absolutely gutted, just stepped out to overtake lorry, only doing 50 ish, caught white line, you know the rest, sideways through the hedge. write off.
hope fully I will by back of insurers, has a rebuilt engine by wgt, so worth it for that if price is right.
Sorry to hear that matey, hope it all works out for you insurance wise and you get a good deal. Did you come away unscathed?
If you can get the car back and sell it off in bits probably make a bit, plenty of vultures around at the moment :) look how quick dandans and bin liners bits went :)
Was it wet? Gutted for you, i\'m glad i don\'t have to drive mine when its crappy weather.
Keep us posted. :wave
Bad luck mate, hope you were not hurt, what tyres were on the car?
cheers Bob
Real sorry to hear that for anyone, but as said every time, its only cost you a car not a life.
WOW really sorry to hear it - but i think steve summed it up :)
yes it was wet, and you guessed it horrible jap tyres. these things go big time when they go, but I will say they hold you in yuore seat well when the worst does happen.
Will see what insurers say about buying it back, as i said has an engine rebuild by pip, which was working suoebly, with none of the usual problems. If I cant buy it back, I will find out where it has gone, atleast someone on here will stand a chance of getting a decent engine from it. One side of the car is totally unmarked, but every single panel on the other is gone. You never know though, may only be panels, having said that the cost of a respray would be almost enough to write it off these days.
Thanks for the comments guys, hopefully I will have another one day, when funds permit.
At least there\'s no injuries. How many more are going to fall foul of dodgy jap rubber, i know tyres aren\'t cheap but its the only thing connecting us to the road. Having said that, where all as bad at somepoint thinking it\'ll never happen to me!
Kevin
Sorry to hear that mate... glad your ok... the uk really isnt that rx friendly at this time of year!!!
Know i had my supra out yesterday to try and check a boost prob... and that was trying to step the back end out all the way into 4th... nightmare..and thats with a big diff in it.. got to be so careful!!! Lookign forward to bring my new single back for newcastle on tues with knakad semi slicks on it!!Im praying for dry weather!!
Hope you get things sorted soon mate
All The Best
matt
Sorry to hear mate. I know how it feels. Atleast you are OK.
Hope you can buy it back and atleast recoup on part of your loss.
Sorry to hear that
Lucky you are well
Good to hear you walked away unscathed - thats the most important thing. A car can always be replaced - you can\'t.
With regard the Jap tyres - are the tyres used in the Jap domestic market actually CE marked? OK, so alot of new tyres we buy in the UK are from Japan, but are these re-formulated to take into account the different road conditions/surfaces etc? In other words, if the Jap domestic tyres aren\'t CE marked, are they not allowed to be used in the UK?
Damn shame. Glad to hear you are well though. (makes note to phone tyre company asap)
Unlucky mate, easy done I know all too well. Hope you get something back from insurers. I couldn\'t get anything back from mine :(
cheers
G
I feel for you mate, similar thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. I\'m still gutted about mine.
JP
I know what it\'s like. I wish you the best of luck, getting it sorted :reallymad
just been offered 3490 by insurers, is this a reasonable offer for a J reg fd3s. the engine was rebuilt by pip about 12 months ago, and still starts.
Also, does anybody know how much I should offer to buy it back ?
thats not a lot of money !
and can you buy the EXACT same car for that money - errrr i dont think so - always decline their first offer .. see if pip can write a letter of value of the car ( due to rebuild ) and say thats what it will cost to replace
did you not have an agreed value with the insurace ?
i managed to but one of my cars back for £75 - scrap value basically
Whoever came to assess your car would have issued a salvageable value. If you know that then offer them 2/3 of that value.
However, first tell them that the offer of £3400 is half way to getting a car to your spec.
Good luck
No way is that enough. Insurance companies are total tossers. They haggle with you about what your car is worth (not that you can haggle about your premium with them!!!). As grinder said, can that amount of cash buy you back the same car, er no! The rebuild would have cost you about a grand less than that, and you can prove that from the recipt you\'ll have from WGT.
If I were you I would do a search and get prices on similar FD\'s that have had engine rebuilds and get a valuation from Pip if thats possible. Personally Id be looking to get about £7,000 from them, or whatever you paid for the car plus the cost of the rebuild.
we deal with Insurance guys all the time, they tend to always go in low becouse people just want the ordeal over.
Insurance companys nowadays try to screw every one its all about showing a profit at the end of the day.
I hate to tell you this but 70% of insurance companys wont let you buy your car back becouse they are under strict guide lines of what is alowed to be repaired once its been a total loss, so they usaly tell you its not possable becouse they are contracted to a salvage Company for any Total Loss.
We are quite a large Bodyshop and you want to see them arguing with our engineers about how long a job takes and the diffrences in Estimates. Things like we like to fit new panels to make a nice repaire and they say no fill it so you end up with a tub of Filler in a panel.
I say get as much back up as possable, letter from Pip and say a cutting from the autotrader or some thing simalar (make sure its a good week with no cheap one in) you just don\'t see cars with fresh engines under 6k.
They offered me £4k to start with I laughed in their face, got £8k back in the end. Make sure they realise you know your stuff, I had a valuation letter from the club as well saying worth £xk.
Good luck getting sorted but like others said, don\'t fancy your chances of buying it back. Mine had a rebuilt engine and a few nice bits and pieces. THe only bit I got back was the CD player (forgot to get the loom :( ) and the rear speakers.
cheers
Gareth