Don't buy a new car in Spain
I think my blog needs some loving! I've abandoned it for a couple of weeks and it's been crying out to my fingers to get typing away again.
I've been "underground" for the past couple of weeks working on a couple of projects for Eye on Spain which I am anxious to get finished. We're going to be launching these next week and I'm really excited about them. All will become clear very soon....
Anyway, I was having a bit of a moan to myself today about our new car, a black Golf GTI (yes, I'm a boy-racer at heart). We've had it for about 4 months now and in that time it seems to have attraced the attention of other cars. In fact they like it so much that they all seem to want to "kiss" it.
Four times our car has been hit now. That's an average of once per month which is surely outrageous? It hasn't even been our fault. Twice the knocks happened when we had left the car parked somewhere and the other two led to arguments and getting insurance papers out, etc.
The worst one by far was a German guy driving along in his Suzuki Vitara with his wife. He was driving really badly and cutting the bends really tight on the dual carriageway. Then, on one bend he cut it so much that he actually hit and smashed the wing mirror of a camper van that was in the inside lane. Having seen how badly he was driving I had already backed off but because I had backed off my car got hit.
You see, when he hit the camper van its mirror flew up in the sky and....yes...it hit my car!!
Look what he did to my front wing (yes, the car is a little dirty in the picture!)
He tried to deny that it was his fault but as he saw me getting redder in the face he seem to back down and agree that perhaps it was his fault after all.
So my advice is DON'T buy a new car in Spain. Bumpers here are used for just that...bumping. If someone hits your car they'll keep on driving or if you've seem them do it they'll try to deny all knowledge of it....I should now, it's happend to me twice now in 4 months. Ouch, my poor car.
I've been "underground" for the past couple of weeks working on a couple of projects for Eye on Spain which I am anxious to get finished. We're going to be launching these next week and I'm really excited about them. All will become clear very soon....
Anyway, I was having a bit of a moan to myself today about our new car, a black Golf GTI (yes, I'm a boy-racer at heart). We've had it for about 4 months now and in that time it seems to have attraced the attention of other cars. In fact they like it so much that they all seem to want to "kiss" it.
Four times our car has been hit now. That's an average of once per month which is surely outrageous? It hasn't even been our fault. Twice the knocks happened when we had left the car parked somewhere and the other two led to arguments and getting insurance papers out, etc.
The worst one by far was a German guy driving along in his Suzuki Vitara with his wife. He was driving really badly and cutting the bends really tight on the dual carriageway. Then, on one bend he cut it so much that he actually hit and smashed the wing mirror of a camper van that was in the inside lane. Having seen how badly he was driving I had already backed off but because I had backed off my car got hit.
You see, when he hit the camper van its mirror flew up in the sky and....yes...it hit my car!!
Look what he did to my front wing (yes, the car is a little dirty in the picture!)
He tried to deny that it was his fault but as he saw me getting redder in the face he seem to back down and agree that perhaps it was his fault after all.
So my advice is DON'T buy a new car in Spain. Bumpers here are used for just that...bumping. If someone hits your car they'll keep on driving or if you've seem them do it they'll try to deny all knowledge of it....I should now, it's happend to me twice now in 4 months. Ouch, my poor car.
Labels: driving in Spain
posted by Eye on Spain at 9:19 AM
1 Comments:
My favourite thing is watching Spanish drivers parallel park. If they find a space on the street, they will usually manage to squeeze their car into it, even if the space is only six inches longer than the car. This usually involves a fair bit of bumper contact and shoving. It's an amazing thing to watch! Shame about your car though.
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