Oopsie....

[Initial-D]

Oh No!! Just seen this thread and I\'m glad your ok, fingers crossed the insurers say it\'s repairable. Your car was looking excellent with the stickers on aswell.... oh well back to the drawing board, you have a new design in mind?

Big respect for being honest about how it happened and not using the old \'diesel on the road\' excuse!

[dandan]

aah diesel on the road, that was it!!

[robedwards99]

Whats the latest Dan??? Write off?? Repaired??

[dandan]

more like slow as you like service from the insurance company. I rang them last night, as they have had the car 6 days now, and they said their \'system was down\' so i;ll try again tonight. Thats it so far.

[ScuttleRX]

insurance company took 2 months to come and inspect my car...couldnt believe it...luckily the other bloke had admitted full liability so I had a hire car but overall it was just a joke. Friend at work is in same boat, has been waiting over 2 weeks now.

Hope you have more luck than us Dan, I have heard the opposite for other people with inspectors coming out straight away so sounds like luck of the draw.

Any thoughts for the new graphics?

[Rich Cheung]

Good luck getting your sorted Dan. I\'m in the same boat at the moment.
Least we both walked away from it which is the main thing.
All the best.

Rich  

[dandan]

Well the car has been inspected, by a bit of an enthusiast by the looks of things, they have noted all the uprated bits and bobs in the engine bay that i wasnt aware of when i bought the car and so haven\'t yet got round to, er, declaring on the insurance. I should have a letter from an underwriter to reply to when i get home, the way i see it i didn\'t mod it, and i didn\'t know about it immediately so depending how harsh the insurance co are, ill try and get the benefit of the doubt. worst case is I end up with it back with me and ill have to break it to all you lovely people. Brand new rebuilt engine, anyone?

[tr1cky]

Fingers crossed Dan!

Hope it turns out alright for you.

If the worst does happen though, be sure to let me know, few bits I could take off your hands!

Not being a circling vulture, HONEST!

Rich

[Tim Oldland]

Er, hope that \'diesel on the road\' bit wasn\'t aimed at me Ben!!!!!!

[Freddy]

Where I would be interested in the engine, I would rather you DONT BREAK IT!

Seriously, the damage doesnt look too bad. New bonnet, bumper and wings??

You can have the bumper from me FOC with indicator lights. It\'s already in black too.  

[Initial-D]

Sorry Tim! No it wasn\'t aimed at anyone and is a bit of joke - sorry if anyone took it as a poke at them!

Hope things are progressing in your favour Dan! I could deffo put you in touch with someone to put it right methinks but you\'d be looking at a minimum of 1K - so it\'d be cheaper through the insurance I\'m sure.

[dandan]

Seriously freddie? free bumper? Well if it ends up back in my hands maybe i will get it looked at to estimate the cost of repairs, I might be able to borrow the money in advance of selling it once fixed, and a free bumper would help!

It would definately have to be sold once fixed though, and the market isn\'t great right now by all accounts. We shall have to see if I get right royally shafted by the insurance people.

Oh the messes I manage to get myself into!

[robedwards99]

dandan, one tip I have for you is to gather up half a dozen adverts from AutoTrader with cars of the same spec/age/price etc to send off the your insurance company.
When I wrote off my GT4 Elephant just sent me a cheque out without even consulting me for £2000 when I had only just paid £4000 for the car.
I managed to get another £2000 out of them by sending in a load of adverts for vehicles that were the same spec etc..
Good luck mate.