The Santa Fe has gone back. Not without incident.
The delivery man rang to ask if I could confirm the existence of a scratch on the rear near side wing. No.
You would be surprised just how many test cars get belted or scratched. It’s almost as if they have an idiot magnet designed to attract plantpot parkers and drunks.
I have had my share of the downright vindictive. I have returned to convertibles to find chip papers and coke cans thrown in them. I have had kebabs smeared over the windscreen of a £60,000 Audi and I once returned to a test car after playing football to find it smeared smiley stickers. We didn’t even beat them.
Bizarre damage has included an almost perfect buttock imprint on the door of a Audi Q7.
The most vindictive incident I have been subjected to is a neighbour taking a picture of me getting into a Skoda, before the VW takeover, and pinning it on the pub notice board.
Anyway, back to the Santa Fe. The man with the trade plates and screw top bottle of coke, says it looked like a deliberate key or nail scratch.
Now, it may or may not go to an insurance claim by Hyundai but if it does it will be one more addition to the global insurance bill next year.
The worry with that is what the cost will be calculated at.
Try this. In a recent court case a love lorn chap was before the beak accused of smashing his girlfriend’s windscreen in a crime of passion.
The cost of the windscreen - Renault Clio of indeterminate age by the way - was claimed to be £1,000.
For £1,000 I would want a force field fitted, never mind a sheet of laminated glass.
Like having your roof fixed after the January storms, every job was £480 because the insurers were paying out without question below £500.
But £1,000 for a bit of Triplex? I think it should have been questioned. Closely.
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