Hey kids, well i just got the golf gti back from German Engineering services on Bribie Island(awesome shop and service) the damn thing stopped firing cylinders, turned out to be the ignition control module, $550 cause its an 04 model had it been an 03 it would have been $98, then theres none in the country 6-10 days, all fixed and running better than ever. Take the partner Raquel and the kids to the movies today and come back to find some fucker has reversed into it in the carpark, they left contact details, but alas many phone calls and no answer. Lodged a claim, now i won;t have a car for another week, when its off getting repaired, it seems i park my car and A: birds shit on it all the time B: people run into it, the above is the second time since i had it and C: it always gets flyers for gay shit that a man don't need placed under the wiper, like free beauty treatments and shit like that. I tell ya its the last time i buy a new car.

End of rant.

Damo.

Hmmm your not as unlucky as this driver i heard/read about at work.

Wow.... that is so low. jack will probably be one of those stupid people who drinks too much one night and decides to drive home and then drives into a powerpole or something.

Damo, Old cars for the win... have a magna or something crap (no offence,......) for daily drive... if it gets hit, spend the insurance money on a new engine for your oldschoolcool car.

A Magna sounds good
Sorry to hear about the hit Dude.

It happens with restored cars too. I rebuilt my Kombi camper from a bare shell in 2002-03, and it was finished and glowing less than a week before someone opened their door into it at the local shopping centre. A big crease on the pristine right rear panel.

I drive a '95 Golf as a daily driver - it's already got a few small dents in it but I'm happy to leave it as is. If I fix it, it will only happen again.

VW Australia lent me a brand new Eos for a week earlier this year. I was petrified someone was going to dent it, but we both got through the week OK.

Sorry to hear about the Golf's take of woe - brilliant car otherwise.

hey Damo, sorry to hear about the bingle seeing as big brother has an eye on us all did you consider it may have been caught on camera??? prob watch too much csi etc but hey, you never know, modern cars are so x'y to repair and insurance these days is up there, just a thought mate

Well i got in contact with the driver, he was driving a VW Crafter, and it was his comapny van, so i have all the details and lodged a claim with insurance everything is going well so far. Newold manx, is that engine still going good?

And no i aint driving a magna, i hate mitsubishi.

you drive watercooled you pay the price !!!
glad to hear he was honest about it all
whens that shitbox beetle gunna be on the road ???

i have a black magna wagon that the wife drives and it always get hit in the school carpark!!! the side of it looks like a piece corrigated iron. damn school mums in their 4x4's, no respect for other peoples cars!!!

What to do next time. I was reversing in a very crowded parking area on private property at my work place, no one around but thought I may have gone a bit closer than I intended to go to another vehicle, thought I'd better get out and check and sure enough, a very slight mark on the front bumper of the other car and a smaller mark on my back bumper (you can imagine how slight when I wasn't even sure the two cars had touched) so I went looking for the owner, took a while to track them down as I didn't know who owned it, owner went balistic before they even saw what the damage was, I got a quote from one of those blokes who comes and fixes small marks $150 he comes to you and I have seen his work before, can't even pick it from the original areas. Not good enough for this jerk, wants it done in a "real panelshop". a cash deal with the panel shop and I'm $400 lighter in the vwallet, considerably more if it went through the books. Made me realise why others hit and run.