poor wee mite!

[lord summerisle]

This morning on the M60 - got thrutched up the bumper when the traffic came to a halt.





damage appears to be the rear light cluster (obviously) and paint scuffs to wing bumper and boot.. not sure how damaged the panels are tho, guess thats one for the body shop to deciede.

Already got in touch with Anniesdad, and their on with it.

and what hit us you ask?




dammit! with the Saab broken too! going to have to see what we do about tomorrow.

[ali_kat]

[lord summerisle]

had a call to say the assessor is coming round tomorrow... and taking to my friendly MX5 specalist bodyshop to see what he says.

[Munter]

Sorry to see it damaged. But still it looks like it took the hit fairly well. Good luck with the repairs!

[Howard-]

Bloody hell, a smashed light cluster, and that van's half caved in Tough little things, these MX5s

[lord summerisle]

Howard- said:

Bloody hell, a smashed light cluster, and that van's half caved in Tough little things, these MX5s

i'm hoping so - hopefully its a cheap repair and they dont write it off.

[Howard-]

They'd be mad to write that off

[DennisTheMenace]

Poor little fella , that will be fine did it drive ok no crabbing or anything .

when mine got hit by a merc c class lots of noise and thought it was dead , 10p sized dent in the wheelarch , she needed a new bumper

[Fruitcake]

Any update on this Mark?

[lord summerisle]

not as yet. Assessor came round yesterday, but i didnt hear/see him - who ever it was just dropped their card through the letter box to say they'd inspected the car.
I'm taking it over to a bodyshop that was going to deal with the rust on the rear wings for his quote on the repairs.

Have asked Mike, at Europa if i could have a hire car at least on monday as i need to get to manchester after the missus has gone in the other car.

[Merlot]

Ouch. Impressed at the way the MX5 has stood up to a big old van though!

[MX-5 Lazza]

To be honest it looks like the MX5 was saved by the fact that the van has a big soft front bumper that collapsed rather than keeping it's shape and doing any real damage. In fact it looks like, as he hit you with the corner of the bumper it missed the steel reinforced section behind it. If it had hit more centrally the damage might have been much worse.

[ali_kat]

:fingerscrossed:

Please keep us updated Mark

[lord summerisle]

Just as an update, after the 3rd party dragged their feet for a while my wolfhounds at Europa have taken my car off to my bodyshop, and dropped an little run around off as a replacement

[snotrag]

Superb, hopefully it will be back soon all lovely and cleaned up

[ali_kat]

Fingers crossed

[Howard-]

Excellent news

[ali_kat]

lord summerisle said:

Just as an update, after the 3rd party dragged their feet for a while my wolfhounds at Europa have taken my car off to my bodyshop, and dropped an little run around off as a replacement

I've just seen your 'little run around'

Very nice!!

[lord summerisle]

ali_kat said:

lord summerisle said:

Just as an update, after the 3rd party dragged their feet for a while my wolfhounds at Europa have taken my car off to my bodyshop, and dropped an little run around off as a replacement

I've just seen your 'little run around'

Very nice!!

isnt it

[ali_kat]