{"id":25413,"date":"2024-12-18T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25413"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:57:29","slug":"cars-buemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25413","title":{"rendered":"CARS: Bump &amp; Scuff, Pt I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_1972-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25412\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_1972-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_1972-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_1972-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_1972.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The damage to the Audi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Out delivering, 17th Dec\u2019, and this happened\u2026 Outside a very busy school, at drop-off time, I bumped into a car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2046-1.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The damage to our car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the video above shows. The contact was minimal. And has done little if any real damage to either vehicle. Both have what look to me to be very minor scuffs, basically. It <em>was<\/em> my fault. And I wish it hadn\u2019t happened. But I\u2019m not sure it warrants making an insurance claim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2048.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Before cleaning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think some buffing will remedy the \u2018damage\u2019 to Flo\u2019. I\u2019ll be doing that tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25415\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/img_2049.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">After cleaning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The lady whose car I bumped into seems set on getting me to fund repairs to her car. She has asked me to settle outside of insurance. I can\u2019t afford to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally I don\u2019t think the damage to either vehicle is sufficient to warrant \u2018repairs\u2019. I believe both her car and ours will be fine with some buffing. I don\u2019t believe the scratches go through to the metal bodywork. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave the lady, Aby, my number. And I\u2019ve contacted my insurer. I guess we\u2019ll have to see what transpires?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzmdJLcvSco?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I watched this today\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I watched the above short video, by Lindy Beige, which deals with a similar yet slightly different scenario. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out delivering, 17th Dec\u2019, and this happened\u2026 Outside a very busy school, at drop-off time, I bumped into a car. As the video above shows. The contact was minimal. And has done little if any real damage to either vehicle. Both have what look to me to be very minor scuffs, basically. It was my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=25413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CARS: Bump &amp; Scuff, Pt I&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-6BT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25434,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25413\/revisions\/25434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}