Jason Manford makes plea to local Facebook group to find the Tesla driver who pranged his car
A hand-written note was left on his vehicle by an eyewitness, who claimed to have seen a 'black or blue Tesla ' hit his front bumper at 11.23am.
However, they did not leave any contact details, and did not reveal if they, or another motorist, was the culprit of the crash.
So in a bid to find out their identity, father-of-six Jason, 43, attached a picture of the note on the, We Love Bramhall community Facebook page.
The note reads: 'A black/blue Tesla hit your from bumper 11:23AM. Hope this helps!'
He also added the caption: 'Thanks to the person who wrote this note today in Bramhall Precinct Car Park.
'I don't want to put this person in our group, or even worse, on my own social media pages.
'So if anyone knows who it is, or it's you, can you please get in touch and pay for the damage you caused.'
MailOnline has approached Jason's representatives for comment.
Jason's Facebook call out comes days after he launched a stinging attack on 'ridiculous' hotel policy on social media after he was forced to share a room with his friend because it was overbooked.
The comedian had arrived in Bournemouth on Saturday night ahead of a show the following evening during his A Manford All Seasons tour.
But staff at the Village Hotel told him it had been overbooked for the night - and that because he had arrived so late, his room had been sold to someone else.
Jason went on to blast the chain, which has 33 hotels in the UK, explaining in a video that he had no choice but to share a room with his friend Steve.
Filming himself walking to the hotel room, he said: 'So we got to our hotel tonight in Bournemouth and it's fully booked. We were like, 'Fine, that's good - well done you!'
Jason - who had a show at the Bournemouth Pavillion the following night - then issued a warning to his followers about using the hotel, before calling the chain out directly and reprimanding them as 'naughty'.
He said: 'Oh well, these things happen and all that. Worse things happen at sea. But Village Hotel, just beware, if you are booking and it's a busy day in a busy city...
'I mean, we're lucky that [our booking] was two rooms because that fella coming behind us, a doctor as well, and no room for him. He just had to walk out, and like and there's no rooms anywhere in Bournemouth tonight.
'Naughty that, naughty. I've heard of aeroplanes doing it, but I've never known in 25 years of touring, a hotel doing it. That's not on, that is not on.'
Panning the camera around to reveal the two single beds in the room, he concluded the video by saying: 'So we've managed to make best of our situation. But that poor doctor, maybe he could sleep on the floor! Anyway, good night.'
He captioned the clip: 'What's your minimum expectation when you book a room at @Villagehotelsup? Staff were lovely but policy stinks!'
The next day, Manford returned to social media to explain that hotel management had been in touch, and they also asked him to take down his first video.
'They went, 'No, no, as in like without you'. So me and Steve, obviously [we're] in separate rooms. And then we just discovered that basically if it's fully booked it means that, [you have to share].'
The comedian added: 'Okay, don't worry, it is what it is, these things happen - all that b******t! I mean we spent all day together! Oh, well, at least we've got a nice view of the car park.'
But the star flatly refused to delete the post, explaining that he wanted to leave it up to warn people about the company's practice and to offer support to the hotel staff that had to face the umbrage of upset customers.
He began: 'This is the final word I'll say on this. I know the general manager of the Village Hotel's got in touch with the manager at the Bournemouth one and came and found me and have a word with me and it was very nice to speak to them.
'For people who don't know, I got to the hotel last night and the hotel was overbooked. So it meant because we arrived late - we always arrive late because of the two late shows - our room had been resold to somebody else.
'Now we dealt with it, it was fine, we kept our humour. What can you do, you know what I mean, it's nobody's fault in that building, so me and Steve had a laugh and had a shared room and it was fine.'
He went on: 'Now they asked me to take the video down, politely, but I'm not going to because I think it's important that people know that this is happening for one.
'What if it was a wedding or you had kids with you or a million other situations that were much more serious than mine. It's wrong, fundamentally it's wrong.'
Manford stressed that the Bournemouth hotel's staff were not to blame for the situation and urged his followers to save their anger for the people at the top making the 'ridiculous policy'.
MailOnline has contacted Village Hotels for comment.
The Stockport-born funnyman, a father of six, is a popular figure in his local area, and regularly helps out with charity campaigns and community initiatives.
He's been spending the past week encouraging youngsters in the area to take up the racket sport padel via his JM Padel Academy.
Its goal is making the game accessible to students and potentially fostering future talent.
Speaking in December during a padel event in Manchester in collaboration with the LTA, Jason said: 'If padel makes it into the Olympics, be it in 2032 or 2036, that person who plays in Team GB has not picked up a racket yet. They don't know the game exists.
'That is such an exciting thought. I feel like Terminator coming back in time to find John Connor! It could even be one of these kids here.'
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