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[Lawman]

Bad luck mate....

Here's a sore 1 to show there is always someone worse....

My mate bought a 2.2 DTi in Star silver on a 53 plate.......picked it from the dealer drove it round the corner(and i mean round the corner) about 4 miles in total....wasn't paying attention and.......

BANG!! 45mph right up the a*se of a Saxo!!  It had a complete new front end at 16 miles!!!

Doh!!

Omega + 45mph + Saxo = not worth thinking about!!

[TheBoy]

Bugger.

[Markjay]

Sorry to hear this Issunaz... hope the BMW driver was civilised

[familyman]

sorry to hear that.

 but if your t/c had been working properly you would have had no wheel spin and been able to floor it and rid the world of another BMW, whose indicators at the junction probably were not working anyway.
 
riding a motorbike you would be amazed how many new cars especially BMW's whose indicators don't work on such expensive cars 'cause its never the drivers fault that they don't.

Hope your okay and no else in car with you was hurt.  

[Taxi_Driver]

Hope your ok mate....as said tin can be replaced!

I did nearly the same a few years ago  

Crashed a year old merc (35k worth) straight into the back of another car....wasnt paying attention and fiddling with the stereo... .....hit a brand new bmw convertible...with private plates on it.(womans name on the plate)...roll bars went off on the bmw....straight through the cloth roof.....women sitting in the passenger side went mental at me....male driver was calm about it......i never heard anything about it even tho i reported it to my insurance comp....hmmmm maybe male not insured to drive it   so never claimed  :-/
Insurance comp fixed my merc.....even tho i did nearly 10k of damage to it!  

[Tony H]

Sorry to hear about your bump, its suprising how when you think your driving far enough away from the car in front and they suddenly stop you discover your not! easily done mate  

[Martin_1962]

Oh dear - bad luck - hope it all gets sorted

[JamesV6CDX]

Bad luck indeed

Just goes to show though, how much distance you really do need to stop

Not suggesting you were tailgaiting, but when this happens it DOES bring home how dangerous tailgaiting can be and what the consequences are...

[Andy B]

Sorry to hear that M8...personally I never put any of them on, you find they kick in automatically if the car starts to go, rear end, skid etc..

:-?  :-? I read it that Issunaz has a problem with the ABS/Trcation Control that he was getting around to fixing and had a bump as a reult, that's why they didn't 'kick in'.

[The Barge Captain]

Bad luck mate....

Here's a sore 1 to show there is always someone worse....

My mate bought a 2.2 DTi in Star silver on a 53 plate.......picked it from the dealer drove it round the corner(and i mean round the corner) about 4 miles in total....wasn't paying attention and.......

BANG!! 45mph right up the a*se of a Saxo!!  It had a complete new front end at 16 miles!!!

Doh!!

Omega + 45mph + Saxo = not worth thinking about!!

Still on the plus side, maybe one less Saxo on the road  
Glad you are ok though mate

[MartinP]

Sorry to hear this Issunaz... hope the BMW driver was civilised

Looks that way, he had "his mechanic" look at the car, said 2 bumper mounting brackets are broken, re-spray the bumper (faded red colour, well looked after  :-?) aluminium reinforcing bar in the bumper twisted.

£140 labour, £100 parts so I offerred to pay cash, as for that amount it would not be worth messing about with an insurance claim.

He then said that did not include the bumper bar

Told him to go and see what the actual cost is for cash and come back to me

[MartinP]

Sorry to hear that M8...personally I never put any of them on, you find they kick in automatically if the car starts to go, rear end, skid etc..

:-?  :-? I read it that Issunaz has a problem with the ABS/Trcation Control that he was getting around to fixing and had a bump as a reult, that's why they didn't 'kick in'.

Had a problem with the ABS/TC that I wasn't getting around to fixing   :-/

[MartinP]

BMW man said "he wasn't sure which way the car entering the island at his right was going as they weren't indicating, so he had to slam the brakes on to see which exit they were going to take"

It was a straight forward 4 exit island, middle 1 of a series of 3,  good visability of the access/exits as you roll upto them.

He just decided to stop short (as is his perogative) instead of rolling upto the line under gentle braking.

As I said before, relatively low speed, no-one hurt, and quite rightly its only bent tin  

[Martin_1962]

Is Mr BMW insured?

[MartinP]

Is Mr BMW insured?

Apparently so, via Hastings direct

He came back with a total figure of nearly £500.

Wasn't to impressed when I told him there was no way I was going to pay that much, so he can claim away and wait for the money.