MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Frenzy on June 13, 2012, 09:15:39 pm
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Just put the boy to bed, took his dirty nappy out to chuck in the bin and i thought i'd just have a once round the girl to check no cnut had put a fresh scratch in it - if only... :sad1:
I was horrified to be met with the following damage to the driver's side rear :sick: :scared: :sick:
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Whichever moronic cnut has done this has made a complete mess of the alloy, going in really deep in 3 places, managed to rub the side wall of the rear tyre and take a chunk of rubber out of the tread by about 3mm and then gone on to do relatively minor damage in the scheme of things to the inside of the rear arch though i say minor, the paintwork is completely off in places.
I just don't understand... :confused:
Is the damage to either the alloy or the tyre cause for concern in terms of running the car? Definitely need to do a refurb now - if it will actually refurb, maybe it's beyond repair and i'll need to buy a new one... either way i cannot bear to look at that mess, so it's not staying like that for long :sick: :sad1:
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It's kurb damage isn't it?
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Cnuts
Feel for you!
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i thought that at first until i saw the last pic-with the damage on the arch
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JackG are you serious? :confused:
The thing hasn't been driven for the past 3 days and i think i'd know if i'd done that mother of all f-ups to it. No some cnut has fubard it good and proper, i'm raging and gutted :scared:
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Gutted for you. I can sort of work out that the tyre, left scratch and spoke are related as they are almost straight line yet the right scratch at the bottom of the spoke/rim wouldn't have been part of that. It's too far from that straight line. JMHO.
Fish
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I can't understand how it's took chunks out the tire tho? Arch damage makes sundew that it couldn't be but to take chunks out of the tire :confused:
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Unless it was summit metal like step on a van or tow bar....can see a bit or dark red stuff on the wheels photo
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you mention 'fresh' scratch, are there other scratches elsewhere??
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fresh scratch as in, every time i wash it i find some new damage to it, the previous one was a weird dent to the front wheel arch. I'm still thinking it is idiot drivers - i live in London and folks can't drive for sh1t. Whilst i could never really rule it out i doubt it is some sort of envy as there's a dude on our street who has an Audi R8 and there's another slightly younger Golf GTI on the street too.
I'm so gutted, all i can do is shake my head in disbelief. I can't really fathom it either. I'm guessing a van, likely one of the supermarket ones, the drivers of those really don't give a sh1t and there's no way they are gonna leave a note on the car with insurance details :fighting:
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ah has been mentioned above, it does look like a curbed alloy, but anything is possible! Without sounding like PC Plod, has anybody else driven the car over the past while??
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The guy really wouldn't post a thread like this if there was any chance he thought he did it himself. :stupid:
The wheel should fill fairly easily. If not, im sure there are loads of spares going fairly cheaply.
I know how you feel though mate. I find something new everyday. :chicken: :chicken:
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You can tell it's definitely happened while the car is stationery from this photo as it shows that something has just scraped across the wheel. It is a shame that some people just don't care about other people's property.
Even though you must be raging at the moment, it will get sorted out and you will quickly forget about it once it's sorted.
Keep your chin up. It's something we all have to live with because we do care.
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hence i asked if anybody else had driven or had access to it, so-to-speak!!?? Like everyone else on this forum, we'd know if we did it ourselves!! :sad1:
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That's absolutely horrendous, I assume it was parked on the road??? :scared:
Could it have been a push bike at high speed, or a motorbike? :confused:
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That's absolutely horrendous, I assume it was parked on the road??? :scared:
Could it have been a push bike at high speed, or a motorbike? :confused:
Yes unfortunately it is on-road parking - what i would give for a house with a drive way or a garage :party: no such luck though...
I think i must be getting old, as i say i live in London and there isn't a day that goes by when i don't find myself shaking my head at someone acting with blatant disregard and complete lack of respect for other people's property :fighting:
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I had very similar damage after being swiped by a van...
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Check under the car, can be hit and the dent pops back out but underneath my be damaged/bent worth a look as to shed some light on what has happened :happy2:
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yes i was just thinking that at the moment all i've seen and considered is cosmetic, if someone has knocked it with enough force there could be suspension damage :sad1: fingers crossed it's just cosmetic :scared:
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I've taken another look at it this morning with the benefit of not having the shock and disbelief of it all clouding my assessment of the visible damage.
Turns out on closer inspection that they have put a split in the side wall where the R of ULTRAC is so that's too compromised to be used which means i'll need to give her two new boots for the rear - about £240 inc. fitting give or take a tenner
As the alloy is absolutely :sick: there's no way i'm driving around with it like that for long and i may as well get the front passenger alloy done at the same time as that has been kerbed by me and the wife, so a couple of wheels at Lepsons and the car park cost, looking at £170 approx
Finally the bodywork which i'll do last of all. I've got a couple of other nasties to be sorted so that will probably cost me somewhere in the region of £150 maybe more i don't really know the rates for bodywork i'll need to look into it before i get it done.
So the moronic cnut has cost me north of half a grand. I was gonna buy about £100 of cleaning stuff for the car but i'll now be saving that towards installing my CCTV and snipers nest for the next gimp that comes along :fighting: :fighting: :fighting: :fighting:
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Similar thing happened to me, some bellend scraped my front bumper. To say i was pissed was an understatement.
As yours goes, it looks like it could have been a transit or something like that as the
front wheel nuts really protrude on those suckers. I know its no consolation but it could have been worse as the could have swiped the whole side of the car. Hope you get it sorted pal. :happy2:
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cheers Gaz and yeah that's a fair point, looking at it with less rage it could well have been a lot worse. Wheel nut on a tranny is possible or the back bar bit on a transit/luton van - there's no paint transfer but there is rust transfer :grin:
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I feel for you bud... unbelievable... people just don't give a monkeys about other peoples property these days.
We had a similar thing happen to my wives car in a B+Q car park we were in the shop no more than 10 mins only to come out to a massive dent just in front of the rear wheel... complete with whit scuff marks !!! I was dam angry and it was probably a good job they had F#####d off !!! Turns out a fella had seen some old biddy in a bag of sh*te disco try to park next to it and as she swung in clobbered the side in and dully drove out the other side and buggered off... cops were informed and we got it sorted, but we were lucky some kind person stumped up to be a witness... anyway enough of my rant I hope you get it all sorted bud. chin up.. new tyre and a wheel refurb job done.
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Absolutely terrible to hear!! Like everyone else has said, some people just don't give a damn.
Have you thought of just getting a new set of alloys? There are a few good sets on here for sale, including tyres, or en eBay. If it is going to cost you 240 for tyres and 170 for refurb you might as well spend £500 on the nice monza IIs in the for sale section then sell on your other 3 wheels and tyres - always someone looking for 1 or 2 as replacements :happy2:
You may even get a good amount back to pay for the paintwork - little consolation I know
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If you do decide to go down the set of wheels route I will be ordering a set of CH for mine and will have a mint set of monza's with pilot sports on with 5mm on them... 17" though... cant see if yours are 17 or 18. :happy2:
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It did run through my mind but i need the tyre sorting ASAP as any compromise to the side wall is serious. As tempting as it might be to consider it only a small split barely visible to the naked eye and therefore ignore it, i'd feel a lot differently about it if i had a blow-out on the motorway. If i was unlucky i may not even have the chance to feel differently about it... I have a family so i have to be sensible and responsible so the 2 tyres are ordered from Camskill, should be here tomorrow with any luck and on the beast by early next week latest. That'll be one job down 2 to go...
Thanks for the well wishes all :drinking:
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If you do decide to go down the set of wheels route I will be ordering a set of CH for mine and will have a mint set of monza's with pilot sports on with 5mm on them... 17" though... cant see if yours are 17 or 18. :happy2:
cheers for letting me know fella but i'm on 18s and want to stay on them :happy2:
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No problem bud... You are doing the right thing by getting new tyres don't think I would risk that on the motorway with the kids in !!! look like the side wall is damaged a fair bit. :wink: