Well today has been a pretty crap day :-(. Thought I'd write some on the board to get my frustration out so here it goes.
This morning, having just lifted my sleepy head from the pillow & gone through the whole procedure which I do every weekday I went out and got in my new shiny and beautiful yellow beast. Being a bit sleepy and not remembering how narrow the squeeze was between the trailer & the stone garden ornament when I parked last night, i merrily pressed the start button and threw in reverse.
Gently I pulled away keeping a close eye on the big scary and extremely car unfriendly stone on my left. Suddenly I noticed how it grew closer inch by inch. I then threw a quick glance in the other rear view mirror & saw I had at least 5 cm to the trailer. So I turned the wheel oh so slightly and gently squeezed the accelerator.
As my brain registered the solid beeeep from the reverse parking monitor over the chatter of the radio it was to late. With a resounding screetch that would chill any car loving (wo)man to the bone the car came to a quick stop. Argh!!! Threw in neutral, handbrake on and out to check the damage.
Well the trailer was wider than I saw in the mirror. For it had some extra protruding metal bits just above it's wheel housings. They had, much to my dismay, caused a big dent & 8 scrathes on the side of my car. Five of which were very deep and quite wide :-(.
Most of the damage was absorbed by the metal above the rear right wheel housing. However there are three deep scratches on the back plastic bumber as well and one scratch right where the bumbper meets the right hand side metal parts.
So now I have to get the dent in the metal and the scratches in the plastic fixed as well as a new paint job. To add further aggrevation to my problems I am on holiday in another country and Audi doesn't have any free time slots until 21st of Aug. On top of that I will have to be without the car for 10 days maybe :-(.
I am not sure of the cost for me but I am guessign my self risk will be around 350EUR. Another matter which makes the whole thing worse is that I had an appointment with Mr.CAP (Car rejuvenation) tomorrow and they were going to polish her up nice for me :-(. Oh well sh*t happens. My first incident since I got my driving license so I guess I should be happy this was all.
// bobey
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