Embarrassed newbie

[Rocho]

Hi all,

Since I was at college I\'ve promised myself a really good sports car but I\'ve always had a company car until last autumn. So when I was choosing a car I just had to go for something cool, hence the RX7!

This is a very impressive car, and I took it out showing off to all my friends and took a friend for a drive in it, decided to show him what it can do. Any RX7 owners now will be thinking OH NO! and Yes your right, and it was a mere 8 hours after purchasing this lovely car.

Rearwheel drive + newbie driver = 180deg spin taking the passenger side through a small crash barrier. I was very fortunate to end up on the other side of a dual carriageway and the other people stopped an helped a very dazed driver push the barrier out the way and drive off.

I know that if the insurance were to look a this they would write the car off and I didn\'t want that (it felt wrong!) so I\'ve decided at considerable cost to repair the car with my own spondoolies. The damage as you can see below is mainly body work, only had to replace the anti roll bar to get it driving correct but due to Mazda\'s great ordering service the panels on 3 day order took 6 weeks to get here.

Its still in the body shop but on the bright side its getting a full re-spray and the guy promises me that it will look like a brand new car which I should get back at the end of this week.

Only one small task remains, to keep avoiding my mother who doesn\'t know I\'ve had an accident in this new car that she eagerly wants to see, 10 weeks now!

I\'ll post new pictures of the completed car hopefully at the weekend when I look forward to driving it again - very slowly!

[allstaruk]

Unlucky mate, be very carefull if you\'ve been reading the posts then there have been quite a few rx\'s bent or writen off in the last couple of months and thats by people wo have been driving them for a long time, they are loverly cars and but unless your careful they will bite you.

Get a 4 wheel alignment done once its out of the body shop just to make sure to.

From what I can see it looks like a nice car,

Eazy

Al

[skybusr34]

sorry to hear that mate`y..   i did exactly the same thing as you. picked up the car. bet this bird i was see`ing from her college. gave it a bit too much.  did a 360 then another 180 just to make sure. i missed all the cars on the ring road and caught passenger rear quarter on central reservation.  squash.  not as bad as yours. i dropped off a very ghostly white girl off ( never to be seen again)  then headed home.  told my parents it was damaged on the boat and got a discount!!   i learned how easy these cars kick.  tought me a huge lesson

good luck mate`y   post up once resprayed,  you having standard colour??

[asp]

i feel for u mate,8 hours,is that a club record?

[Rocho]

allstaruk,

I\'ve had a 4 wheel g check on it when I had the anit roll bar etc replaced (which I had sprayed bright red to impress anyone else who goes under my car!) and it was way off on the rear which I didn\'t hit. I think this may have contributed to the unfortunate event. Well thats my official line anyway!

harris,

I\'m sticking the red, they guy who is doing the work for me is really in love with rexs and he\'s had a week extra already cos he wants to do a real good job on it. I\'m really eager to get it back!

asp,

can I have a rosette?

[robedwards99]

Very bad luck mate.

You know for future driving to take it steady!

If you haven\'t done so already, PUT SOME DECENT TYRES ON IT!!!

Rob.

[Rocho]

Very bad luck mate.

You know for future driving to take it steady!

If you haven\'t done so already, PUT SOME DECENT TYRES ON IT!!!

Rob.

Yeah its really annoying me, spent 3 hours yesterday searching on here and a cool american web site trying to pick out a new set of alloys for her.

When I brough the car I financed an extra 2k for insurance and modifications, good job I didn\'t spend it in less than 8 hours!

[kev-yorks]

Bad luck mate but the main thing is your still here to tell the story. Could off been a lot worse than just embarrassed.
Kevin

[dandan]

Took me all of 3 months to smash mine up so I think you are a record holder!


Pity you didn\'t mention your accident on here earlier, i have an anti roll bar you could have had, and passenger door, and prob most other bits you needed! oh well.

[Rocho]

tell me about it, I was busy with work so just told my dad to get the parts in for it, found out a few weeks later that that jimmys had some available there and then and cheeper.

so far I\'ve spent a fortune on this car and only driven it 7 times!

[Rocho]

Bad luck mate but the main thing is your still here to tell the story. Could off been a lot worse than just embarrassed.
Kevin

yeah, it was my mate in the passenger side who went through the barrier, I had to make a bit of an apology for nearly killing him!

[probedb]

Bad luck matey but at least you\'re ok!

Where in Derbyshire are you?

[nikp]

Took me all of 3 months to smash mine up so I think you are a record holder!

2 months for me!

[JamesFD3]

A couple of years back I imported a really mint 93\' Type-X in black,drove it around for a few months and enjoyed every minite of it.Had to sell the car due to owning another RX-7

Sold it too a 19 year old,nice lad and he drove it very sensibly on the test drive and I thought he\'ll be ok,a week later he\'d wrote it off,the Fire brigade had to cut the roof off,plus the hatch and the doors to free him,he was lucky as he got away with a broken ankle.I saw the car in the breakers yard a few weeks later,broke my heart

Glad to see your getting yours back,should look stunning with the fresh red paint :cool

[Rocho]

Ive read far too many stories in here about rexs being wrote off, as good as this car is its also damn scarey.

when I took mine for test drive after the anti-roll bar was replaced I took it very steady, got my confidence back a bit and decided to pull off onto a dual carrage way and drifted for about 8meters, if the car dont kill me then a bloody heart attack will driving it!

probedb,

I live near J28 of the M1, any1 meet up around here u know about? BTW I used to live in sheff.