Women Drivers...

[skov]

The wife popped down to the shop earlier to get some lunch.
On her way back she managed to pull into the drive, come to a stop, then for no apparent reason accellerate hard into the garage door!
She's managed to smash her front bumper and wing, buckle and bend my garage door knocking it off the hinges on one side, and broke the fog light on my Haynes which was in the garage.
Spent most of the afternoon just getting the door to a point where I could close it. It now won't open any more... so I won't be driving the Haynes for a little while then.
Feeling just a little grumpy

[K4KEV]

A few WTF's then .........sounds a bit like revenge to me

[skov]

You might be right there Kev; I've suspected for a while she might be a bit resentful of how much time I spend in the garage.
At least she took it out on the garage and not me

[CTWV50]

Was she going for a high score? 3 points! 1 for the haynes, 1 for the door, and 1 for the family car.

I hate garage doors when they break, so difficult to sort out.

[vmax1974]

What was she thinking its not like she is going to make an insurance claim for the damage after you pay the excess and then the renewal price hike would be better to just replace the garage door and fix both cars yourself

Personally I would get a wing and a bumper from a breakers making sure its different colours and make her drive around for all to see that women cant drive
Then tell her your now going to have to spend even more time in the garage

[skov]

I certainly won't be getting any insurers involved!
Things aren't looking quite so bad now I've calmed down a bit and assessed things properly.

The Haynes is an easy fix, just needs a new fog light lense (She's lucky that was the only damage she did to it!).

I'm pretty sure her car has only suffered cosmetic damage. The bumper has some nasty deep scratches where it caught the garage wall but is still in one piece.
The wing has more scratches and a big crack in it, but is still useable.
The car's a good 8 or 9 years old now and not really worth throwing money at so she'll just have to drive it as it is.
The plan was always to run it into the ground so I'm not too worried about resale value.

The garage door's looking a little battered, but should be ok once I've finished knocking it back into shape. I guess it's a good opportunity to practice some panel beating
The frame needs securing to the wall again, and it looks like the spring/runner mechanism might be knackered on one side, which is going to be a total ballache to replace, but not the end of the world.

She's still not sure what happened, but it sounds like she stamped on the accelerator instead of the brake during a momentary lapse of concentration...