I must admit every time i go shopping i am scared to death! and that was in my 9 year old 105k car worth 2.5kish..... god knows what i will be like with my replacement
sadly the only other option is to drive a car you dont care about, but why on earth should you have to do that......
Washing the coupe is a buttock clenching experience for me, as you nearly always spot summat, but as long as people dont care about other peoples property there is nowt you can do. I feel the grin i get from having a nice car is worth the odd grimace or too.
Mind you it doesnt help not having protective strips down the side....... am sure Mini Cooper owners will have the same pain on occasion.
carlt you are right of course, mechanicals SHOULD be more important that the odd ding, but most of us want to have a gorgeous looking car, and when we have that we want to keep it.
i say cant we have it all??
(esp with bodyshops like you knocking around
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