another one bites the dust

[peterch]

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.

[ScuttleRX]

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

[Gman]

Was it wet? Gutted for you, i\'m glad i don\'t have to drive mine when its crappy weather.

Keep us posted. :wave

[ro284]

Bad luck mate, hope you were not hurt, what tyres were on the car?
cheers Bob

[Steve Burnett]

Real sorry to hear that for anyone, but as said every time, its only cost you a car not a life.

[grinder]

WOW really sorry to hear it - but i think steve summed it up

[peterch]

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.

[kev-yorks]

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

[MattR]

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

[Freddy]

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.

[Riccardo]

Sorry to hear that
Lucky you are well

[andrewrx7]

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?

[robedwards99]

Damn shame. Glad to hear you are well though. (makes note to phone tyre company asap)

[GeckoGareth]

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

[John-Paul]

I feel for you mate, similar thing happened to me about 3 weeks ago. I\'m still gutted about mine.

JP