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Originally Posted by joglynne
Sounds like he has a top mum and dad as well Osem.
You have brought back a, kind of, happy memory for me.
We helped our son buy his first car and I taught him to drive. All went well until the evening before his test. 7:30pm on an October night he decided to reverse on to our drive, goodness knows why as it was pitch black and not the easiest maneuver in daylight. He caught his wheel arch on the gate hinge and to his credit stopped the car before he tore off the whole panel. We had to round up some neighbours to physically lift his car away from the gate and then spent the next few hours trying to bend his bodywork back into shape. The car was second hand and with a bit of black spray paint we managed to botch up a halfway decent repair.
Next morning we went to the test centre with fingers crossed that the tester wouldn't prejudge his driving skills by the state of his car but all was well and Peter passed his test with no faults.
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Tks Jo
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I'm hoping Osem Jnr won't do that but the wife did something very similar after getting her shiny 1 year old Focus some years ago. Despite my advice (which she now follows) just a few days after getting it home she turned into our drive going a little too fast and at too acute an angle which led to her scraping the rear off side of the car against our wall. I felt the impact and immediately gasped in horror telling her she'd just done a whole load of damage to her new car. I was amazed when I got out, went to have a look and couldn't see anything, however. It took a minute or two before I spotted what had happened. Luckily for her, only the rear passenger door handle had scraped the wall. The impact had made a shallow dent in the door skin surrounding it but that sprung out leaving just the scraped colour coded door handle which hardly notices. Phew!!! That was a close shave. Wasn't long afterwards that she finally decided to start reversing into the drive. I'm hoping Jnr. will be more careful.