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I guess you’re on a wind up, but - how would you feel to return to your bicycle to find someone had kicked a few spokes out the wheels and keyed the paintwork down to the bare metal?
I'd never touch anyone's bike because that would not benefit society.
If I ever get a car, free free to come and key it. It'll be for the greater good.
 
It has two small scratches where I reversed into a wall. I think they're down to the metal so will need attention.
 
Unless the car is either a brand new premium model or a lease job that’s going to cost you money to repair before returning it, I myself find it absurd to get worked up about minor scratches that are purely aesthetic. Admittedly anything deeper than the paint coat that exposes the the metal itself can cause rust, which is far less desirable. But otherwise it’s a bit silly.
Remind me next time you're out to approach you and slice your coat to pieces with a Stanley knife. You'll be fine. It won't rust!
 
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Chipped-up and sorted 335i.

The best road car on the planet.

Equally at home doing the shopping at Tesco Metro as he is ripping out your eyeballs round country roads and destroying Porsches on autobahns.

Perfick!
Nice car! :thumbs:

Now all you have to do is invite teuchter round to key it.
But I'm sure you know he's a coward who's full of shit, and it would never happen.
 
2012 Passat, well driven and much loved. Key it all you like, I'm not "car proud", it's not had the emmision cheat fix and still only costs me £30 a year tax so I get the last laugh.
 
2nd hand, and a year or since we got it. Already had it in for repairs and the other week, gouged out a lovely scratch or two on the side. Otherwise, all good.
 
Despite being only three months old it has same light scratches down the nearside thanks to twigs on narrow country lanes. A bit of coloured wax applied before it goes back in three years time will sort it out.
 
Fully with the Catalans on this - it’s a metal box on wheels for getting you from place to place; provided it can do that, what does it matter what the outside looks like? As long as the all-wheel drive and ABS are working it’ll happily carry me up winding lanes to the top of the Peak District in 6 inches of snow. The fact that one of the sills is held on with gaffer tape and a wheel arch with a bolt through a 2 inch washer is neither here nor there to me.
 
Very few, if any. Mrs SI is a very careful driver (not slow) and parker. Geno is a 2008 Yaris, real little workhorse, reliable as you like. It's the inside that's a mess lol
 
I'm driving a borrowed campervan at present. You can't get a van down half the roads round here without occasionally driving into a hedge to let a bus, a tractor or some prick in a range rover who doesn't know where his brake pedal is go past. Consequently the paintwork is not what it once was.
 
I'm very fussy and proud of my house. Shoes off, floors swept twice a day, etc. You could take a shit on the roof of my car and I wouldn't notice or care.
 
Nice, but very far from the best road car on the planet.

Also, those painted on tyres can’t exactly give the most comfortable ride :eek:

I reckon an R35 GTR is the fastest A-B road car you can get due to massive grip, relatively good visibility and it's heavy so it's good over real world surfaces.
 
Scuffed either side of the nose. One happened in a tight hotel car park in Hannover, the other in a tight hotel car park in Venice (Mestre). No rust despite being ten. Go Hyundai! :)
 
Oh god, the inside of my car is a constant battle. Before I drove clients around, my cars constantly had rubbish in the footwell, door, shoved in the glove box.
It did get better but I regularly had to pull over before I picked someone up to hide the rubbish and shake out the mats. Being in my car so much means I often eat breakfast and lunch in it, stop for coffees etc

I also keep shoes, sometimes spare clothes, a variety of coats and cardigans. Also cleaning stuff, work equipment and now PPE and sanitiser.
In the boot there is usually mud and dog hair and the rear window generally has a layer of dog slobber and nose prints.

I do get it cleaned regularly because of work but it’s hard trying to find somewhere legit. There’s so many car washes around with very dodgy employment practices.
 
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