Man, I had the front bumper resprayed recently and within days someone had reversed into it! cracked the paint and scuffed it...Now it's happened 4 more times(I think it's one of my neighbours with a Range rover and a nanny! but have no witnesses...) and I'm the T-Cut master!

 

I know how it happens because the front is so low but is there anything I can attach to the front bumper to keep people off? Do other Zed owners suffer like me??

 

Adam

you can buy very small motion sensitive standalone video cameras now... around the £30.

 

get one and put in your car... once you have proof and confront them it will stop....

I would so hate that:cursing: get a camera mounted in your zed to video the bad driver.

lol... must be a good idea then.. :)

lol... must be a good idea then.. :)

 

Same wavelength mate:biggrin:

I came out to my zed 6 months ago with two huge concave dents in the top of my bonnet

 

no idea what caused it until I was at asda one day and I saw a flatbed truck that was parked

up and the rear was the same height as the front of my zed but I had no proof that was the

truck that did it.

 

best thing is one of those motion cameras and ill be getting one myself shortly.

example...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/U18-UK-Mini-Spy-Hidden-DV-Motion-Detect-USB-Disk-Camera-DVR-Record-8GB-TF-Card-/251073472746?pt=UK_Gadgets&hash=item3a752528ea

Try parking your car the other way round.... rear is much higher than front so no excuses as for not seeing it.

this is why i refuse to park out on the road, or drive my zed into any city.

good on ya guys, knew I'd find peeps who have suffered the same. Camera it is...If my neighbour's nanny is rich enough to drive a Range, then they're rich enough to pay for their accidents.....adz

Can't you just put a couple of traffic cones front and rear of your zed?

 

recommending ebay cameras is all well and good but the ICCD's are shockinlgly shit so if it's even remotely dark then you won't capture **** all and with the amount of cold mornings/nights the chances of frost build up on the windscreen is greatly increased (so again you won't capture shit) and of course the internal lithium ion batteries that most of these utilise don't take kindly to cold so unlikely to last long enough

 

If you're going to go down the camera route then I'd suggest that you invest in a decent fixed CCTV unit mounted in overwatch, powered off the mains and recording real time on a decent DVR. Forget the ebay tat

Thanks for that, you are right about cold and misted up windscreens. I think the traffic cone rout would be best. cheers, Adam

a couple of issues with the cones...

 

1 - were are you going to get them and if you "acquire" them then aren't you taking the risk that it will happen to your's? and then you'll be complaining about the cones being nicked :)

 

2 - if the nanny is from Europe, then they (Europeans) have little consideration for vehicles as anyone who has been to Europe can attest to, just how much protection will some traffic cones offer against a Range Rover???? :)

 

the tatty ebay camera can be mounted anywhere, doesn't have to be inside the car (i.e behind the grill).

i would say that to ensure that you get reimbursed for the damage (at the very least) some sort of camera (whatever the setup) would be a better method..

 

or a F'n big bull bar ...LOL...

 

best of luck...

a couple of issues with the cones...

 

1 - were are you going to get them and if you "acquire" them then aren't you taking the risk that it will happen to your's? and then you'll be complaining about the cones being nicked :)

 

2 - if the nanny is from Europe, then they (Europeans) have little consideration for vehicles as anyone who has been to Europe can attest to, just how much protection will some traffic cones offer against a Range Rover???? :)

 

the tatty ebay camera can be mounted anywhere, doesn't have to be inside the car (i.e behind the grill).

i would say that to ensure that you get reimbursed for the damage (at the very least) some sort of camera (whatever the setup) would be a better method..

 

or a F'n big bull bar ...LOL...

 

best of luck...

 

 

 

 

(1) Cones are easy to come by without the need to steal them (eg. 1st of 303 listings on ebay) and granted the cones could get stolen but so could your car/wheelie bins/gnomes etc

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-x-No-Parking-No-Waiting-Traffic-Cones-used-/310502254832?pt=UK_BOI_ProtectiveGear_RL&hash=item484b6068f0

 

 

(2) The traffic cones 'protective value' obviously aren't so much due to their ballistic like counter Range Rover properties but more to do with the 'Look at me I'm a traffic cone and you're about to drive into me'ness' and it may help reduce damage acting like a barrier between your zed and this clumsy arse' Range Rover

 

 

(3) Condensation on lens, frost, moisture ingress, IP rating, low light capability (or inability more to the point), battery drain due to cold, lack of sustainable power source, reliability of motion detector function on cheap cameras is generally ****

 

I've got two cameras perminantly fitted in my zed in the front and rear windows, the lenses need wiping over everytime I want to use them due to condensation and the battery lives are pretty crap in the cold. These cameras are cheap and cheerful and you really do get what you pay for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can I suggest you do as I did?

 

If the Zed is to get parked on the road outside your house from time to time, put a Camera up on the chinmney pointing at the road where the car is parked, and while you are at it get one with night vision.

 

Only problem is - when you find that it was the next door neighrbours 17 yr old who was scratching the car, and you even go round argue the toss which they thoroughly deny - then confront them with the evidence on dvd to finalise the matter - they will still want to fight you over it!!!! So from presonal experiene take a baseball bat with you as well..... purely for self defence of course

 

Having said that no one round here touches my car or any other of my property anymore :devil2:

Can I suggest you do as I did?

 

If the Zed is to get parked on the road outside your house from time to time, put a Camera up on the chinmney pointing at the road where the car is parked, and while you are at it get one with night vision.

 

Only problem is - when you find that it was the next door neighrbours 17 yr old who was scratching the car, and you even go round argjuue the toss which they thoroughly deny - then confront them with the evidence on dvd to finalise the matter - they will still want to fight you over it!!!! So from presonal experiene take a baseball bat with you as well..... purely for self defence of course

 

Having said that no one round here touches my car or any other of my property anymore :devil2:

 

Ahh stoke on trent tge memories, you shoulda known bettervand taken your six shooter ombray.

good on ya guys, knew I'd find peeps who have suffered the same. Camera it is...If my neighbour's nanny is rich enough to drive a Range, then they're rich enough to pay for their accidents.....adz

 

Had it few times too. and last time I had to replace the plate number too. as it seemed to have been pulled by something that got stuck to the top of it... so surely they noticed that... darn Chelsea truckers...