Got the new van back - how many miles before it was crashed into?

Probably a bit late to this, but my late father used to say that he would swear that some days his car was invisible, and people seemed to always head straight for the car. It did not matter what colour it was, but other times all was good. Another phenomenon is the freshly repaired or new car attraction syndrome, where it seemed that something would scrape the sides or even the back during the days after it was first driven.

Myself, I think these are just variations of the laws of Mr Sod and Murphy. A friend of mine came across this in a very expensive way some years ago. She had bought herself a second hand aeroplane, and it had been serviced and all systems tested. It was a Jodel, a very robust craft, but she still lost it because on a flight from the Netherlands to Iceland a small hole or leak of some kind developed in the fuel system and she had to ditch it in the sea about a couple of hundred yards from the Icelandic coast. Insurance would not pay up due to them saying that although she had paid her money, the processing had not been finished. I think they eventually settled the claim, but not in full. So think of this the next time you get just a dent in a van. Brian

I'd suspect a few hundred yards before somebody trying to do a three point turn in the end of a turning reversed into the side of it, despite having sensors. Do you know a guy reversed into my leg once, in his haste to turn his clamping wagon round to put a clamp on a vehicle in the opposite turning. Luckily he did not break anything, I was just bruised. It reminds me of that bloke whose insurance clame said. The streetlight was out and I backed into my neighbours drive by mistake and collided with a tree I don't have. Brian

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Zero. Someone reversed into whilst I was collecting the keys from the office.

a wummmin no doubt

Could be anything these days

What's the difference?

All the troughs have gone so you have to piss in the sink.

Someone reversed out of a parking space today, and stopped within a couple of inches of hitting us. If they had hit us, even just damaging a couple of panels would probably have written off our car, as it's over

And with your run of luck with vans they probably then argued it was all your fault 'cos you shouldn't have parked it there.

ISTM the fund in need of donations is the make-it-a-big-one-after-another-bloody-day-like-that

Likely he didnt, that's why he had to get the keys from the office.

I was not all that wrong then about reversing into it. I suppose most vehicles are made of cheap plastic around the backs these days makes since. Brian

I actually have had similar in the past in my car. A car reversed out of a driveway and hit my car. She got out her car and said "That's not my fault - your car was not parked there when I pulled onto the driveway"

My van is tracked and records every time I speed and Lou also now drives a tracked car at work.

She gets an email from her employer if she breaks the speed limit - I do not:-)

BTW did you get the photo's of "that house " I sent you from my mobile?

Short answer: ahem, yes.

Longer answer: yes but I'd rationalised my Rules in Outlook and it ended up in the equivalent of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory which I visit only rarely. Sorry.