P platers...and my gwagen

[nathan]

some may recall my story from mid 07 when a p plater in her dads jeep grand decided to pull out in front of my G wagen on a rainy night...end result was one absolutely hammered jeep (T boned) and a well twisted vintage ARB bull bar long out of production (in addition to G body damage)...after much searching, i finally got all back together (they actually wanted to write off my G due to the cost of parts...seriously!)...on the weekend, i was at the shops and leaving a busy car park in the G behind you guessed it, a P plater in their dads ford wagon.  for some bizarre reason, they thought they were out too far, i saw the reverse lights come on, and before i could honk, he did a squeely and came back into the G...again...f^&*
the damage was very minimal with only paint scrapes to the freshly powder coated bull bar, but i still couldnt believe this...the 17 yr old got out, very apologetic (as one does when they see a nicley painted german car they have just pranged)...with all the hassles involved in getting my bar off, removing cb aeriels and flood lights, getting powder coated and so on - i told him to be a bit more cautious and left it at that...i dont recall myself being so stupid as a youngster

the attached is a pic from the last time

[WGB]

Sorry to hear of your car park exploits Nathan.

I know it's one of your pride and joys - imagine if it was the white 6.9 - doesn't bear thinking about.

You will have to get something more obvious than a large red G-wagon but I can't imagine what it could be.

How is the pitter patter of little feet progressing?

Bill

[oscar]

Man I feel for you Nathan. 

I can sense a G beast let loose if this happens again.  Like a stolen army tank running amok thru city streets being followed by scores of cop cars and live coverage from TV choppers.  Two incidents like this would drive me nuts.  I reckon "Gelandewagen" is German for "P plate magnet", what can you do.

[CraigS]

Get the culprit to come around and do all the hard work removing the offending pieces. That might teach him to be more careful in future !

[Andrew280SEL]

Bloody P platers....



I think Oscar's right though unfortunately, it sounds like it's a P plater magnet. :\

Better luck in the future Nathan, hopefully this was the G wagon's last P plater incident 

[500eguy]

gosh, you would think people would be more careful around a G Wagen, i meen its not like you can't see one!