not happy

[timwilky]

Well as most of you will know, I have been having the odd moan about roadworks outside my house.

Well yesterday, they removed the heavy steel plate that covers the hole in front of my drive, filled it with MOT and left.

They placed a fibreglass plate upright against my front wall.

There has just been a big gust of wind. Said fibreglass road plate has just hit my car and done considerable scratching to the front wing.

I bet the contractors are going to deny responsibility. I just know it. The lease company are not going to be happy, work will not be happy with it. and somebody somewhere will be expecting me to pay.

[tigersaw]

This really hasnt been going well for you has it. You need a revenge plan.
Once at my prev house, the contractors put ducting in for cable TV, but they were supposed to dig the pavement, but it was easier to dig up the soft just inside all the residents boundary. Once the cables were blown through I dug through the lot to put in a fence post. Nobody ever did get cable down our street.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Well as most of you will know, I have been having the odd moan about roadworks outside my house.

Well yesterday, they removed the heavy steel plate that covers the hole in front of my drive, filled it with MOT and left.

They placed a fibreglass plate upright against my front wall.

There has just been a big gust of wind. Said fibreglass road plate has just hit my car and done considerable scratching to the front wing.

I bet the contractors are going to deny responsibility. I just know it. The lease company are not going to be happy, work will not be happy with it. and somebody somewhere will be expecting me to pay.

i had a similar thing happen to my car, large (6ftx4ft) barrier, complete with feet, catch a gust of wind and flew up ontot he bonnet of my car, causing about ?800 of damage

took it up with the contracters, took a year of backwards and forwards but i was fully compensated for the repairs

just write them a polite letter explaining what happened, that you expect the repairs to be paid for and keep it simple, don't rant about the roadworks or anything, just explain the situation and i expect they'll just let the PI insurance handle it, in my case they weren't at all concerned with fighting it

good luck

I assume it's a company car then. Depends on what your work T's & C's are. My last company car I had to pay the first 100 quid of any damage, but I got it back if costs were reclaimed from a third party. That was a policy change though and before that I'd have cost me nothing. It was introduced to to try to get folk to look after the cars.

As its a company car I assume you have no no claims to loose or won't need to declare it as an accident on personal policies.

I'd get photos of where the fibreglass was propped up and where it ended up, and the scratches it made on the way. See if you can give your neighbours details as accident witnesses to say that the fibreglass had indeed been left there. Then tell all this to the insurance company. They are much more likely to be able to exert the kind of pressure needed to get the contractor to accept liability than you are, much more chance of the insurance company claiming from them through the courts. Usually if the insurance company has a third party to claim from they will persue it, they don't want to be out of pocket.

Did you get some pics?

I had one of those forecourt rubbish bins at the BP station blow across and into the side of the car - ?1500 worth of damage. Was in November. Still going through the motions with their insurers trying to get them to sign off on paying for it... good luck.

[MrMessy]

Definetly need pictures. I drove over a piece of plywood on our access drive and it moved causing car to scrape a stone wall. Contractors for Yorks Water said hole was in middle of road and denied all liabilaty and started to get funny about it until I sent in pictures, attitude suddenly changed and paid for repair

[timwilky]

Apologies if image heavy

When, the road plate and a second lightweight plate were removed from covering this.


They took away the heavy metal plate, but left the lightweight one here



not surprising that when the wind blew, it ended up here


Whilst the damage is just to paintwork


It is bloody annoying.


I have just checked, I am supposed to pay the X/S of ?250 on any claim. Whilst it will be recorded as a non fault if I can get the contractors to admit liability, it will still be a claim against my personal insurance record and show up whenever I renew my bike and load the premium.

It is not fair. I am tempted just to try a bit of polish when the car goes back in 3 years time covered by a few weeks of road muck, and simply hope nobody sees it until too late.

[tigersaw]

Originally Posted by timwilky

not surprising that when the wind blew, it ended up here

Against your car that is parked on the pavement?

I wouldn't be getting it sorted until you've got the contractors to admit liability, because it'll go down on your own insurance record. They may try and weedle out of it because you parked 2 wheels on the pavement. It wouldn't cost you ?250 to get that sorted by any decent bodyshop, if they do manage to screw out of liability.

[timwilky]

We have to park on the pavement. Otherwise there is not enough room for vehicles to use the road.


3 cars have been damaged by passing trucks during these works

If we don't park on the pavement. Nothing gets up/down