A friend of ours came around to dinner last night and parked her nice Saab convertable about 50 yards from our house. It's a shame she didn't park it under a street light.
Result - 2 ft slash in the roof!
It looks like the person who did it managed to get himself between the car and the hedge it was parked against, then did it.
Just to add to her problems, the tear runs through a seam and down onto the side panel of the roof.
I'm hoping she won't need a new roof, but she may do.
Does anyone know of a good repairer in the West Devon/East Cornwall area, and are there processes for repairing these as opposed to removing whole panels, or replacing the roof?
Thanks
Hugo
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They can be repaired if you know an upholsterer/trimmer but its specialised work and its usually best to replace the roof because its so difficult not to make the repair unsightly.
I used to buy pattern roofs for Mazda MX5s for about £100 and fit them in about 2 hours,i guess the Saab roof will be much more expensive and difficult to fit.
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These people are in Chessington Surrey
www.carhood.com/
Isn't this an insurance job?
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A friend of ours came around to dinner last night and parked her nice Saab convertable about 50 yards from our house. It's a shame she didn't park it under a street light. Result - 2 ft slash in the roof!
Gratuitous vandalism should attract a severe penalty.
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Gratuitous vandalism should attract a severe penalty. --
Execution would be a good starting point.
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"Gratuitous vandalism should attract a severe penalty.
Execution would be a good starting point."
catching the so-and-so who did it is the problem
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Phil
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Sorry, meant to add that this sort of thing seems all too common - sons car has been keyed and daughter's new(ish) Clio now has a large dent in the boot with big footprint in it. What's the point? why do they do it (rhetorical questions since "gratuitous vandalism sums it up)
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Talking of 'keying' I was in Antwerp on Wednesday and saw a brand new Bentley Continental which had been extensively keyed all down one side................Belgian Scum exist also it seems !
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Insuranc job, yes I suspect it is, though I'm sure she'll end up paying through the nose on renewal, plus don't forget the dredded excess.
As for what should happen to these people if caught. Don't get me started on that....
It seems to be that the occasional prat seesm to find this sort of thing funny for a little while, then gets bored. We don't get a lot of problems here compared to some areas/villages etc, but one is too many.
Thanks for the pointers, I'll keep you posted.
T. Lucas, would it be too much to ask for you to point me in the direction of a supplier for your Mada roofs?
Thanks
H
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>>>>Execution would be a good starting point>>>>>
Wow a bit drastic, - maybe just castration.!!!!!!!
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>>>>Execution would be a good starting point>>>>> Wow a bit drastic, - maybe just castration.!!!!!!!
YES, that as well!
MD
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Hanging, drawing and quartering? The death of a thousand cuts on digital TV? Pinning down on an anthill in the equatorial sunshine? Being made to listen to a 24-hour monologue by Jimmy Saville? Being photographed by paparazzi wearing mail-order trainers? The list goes on and on.
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Reading about all the various punishments in the Daily Mail.
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Hugo, Got my Marlin uphlostery many years ago from Lang & Potter in Plymouth. I would imagine they would be a starting point for that type of repair. I know nothing about them now but I see they are still in our yellow pages (Page 230)plus lots of similar firms.
Good luck Steve.
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for that. I've just spoken to the lady concerned, who phoned up to wish me a happy birthday (yes the irony hasn't escaped me).
Apparently they're going through their insurers and it needs a new roof. There is another smaller cut elsewhere so whoever did it went unnoticed for a longer time.
Cost £3K!
Hugo
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"It looks like the person who did it managed to get himself between the car and the hedge it was parked against, then did it."
Does that imply the car was parked on the pavement, in which case it sounds like the pavement would be completely blocked. If so, it is a good way of enraging somebody.
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There must be lots of roads, even residential ones, in Cornwall which don't have a pavement!
The hardtop coupe/cabrio is the way to go: the next breakthrough in design of these will be one that has a reasonable boot with the roof down.
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Pete Mansell has a good point. Some time ago I parked alongside the local shop on my way to work, half road, half pavement sort of parking. I thought that I was showing a bit of consideration for other road users by not causing an obstruction. As I walked back to the car, a young girl was pushing a loaded pushchair along the pavement and deliberately scraping the side of my car. We both looked at the damaged paintwork and she just smiled and told me that I shouldn't have parked there. And I couldn't agree more.
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<< and told me that Ishouldn't have parked there. And I couldn't agree more.
The police currently turn a blind eye to pavement parking if there is at least a 1 metre width left unobstructed.
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I admit, I parked a bit close to someone in the VIP carpark at Blackbushe on 24th March. He now stars in a snippet of BCA security video scratching the back door of my C-Max with a key. So if he's reading this he can arrange for someone to come and fix the scratch. Or I'll have him for criminal damage.
HJ
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sorry to hear this Hugo-that's a rotten end to an evening. I have a soft-top & I am almost paranoid about where I park it. Are those saabs vinyl or fabric?
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"I parked a bit close to someone in the VIP carpar at Blackbushe"
Do you mean you parked close enough to leave a dent, HJ? Perhaps that is a downside of being a VIP ...
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There were no pavements on the road. The car was parked on the road, right net to a hedge.
On thinking more about it SWMBO and I suspect that someone was trying to get something out of the back of the car.
Reason is that there was apparently another smaller cut on the back of the roof, and the large cut on the top was a good 2 feet, large enough to get an arm in.
Were they trying to move a coat on the back seat to see if there was anyting underneath??
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Were they trying to move a coat on the back seat to see if there was anyting underneath??
Or were they just trying to grab the coat to see if there was a wallet or anything else in the pockets?
Never leave a jacket, coat, cardigan, etc on view in the car. You may well know that there's nothing in the pockets, but a thief doesn't until after he or she has broken in.
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(in reply to HJ's post)
"Catching it with a key"? Accidental do you mean or on purpose?
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A deliberate, bad tempered act of petty vandalism because the lowlife had to climb across his car to get into the drivers seat. He then dropped the driver's window in order to lean out and key my car. All on video. And in case anyone asks, there was nowhere else left to park apart from that one space the end of the line so I had to park tight to leave room for other cars to pass.
HJ
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Again at Blackbushe, I'd parked up close to where some lowlife had decided to deposit their remnants of a "fast food" purchase (I won't say meal) wrappers, drinks cartons & wipes, on the ground, within a parking bay.Disgusting habit, but at least the efficient cleaners at BCA will clear it up for them.
When I returned after the sale, someone had left the catalogue from the sale, with, written on the back in big letters... 'Pick up your rubbish expletive!!'
guess he thought I'd dumped it - lucky he didn't key me!!
VB
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I admit, I parked a bit close to someone in the VIP carpark at Blackbushe on 24th March. He now stars in a snippet of BCA security video scratching the back door of my C-Max with a key. So if he's reading this he can arrange for someone to come and fix the scratch. Or I'll have him for criminal damage.
HJ, did you ever get anywhere getting compensated for the damage?
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Not a soft top but my wifes Touran was keyed tow weeks ago in a multistory car park.
I have never heard her swear or wish bad on anyone before (totally unlike me) but this upset her because it is so mindless.
There is CCTV but the police just do not seem to be interested and apparently have not even approached the surveilance company.
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Having spent three months in a wheelchair,it is my opinion that anyone-repeat anyone-who parks on the pavement should be castrated and/or executed both slowly.Essex police have now abrogated all responsibility for parking.The magic word to get action is "OBSTRUCTION".
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