Horses eat cars - lesson learned

[Sparks61]

My T2 hasn't been my luckiest car. Over the last couple of months I learned not to leave a car with road salt on it alone in a place where there are horses. Here are some shots of damage which I took to be vandalism, but which I was reliably informed are actually horse chewing imprints !! Apparently these attractive and intelligent animals lick the car, think "ooooh this big thing is made of salt !!" and try to eat it ......

Front wing

Passenger door

Bonnet

Well the insurance paid up and I ended up with 80% of the truck re-sprayed - oh well - it looked nice afterwards ....

And then some numpty does this to it in a car park to weeks later ....

No note left - nothing :doh:banghead. Sometimes you just can't win .....

The moral of the story is don't trust horses and some people are ignorant b******s .

 

[Kamsin]

Thats why i dont take the BMW to ASDA, infact i dont take it anywhere. It just sits in the driveway looking pretty.
The Truck however goes to hell and back most weekends and get more scratchs than a fat bloke in an S&M club.:naughty
Did the horse owners not pay for the damage that the horses caused, seems unfair that your insurance had to pay up.

 

[Sparks61]

I have no idea which horses or who owned them. the car was parked on a number of open areas while we went geo-caching and horses roam here like sheep in Yorkshire - they just chuck them out and collect them once a year to tag them. It was put through the insurance as unknown damage. Cost me the excess but at least it was done. Silver lining is it looks nice now - part from that door.

 

[christof30]

Ahh my favourite people "carparkus thickus".

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

moral: never rub carrots on your car! :lol

Horses are very destructive, another trick they do is rubbing their bums on things, I have seen them snap 8 inch thick logs set into the ground that way!.

 

[Fez_uk]

when I park next to cars people are afraid I will dent theirs as I have offroad wounds.