A lorry had a blow out and a lump of rubber the size of a chair hit the front of my car and has scratched and scuffes the front of it

crap not good

Bad times

thats crap but be glad it didnt do any more damage or got anywhere that would make you crash

Really sorry to hear that

oh pants! Pictures?
Least you're ok mate!

I'll try and take some on my phone at lunch time. Its pretty much the whole of the passenger side front bumper that got it where the foglight is. Would t-cut or a touch up pen be good for it?

ouchies buddy
Guess you can't really claim off their company's insurance as it's an act of god kind of thing! But you're still left with the damage!
I hope you can clean it up!

One of those things im worried about driving specially hitting animals as well, get a picture of it mate might be worth giving the chips away mobile people to come and have a look i had mine done last week cost me £45 i got stone chip repaired.

If it makes you feel any better this morning on the way to work i hit a bird of some sort and i have a massive red splatter mark on my wheel arch size of a basketball, having only just washed it yesterday.

Bad times mate Worth giving the truck company a call see if they can help out with cost of repair? Wouldn't bother if its a overseas firm tho

You should totally get in contact with them......... yes it was one of those things but even so.

yeah just trying tomake inquiries about it. didnt really see the lorry it came off. There was a car in front of me that ran it over and flicked it up into the air. I couldnt avoid it and thats how it got me . there was a cement mixer but that had all its tyres still intact. Thats not good about yours stason. tried taking a pic of it but with the bright sunlight all im getting is reflections of the background. i'll try when its darker.
Wish i stayed at home this morning now

bad times mate!
as others have said at least it wasn't anything more serious!
cosmetic damage can be fixed

no claims protection ?

No worth it to be honest they stick the price up like scotty said, unless if you did approach them and quote the damage you could say that you wont take this with legal action through the insurance?

Yeah it looks like this ones gonna have to come out of my on pocket for this

Sorry to hear this mate! If it makes you feel any better I hit a pidgeon on the way to work and now I have a permanent crease dent in my bonnet! badtimes

Gonna try and.upload some.photos

Its off my phone so mighy not be brill

Thats a pretty bad scratch there mate

Sorry bout the mulitple posts

Yeah everyone thinks i shoukd wash it first and see how bad it looks

s**t mate bad times!

Sorry to hear about this, it's just one of those things that you've just got to grin and bear it. No chance of claiming on your insurance but at least you're ok which is the main thing and the damage could have been worse.

Sometime freak things happen. When I was 18 I was stuck behind a flatbed lorry when a bit of pipe about a foot long came bouncing off the back of it. With a wall to the left of me and traffic coming the other way on the right I just had to brace myself with everything going in slow motion before I hit the pipe and the windscreen was then covered in glass. After slowing down and stopping I found that one of front headlights was completely gone, the front left wing was mangled to bits and this had pushed part of the bonnet in also. After I'd cleared the glass from the light off the windscreen I saw a mark on the roof just above the windscreen from where the pipe had hit the roof before bouncing off to... somewhere!! Scary to thinbk it could have gone straight through. (It hadn't hit anyone else as nobody stopped, just got a load of beeps and v-signs for pulling over and holding people up). Like you I couldn't claim as I'd no number for the lorry. In these cases you're more concerned about looking after yourself than thinking about noting numbers down!

Just got to keep your chin up mate and put it down as just bad luck. Hopefully it may not cost as much to put right as you think.

Indeed bad times.

I can't see how bad the damage is but if it's only the bumper and repair is expensive maybe find one from a brakers yard it's the same on the zetec s right so there should be quite a few around.

its mainl just lots of scuffs and one of them feels a bit deepish. think i'll try stasons company see if i can get a quote from them if not lots of touch up paint.
Thats pretty bad what happened to you chris glad you were ok. There should be like a fund you can go into to get repairs caused by things like that for the public and i hope the crese in your bonet can be pushed out dan.
Would you need a special type of t-cut to use on panther black if that could maybe get rid of the marks?

spoke to my dad about it and he has a friend that does car spraying so hes gonna ask him how much it would be to get the scuffs sorted for me and apparently he doest charge to much either

Could you get ur plastics done at the same time mate

could be worth a try i didnt think of that rob. i'll get my dad to ask him about doing them too. hes colour coded peoples cars before on bumpers and bump strips so i woulda thought he could do