For those of you who have had damaged cars, how?

[Gooby]

Luckily they left thier details but I am not happy.

[kambites]

I slid very slowly into the back of someone in the snow last Christmas. Total repair cost was about seven grand, if I remember correctly.

[bogie]

all 3 for me

I crashed - total write off £25k claim
Animals hit me - new clam - £3K claim
Idiot bumped it in car park - £500, no claim

[RobM77]

kambites said:

I slid very slowly into the back of someone in the snow last Christmas. Total repair cost was about seven grand, if I remember correctly.

Crikey. How did if affect your insurance?

[John D.]

I watched some silly bint drive into the back of my parked car in January. New rear clam and repaired front clam plus a few other bits = £7k repair bill.

Plus the cost of the damage to the Focus she nosed me into on top of that. Ouch!

She was driving a fking Renault Scenic of all things

[kambites]

RobM77 said:

kambites said:

I slid very slowly into the back of someone in the snow last Christmas. Total repair cost was about seven grand, if I remember correctly.

Crikey. How did if affect your insurance?

Well it went down, but I guess it would have gone down a lot more if I hadn't had the accident.

[RobM77]

kambites said:

RobM77 said:

kambites said:

I slid very slowly into the back of someone in the snow last Christmas. Total repair cost was about seven grand, if I remember correctly.

Crikey. How did if affect your insurance?

Well it went down, but I guess it would have gone down a lot more if I hadn't had the accident.

Not too bad then. I've never made a claim, and am paranoid I'd be crippled with massive insurance bills if I did. That's eased my mind :-)

[kambites]

I'd never made one before either. I think the fact that I turned 30 and my wife turned 25 helped a lot.

[Grinnders]

bogie said:

all 3 for me

I crashed - total write off £25k claim

As per Bogie

[zebra]

10mph slide in the snow _ there was no snow when I went to work in the morning. By the time I left work there was a good three inches. Car was uncontrollable on a section of adverse cambered down slope and bounced off some barriers _ three new wheels and a font clam with associated lights, grill etc. just under 4k worth of damage.

Waited 2 months for car to be put right. Did not drive the 111s in the snow again. The 111r was much better in the snow and you could actually have fun with it. The exige never goes out in the snow.

[NWTony]

Animal attack twice.

Once by a pheasant on a pistonheads run, front grill, cracked the clam and once hitting the body of a deer on the M65 resulting in a new front end, about £4K.

I'm worried the animals are getting bigger each time, I'm very careful passing zoos these days

[shangani]

3 times I have been hit in the front clam while parked (one person owned up) and twice in the rear clam, no details left. The last time was 15 minutes after returning from specialised paint with a repaired and resprayed front clam, perfectly returning the clam to its pre-repaired state. I gave up with £800 repairs out of my own pocket after that. Will just drive with it broken or do the repair myself (as I am busy doing at the moment)

[John D.]

shangani said:

3 times I have been hit in the front clam while parked (one person owned up) and twice in the rear clam, no details left. The last time was 15 minutes after returning from specialised paint with a repaired and resprayed front clam, perfectly returning the clam to its pre-repaired state. I gave up with £800 repairs out of my own pocket after that. Will just drive with it broken or do the repair myself (as I am busy doing at the moment)

fk me.

I would have been livid if that happened to me 15min after picking up the car.

[Loudman]

Two incidents for me, first one was a month or so after getting car, not concentrating when traffic accelerated away from traffic lights, guy in front stopped after about 20yrds due to merging traffic and I nudged into the back of him, no damage to him but some minor fibreglass and paint spidering on front clam, touched it up a bit but generally left it.

Second was a high speed pheasant issue, broke the grille but the pheasant definitely got the poor deal here.

Many insects have lost there life also.

[fatwomble]

rear damaged while parked

rear damage while going wide at Llandow circuit

[Ganglandboss]

Some chav smacked into me on a mini roundabout. I have had to have a new front clam, wheel arch liner and headlight. Fortunately there was no mechanical damage.

[golden golly]

1) Xmas 2009 - the car was parked in Ashley Cross when a BMW backed over the front - into the garage and repaired.

2) April 2010 - the car was parked in Sandbanks when a BMW backed into the rear - into the garage and repaired.

A question arises about the abilities of BMW drivers to percieve cars that are too low to set off their cretin sensors when reversing... but that's another topic.

and finally 3) a pipe came loose from the oil cooler resulting in engine oil starvation - into MSC to be Honda'd.

[LD1Racing]

Spun it on the Nurburgring - only broke the splitter fortunately going backwards over a kerb.

[Philygumbo]

Front end respray, due to following Gooby and Stuey too closely. Stone chipped to hell.
I hasten to add, we never exceeded the speed limit.

[21TonyK]

Numpty dropped scalpel on front clam doing vinyl and then tried to repair it which ended up in a full front respray and £4.5K of bills!

Numpty clipped rear of car on a roundabout, new rear clam and respray. Mores £K'ss