CandC
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The origin of this thread lies in a lay-by In the north of Scotland , just over a month ago. We had pulled off the road into the lay-by (which had a kerb between it and the main road) and tucked right in to have a bit of lunch. I had just put everything away and was walking back to the driver's seat when I suddenly felt the van lean to the left, accompanied by quite a gentle scraping sound!
Realising this was not normal behaviour from my camper, I looked out the window and saw a very large motorhome a lot closer to us than it should have been!!
On getting out to survey the damage, I was greeted with plastic.... LOTS of plastic! There was black plastic, orange plastic, white plastic (or was that fibreglass???) and a strip of grey rubber about 2" wide and 10' long! "Ok, I don't recognise any of that apart from maybe the orange bits," I thought.
Meanwhile, the driver of the very expensive, very new, 6 berth rental motorhome walked over to me, apologising profusely. We looked at the damage to Charlotte first. The only damage was where the rather costly heated, electric mirrors, complete with repeater indicator had abruptly ended it's life on the rear column leaving a couple of dents and some white paint on the already dented and very solid corner bumper!
After checking that little C and I were unhurt, then asked me how I wanted to deal with the damage etc. We'll, having seen the damage to both vehicles and knowing that it's a "no claim bonus", not a "no blame bonus" I didn't want to risk taking a hit on my van and car insurances so told him that I would sort it myself.
Oh and all that plastic? Well, there was the mirror which I already told you about, the rear wheel arch of the motorhome and the rubber joint between the body and the skirt which also had a nasty gouge all the way along it!!! The back bumper on the motorhome stayed on, but was looking rather flappy!
That's a lot of typing, so I'll save it there and show you what I did in my next post
Realising this was not normal behaviour from my camper, I looked out the window and saw a very large motorhome a lot closer to us than it should have been!!
On getting out to survey the damage, I was greeted with plastic.... LOTS of plastic! There was black plastic, orange plastic, white plastic (or was that fibreglass???) and a strip of grey rubber about 2" wide and 10' long! "Ok, I don't recognise any of that apart from maybe the orange bits," I thought.
Meanwhile, the driver of the very expensive, very new, 6 berth rental motorhome walked over to me, apologising profusely. We looked at the damage to Charlotte first. The only damage was where the rather costly heated, electric mirrors, complete with repeater indicator had abruptly ended it's life on the rear column leaving a couple of dents and some white paint on the already dented and very solid corner bumper!
After checking that little C and I were unhurt, then asked me how I wanted to deal with the damage etc. We'll, having seen the damage to both vehicles and knowing that it's a "no claim bonus", not a "no blame bonus" I didn't want to risk taking a hit on my van and car insurances so told him that I would sort it myself.
Oh and all that plastic? Well, there was the mirror which I already told you about, the rear wheel arch of the motorhome and the rubber joint between the body and the skirt which also had a nasty gouge all the way along it!!! The back bumper on the motorhome stayed on, but was looking rather flappy!
That's a lot of typing, so I'll save it there and show you what I did in my next post