare continued.

We were driving through Glasgow (i was driving) when a pedestrain running along a side street launched himself onto the near-side of the car. What a fright we got, there was a huge bang and i looked in the mirror to see him rolling about on the road. We stopped and ran back, he was concious but screaming in pain. A taxi driver who had stopped walked over to him to tell him to get up as he thought he was play-acting (the taxi driver thought he hadn't actually touched our car). The pedestrain then jumped up and started a fight with the taxi driver (i backed right out the way, as the bloke might have pulled a knife, syringe, anything) but the fight was over in seconds, then the guy ran off, jumped the railings over the nearby motorway bridge and sat dangling his feet over the edge, as if he was contemplating jumping down onto the motorway below!!! The guy was obviously out of his face on drink/drugs/both. He stayed there for a few minutes (while we were calling the police) but by the time they'd arrived he'd jumped back over the railings and disappeared.

I know the witnesses won't be reading this but we are very thankful they stopped and helped, and also stayed to exchange details with us & the police - i know it is too tempting nowadays to "see nothing" and drive away in these kind of incidents.

To cut a long story short, we got a call from the police late last night to say they had caught the guy (i believe while he was carrying out another offence) and he'll be kept in the klink for a few days until he can appear at court.

Both Dawn and I were really shook up, especially since everyone (me, dawn & the witnesses agree) that the guy deliberately jumped into the car - it wasn't a case of just wandering out into the road as we passed. He actually took a run and launched himself up into the air off the kerb down on the car.

There's now a sizeable dent in the near-side rear quarter where we assume his knee struck it, and there's also a dent in the roof where either his head or shoulder hit it. The roof-spolier is also scraped quite badly too.

This is all we needed - we had only got married the day before and we go off on our honeymoon tomorrow (Tuesday).

I was so angry last night that i wished the guy HAD jumped from the motorway bridge, but now i've calmed down i'm glad he didnt - if only for the fact that we'd be on honeymoon with his death hanging over us.

So instead of finalising arrangements for the honeymoon etc today, we are going to be phoning insurance + body shops (to get quotes) with the hope that it can be reapired while we are away.

I suppose, to lighten the mood for a moment, i'm glad it wasn't my subaru. Otherwise i'd have been the one pushing him over the motorway bridge!! The accident took place at the corner of Newton Street and Bath Street, almost directly under Tay House. I am also trying to take the attitude that we were lucky too, if he'd decided to jump onto the front of the car he could have been killed, or if he'd came through the windscreen we could have been seriously injured.

I think once we come back from honeymoon and her car is repaired we might look at trading it in, that's two new quarter-panels it will have had by then, plus i don't know how they will go about fixing the dent in the roof.

Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

[craigdmcd]

I ain't buying any lucky white heather from you!!! Seriously, thats some crazy s--t. Hope you can find something to do on honeymoon that will keep your minds off this

[Johnny50]

What a way to bring you down after the wedding !!!

Just hope you can forget about it, and concentrate on the Honeymoon mate.

[imprezapete]

Sorry to hear all this Oobster

Seems like your just having one those months.

But the bright spark in it all is that your married now

[fai17]

defo m8 .lets put the crap things behind and head off to your HONEYMOON with happy thoughts.

happymooning m8 and see you when yous get back.

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

Andy,

Sorry to hear this - try and get a copy of this police report and digtal piccies of the damage

This will aid your claim........

Just chill and enjoy your wedding plans..........the car can be fixed whereas you guys cannot.

You lucky you weren't stabbed etc by the sound of it !

Good lcuk

Cal

[Edinburgh-Chris]

Thats a total nightmare!

I was at the corn exchange about 3months ago to see the scissor sisters live and had my Scoobie.

Some drunking asehole decided to climb onto the roof of my car whilst i was waiting in the traffic for the lights to turn green.

All i heard was this really loud bang ang looked in the rear view mirror to see two shoes on my rear window.

I can honestly say he felt the ground alot when myself and a security gaurd each grabbed a leg and through him off.

Stupid punk claimed he was only after a quick lift into town, Police helped him on his way with that after he got his head treated from his ground collision.

Feel for you buddy, i ended up paying for the minor damage to get fixed but it could have been alot worse, the STI6 carbon fibre rear spoiler actually supported his weight, DON'T KNOW HOW!

on another note mate, Premier of Edinburgh (Sitehill) remain as far away as possible, had previous hassle with them with my old Tigra. The car went in for repairs and came back with more required.

Give JM in Bonnyrigg a shout, spot on guys and they sorted my tigra out good and propa!

Chris

[2559B]

HOLY S**T Andy !!! -- sell it. Everyone knows it comes in 3's

Seriously mate glad you guys are O.K. As people ( and yourself ) said... " it could have been alot worse "

Just enjoy the honeymoon and forget about it for a couple of weeks.

Ally

P.S. - Where are the keys to your scoob ??? Fancy gettin' myself a nice set of 18's

[ANDYJDMSTI]

I'd have pushed the cnut after battering him all over the place!!!!!

[oobster]

A wee update....

Car got repaired while we were away, had to pay another £160 insurance excess and i'm not hopeful about getting the money back from the young lad who leaped onto the car

Premier Vauxhall (Sighthill, Edinburgh) fixed the damaged side + done the remedial work on the other side (Tesco dent side) and all appeared ok.

Unfortunately, a couple of days later, we noticed a dent on the bonnet. It appeared to be dented out the way, so i popped the bonnet open and the battery cover was lying right in the middle of the engine bay - Premier engineers must have unclipped it to get into the battery terminals when they were welding the new quarter on, then closed the bonnet with the lid lying there - hence the dent.

Dawn contacted Premier and the guy was very rude, by this time I was so sick of the situation I asked Dawn to call a dent-wizard guy we've used before. He came out the same day and totally fixed the dent for £50.00.

I'd rather any future dents stayed damamged rather than using Premier Vauxhall's bodyshop department - they really are hopeless.

They also broke the fuse-box cover under the steering wheel when it was in for the first rear-quarter, totally denied ever touching it even though it had white dusty (cataloy) fingerprints on it.

Also told us they would get a replacement rubbing-strip for the back door (which they broke trying to remove) - car went in to have this replaced and when we got it back it was the same strip (colour-coded) which they had glued to the door!!!

So......... my advise is NEVER USE PREMIER VAUXHALL EDINBURGH if your insurance company recommends them

[Racing Snake]

Andy

Get rid of that car mate it's jinxedisgust ;

[Edinburgh-Chris]

What did i say about Premier Of Edinburgh

"Your car comes back with more damaged than repaired"

Funny you should say he was a bit rude when speaking to him.........he was a total ignorant Ba5stard to me.

I left the garage in disguist that someone could treat a customer like that.

Best thing to do though is inform your insurance company ASAP, they generally get directly onto their case and bust balls.

All will come good mate, keep the faith.

Chris

[wrxmania]

They tried to send my Impreza there after an unfortunate meeting with the side of a field - I was having none of it and INSISTED that it went to Subaru. Nobles were horrified at the idea it may ever have gone there!

Bad luck and time to give it the bum's rush I think!

Brian

[oobster]

car is fine now, well it will be after i've washed & polished it

Think we'll keep a hold of it for now, but if anyhting else happens to it Mrs Oobster is getting the bus to work

[st3ph3n]

Ahhhh, vauxhall garages. Truly the salt of the earth. Here's my tale of Arnold Clark on Garscube road in Glasgow.

I had the bonnet of my Vectra resprayed, which took a day longer than they said, which was a massive inconvenience to me as I was commuting from Bothwell to Edinburgh without a car, and commuted back to Glasgow the first day to pickup the car, only to find it wasnt ready.

So I picked it up, drove home and all seemed well.

Next morning I goes to drive to work, fire it up and start reversing out of the drive way. EVERY warning light in the car is flashing and the power steering is not working.

I drove back to the garage, keeping under 3000rpm as the car picked up an intense vibration at that point. 30 minutes later they come out and tell me that somehow the engine mounting bolts had come loose, and as a result various other stuff had ceased to function. COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE PREVIOUS DAYS WORK OF COURSE!

Aye RIGHT.

[Gumball]

what a weirdo.

running into moving cars is clearly a new one on me...................

you should have banged him clean out, then rolled him up in a carpet and taken him to the .................with surgical gloves..................................and a white forensic suit........................................................you knw the rest

[oobster]

I worry about you chris....... no really, i do.

[Gumball]

[MY94]

Sorry to hear this,glad your both unharmed.

About two weeks ago on Leith Walk,some nutter was doing a similar thing.He was running up the Rd launching himself at cars & when they slowed down he'd start kicking the cars.

I was not getting a kicked car so I made myself known by lots of revs until he caught my eye,then launched the car down the road...........he ran away........

His game was slightly different in that he wanted the cars to slow down so he could damage them............he knew better when I made my intentions known.

But on reading this that was clearly not a wise thing for me to do,he could have been suicidal like your nutter.

Again,I'm glad that your both fine and for posting this,as I've never heard of people launching themselves at cars before.......something to watch out for as nutters seem to love me.

Again,I'm not a person you'd buy lucky white heather from either.