An Angry Wave Hello

[Garthy]

Hi all,

I was hoping my first post would be something light hearted along the lines of how happy I am to now have my IS200 (which I am), but this little rant is about some brainless idiot that thought it would be a good idea to key it yesterday afternoon! I've never had a car keyed before, and never liked one enough to bother about cosmetic repairs - looks like the costs of running her have started already!

Are any members local to Bristol that could recommend a good spray shop? It's only 15" or so but stands out a mile as the bodywork is in such good nick...

Rage

[TommyH]

:tsktsk: idiots, really gets on my nerves. These jealous little :tsktsk: have nothing better to do with themselves. Hope you get it sorted at a reasonable price mate.

Welcome to LOC.

[javadude]

Sadly having a nice car seems to attract the attention of moronic, jealous people would probably go mental themselves if they ever worked hard enough to afford a decent car and had someone do the same. I've had mine done twice - rear door and bonnet. The bonnet was given 7 deep gouges. Both cost way more than my excess at a Lexus/Toyota dealer so I put it throught the insurance. The bonnet was £760!

[terry moore]

sorry to hear the bad news ,think thats becoming part of life,

depending on how bad it is ,there are moble repairs ,that come out to you and do it at your home ,at you won't see the damage ,

hope you get it sorted

[bond 007]

more and likely a C.H.A.V with a saxo(chavo) or clio moron (PAPA !) done this to your motor m8 as they do not like anyone haveing real car other than the soul-less, s..t they drive around in. by the way welcome to the club..

[kenfoxy]

Sorry you have started your ownership on such a sour note. Hopefully it will be your last encounter with mindless morons. I always think that it is one of life's ironies that there never seems to be a violent psycho around when these people strike. They also never around when elderly people are being intimidated on trains by young thugs.

[Garthy]

Thanks for the welcome amd sympathetic words :)

Rage has now turned to irritated resgignation that I'm going to have to shell out the bucks to get it fixed. Oh well, she'll soon be looking good again.

Cracking site btw, I've already used the 'what faults to look for' and 'key reprogramming' guides - good job I've entered a few Playstation cheats in my day, made the reprogramming a bit easier ;)

[eddieblock]

same here mate. had mine for a month and someone keyed it all down the drivers side. cost me £300. have had the car bout 18 mths now and nothing else has happened so fingers crossed !

[Garthy]

£170 and she can be done next week - i'll have that.

Good job my copper jar is actually a demijohn, is nearly full and has 10's and 20's in it too... reckon I'll only need £30 extra! :D

[lexuslloyd]

£170 and she can be done next week - i'll have that.

Good job my copper jar is actually a demijohn, is nearly full and has 10's and 20's in it too... reckon I'll only need £30 extra! :D

hope you get it sorted and you happy with it mate, always devasting to hear about this kind of thing

[Garthy]

Got her back an am very happy with the result - can't see any scratch! The true test will be in the bright sunlight of course, but quite chuffed with the result. If anyone in the Bristol area is interested I had it done by Don Williams in Southville :)