Following on from the car CV, -The follow up - Your Crash and bang CV -
Kicking off:
70's
Ducatti Desmo Jr: hit a mini pulling out of a side turn, over the top, broken Nose and collar bone. Bike a write off.
Honda CB175: Dropped it turning right into a side road, bike carried on, body hit a Keep Left bollard. Other collar bone broken, 9 stitches in thigh.
Capri: HIt another car up the rear while not locking, new wings and radiator.
Capri: (same one) shunted up the rear while parked overnight outside house. Tracked the purp to three doors down, still drunk. New rear boot and wing - Drunk paid cash.
Capri (diffrent one), Looking at pretty girl in Fulham Broadway, swerved over road and hit another
car coming the other way,. New Radiator valance and wings.
80's
Fiat 131, lost it on an icy road, backwards through a hedge, Car towed from duckpond the next morning (ducks very upset). Minor panel damage, but car never smelt the same again.
Fiat (same) reversed into a 30 foot high lamp pole. New rear estate door.
Fiat (same) Parked outside an office tight to steel bollard, thought "must remember thats there", didnt. New Wing and light.
Sierra, reversing out of drive, rear door opened and ripped it off on the gate post.
90's
Cavalier, Struck up rear at roundabout, new boot floor and hatch (nearly written off)
Scenic, reversing out of drive, hit Mrs RF's Clio, no damage to Clio, rear door on Scenic sprung in. Took off door panel kicked dent and it sprung out.
2,000's
Laguna, hit a Nissan thingy up the rear at roundabout (he's gone - my turn - ooppps!) Nissan badly deranged at rear, slight paint flake from Laguna.
There, three decades of driving and a hit in every one, Just like Cliff Richard.
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Bearing in mind I've only been driving 3 years...
Boxing Day 2002 - Stopped at red light, hit from rear by a guy who thought I was going to jump the red light. I never found out why he thought that. Dinted the bumper and boot floor, insurance tried to write it off but I refused to accept it and made them pay for the repair. The guy chose the wrong day to do that to me, my house had been burnt down the day before (Christmas Day), I'd only been out of hospital an hour and was on the way to see my dad who was still there. I went psycho at the guy... and the police who had to attend.
July 2004 - I'd had my new car 2 weeks and my boyfriends next door neighbour reversed into the back of it whilst it was parked up. She forgot she had a tow bar on the back of her car!!!
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been driving nearly 30 years had a few accidents most not my fault although a few were, only ever got injuries from bike crashes mostly my fault. once had 2 cars written off in the same crash, drunk driver hit me and pushed me into my other car i was parked at the time but nothing in the last 8 years touching wood...cheers...keo.
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There, three decades of driving and a hit in every one, Just like Cliff Richard.
Gosh, you must be so proud RF :-)
OK mine,
Escort - Reversed towing eye into terricota (sp?) plant pot. Total right off (plant pot that is).
There you go then, about as interesting as my car CV.
:-)
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Mike Farrow
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18 years of driving and happy to admit, not a thing to report!
Just know I have tempted fate writing that..
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1972 Ford Cortina 1600 GT - the one with the rally seats that looked like nuns sitting in the front - and just a few months old. Went over hump backed bridge and had to stop at a zebra crossing behind a few other cars. Next thing an old Vauxhall Victor came from behind and smashed into me. Pushed me forward, my seat broke, and I ended up lying on my back. The bodywork was crumpled and the back axle was pushed half way up the car. The Vauxhall front end was totally wrecked with the engine on the floor.
Too shocked to do much that night but get drivers name and address. Briefly, the following day he played silly beggars and wouldn't tell me his insurance company. I sued him in the county court and won a payout plus damages. His insurance company settled just prior to entering the court and the judge asked me if I was satisfied with the settlement.
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2002. Ford Fiesta- Kia Sedona full of screaming kids pulled out into the side of me. The male driver said he didnt notice me because he was pre-occupied with the kids, and admitted the fault. The main problem came from his insurer, Zurich who dragged it out for ages.
2004. Pug 106- On a dual carriageway, a big Range Rover changed lanes. While I was next to him. His front corner (with bull bar) went into my door, and wrote the car off even though I was still and he was only going about 5mph. The probs came when his insurer denied responsibility because the road had just been resurfaced and the white lines hadnt been repainted, so they said I should have assumed that it was single carriageway. But a court summons from my solicitor soon brought a cheque from his insurance.
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Hang on! How could I forget... Again, minor in the grand scheme of things:
Escort (same) - 2 foot long dent in drivers sill going up a multistorey by hitting a sticking out curb on a ramp. Lots of pulling and filling later looks as good as new apart from underneath. Didn't go structural though I don't think, but that's up to the MoT man to decide. It also punctured the rear tyre.
It was an interesting morning, as no sooner I'd got out the car and found the tyre going hiss I heard these eery cries of "help" that sounded like a woman in distress. Echoing around an empty multi-storey car park at 07:00 this almost scared me half to death and I couldn't tell which level it was coming from. Eventually found her in the basement storey, thought she'd trapped herself in the secure parking area but hadn't noticed the button on the door to let herself out.
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OK, here goes:
December 1995 (three weeks after passing test)
Audi 80 (mums :o ) round a corner on a country road at night, went slightly too wide on the other side, which put the left wheels onto a muddy verge. Steering right had no effect, until those wheels hit a storm drain which knocked them back into the road. By this point, there's a fair bit of right hand lock on, so I zoom across the road. I managed to straighten up, but slightly too late, rear quarter touched the parapet of the bridge I was by this point going across, which pulled the rest of the car back towards it.
I would have got away with very bad scratches along the drivers side, if some fool hadn't planted a telegraph pole in my way... result, redesigned v-shaped front end.
Christmas 1996
Fiat Citivan (terrible, terrible vehicle)
Slid at 4mph on ice into parked car.
Early 1996
Citivan again. Hit and run driver pulls out of side road without looking, I hit his rear quarter, he drives off before I have a chance to get reg no.
late 1997
Vauxhall Astra van. Was parked at bottom of parents driveway, I didn't know my niece had been in it and left the passenger door not properly closed. I reversed up drive, door swung open, tree bent door in half.
And that's it I think. Last three cars accident free, touch wood.
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70's
Rover2000: put two wheels into a ditch while overtaking a mini who drifted over the centreline. Both tyres and wheels kaput plus sill damage.
Cortina 3000GT: hit a Kudu at 80mph. Completely smashed the front end, pushing the radiator as far back as the block.
80's
Granada GXL: Hit a lampost avoiding a car on wrong side of road. Luckily I'd just turned into the road and was only doing about 20mph. New bumper, grille and radiator.
Cortina 3000S: Spun it on a dirt road and hit a rock with O/S rear wheel. New wheel and tyre.
Escort 1.6L: Slid into a kerb on snow covered ice. Bent track rod.
90's
Sierra GLS: Offset headon with a 230TE Merc on a blind bend in a slippery single track road. Front end of Sierra just crumpled pushing the engine back and up through rear of bonnet. Bumper, wing and suspension damage to Merc but still driveable. Considering that we were both doing about 15mph and braked before impact the damage to the Sierra was surprising. Recovery driver went out of his way to help once he knew we were on our way to a shoot and had 2 shotguns each plus cartridges with us.
Porsche 944S: Reversed into a neighbours car when rear screen was covered in ice. No damage to Porsche, new door for neighbour.
2000's
Chevy Z28: Nudged 3 times within 50yds by a lovely young lady in a Renault Clio queueing to get over J11 M4. No damage to either vehicle.
Kevin...
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Those damn Kudus, always running into them...
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Even though I?ve only driven for less than 2 years, I feel as if shouldn?t be contributing to this, but the small percentage of inept motorists out there, put pay to that!
Just over a month ago, a woman slammed into the back of my car while it was minding its own business at the side of the road outside my house. For some unknown reason, she had ventured off the cleared tracks that were on the road (it had been snowing 24h previously) and on to the snowy ground behind my car. Being unable to steer (or stop) in time, she hit the back of my car (which promptly made her stop all right)
£1100 of damage later, my cars back on the road, as good as new. (see: www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=29593&...f)
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Only 2 major incidents in 20 years, amazing considering the mileage I do, which is at the moment IRO 50/60k a year. Both avoidable and my fault too!
1: Drove into the rear of a Volvo in a works Fiat Bravo at about 20mph whilst driving past an American car show looking to my left at the cars in the show and not paying attention to the road!
2: Knocked over lamp standard on bend in a works Fiat Marea, losing control on icy surface and driving too fast for conditons (about 30). Car had extensive damage to n/s.
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There, three decades of driving and a hit in every one, Just like Cliff Richard.
70's, 80's, 90's and 00's = four decades, not three, it is worse than you thought!
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Various bumps and spills over 25 years in cars and on bikes, one of note:
1993, brand new company Cav, due to "he's gone now it's my turn" mentality at a roundabout I bumped a virtually new Escort, three thugs get out, i'm just thinking the brown velour option would have been more practical than the grey when they look at the derranged rear bumper, driver says "don't worry guv, just don't tell anyone", I didn't! Reckon the Escort was stolen. Cav bumper had a minor crease though it didn't notice.
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Apart from the scenery getting in the way and thumps up the tail, not much; bar one and for that the dear constabulary, albeit unwillingly, in the end had to charge the other party only, successfully. Still have trouble with the left leg.
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Great, an excuse for more rambling ...
1970's
Christmas Eve 1970. It's snowing and Mum's Morris Minor has barely made it into the sloping Dales farmyard and blocked in my Beetle and stepfather's Morris 1800. I volunteer to nip 3 miles down the snow-covered road and fetch the Christmas groceries in the least suitable car of the trio. A ditch has overflowed and frozen under the snow. I lose the tail of the Minor, jump the ditch and slam into an unforgiving dry-stone wall. The bonnet buckles, the headlamps smash and the fan tunnels into the radiator. It's my first accident and I sit there shaking for a few moments, then become alarmed by the possibility of fire. I fling the driver's door open, snapping the check strap and launch myself full length into the frozen mud 3 feet below the car.
Summer 1972. Having just overtaken a line of cars I'm doing an illegal 60 mph up the outside lane of the dual carriageway past Killingbeck hospital in Leeds. I spot a Ford Escort launch itself from the hospital entrance across the carriageway. I cover the brake and hit the Fiat 1500's horn ring. The Escort stops across the inside lane and I think it's OK to carry on. The "L" plates on the Escort are invisible to me because it's side on. I also didn't know that the driver hadn't meant to stop, but had stalled the engine and was being urged to get the car moving again. The Escort sets off just as the Fiat is upon it doing 50+. The offside front wheel of the Escort is pushed next to the engine, the front of the Fiat is destroyed and both cars plough bumpy furrows up the central reservation. I get a monster bruise from the seat belt buckle and my right ankle is strained from pushing the brake pedal.
Summer 1976. I'm 2 hours from trading in my Rover 2000 P6 for a delicious white Renault 16TX and I'm also unbearably smug because I've just solved a computer problem that had a colleague foxed for a while. I'm waiting to turn right on to a main road in Brighouse but a bus wants to turn right into my road. The bus driver waves me out as it would be an arkward turn for him. King of the road, I sail across the junction at the same time as a Granada Estate towing a heavy trailer quite legitimately undertakes the bus. The left front wing of the Rover is removed with surgical precision and carried up the road on the Granada's front bumper. The Granada's stopping distance is increased slightly because the front wheel is now sledging up the road on the remains of the Rover's wing. I cant' help sobbing at my monumental stupidity.
Hawkeye
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Autumn 1987. Not even passed my test, driving on a provisional in Dad's six month old car (with Dad) when a child ran out into a line of rush hour traffic a few cars ahead. I stopped very rapidly and the two cars behind didn't : bang, bang. I started to apologise to Dad who interrupted with the words "shut up, don't say anything". He later rang my driving instructor who turned up a few hours later and forced me to get behind the wheel before I lost my bottle.
October 1994. Travelling at less than 15 mph on a single track rural road. As I turned a corner, there was a large 4x4 waiting to come out of a farm gate and a small car coming towards me about 200 yards away. Farmer decides not to look right but to pull out quickly ahead of the oncoming car. Consequently his bull bars strike the exact centre of my poor little Metro doing enough damage to make it a write-off. I've never liked bull bars since.
October 2004. Exact same spot as the above but in heavy fog. Oncoming white van man thinks that 40mph is a sensible speed on this road in these conditions. I swerve onto the narrow verge and we pass with perhaps two inches to spare. But when I try to turn back onto the road, the car slides on the wet grass and I end up nose down in a ditch. At this point the milk tanker arrives to collect from the farm, tanker driver threatens to thump white van man (I don't know him but we pass almost every morning on the road and wave to one another) and I get towed out of the ditch. Both car and I completely unmarked.
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2 months after passing test (1992), head on with a Nova in a county road, front O/S corner (of my Dad's 652cc Brown Citroen Visa) flattened (I had stopped in fact, and ended with the car backwards up the bank). Took me a long weekend to straighten out.
12 months after passing test, not paying attention in the school carpark pulled out and clumped the F/N/S corner of an escort with the front centre of the same brown Visa. Another long weekend to straighten it out... Managed to burst the oil cooler that time, and started the engine in the drive with the front of the car off, and deposited most of the engine oil all over the drive and up the side of my parent's caravan. My Mum was not impressed at the smell of gunk when she got home from work, but I suspect she would have been less impressed by the sight of the oily caravan!
Since owning my own cars (1996, and about 150,000 miles) nothing, grab hard on large chunk tree. Few near misses though...
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RichardW
Is it illogical? It must be Citroen....
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No serious bumps
Hit back of astra in mark 2 golf week after passing my test no damage to golf slight damage to astra.
1 minor off road excursion when lost back end of golf on wet road, broken 1 plastic clip on front spoiler.
one smashed wing mirror on citroen when parked.
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Im a student ive got time!!!
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2 days after passing test c 1996:
bumped first car on a wall while turning into own very narrow road while trying to avoid some old biddie's small rat of a dog that was trying to wander into the road.
Some months later:
Bumped a kerb on a wet road in the pouring rain in the dark. Not sure whether the car skidded and I hit the kerb or whether I misjudged the corner and hit the kerb. Only pride was damaged and heart rate sent into the stratosphere. Did make me buy 4 new michelins instead of having the previous bobby no name rubbish that weren't even worn but had no grip whatsover.
Scraped car on own gatepost x 2
Scraped car on parent's fence x4
First proper accident ( ie involving another car) happened last year. Some daft bloke in a corsa decided not to give way at a slip road and drove into the side of my car instead.
Funniest accident was my Dad trying to turn round on my yard in his new omega. I told him he couldn't manage it but he still has a go and nearly takes my gas meter off the wall! Left a nice scrape all along the front bumper too..... I then think he went home and promptly reversed into their own wheelie bin!
teabelly
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Collided with (ex) wife while racing her for the only available parking space outside our house, requiring new bumpers and lamps all round. My fault of course, everything was my fault.
I killed a peck-peck-pecking hen (a real one not the ex-wife) in Stockport Town centre. I really wasn?t expecting to see one quite honestly.
Hit hard in the rear of my 605 in Sheperds Bush by a Primera, witnessed by a plod with whom I was at primary school in Manchester. No problem with that claim.
Several collisions a week as a passenger in ex wife?s company car. Anybody know that road from Hampstead to Highgate (top of Bishops Avenue) where the two buildings are really close and passing requires just the slightest care and attention? We had so many incidents there, I don?t know why she didn?t try it with her eyes open.
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1989- Driving my mums Citroen diane. Drove it in to a flood. Windows misted up (night time) got the car started and reversed back straight in to a hedge!
1990- My first Meto. Waited at a bridge where a large lorry was cross over. Unfortunatly the partco van behind me did not see me nor the lorry and drove in to the back of me. Recovered costs of third party.
1995- Driving J reg peugeot 405 SRI. Took a corner to fast (at about 70mph) skidded sideways, hit a embankment, flew up in to the air and snapped a telegraph poll half way up. Car ended up on its side in the middle of a field against a tree! Taken to Hospital, Air ambulance called but cancelled as they saw me scramble out of the sunroof. Thinking back on it I am very luck to be alive and not to hit anyone else. Completly my fault. Claimed off my comp insurance.
1997- Worked for a VW garage as sales exec. Crashed a 1 month old 16V polo in to the side of a tractor and trailor. I was overtaking but he did the clasic and turned right with out looking. No injuries though although car badley damaged. Strong cars polo's
Since 2000 have be a high milage rep and touch wood no more crashes.
Kind Regards
Jlo
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1988, My first car a 1975 mk2 Escort written off by a Datsun Laurel pulling out of a side street!. Never did get any comeback `cos they drove off leaving half their front end on the road lol!. Seem to remember the plods were more interested in my documents rather than trying to find the hit and run merchant!
1994, Smashed up my 1982 BMW 316 on the way to work! I lost the back end on a greasy bend didn`t catch it and ended up hitting a tree stump! Gave em all a good laugh at work that did!.
1998, Had the side of my BMW 520i stoved in by a 70 odd year old guy pulling out of a side entrance in his saxo!. Was repaired via the insurance. He admitted responsibility which was good of him. The thing I remember is being urged to make a personal injury claim! I dont believe in fuelling the compensation culture though so didn`t bother with that.
I`ve had a few small prangs since usually dealt with by dentmaster etc!.So nothing major to report since!. Hope it continues eh!
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6 Feb 2000 - I hit a car in the side coming out of a T-junction.
6 Feb 2003 - Car behind hit me, not noticing I had stopped.
One day next February, I'm staying off the roads!
James
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Bought my first car in 1998, a G-reg diesel Orion. Promptly wrote it off (having had it about 3 weeks) when a very elderly (80s) driver went straight across a mini roundabout and into the (near)side of me. I was completely uninjured but very surprised.
Insurance gave me a 1.2 Punto courtesy car. Had that for a couple of weeks, then one day there's a knock on the door: "sorry, I've just run into your car". He certainly had - he'd knocked it about 20 feet down the road and up onto the pavement, bending the back of the car such that the n/s/r wheel was jammed. I opened the drivers door to get my stuff out, and then it didn't want to close - whole thing bent I guess.
Put my ancient Golf into a lamppost in heavy snow winter 2000/01 - braked for a roundabout, didn't slow down much, skidded straight into it. Probably 5mph if that - bent the bumper a bit, reversed off it and went on. Had to replace the bumper a few months later when plod stopped me and told me to get it sorted.
Exhaust on my current car is bent and bangs about a bit - I've damaged it, probably by driving it across a field. Not enough ground clearance.
Other than those, nothing of note while I was driving - although I do tend to park on the "reverse until you hit the wall, then switch off and get out" principle, I haven't done any actual damage yet.
Slightly comic one (but was passenger at time, not driving): in a works car, on way to see a customer. One of my colleagues sees a gap on the roundabout and accelerates away, into the back of a minicab.
Taxi driver, colleague and I all get out, and some bloke jumps out of some bushes(!) pointing at the cab driver and shouting "It was him! I saw him! He was on the phone, it was his fault!". Really quite aggressive.
Both works car and ratty old Toyota are already covered in scratches and generally decrepit. Cab driver and I look at the lack-of-damage and I say, "do you care?". "No" he says, so we get back in cars and drive on - total time about 30secs.
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May 1993: G-Reg Ford Orion 1.4L. Left the A689 whilst driving through the village of Slaggyford in Northumberland. I was half way round a bend when I hit a stream of water flowing across the road. I did the natural (but wrong) thing and touched the brakes. Result: car went straight on rather than round bend and was stopped by the outside toilet of a little old lady's cottage. Car written off. I was OK but climbed out of the car between the driver's door and the roof... Outside toilet undamaged. Little old lady (and little old man) provided me with cup of tea, before telling me that their only son had been killed about 25 years previously whenn someone else did the same thing - he was standing in front of the outside toilet!!! :o( They did add that about 20 people had crashed into their cottage since then however.
100% clean record for the following 10 years and around half a million miles (yes I do a lot of miles!) until:
May 2004: Collected a cyclist on the front of my Galaxy. I was actually stationary at the time. Cyclist was 72 and riding a £3000 mountain bike!!! He was approaching from the opposite direction on a bend, cut the corner a bit tight and ended up cuddling the front of the Galaxy. Broke his collar bone. He was despatched to hospital and I took his bike home, to find that he had two more £3000 bikes and a Polo GTI...
September 2004: Returning from camping holiday in Scotland with mountain bike padlocked onto bike rack on roof of Galaxy, I drove under a low bridge....I don't need to tell you any more of this one really...as you can probably guess the rest!
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Long Driver, was it your own bike on the roof or a £3000 one that you mugged some poor old geezer for.... :)
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1972. Standard 10, greasy road, collected concrete power pole. Car written off, power company miraculously didn?t chase me for replacing the pole. I and passenger had seatbelts on, so were OK apart from his nose which provided claret.
1973-8 Various bike slide-offs, usually from trying to scrape the pegs when I really shouldn?t have. Blinded by headlights at night on a Kawasaki H2 750 (3-cyl 2stroke), so went straight on at corner, into ditch, over high hedge. Bike sort of OK, me with dislocated shoulder and nerve damage. Six months physio to sort that out. You can ride with 1 and a half arms?.
1978, Young lad in Mk1 Zephyr decided to turn in front of my Kawasaki Z900. Front bumper took out my right shin ? literally. Ended up with plastic surgery and six weeks in hospital. Noticed nice nurse. She noticed me? Twenty-five years of married life later I still think of that lad, and thank him. You never know what?s just around the corner.
UK, 1999 ? 2003. Hit from behind in Mazda 626. Six months later, did same to someone else who started into roundabout, then stopped ten yards later, but I didn?t. Same roundabout about six months later, someone got me again from behind. At this point I fitted extra bulbs into the tail lights that were not there because of some UK regulation, and put a diode from the brake lights to the fog lights. Hee hee, they should notice I?m stopping now? Never hit from behind again.
Volvo 340, forgot about very tight corner, braked, skidded on farmer?s fresh mud, scraped up the side of someone?s nice Clio? . Panelbeat the Volvo with a big hammer, replace the headlight. A few weeks later wife took it to work on a frosty morning as I was MOT-ing her 626 4WD. Slightly less grip in a 340. She took out one of the big destination signs on Derby?s Markeaton roundabout. She rang police, who weren?t interested as no-one injured. Car recovered to house by AA, later sold to breaker. The destination sign was just straightened up and reassembled, but it looked a bit tatty. No official action, no paper trail. Bought another car, transferred the insurance. Shhhhh!
Back in NZ
Son?s Mazda 323. He thought that the bolts holding the bottom ball joints were looking a bit tatty, so replaced them with some out of a box at his work. Correct length & diameter etc. Going round a left hand corner, the bottom ball joint dropped out and wheel went out the side. Slow speed, no other cars around, just a big pool of oil where the driveshaft had pulled out of the gearbox. We jacked the car up and relocated the ball joint, drove very carefully to my house, about 100 yards away. I gave my son a small lesson on why some bolts have an unthreaded portion on them. In this case it located in a groove on the ball joint and kept everything together. The fully threaded bolt he used just burred over the threads and out it pulled.
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Long Driver, was it your own bike on the roof ora £3000 one that you mugged some poor old geezer for.... :)
Errr....mine - a mere £200 one!>>
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