Scarlett Moffatt tests new 'drive-thru bubble wrap machine' to protect cars from parking damage

In a caller video TV prima Scarlett Moffatt who took 14 attempts to walk her driving trial tries retired a caller method to forestall car damage

A staggering fig of Brits fret implicit car damage, with 1 successful 4 drivers confessing they've unintentionally damaged different car successful a supermarket car parkland oregon person been connected the receiving extremity of specified an incident.

Two-thirds of Brits would picture themselves arsenic anxious drivers, which lone heightens their interest astir damaging their vehicles and having to record a claim.

In an effort to dodge dents and damage, fractional of Brits person taken other measures specified arsenic occupying 2 parking spaces and intentionally parking adjacent to the astir luxurious car they tin spot, hoping that its proprietor volition beryllium highly cautious with their ain doors.

Meanwhile, 1 successful 10 drivers admitted to utilizing a genitor and babe space, contempt not having immoderate children with them, for the convenience of other abstraction connected either broadside of the doors.

The AA commissioned these findings to beforehand Accident Assist, a round-the-clock enactment work for members.

They besides constructed a humorous 'drive-thru bubble wrapper machine' to show the lengths radical mightiness spell to debar scratches, dents, and dings.

TV property Scarlett Moffatt, who needed 14 attempts to walk her driving test, was the archetypal to 'trial' the drive-thru. She commented: "Car parks tin beryllium a nightmare, particularly with the size of immoderate cars these days."

"It's nary tiny wonderment radical are acrophobic of getting their ain conveyance scraped oregon dinged, and however galore person accidentally done it to idiosyncratic else."

As galore arsenic 23% would beryllium 'very interested' successful shelling retired for a spot with a 'dent escaped guarantee' to debar the hazard of scratches from negligent drivers.

For galore Brits, added protections mean they tin sidestep the hassle of making immoderate claims. As 1 successful 10 admit they wouldn't cognize wherever to statesman if they had to and 44% would beryllium frustrated by each the admin progressive successful getting immoderate damages fixed.

Tim Rankin, managing manager of AA Accident Assist, commented: "Even the smallest dents tin magnitude to a important inconvenience. It's not conscionable astir the car's aesthetics, but the time, effort, and often wealth needed to rectify these issues."

"We grip everything arsenic portion of your rank giving you the liberty to thrust with confidence."