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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2012, 12:44:16 pm »
Nightmare. Hope it's not too hard on your other halves purse.

Just milk the undoubted guilt that she will be feeling!!

Problem is, we have a joint account, so i'll be sort of footing the bill anyway! (as i contribute more to it!)  Double school boy error 1) Joint account 2) letting her use my car

I need to sort myself out!!!  :signLOL:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2012, 12:49:23 pm »
Luckily or rather sadly for you your car is a 3 door.

Had it been a 5 door and she had smashed your back doors in you could have returned the compliment.  :evilgrin:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2012, 12:59:36 pm »
Luckily or rather sadly for you your car is a 3 door.

Had it been a 5 door and she had smashed your back doors in you could have returned the compliment.  :evilgrin:

I saw that you had commented... and I expected "One smashed in back door deserves another"...  so I wasn't too dissapointed  :signLOL:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2012, 01:18:00 pm »
Not here to disappoint Rich.  :wink:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2012, 01:23:45 pm »
Luckily or rather sadly for you your car is a 3 door.

Had it been a 5 door and she had smashed your back doors in you could have returned the compliment.  :evilgrin:

I saw that you had commented... and I expected "One smashed in back door deserves another"...  so I wasn't too dissapointed  :signLOL:

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I'll mention it to her and see what she thinks!  :grin:


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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2012, 01:33:05 pm »
It normally takes something like this to make you realise that at the end of the day, your car is only a big lump of metal and plastic.  In the grand scheme of things, it's not really worth worrying about.  No-one was hurt - that's the main thing.

Hope you get it sorted out without any headaches and for not too many £s!

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2012, 02:16:59 pm »
Yeah you're spot on.

I know im OCD about my car and I really wish I wasn't bothered about cars and them being perfect. I just cant help it! At the time it felt like the biggest disaster in the world. But its only metal.

But after reading peoples comments and speaking to the bodyshop I'm quite happy now that it'll get repaired to a standard that you would never even tell.

Deep breaths and keep reminding myself, it's only a car, no one was hurt or killed   :signLOL:



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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2012, 03:24:38 pm »
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Major respect to you for your understanding and sympathy for her feelings  :notworthy: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:

Your relationship will be stronger after this event. From her upset and your sympathy for her, it's crystal clear you love each other.

Once it's repaired you'll forget about it and go back to enjoying your car.  :happy2:


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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2012, 03:27:59 pm »
Yeah you're spot on.

I know im OCD about my car and I really wish I wasn't bothered about cars and them being perfect. I just cant help it! At the time it felt like the biggest disaster in the world. But its only metal.

But after reading peoples comments and speaking to the bodyshop I'm quite happy now that it'll get repaired to a standard that you would never even tell.

Deep breaths and keep reminding myself, it's only a car, no one was hurt or killed   :signLOL:




Hope the bill isnt too large and your pleased with the results. Let us see when it gets done  :happy2:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2012, 03:36:45 pm »
Been there got the t-shirt as well lol! My Missus borrowed mine to go do the shopping at tesco and somehow managed to drive into the stand thing that holds the trolleys. :driver:
Fortunately wasn't to bad. She was the same very apologetic and thought I'd go ballistic. I didn't but she had to make it up to me!
Funny thing was I had to drive her back to tesco as she hadn't done the shopping.
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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2012, 03:45:12 pm »


^ I've posted this before and doubtless it'll get posted again but it's relevant.


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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2012, 07:47:18 pm »
Thanks for the comments guys - that's why I love this forum  :happy2:

RR - both your posts made me smile and laugh  :happy2:  :grin:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2012, 09:06:35 pm »
Nasty! That'll cost well over a grand to sort.

I know from experience...but I did it myself like a tit so no boudoir 'favours' for me. 

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2012, 09:08:23 pm »


^ I've posted this before and doubtless it'll get posted again but it's relevant.
hey if my wife gave me that kind of response after pranging my car to hell with the car man -  :jumping: :jumping:
at least for 10 minutes anyway  :jumping: :jumping:

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Re: Absolutely Gutted!!!! Advice needed please!!!
« Reply #29 on: December 01, 2012, 08:14:36 pm »
You'll just have to kill her. Problem solved.