Mr.Manchester

Now i know its no impreza, but its still my pride and joy




Was on my way back from a mates house in Oldham at 2:30pm, I was driving down Ashton Road towards Ashton under lyne and there was a red Peugeot 206 coming towards me, she indicates to turn accross my path into a side street so i slow a little, the without warning she turn right infront of me

I braked and locked up, tried to turn and miss her but there was traffic coming the other way, so i just braced myself and bang, it was done
I hit her rear quarter and spun her round in the road, first thing i did was jump out and see if she was ok then noticed a young lad in the passenger seat, thank god i swerved and hit the rear quarter and not the passenger door. The AA have recovered the car and its on my drive.








Gutted

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

looked tidy mate. gutted for you, doubt its a write off if thats of any comfort.

Brun

Did she offer any explaination?
Nice looking Scort BTW

mart360

that will be a write off..

my rear bumper, & towbar was £1500+


and i hope he,s declared those non standard alloys


Mart

Mr.Manchester

She asked "why i hit her, i was indicating?" i mean WTF!

Her excuse to the police was i indicated and he hit me. Police thought she was a joke and said they would back me up as it was clear what happened.

The Chief

It does not matter whether its an Impreza or not, its still your pride and joy - hope you get it sorted mate

cw42

iTrader: (1)

Had a bump in my old car a while ago, which was repaired better than new But I was told that if the damage had been over 50% of the value of the car, I'd be looking at a write off , fortunatly it wasn't, although it was close.
Good luck with the claim, mine is still ongoing, after 3 months! Hope they pay out in the end.
Chris.

ps, with the proceeds if they do write it off, you could get a scoob, and come join us for a play

Poor Guy

RS Grant

Sorry to see that mate.. Its a clean 'scort, possibly the chance to buy it back off insurers if it is written off??


Cheers,
Grant

bigdavie

mate thats **** : ( bloody nice escort there me an my ex used to have a v early mk5 that was lowered and had a nice set of deep dish alloys (fondmetal i believe ) always got stopped and asked if it was a cossie lmao thats how old i am lol !!!

jowl

Thats **** man.

When I had a bump(!) with a tree on a very windy day, I thought they would write off my pug 306 - The cost for reapirs came to nearly 4k - no way in the world the car was worth 8k though. Still they repaired.

Oh, the repair was **** poor and and I ended up changing the car for my Scooby!!) So insist on a decent place not one starting with A and ending DR in Rotherham (sorry mods!)

tmo

i had the misfortune to know the owner .... same as the quality of work , enough said

Mr.Manchester

I really do feel drained today, i have produced my docs at the local police station, all was OK

I have literally called churchill insurance 13 times today, all of which was to correct the **** up on there database Basically there not going to help me because they say i don't have legal protection! i was 110% sure i did, so i ripped the house apart today to find the documents, guess what, i do have legal protection for upto 50 grand

So i call the again to tell them i do have protection and its there mistake, they ask me to fax them a copy and they will back date it and help me out. I faxed them at 1:30pm having been promised a return call at 2:00pm yeah right!

I have just called them back at 6:30pm explaining how unhappy i was with the service to be told they cant find the fax (how convenient) and they will call me tomorrow

Gutmann pug

Hope you get it sorted soon matey.......

Gary

Mr.Manchester

Insurance have admited i have legal assistance on my policy i should be getting a hire car this afternoon or tomorrow morning they even mentioned repairing the car

SJ_Skyline

Bad luck mate if it can be repaired though then that's good news

PG

I dont use insurance legal cover.
If it is a non fault accident then HelpHire are great.
My uncle has a bodyshop and puts jobs through them. The wife's car has been hit twice in 2 weeks and is going in next week to get done.

Mr.Manchester

Helphire are the people that are helping mate, well impressed with them upto now just hope i get a car tomorrow as im supposed to be going away for the weekend!

Mr.Manchester

Little update. Engineer came out a fews days after and wrote the car off, i was assurerd it would not go on the List, bought it back VERY cheap and repaired it.

The rebuild...



Turns out a wheel was bucled also, so this is how she stands now....



Thanks to everyone for there advice

Daft Lad

Looks good mate, you must feel great to have her back on the road

Brun

cw42

iTrader: (1)

Excellent to see her back on the road again, now get her chopped in for a scooby while she's still in one piece

mart360

Interesting when i got bumped in the scoob, i was offered legal protection after the accident for a slightly higher premium, i got all my uninsured losses back


Mart

floatindolphin

ah dammit!!!! Why'd you have to get it fixed???


Was going to ask to buy the rear bumper after I reversed over a tree

Mr.Manchester

mail order one from www.remoco.co.uk there dirt cheap