In March, in an attempt to give the bloke behind me a bit more exit room from his parking space, I released the handbrake with the engine not running and intended rolling a few feet down the hill to be a bit closer to the parker Mercedes in front.
The brakes didn't work as expected but the Mercedes stopped me quite efficiently. With such noise that people came out from nearby shops and SWMBO heard the crump from our apartment over the road.
I thought I heard glass tinkling so was at least expecting to see my headlights were toast, along with significant damage to the Dacia and the Merc.
Neither showed any damage, not even a scratch.
I then expected the hire company to find something but they didn't. Or plod waiting for me when I returned the car. Or a bill later from the hire company. Nothing.
I guess a crumple zone crumpled and sprung back, on both cars.
I seem to have incidents with pretty much every hire.
I think GoldCar was the one which I damaged the side of the nearly-new car by judging a driveway entry badly, and then the front with another braking issue going into an underground car park. The bill was €600 or thereabouts.
Last edited by: smokie on Sun 23 Apr 23 at 23:15
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