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General => Chatter => Topic started by: Rotary-Motion on November 10, 2012, 08:33:29 PM
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hi guys
i was driving along in a straight line on a main drag doing 40, thinking of veg oil and foxy ladies and my pants were to tight when from the side of me a car was flying at me in the shape of a VW golf 02 plate and a young lad driver, who didnt know there was a junction there just shot out full bore with no braking and stoved me car, done the wing and 2 doors even knocked off the indicator and wheel trim on the OTHER SIDE OF CAR it hit that hard and fast...
took a pic at night so cant see much, the doors dont shut right and the window stick halfway down but i think me steering rack is ok and may be good well seems ok, see how it goes on the tyres after done a few more miles on that score...
like you all know me, hey i got pics muhahahaaaaaa
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Did you get the plod involved? Always good for a young driver to have a really nasty fright. Lucky it was not any worse......
I expect he'll be a bit more careful next time out. What did his car end up looking like?
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Nearly had exactly the same happen to me many years ago but was lucky enough to see it coming and braked in time.
At least you are OK, a car is just a car and can be replaced.
I'm guessing not fixable without spending plenty of $$$
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Did you get the plod involved? Always good for a young driver to have a really nasty fright. Lucky it was not any worse......
I expect he'll be a bit more careful next time out. What did his car end up looking like?
it was actually a 3 car job, as a girl was driving down the main road opposite direction too me when this kid shot out a junction, he teed into the side of me and she into the side of him, but managed to stop just ushing her bumper into his driver door, out the 3 his lost a number plate and looked ok? (what happended to rad etc not sure) hers was AOK, mine was twatted the most...
i had to calm everyone down i stuck me arm round him (shaking badly) and said we will have to change details etc and got paper and pen out to sort it all and calm the situe...
no police he would of got done wreckless driving maybe? he may want to settle a cash deal so not to hinder his insurance , i got to get a quote and hone him up, he lives about 20 mile away from me...
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Nearly had exactly the same happen to me many years ago but was lucky enough to see it coming and braked in time.
At least you are OK, a car is just a car and can be replaced.
I'm guessing not fixable without spending plenty of $$$
insurance company would write it off as 2 doors and a wing sprayed in would be more than 800 what its worth
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You're a decent bloke Paul, he wrecks your car and you are calm and look after him? Come find me if we ever have a post apocalypse nuclear winter, I want you on my side :)
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Probably the best way of handling it. He'll concentrate a bit more now. I would imagine he will be only to willing to pay up, thankful that the law wasn't involved.
I've almost rammed someone myself, more than once. A miss is as good as a mile, but could have ended up smashing the vehicles up a few times.
I left a trail of destruction behind me after a track rod end snapped. Cost me £450, but was better than having to claim on the insurance. And that bloke took some talking around to my way of thinking...........
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You're a decent bloke Paul, he wrecks your car and you are calm and look after him? Come find me if we ever have a post apocalypse nuclear winter, I want you on my side :)
hehe thx tony, rachael was in the car and said she couldnt believe how calm i was, and is what kept her calm, she even commented i saw it coming and still pulled in off the main road to allow traffic by and at the very same time i said camly oh here we go, and my daughter was waiting at my house with my new grandaughter 2 weeks old so got out car and phoned her to let her know whats occured and be there shortly but she came to look...
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
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my new grandaughter 2 weeks old
I didn't know that, congratulations mate :) People always tell me I'm too young to have three kids so I get it. Grand-daughter eh? Puts it all in perspective doesn't it!
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often :P
I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.
I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.
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my new grandaughter 2 weeks old
Good on ya mate!
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
funny you should mention this sort of thing i regularly think as im driving down a steep hill, what if the brake pipe leak / pops i would be fecked, sort of got a thing about that... i even go to the extent of avasive monouvres like pull hand brake which wouldnt do much and drop down gears and make it scream and ride the tourque of engine to slow it down... wierd...
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often :P
I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.
I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.
Sounds a bit too inventive to be attempted murder. You're a lovely chap too, I don't buy it.
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my new grandaughter 2 weeks old
I didn't know that, congratulations mate :) People always tell me I'm too young to have three kids so I get it. Grand-daughter eh? Puts it all in perspective doesn't it!
my daughter has 2 children misha and kaiser and my son has a daughter rhiannan, grandad 3 times :)
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often :P
I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.
I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.
Sounds a bit too inventive to be attempted murder. You're a lovely chap too, I don't buy it.
i can buy it, people get bitter and twisted and dont see the what could happen go wrong, if the truth be known im prolly guilty of such things, no ones perfect... and we are all capable of murder, just need that push over the edge...
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my new grandaughter 2 weeks old
Good on ya mate!
thx
GM....
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
funny you should mention this sort of thing i regularly think as im driving down a steep hill, what if the brake pipe leak / pops i would be fecked, sort of got a thing about that... i even go to the extent of avasive monouvres like pull hand brake which wouldnt do much and drop down gears and make it scream and ride the tourque of engine to slow it down... wierd...
You say that... was talking to a friend about brakes recently, he says one particular vehicle (which escapes me now I want to remember) the brake pads wear so thin that they slip out of the calipers!
You only know it has happened when your foot goes to the floor.
Anyway he says he knows this because he was in a car with a friend that had this vehicle - coming down off the motorway on the slip road, suddenly the driver flicked the wheel left and they skidded sideways down the slip road. The driver knew it had happened and took appropriate action. Not something I could do though without a lot of practise!
Ermm.. sorry if that doesn't help with the nightmares!
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after a track rod end snapped
Eeek!
Sometimes we forget how we daily put our lives in the hands of a bit of metal just a few mm across.
True, but once one has snapped, one tends to forget it less often :P
I'm still not convinced that someone didn't try to cut it. You could see where it was slightly marked between the locking nut and the track rod. And usually, when something like that snaps, you can see where it has part fractured previously.
I'd fired some Fs into a particularly grumpy and aggressive supervisor, in front of 40 of his staff, about a week before it happened. Then we had a proper slanging match.
Sounds a bit too inventive to be attempted murder. You're a lovely chap too, I don't buy it.
He'd rubbed me up the wrong way properly. we'd been on night shift and I was particularly irritable. He was a proper threatening bloke, the whole gang were scared of him, just the sort I like to antagonise........
It was 'kin hilarious, he'd got a massive bald head and no neck, he started going bright red from his shoulders up, and when the red got half way up his bonce, he started going purple, and all his veins started pulsating, his face was three different colours, till the purple reached his scalp.
Remind me and I'll tell you the full story when we meet up.
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nar im kool with it, i live with alot of things, after awhile they become companoins i wouldnt say friends...
hehe :-X
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A Nissan patrol will pop the pad backing out of the caliper if it wears to thin, or the older ones will anyway. A couple of pumps on the pedal, and you have got braking force, just not much. Not a problem at lowish speed, Funny thing is, if you whacked the brakes on hard, it would probably stay in.
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i am amazed how people who don't know what they are doing attempt to tackle brakes and steering. ignorance is bliss until something breaks. i am very fussy about who does work on my vehicles. a friend got some local cowboy to fix her brakes. he didn't bleed them properly so she drove home with no brakes. which around here is a bit hairy to say the least. if you have to brake and don't have brakes its in to a granite wall or thew other car or tractor. not a lot of run off areas on these roads.
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Sorry to hear about you car RM.
A few doors and a wing from Ebay and it'll be ok I hope.
Congrats on being a Grandpa again, it's one thing I'm not looking forward to but I'm sure it wont be long.
GM, I know what you mean about letting someone get under your skin,
I'm normally a very placid guy, but an idiot I was working under the other year got both barrels a few times.
I was so frustrated that I let him get to me like that, I hate loosing it. Gained loads of respect from the other guys though.
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Sorry to hear about you car RM.
A few doors and a wing from Ebay and it'll be ok I hope.
Congrats on being a Grandpa again, it's one thing I'm not looking forward to but I'm sure it wont be long.
GM, I know what you mean about letting someone get under your skin,
I'm normally a very placid guy, but an idiot I was working under the other year got both barrels a few times.
I was so frustrated that I let him get to me like that, I hate loosing it. Gained loads of respect from the other guys though.
door i could prolly get, big problem is the right colour, prolly loads of green ones lol
but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch
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Congrats on the nipper and commiserations on the bump, hope I could handle it as calmly.
Dick
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Congrats on the nipper and commiserations on the bump, hope I could handle it as calmly.
Dick
thx dick, yeah gonna get a quote tomoz and ring the guy see if he wants to do it that way, if not its insurance and it will be written off, im hoping i can buy it back as part the deal....???
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If your touring the scrappies im after something (again) ;D
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If your touring the scrappies im after something (again) ;D
let us know what...
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but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch
I'm sure 406 wings are bolt on, it is the front one isn't it.
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but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch
I'm sure 406 wings are bolt on, it is the front one isn't it.
i didnt look bloke next door thought they were welded on, will have a look in the morn thx mark...
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but the wing can stay its a welded on wing = ouch
I'm sure 406 wings are bolt on, it is the front one isn't it.
i didnt look bloke next door thought they were welded on, will have a look in the morn thx mark...
yes your right its a bolt on...
:o
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There you go then, much easier job.
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It could be bonded as well as bolted. If it is, it's a swine of a thing to get off. Only one way to find out.
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It could be bonded as well as bolted. If it is, it's a swine of a thing to get off. Only one way to find out.
Good point, try taking one off at the scrappy before you damage yours more than it is already.
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mechanic is still trying to source some doors and a wing, but i got the quote off the sparayer guy if panels all good and only spraying its £280.
i know this sprayer guy his name is andy price and is very well known by me, his reputation prceeds him, hes good.
i think i could get 2 doors and a wing i know where a car is sat scrap, prolly get all 3 for £50, but i wont a proper quote to give the lad...