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Housemate scratched my car and won't own up

Hmm so I checked my front bumper yesterday evening after coming home from work and find scratches on it and some of my paintwork has been chipped off :frown:

I know this doesn't sound a big deal to you but the car is new (hmm well 6months old) and I look after it well so I was gutted to see that the paintwork all along the front bumper is marked and scraped :frown:

I looked closely and found that there were bits of the other car's paintwork on my car of the same colour as my housemate's car. At the moment where I stay has a little car park that fits about 3 cars in and there is my landlord's car, my car and my housemates. I kinda guessed that he must have backed his car into mine and then stalled as the scrape marks go vertically as opposes to horizontally like most scratches are.

So I got home and then mentioned it to him and said "Someone scratched my car" but he just didn't say anything :frown:

The thing is he has already done this to someone else's car already in a supermarket and he drove off and did the same thing and scratched their car too.

I just can't believe he wouldn't say it was him and he started acting really nice as though it would make up for it.

It's fine for him but I have to park there everyday and run the risk of him doing it again.

Haha you probably think this is a sad face smiley thread with the number I've put on this thread :smile:

But yeah, people scratch cars and drive off all the time but I don't get why he wouldn't even tell me when he had done it :frown:

Had to tell someone sorry :p:

Katy

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Reply 1

gbduo

I had this done to me, fortunately a witness saw the driver and told me. But if the witness had not have seen the driver would have left me a bill for £2200 on my brand new car.

Some people in this world are such cowards and ****wits.

Suggest you beat him with a large poking stick till he owns up.

Reply 2

Ryan

Sounds like a scumbag, do you really want to be living with some ****** like that!!??

Reply 3

sauce

just confront it, it's the only thing you can do. Just say " Did you scratch my car?Because it's damaged and your kind of colour car paint is on that mark ? I'm not angry please just own up=]"

Reply 4

linka1

But he's not stupid so I dont get why he is pretending as though I don't know he did it. I could poke him with many sticks - still don't think he would mention anything.

He has a £500 Citroen AX so it really doesn't matter to him I guess.

But would the majority own up?

Reply 5

pghstochaj

lessthanthree

tell him a neighbour saw him. I would do it just to put the frighteners on.

"had some interesting news today"
"oh yeah?"
"yeah, mrs x saw who scratched my car"
"..."

"Who's Miss X? That's quite a cool surname!"

Reply 6

pghstochaj

As students, I bet none of them know their neighbours :frown:

Reply 7

pghstochaj

It would if they blatently knew that nobody talks to the neighbour, ever. :wink:

Personally I would show them the evidence and see what they say, most people would then own up in my opinion, then again, I try to optimistic :wink:

Reply 8

JC.

You have to be running fiats. :wink:

Reply 9

linka1

It's a stand-alone house so the neighbours would have to have sight like a hawk and can see through trees.

Lol so yes as students, we don't know our neighbours, I'll admit :smile:

Oh and did someone refer to me as male - I'm a gal BTW unless you were referring to the housemate?

Reply 10

pghstochaj

JC.

You have to be running fiats. :wink:

There's a saying which replies perfectly to that, it includes a kettle and a pot... :p:

Reply 11

tbm

Someone has scraped the front on my car too, only noticed it today. Theres a scrape along the front bumper, in blue paint. :mad:

People really piss me off when they do that.

Reply 12

pghstochaj

Happened to my dad's car 3 days ago, he's gutted.

Reply 13

Mubsy

Get revenge; scratch his car or if he doesn't have one, scratch his face.

Reply 14

linka1

UPDATE: Haha so yesterday I just asked him to his face when he came home: "Did you scratch my car?" and he said "I don't think so" :redface:

before he went outside to have a look at mine and his car (although he had seen it already). I played along and just sat inside while he went to look at the scratches and he came in and said: "I honestly didn't know and if it was me, which it may well have been, then I am sorry." He couldn't look me in the eye at all which was quite distracting but I think that was an apology?

Hmm at least that has settled now and I have spoken to him about it but now I have no respect for him whatsoever. I don't expect him to change if he still couldn't admit it straight off after me asking before he would even say anything so I just hope when he gets caught one day doing the same thing he knows what to say. He is a very small man. Lol not in the physical but more the metaphorical sense :smile:

Katy

Reply 15

linka1

British Bulldog

Get revenge; scratch his car or if he doesn't have one, scratch his face.

Ooh-er

you forget I live with him :smile:

Reply 16

pghstochaj

Yeah, don't do that....

Have you ever been in a car which had scratched another car? I have, about 10 years ago and it's very obvious that you do it due to how close you are. Maybe he's an idiot? You can't "not know" - he knows he either did it or didn't. Since he is incapable of denying it, I would suggest the former now but as you say, isn't man enough to properly accept fault.

Reply 17

linka1

He has no balls that's why.

Yes I have sat in a car while it scraped it's way through a driveway gate lol and it made a churning sound and it just feels like you have left your handbrake on.

Thanks for your help though