Wet roundabout + diesel = new front bumper.....

[Sponge Bob]

Bad luck mate... hope the costs are low!

I just nearly span in my MR2 this lunchtime - roads are absolutely waterlogged here!!

[iaint]

Happened to me the 1st time I went round a roundabout in the FD after rain. Fortunately I managed to go out the exit I was aiming for anyway. Backwards!!!

[Pierscoe1]

excellent... would have loved to have seen the peoples faces in the cars entering the roundabout from your exit.. with your car pointing the same way as theirs!....


I trust no damage was done in this incident

[paulpicks21]

Bloody hell mate , it was very lucky you just damaged the bumper , bet the bumpers a few quid though with the lights in it as well.

Paul.

[hugoagogo]

you know in theory that you can claim for accidents caused by diesel spills from the motor insurers uninsured losses fund? and maybe not lose your own no-claims?

[hugoagogo]

i think you need to have reported the cause of the accident to the police

contact the MIB (yeah i know) www.mib.org.uk/MIB/en/Default.htm

[KITT]

hugoagogo said:

you know in theory that you can claim for accidents caused by diesel spills from the motor insurers uninsured losses fund? and maybe not lose your own no-claims?

I tried this when my MX5 was written off a couple of yeas ago. There was diesel on the road, the AA man who rescued me confirmed it. However, the council sent out a surface grip measuring team a few days later who said there was no problem and thus my fault

[iaint]

Pierscoe1 said:

excellent... would have loved to have seen the peoples faces in the cars entering the roundabout from your exit.. with your car pointing the same way as theirs!.... I trust no damage was done in this incident

Just dented pride - much better than dented car. It was one of those roundabouts where there's a kerbed off bit between the in and out lanes in a wedge shape so no danger of meeting any motorists coming onto the roundabout.

Learned 2 lessons. Beware Jap rubber and take it easy in the wet.

[tuttle]

iaint said:

[quote=Pierscoe1] Beware Jap rubber and take it easy in the wet.

Its really quite mind-boggling how they(the Japs can produce such consistantly terrible rubber when so much other Japanese stuff is so good.

[iaint]

tuttle said:

iaint said: [quote=Pierscoe1] Beware Jap rubber and take it easy in the wet. Its really quite mind-boggling how they(the Japs can produce such consistantly terrible rubber when so much other Japanese stuff is so good.

I've heard, from people who've visited the land of the rising sun, that another problem with 'Jap rubber' is it can be a very tight fit which can lead to failure at inopportune moments.

*cough*

fetches coat

[Beefmeister]

>> Edited by Beefmeister on Friday 17th February 13:21

[benjc]

I feel your pain Beefy....I thought I had just slightly bent a lower wishbone in a similar incident....

The upshot was a competle new nearside suspension set up as well as steering rack.....thank fun for protected NCBs (for what they are worth in reality).

Rotechniks did the work for my claim...they were really good, made sure the assessor didn't get his way (wanted to leave components that potentially had been damaged in place), I even got new rubber up front.

Good luck mate.