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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dave f on August 31, 2015, 08:11:43 am

Title: van disaster
Post by: dave f on August 31, 2015, 08:11:43 am: Saturday morning set off to do a conny roof .started to pull out of my drive then a big bang and scrapping from side of van I had miss judged the corner of the gate post .what a twatt. dinted sliding door big time and put a rip and dent near petrol cap .effing annoyed with my self any way managed to bring my paint and body work skills in to use after a lot of years I was quite surprised how good it looks with rattle cans you can hardly tell only problem is the door its well and truly knaced.im trying to sorce another but its hard and its only a dispatch
Title: Re: van disaster
Post by: Rich Wilts on August 31, 2015, 08:16:07 am: Local breakers?
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Post by: samson on August 31, 2015, 08:23:39 am: Give me a call, I did exactly the same thing, and a local body shop sorted it cheap ;D
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Post by: Matt. on August 31, 2015, 08:30:37 am: Wen I read the heading I thought u had seen in the back of my van ;D

Local Breakers
eBay
Or go onto the internet an put in the type of van and search van breakers, u have to enter ur email and breakers around the country will email u with prices

I have bought quite a few bits from a breaker in Scotland for vans and p&p was reasonable to Liverpool.
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Post by: Smurf on August 31, 2015, 10:38:58 am: Oops! Rodney you plonker springs to mind ::)roll

Easy done though if you are not paying attention like the massive tree I inadvertently reversed into in my old berlingo van. The ladders took all the force of the impact and tore the roof bars off...Oops! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: dave f on August 31, 2015, 12:05:55 pm: tried ebay till my eyes got soar tried a few scrap yards but nowt as yet
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Post by: Walter Mitty on August 31, 2015, 12:09:32 pm: I managed to reverse into a mini-skip a few years ago. Noticed a parking gap between cars and got distracted while reversing into the space - oops!
Result, one dented back door. There were already a number of dents on the van (not by me), so as it opened and closed ok, I just left it as it was.
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Post by: Matt. on August 31, 2015, 12:18:29 pm: Go on internet then mate, google van breakers enter ya reg into the box an fill in the little boxes an scrap yards around the country will get back to u ....... U just wait for replies. There is a few different sites to go on.
I found a great little Renault beaker up in Blackburn that has everything u can think of
Title: Re: van disaster
Post by: Smurf on August 31, 2015, 01:33:54 pm: I have reversing sensors on the back of the renault master which comes in very handy indeed...
No more reversing into trees for me ;D
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Post by: EandM on August 31, 2015, 02:59:09 pm: It must be the time of year ! I backed up for someone in the lane on Wednesday and clipped something sticking out the hedge which promptly wrecked the OS Rear Tail light unit of my Ranger - fortunately £22 from Ebay and 5 minutes fitting saw a brand new unit and the problem sorted.
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Post by: richard groves on August 31, 2015, 03:23:53 pm: Quote from: dave f on August 31, 2015, 12:05:55 pm
tried ebay till my eyes got soar tried a few scrap yards but nowt as yet
What year is it Dave ?
If its old shape ( guessing not ) then it should be easy to get another door from ebay or scrappies.
Are you looking at expert and scudo too ?
Title: Re: van disaster
Post by: dave f on August 31, 2015, 05:52:48 pm: its a 06 its only got 48k on the clock all mot.etc thats why I'm keeping it
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Post by: rz on August 31, 2015, 06:14:10 pm: Where are you? I know a guy who'll have 1, gloucestershire. Forest of Dean.
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Post by: dave f on September 01, 2015, 07:11:08 pm: happy days got one not cheap so gonna fit it on Saturday then get it re sign writen