Someone crashed into my A8

Audi do · #1 9th October 2014, 11:01 PM

As the title goes, last week I'm in the house when a neighbour knocks to tell us that someone's crashed into the car, my wife shouts to tell me and I say " I hope it's yours" I was wrong....

The lady had parked up on the hill near us to drop her child at school, the car decided to come down the hill, it hit my wife's Tiguan first then continued to the A8

Thankfully the Tiguan took the main brunt of the force (expecially as it's a company car so little skin off our noses) but the front bumper on the A8 has been pushed back on the near side, I'll upload pics when I get my lap top back (it's getting fixed BTW, it hasn't been seized!)

The damage looks quite minimal but as the bumper is out of allignment I'm guessing there's some damage to the mount.

Obviously the "other party" accepts full liability & her insurer promises me a courtesy car "like for like". They call to say it's being dropped off & I check that I'll be covered for business use as I need to run about during the day. They come back to say no, it'll be for commuting only. I point out this is no use to me then enquire on the car they're sending me.

A Vauxhall Corsa

So I obviously refuse & point out that I could quite easily contact "It wasn't my fault so I'm going to have your eyes out .com" 2 minutes later & I'm told the car will be a BMW 320 with full business insurance, there now, that wasn't hard was it?

I'm still waiting to find out how long it's going to take to get sorted, the BM is nice but it's no A8.

Norretal · #2 10th October 2014, 07:43 AM

Sorry to hear that mate, hope it gets sorted to your satisfaction soon

As an aside, when I got side-swiped by a student type in a Corsa in April 2011 I made the mistake of letting my insurance company sort it out. I was given a Corsa, a brand new one, but nonetheless still a Corsa.

You've met me, I don't fit in a Corsa. I did take quite a liking to wearing a baseball cap back to front though

Audi do · #3 10th October 2014, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Norretal

Sorry to hear that mate, hope it gets sorted to your satisfaction soon

As an aside, when I got side-swiped by a student type in a Corsa in April 2011 I made the mistake of letting my insurance company sort it out. I was given a Corsa, a brand new one, but nonetheless still a Corsa.

You've met me, I don't fit in a Corsa. I did take quite a liking to wearing a baseball cap back to front though

Cheers for that Ron, it must've been a convertible Corsa or you've been practising your Yoga?

Norretal · #4 10th October 2014, 02:09 PM

Nope, it was this one.

I looked proppa mint

audifin · #5 10th October 2014, 02:26 PM

Unfortunately I'm in the same situation right now - my other half parked the car by a road, and just as she was opening the door another car came from behind and hit the door. Nobody was injured so that's the main thing.

On a positive side, my car will be getting brand new door, and insurance company sorted me out with a brand new CLS

(all paid for by the other party's insurance)

tonupkid · #6 10th October 2014, 05:10 PM

I'm a bit flabberghasted that your car door opening into the path of a passing vehicle is the fault of the other vehicle. What am I missing here

sarg · #7 11th October 2014, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by audifin

Unfortunately I'm in the same situation right now - my other half parked the car by a road, and just as she was opening the door another car came from behind and hit the door. Nobody was injured so that's the main thing.

On a positive side, my car will be getting brand new door, and insurance company sorted me out with a brand new CLS

(all paid for by the other party's insurance)

Sorry to be contrary, but what I read was "just as she was opening the door" which implies, to me at least, that she opened the door into the path of an oncoming vehicle, without looking, and said vehicle would have too close to take evasive action.

And if it really way at 50mph, (a) you'd be needing a lot more than just a new door and (b) what was you other half thinking?

As you say, you main thing is that nobody was hurt, but if you are actually at fault here then you should play fair, amongst other things it's dishonest claims that makes all our premiums more expensive