Short Cerbera ownership

[Jhonno]

2 guesses where the salvage will end up..

[NilsP]

Really glad you're ok as well!
Judging from the car it could've been far worse.
Hope you'll recover soon so you can get a new Cerb.
Best of luck!

[nitrodave]

gutted... you must have been hooning it to end up in hospital for 4 days.

[geeeman]

sorry to hear of your accident, glad you are ok

sounds like you couldnt have been going that quickly exiting the roundabout in the wet

[Llanelli-Rob]

nitrodave said:

gutted... you must have been hooning it to end up in hospital for 4 days.

Bit of a shortsighted remark that!

Glad the OP ok though and as others have said you can buy another Cerb :-)

[nitrodave]

Llanelli-Rob said:

Bit of a shortsighted remark that!

Glad the OP ok though and as others have said you can buy another Cerb :-)

ok, hooning it might be a bit short sighted, but certainly not driving to the conditions of the road. Especially if nobody else was involved and such serious injuries were incurred.

[chibbard]

Hope you recover okay. Why don't you fix it yourself as your profile says you are in the Accident Repair Industry, Ironically !!

[Llanelli-Rob]

nitrodave said:

ok, hooning it might be a bit short sighted, but certainly not driving to the conditions of the road. Especially if nobody else was involved and such serious injuries were incurred.

Blowout....diesel....blackout....who knows!

[Danger]

Don't forget brand new tyres give very poor grip for the first two hundred miles, they still have the release agent on them to get them out of the moulds.

Too few people know that.

DP

[DJR 7]

Clive I'm glad it's not dented your enthusiasm, hopefully you'll be back in a Cerb in short time.
I like yourself moved from bikes to a Tiv ...... Different beast altogether, fingers crossed with the
Claim, stick with it the best is yet to come

[Byker28i]

Danger said:

Don't forget brand new tyres give very poor grip for the first two hundred miles, they still have the release agent on them to get them out of the moulds.

Too few people know that.

DP

Bike riders do though

[otp]

Byker28i you are indeed correct bike riders do I've lost count of the tyres ive had to scrub in on track and road. There's nothing like scrubbing in fresh tyres in morning practice when the tracks damp to get your attention and sharpen your ability to feel for grip!
Rear tyres were fully scrubbed fronts not so much I just think it was the wet road, bumps, lack of steering lock just unfortunate all at the same.
DJR7 yep onwards and upwards I wanted a car that wasn't full of technology and was a bit of fun. The TVR ticks all the box's for fun and lack of techno. I'm undecided what's next I'll have to wait till the ins co come back with a repair or total loss.
I still fancy a V8

[Mags]

Sorry to read this, but glad to hear you are OK. The Cerb damage doesn't look like it was a particularly high speed impact so not good to hear to damage you were caused. I don't suppose you have any idea of what speed this happened at?

[Zippee]

Glad to hear you're OK, these cars can step out very quickly when it's wet and by the time you realise whats happened it's too late
I put my T350 in a ditch end of last August in the p155ing rain coming out of a 90deg corner, not going quick but I think I caught the white line and just put a smidge too much power down and bang - it was gone, even caught the slide till the rear wheel hit the very sodden grass verge. Unfortunately it can happen to all and with it coming up to slippy season it's a good reminder to all to just exercise a little caution

[Mr Cerbera]

Ummmmm, lust seen that you posted this on June 26

otp said:

Hi everyone,
I would like to get a cerbera and would prefer a 4.5 but how much real world difference is there between the 2. It' will only be a weekend play thing with the odd day into work . I'm not looking to wildly exceed the national limit. More torque delivery, in gear acceleration and of course how easy it lights the rear wheels up.

Thanks
Clive

So how many miles did you actually manage to do ?

Is this a record ??

Edited by Mr Cerbera on Thursday 23 October 14:17

[jamieduff1981]

Mr Cerbera said:

Ummmmm, lust seen that you posted this on June 26

otp said:

Hi everyone,
I would like to get a cerbera and would prefer a 4.5 but how much real world difference is there between the 2. It' will only be a weekend play thing with the odd day into work . I'm not looking to wildly exceed the national limit. More torque delivery, in gear acceleration and of course how easy it lights the rear wheels up.

Thanks
Clive

So how many miles did you actually manage to do ?

Is this a record ??

Edited by Mr Cerbera on Thursday 23 October 14:17

I don't think so. The guy who had what is now my car inspected but bought a white Cerb instead lasted around a fortnight I seem to recall. His friend hoofed it in a tunnel and spun it, pulverising the whole car. Pity, as it was beautiful prior to.