Anybody know a good panel beater in Nottingham

[Marks DTM Calib]

Had a slight mishap on the way home from work this evening.

Turned off the main A52 ring road onto Lenton Lane.....

Looked left, nothing coming, looked right, nothing coming, quick glance left again and power on and......


.....ow shit, van coming and bloody fast to (certainly not 30!)brake and.......

.....bang.....he drove up my front bumper and over the passenger side front of the car (nearly rolled the van, blew out front and rear tyres!)

So the estate is totaled......certianly not repairable (it still ran with no ECU lights though but coolant had all escaped...)

The bad news is.....I couldn't find either of the two headlight washer jets.... :-/

[Omega-MV6]

Bad luck dude....

Happens to the best of us...

So what part is the panel beater for, the Van Driver head?

Matt

[tunnie]

 

Least your ok, thats the main thing. Good job he hit the bonnet and not a full broadside.

Sorry to hear about the megga  

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its quite wierd.....I have tyre marks over the bent bonneta dn slam panel......but dam these Omegas are strong!

[Timbuk]

Unlucky Mark, as with anything like this no injuries is the main thing, car can be replaced

[Marks DTM Calib]

I'm fine, not realy any impact as I was stationary when he hit.....more of the crushing style of damage.....no airbags deployed because there was no forward impact.

The van driver (delivery firm) was ok to.....very shook up though.

[CaptainZok]

Glad your ok mate.
Delivery driver... Nottingham, we have a depot there, not a Reality/HDNL van was it?

[Bo Bo]

Sorry to hear it.........

[Chopsdad]

Bad news Mark.  Have you stopped shaking yet?

[Nickbat]

That's cruel, especially after all the work you put in on it, Mark.

Are you sure it's beyond repair?

Did plod turn up at the scene? Will help for the insurance claim if they did.

[MartinP]

  That was a nice car to have pranged, couldn't you have got this statistic out of the way while you had the Nova??

[The Barge Captain]

Sorry to hear about you mishap. Glad you are ok though mate.  Shame about the car though  
Just trying to picture where you were as i lived in Lenton Manor briefly a few years ago

[Taxi_Driver]

Glad your ok Mark and the van driver  
Sorry about the Omega tho  

I did the same a couple of years ago in the merc.....pulled out of a junc turning right......straight into the path of a oncoming car.....in a 60 limit! Merc came out best but still had to be recovered.....but was fixable. Luckily the car i hit was small and wasnt doing 60!

I double/triple check at junctions now.....

[Auto Addict]

Glad you're OK Mark, sorry to here about the Omega.

[Marks DTM Calib]

It was the opposite side of the main ring road opposite the showcase cinema, there is a slip road into Lenton lane (where teh TV studios are/were).

The car might have been repairable but the van was going so fast that when he hit (and I had braked so the front dived) that he drove over the passenger side corner of the car (there are rubber marks on the bonnet where it tore the tyres off!)

No Police involved............