Show us your crash pics!!
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drhook said:
Alas, I have lost the only photo I ever owned of the one really decent prang I've had in my life. In February of 1981 I fell asleep one night on the coastal route across the cliffs of Chapman's Peak in South Africa - I'd been working at two jobs and took the road thinking it would keep me awake on the way home one late night.
I wasn't wearing a seat-belt (one didn't have to in those days and I suffered from the impetuousness of youth, as one does) and I came awake with bang after a terrible thump of contact and found myself pinned in a blackthorn bush over the edge of the cliff, watching confusedly as my 'bakkie' fell away from me into the blackness, lights spinning violently. It landed so far down I never heard the crash. It took me a while to climb back up to the road and then walk 7 miles into Hout Bay, shoeless and with windscreen glass in my eyes. Suffice to say I recovered quickly enough but it took the authorities a week to find a truck capable of lifting the wreck up the cliff. The roof had been compressed to within 6 inches of the floor and amazingly everything in the cab had been stolen. The one photo I had came from the Argus newspaper, and the story created quite a sensation for while, though more for the recovery job I think than my lucky escape.
Suffice to say I sometimes smile inwardly when people say seat-belts save lives.
It wasn't even my car, either. Ooops.
Having grown up in Cape Town, I recall a number of accidents where people have either "gone over the top", or hit by falling boulders. Well done for surviving! In 1981, I was doing National Service.I wasn't wearing a seat-belt (one didn't have to in those days and I suffered from the impetuousness of youth, as one does) and I came awake with bang after a terrible thump of contact and found myself pinned in a blackthorn bush over the edge of the cliff, watching confusedly as my 'bakkie' fell away from me into the blackness, lights spinning violently. It landed so far down I never heard the crash. It took me a while to climb back up to the road and then walk 7 miles into Hout Bay, shoeless and with windscreen glass in my eyes. Suffice to say I recovered quickly enough but it took the authorities a week to find a truck capable of lifting the wreck up the cliff. The roof had been compressed to within 6 inches of the floor and amazingly everything in the cab had been stolen. The one photo I had came from the Argus newspaper, and the story created quite a sensation for while, though more for the recovery job I think than my lucky escape.
Suffice to say I sometimes smile inwardly when people say seat-belts save lives.
It wasn't even my car, either. Ooops.
Edited by drhook on Monday 13th February 18:17
Edited by drhook on Monday 13th February 18:18
For anyone who cares, this is the road - quite spectacular road.
http://www.dangerousroads.org/africa/south-africa/...
Morningside said:
Yesterday. No message left on windscreen 
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That's something heavy, big. I'd say it was either a forklift or delivery vehicle. A car plastic bonnet to bonnet would peel that back unless it really wacked it and had a angular surface to contact. Walking round your carpark end to end over the next couple of weeks? Had any Merc sprinter etc delivery vans visit?[url]
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Was just happily minding my own business, ready to start the 120 mile trip to Virginia Waters at 0600 on a Sunday, and then whammo. A chick tried to turn into my secondary road, when she realised she didn't want to she stopped, causing the oncoming car to lock up, swerve and avoid her, and rip the front end off my car.
Had it repaired at just car clinic I think they are called, and they did an absolutely immaculate job repairing it.
Had it repaired at just car clinic I think they are called, and they did an absolutely immaculate job repairing it.
Polarbert said:
Had it repaired at just car clinic I think they are called, and they did an absolutely immaculate job repairing it.
They did an fantastic job on my BMW many years ago. It's been repaired twice in 17 or so years - the first time at a BMW official body shop who made a complete pig's ear of it - had to go back repeatedly over the course of six months before it was right, and it was never really perfect. Second time it went to Just Car Clinic who did such a good job that I couldn't tell it had been repaired, even knowing where to look.Our local car clinic was awful.
Colour match on a red car was a pink colour, Scored swirl marks on the paintwork where they used a buffer machine with grit in the pad, rear bumper was damaged on return, whole side of the car was pockmarked they tried claiming was stone chips there before. The givaway was the night sky of metal blobs fused into the rear window. They'd been grinding metal next to our car.
It took a long time for them to admit responsibility, we refused to accept the car. I'd go over it very well before signing anything when you get it back
Colour match on a red car was a pink colour, Scored swirl marks on the paintwork where they used a buffer machine with grit in the pad, rear bumper was damaged on return, whole side of the car was pockmarked they tried claiming was stone chips there before. The givaway was the night sky of metal blobs fused into the rear window. They'd been grinding metal next to our car.
It took a long time for them to admit responsibility, we refused to accept the car. I'd go over it very well before signing anything when you get it back
MitchT said:
Polarbert said:
Had it repaired at just car clinic I think they are called, and they did an absolutely immaculate job repairing it.
They did an fantastic job on my BMW many years ago. It's been repaired twice in 17 or so years - the first time at a BMW official body shop who made a complete pig's ear of it - had to go back repeatedly over the course of six months before it was right, and it was never really perfect. Second time it went to Just Car Clinic who did such a good job that I couldn't tell it had been repaired, even knowing where to look.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff