A car owner is furious after cctv footage appeared to show a council worker smashing his vehicle's window with a lawnmower and then trying to cover his tracks. The window of jay elton's car was smashed outside his home. But using a clear transparent plastic bag will at least allow you to see light and color in your peripheral field.
Also ensure you secure the plastic to the outside of an exterior window as well as the inside. From a smashed passenger window to a cracked windshield or foggy headlight, your local glass doctor is here to fix all your auto glass panes. Continue this until the pieces overlap one another and cover the window. Here are a few quick tips on how to do just that.
Some car insurance policies come with cover for glass damage as standard. It's important to check your documents so that you're aware of the level of glass damage cover you have. Steps for temporarily covering a broken. Jay elton, 31, from willerby, east yorkshire, said his local council has refused to compensate him even though he claims he caught the worker on camera damaging his car. A broken car window should be repaired as soon as possible, because a temporary window cover will hamper your visibility and leave your car an easy target for thieves.
Crash wraps might be the fastest and easiest way to cover a broken car window opening. Here are some simple steps to help assure the job is done correctly. Cover the broken area with several layers of sturdy black bin bags and tape the plastic bag into place using clear packaging tape.
Others may offer it as an optional extra, at an additional cost. Start on one side of the window, on the inside of the car, and lay a strip vertically so that the tape touches the window frame.
A staple gun may also be used if securing the plastic edges to a wooden window frame. Many faced with such an issue decide to patch or mask the damage with plastic or thick tape to cover their broken window. Skip Ad. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Found the story interesting?
Like us on Facebook to see similar stories. I'm already a fan, don't show this again. Send MSN Feedback. How can we improve? Please give an overall site rating:. Whatever the reason, a 5-series sedan was parked in front of a hydrant in the Bronx in New York City this week, apparently for at least four days, after the battery in the driver's key fob died.
Then, because of course it did, a fire broke out on the other side of the road and firefighters needed to get a hose from the hydrant to the blaze. The shortest distance? Through the BMW's front windows. Perhaps you've seen the scene in the movie Backdraft where this same thing happens. Firefighters can and will smash car windows to run the hose through, and it appears going through a car is notably better for water pressure than trying to go under, over, or around the vehicle.
One person replying to the Post tweet said just that:. So, in case you simply don't care about paying the parking ticket for blocking a hydrant, now you know that it not only hurts a fire department's ability to respond, but it can also result in a decent-size repair bill.
At least the Bronx fire resulted in only minor injuries—plus the damage to the BMW, of course. Firefighter here! Going over the hood and having to backtrack to the hydrant would create a nasty kink in the hose. The hose is a supply line, so any reduction in water would be a danger to Firefighters. They didn't have to do that! We won't get into broad stereotypes about BMW drivers here, but we feel obliged to point out that this isn't the first Bimmer to get its windows smashed in pretty much the exact same situation.
It happened in in Boston when a man in his 20s parked in front of a hydrant overnight. Another BMW driver, also in Boston, parked illegally in front of a hydrant later that year , but the fire department did not break his windows when a three-alarm fire broke out nearby.
That BMW driver later apologized and said he simply didn't see the hydrant. To be fair, drivers of all kinds of cars have done the stupid thing and parked in front of a hydrant exactly when firefighters needed to access it, as CNN reported in , and you can find many more examples on YouTube.
While we all know the rules, we suspect we'll hear about another similar incident at some point in the future, BMW or otherwise. Krot told the man.
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