Washing the car this morning I find the near side front corner of the bumper well scuffed and dark green paint on it............. Off to the local LR Dealership who couldn't have been more helpful. No need for a whole new bumper, the scuffs aren't so deep that their cannot be sanded out and the area resprayed but I need to have a new trim piece that makes up the aero trim along the lip edge of the bumper................. Thank goodness no panel damage only plastics. Now to wait for the quote to arrive............... Could they do it while the car is in for a service later in the month? "Don't see why not sir so long as you only have a standard service and no additional items that might need another department working on the car at the same time!"
Problem is I don't know which of the various supermarket/ garden centre / B&Q car parks I used this weekend that the damage occurred at...........
After washing and estimating...........
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2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Why not fit a dashcam - I know it wouldn't have stopped it but atleast you may have caught the

Hope you get it sorted without too much fuss  16MY Estoril Blue SVR.............
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Bloody hell Tim, I feel for you mate!

This is why I picked up a 2005 Disco. When ever I need to go to the garden centre, supermarket or park up for a while in a public car park I take "Big Bertha"

The thing is, is that everyone stays well away from her. If I take the Sport I always come back to a box parked right next to it!

Jim

bar stewards, I've noticed over the last few years that the standard of driving nowdays has taken a serious nose dive so I'm supprised that there aren't more of us posting this sort of damage on here. At least it can be repaired and hopefully you will forget all about it in time ( nothing worse than knowing of a defect on your car ). I remember just after I brought an Audi I had, I misjudged where a concrete post was resulting in a few more gouges than yours, got a guy from chips away round and he worked his magic, looked like new and soon forgotten about. 2015 HSE SDV6 Scotia Grey, ebony / lunar, colour coded, deployable steps, TV, sliding pano and a few other bits. Now gone
2018 Velar R-Dynamic HSE sdv6 silicon silver

What really annoys me is that I use the "greedy" parking method of parking across two slots in those car parks so it must have been someone really bad at parking................ Or really angry that I had parked across two slots They lost paint off their car too judging by the paint flakes on the edge of the intake above the fog light and paint in the scrape marks. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

I feel your pain Tim!! I got myself a nice Defender 90 now for car park visits! Mine you I still park that over two spaces at the other end of the car park  Cheers Laurence.

They should be made to resit driving test and taken to the cleaners

Feel for you Tim - I've been there so many times. Last time was my immaculate MGTF only driven occasionally parked at a funeral but I traced the culprit via cctv on premises who denied it until they were shown the footage and coughed up. I now have dashcam front and rear with park mode. If I can park under cctv I do that too  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Muddy what dash cam have you got? Think this may be the way to go  Cheers Laurence.

Thinkware F750 as recommended by BC as I was fed up of buying Blackvue and them breaking

Blackvue software was better for saving and editing though I am looking into alternatives

Speed camera alert on Thinkware is a great feature and higher resolution rear camera so guess you can't have everything

Here is some footage showing quality https://vimeo.com/user49563917  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

Tim in Scotland wrote:

What really annoys me is that I use the "greedy" parking method of parking across two slots in those car parks so it must have been someone really bad at parking................ Or really angry that I had parked across two slots They lost paint off their car too judging by the paint flakes on the edge of the intake above the fog light and paint in the scrape marks.

+1 for ChipsAway for damage like this. Below is a section of the near side of my Black Edition's rear bumper:

Click image to enlarge

I used Chipsaway on the tailgate of my 1st RRS back in 2006 and the local franchise guy was on his first day in the job..... He did a brilliant job of matching up the Giverny Green with the repair on a day when he had to work in a garden gazebo rigged over the car with snow falling all around, unfortunately we don't have a local franchise here any longer. I could have used my Defender and not worried about collecting any more dents and scratches but it has been so cold here that it is locked up in a dry shed with it's battery hooked up to a conditioner until it gets a bit warmer. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Within two weeks of getting mine, I noticed a parking scuff on a front wheelarch. Luckily it polished out. Too gentle e nudge to activate the dashcam.

I think it is an inevitability today, cars are larger, parking places narrower. And driving standards? Don't get me started. MY2016 HSE D SDV6 - gone due to fuel dilution problems.

By the age of 50 you have the face you deserve - George Orwell.

Tim, perhaps the best things is to just shrug it away as a "First World Problem" and get on with something else. Sure, it's annoying (it's the lack of thought for others that's annoying, not the damage) but it's nothing terrible in the grand scheme of things. Much worse things going on in the world...  2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Tim in Scotland wrote:

Washing the car this morning I find the near side front corner of the bumper well scuffed and dark green paint on it............. Off to the local LR Dealership who couldn't have been more helpful. No need for a whole new bumper, the scuffs aren't so deep that their cannot be sanded out and the area resprayed but I need to have a new trim piece that makes up the aero trim along the lip edge of the bumper................. Thank goodness no panel damage only plastics. Now to wait for the quote to arrive............... Could they do it while the car is in for a service later in the month? "Don't see why not sir so long as you only have a standard service and no additional items that might need another department working on the car at the same time!"
Problem is I don't know which of the various supermarket/ garden centre / B&Q car parks I used this weekend that the damage occurred at...........
After washing and estimating...........