Oopsie....

[dandan]

[Brett]

****!  What happened?  Are you ok?  Hows the car?

[Ada7]

Oh no mate!! Hope your ok. Looks like a nasty bang you\'ve had there, and after sending so much time and effort on the car.   What happened mate.

Adam

[dandan]

I\'m good, my pride is in intensive care on a drip of 100cc\'s of compliments and pats on the back per hour.


No excuses, im a silly boy and I smashed my lovely car into a wall \'cos i was driving too fast. Back went one way and I didnt catch it, hello wall.

Just thought i would let you see the gory pictures, dont worry its not too bad i\'m hoping and will all be fixed very soon. Will need some new graphics though.

[Ada7]

Well as long as your ok mate. Cars can be fixed and all that.
Hope you can get it back up and running again soon. Plus it gives you a chance to try out some different graphics maybe

Adam

[Brett]

Bit of elbow grease and some T-cut will see you right as rain
Out of interest, how fast, what kind of \'private\' road and was it wet or dry?

[Brett]

By the way, moocho respect for admitting you were going too fast. :yes I think we\'ve all had lucky escapes from driving at the wrong speed, for most people its a bit of a wake up call.  I\'m gutted you happened to find an inconviently placed wall though

[Kieron]

OUCH... Gutted, shouldnt be too bad to fix, hope nothing serious was damaged!

[dandan]

Ok i was doing a u turn round a roundabout and edging the back out a teensy bit like i have done many times before and it just snapped and i lifted off and steered into it (whoops) so it snapped the other way and headed for the nearest wall. Whole thing was executed at under 30mph luckily, and if i hadn\'t hit the wall it was 25feet down to the M27 below so im quite glad it was there.

The engine started afterwards no probs, fan was slapping against something but that was it, it has discharged itself now due to a short circuit somewhere.
Wheels are fine, suspension looks ok, intercooler may need some tlc, strangely enough, ALL the lights are still working!
four new body panels, slam panel, few odds and sods and hopefully it will be ok....

Waiting for insurers to take it away and tell me if it will live again.

[Donato]

Unlucky mate. Hope you get it sorted soon.

[Brett]

Yeah, by all accounts that\'s a good luck wall!

[g11ary]

sorry to see this. But glad your ok.

[Col]

o mate feel for you, as long as you are Ok thats what counts, good luck with the insurers.

[dandan]

I have a horrible pessimistic doom-type feeling that they will say something like,
\'oh Mr Verge i\'m afraid we found a non-standard nut holding your exhaust mount on, it was not declared so we can\'t cover you, sorry\'

I won\'t stop worrying until they rubber stamp the repairs to be honest. fingers crossed.

[johnf]

If you need an \'independant professional\' quote for replacing the graphics let me know.

Not being funny, but don\'t tell them you did it yourself. I recon about £600.00 for the front half should cover it don\'t you?

John