Gutted. It was the *first* night I’d parked my car outside my new house and woke up to find this…
I hadn’t taken out windscreen cover on my insurance policy, I even recently asked the company if I could add it on now and pay the extra but they were having none of it. Too bad! So, some w&*^#r had cost me roughly £90 worth of damage and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
I strolled down the cop shop anyway and had a word, got a lift back to the scene of the crime in a police car with a friendly bobby who told me he reckoned someone had a go at it with a handful of gravel, hence the small white marks visible in the photo above, but they must have been disturbed and ran off. Bloody b*$£!%d! Not the cop, the guy who done it! There’s not even anything worth nicking in my car!
Anyway, as “luck” would have it, the locksmiths who were in changing the locks on my house used to work for a windscreen company and gave them a quick call and got me a quote, they said they could fix it in a couple of hours. A nice chap came along a little later from Windscreens Direct and had some fun smashing the rest of the glass out before fixing the new one in. All done and dusted on the same day.
I don’t park directly outside any more, much as I’d like to.
Wow, sheesh. That’s crazy! At least you have your health.
Whereabouts is it you live?
Wow, my drivers side window was smashed the other week too, the police reckon it was kids. Apparently there’s a lot of it happening at the moment.
Good to know about Windscreens Direct. I used Autoglass and they weren’t amazingly good. Quite expensive and made a poor job of fitting the window and at clearing up the glass.
I live in Norwich, not a particularly bad area of Norwich either.
A sub-note to the story which I forgot to include is that I spoke to the Neighbours about it and they’ve had a similar thing happen a couple of times to them and said it’s usually on a bank holiday weekend so I’m definitely not taking any chances over the next month!
Hi Simon,
Glad to learn of your site, but sorry to read about your car damage, that’s no fun, and just a hassle to have to get it fixed:(
I usually park at the bottom of our drive, next to the house. It’s safe, but being right below the aerial, it is usually covered in bird crap.
I don’t mind parking it on the road, but as our house is next to a public path used by some drunkards, I am sometimes apprehensive of doing so, particularly on Friday nights.