You are absolutely right. Parking plots are too small. I live in a 25 years old hause and I am forced to rent a second much bigger plot to park the BMW, in mine I am keeping the Mini as you said.

 

scoopz - less fun nite next time?

 

HM... put some bait next to the car hunting seasons just opened.

 

^ My exact mords . Invest in a remington 12 gauge.

 

Oh my God, that's terrible! You must be gutted. It might not be a fox or wild dog though - once i saw a magpie ripping open my bin bags..........

 

huh why wont they let you keep your old 1??? isnt insurance buying you a new 1 ?? what do they care what happens to the old 1? im i missing something here how things are done where you @... ??

 

Not good, man. Good that you're able to have a laugh about it though.

Reminds me of the time my uncle's 2 St. Bernard pups were teething and found the wing mirrors on my aunt's MG-F to be the right height (and taste) for them. We found them all munched up and hanging from the car by the electric mirror wiring!

 

OMG sorry to see that happen. $hit happens in life.
why the fu*k a thing would eat this, that thing must like plastic.

 

It's huge! It's enormous!, It's got huge...fangs!
May I suggest the Holy Hand Grenade?

Sorry. Had to.

I hope all works out well for you. It's seems silly for them not to give you back your bumper...you own it!!

Spyder

 

So far all I know is the price they have quoted for the repair is based upon my bumper being returned to BMW. There is a surcharge if I want to keep the old one and the bodyshop is trying to find out what that surcharge is. This seems strange to me, it's not like I'm exchanging/partex'ing my bumper, they surely can't have any use for it or think about repairing it and reusing it otherwise why can't my bodyshop repair it. There was a mention too that BMW may not even allow me to keep it for a surcharge with it being from an M-car, perhaps they don't want me selling it on ebay to cover the costs of my insurance excess :thumbsdown: or keep the number of look-a-likes down?

I'll have to wait and see, but then the other side of the argument is that shouldn't any surcharge to keep the bumper be included in the quote that the insurers pay? By law does the damaged bumper belong to the insurers if they pay out on this claim?

I've NEVER heard of anybody refusing to let you keep old parts unless the part being replaced was faulty and being swapped out FOC under warranty, in which case they want the part back for diagnostics, etc which is more than fair.

Perhaps BMW just want the bumper back to put in their hall of fame for strange damage