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Lucky13
104 posts
18 months
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Stanced. You'll be a dub hero with that effort.
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P I Staker
2,321 posts
25 months
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Ooh, ouch. 
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Ray Luxury-Yacht
6,395 posts
85 months
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housen said: beware these cars don't work in extreme wet weather What, not even with four wheel drive and PSM stability control?  Seriously, lovely car - what a shame.  What happened matey?
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housen
637 posts
61 months
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Ha that's what my colleagues say ! Just hit some standing water which sent me sideways then hit a barrier
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Zippee
9,463 posts
103 months
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housen said: Ha that's what my colleagues say ! Just hit some standing water which sent me sideways then hit a barrier Wide tyres and standing water are never a good mix. And the rears on a 997 certainly are wide. Glad you're OK though.
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Jayzee
2,120 posts
73 months
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Lucky13 said: Stanced. You'll be a dub hero with that effort.  OP, glad you are okay.
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jason s4
1,612 posts
39 months
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Nowhere near as bad as most, but here it is.. Bent the rear axle good, and yet, when i picked it up, the panel work was repaired brilliantly, and whilst paying the excess, the man showed me the alignment was all perfect, which it was on the sheet. However, when they brought it round, they hadnt even touched the rear axle which meant the tyre was almost touching the arch, which you can just make out in the piccy. How the f  k they missed it god only knows. f kwits. 
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Potatoes
2,266 posts
39 months
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Sticks.
3,116 posts
120 months
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jason s4 said: Nowhere near as bad as most, but here it is.. Bent the rear axle good, and yet, when i picked it up, the panel work was repaired brilliantly, and whilst paying the excess, the man showed me the alignment was all perfect, which it was on the sheet. However, when they brought it round, they hadnt even touched the rear axle which meant the tyre was almost touching the arch, which you can just make out in the piccy. How the f k they missed it god only knows. f kwits. I had a similarly bad repair done by an 'approved repairer' which I won't name but shared its name with a series of space missions. Their road testing failed to notice severe vibration @ 40mph. Took months to do a shoddy job imo.
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Zippee
9,463 posts
103 months
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My addition to this thread, albeit very minor in comparison to most;    Doesn't look much but it's shatted the fibreglass and requires a 6-8 week repair, an entire new back end and the think end of 12 grands worth of work.....
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RS133
2,090 posts
42 months
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Zippee said: think end of 12 grands worth of work.....  Crikey! That sucks!
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edo
12,581 posts
134 months
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housen said: Ka pow ! No one was hurt in the making of this insurance claim , beware these cars don't work in extreme wet weather Did you have a Jason Plato moment? (check his recent quote).
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jackwootton
36 posts
13 months
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  Bit wonky after  Inside Damage v  I'll get a picture of the fence it took out, it's still not been fixed What she looked like eventually v 
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pmjg66
2,125 posts
83 months
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Struggling to see,any chance of bigger pictures 
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kiethton
1,794 posts
49 months
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Somebody managed to pull out of a side turning into my 335i:  Minor damage to hers (bumper was hanging off to the left out of shot):  Just this damage to mine ended up with a 6 week repair, complete new suspension, new alloy and rear tyres among other bits and pieces... As the car was un-driveable I was in a hire car for the duration.... (Virtual pint for guessing the location)
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jason s4
1,612 posts
39 months
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6 weeks?
Feck me, i bet BMW milked your insurance company for that one!
Mine was done in two!
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kiethton
1,794 posts
49 months
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jason s4 said: 6 weeks?
Feck me, i bet BMW milked your insurance company for that one!
Mine was done in two! Happened on xmas eve at 4pm so the car wasn't collected until the 28th, with the estimate being done the next day. It then took 10 days for the third party insurance company to authorise the work and was a further 2 1/2 weeks before there was time for the body-shop to do the work (the car stayed on-site). It took 10 days to do the work, part of which was an MOT. In the MOT they found they had installed the suspension upside down, a further 3 days to re-assemble and re-MOT..... Both the MOT garage, Bodyshop and point of contact were the car manufacturer although the hire car due to time pressures (i was driving to france at 5am on 29th December) was sorted by an AMC that are well known on here and that i would gladly use again....The garage used is in central Kent, new premises, although the repair may have been sub-contacted. I paid for the MOT in addition as it expired over the course of when the work was happening and also as a means of checking the quality of the repair...glad I did!
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J4CKO
7,408 posts
69 months
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Dalto123 said: Guess I ought to post the 944's pics I hoped that it would never happen to us, but hey it did. Sorry for the crappy pics. A combination of crap camera phone, -4 degrees, and a slightly shaken up photographer made a rubbish photo Before:  After:    Ow, as a fellow cab owner, that is sad to see, they can be a little tricky when it is cold, wet isnt a problem but I found myself going sideways with very little provocation when I first got mine in Jan. Is that one dead then
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J4CKO
7,408 posts
69 months
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housen said: I thought they were difficult to crash, I drove one on a track day and it pounced on every ham fisted attempt of mine to get the back out I could manage, what happened ?
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JayTee94
10,974 posts
26 months
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J4CKO said: What happened ? He told us here.. housen said: Just hit some standing water which sent me sideways then hit a barrier!
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