Show us your crash pics!!

[Dr Interceptor]

Gilhooligan said:

I wonder who owns it now. I see it’s currently taxed and MOT’d. Would be a bit of a sickener to find out about the crash after you’d bought it.

Are there any checks that can be done to see if a car has been damaged and repaired?

https://www.vcheck.uk/ should flag up if its been sold through a salvage site.

[Otispunkmeyer]

stickleback123 said:

J4CKO said:

Yes, because that is all they ever do to the gallon and its nothing to do with being moved round a forecourt and not being used on the road.

Surprised the owners haven't complained about them doing similar MPG to an AMG Mercedes or similar, or, maybe, just maybe they do more than 21 MPG ? Like the 50/60/70 owners seem to report ?

I find the visceral hatred EVs and hybrids seem to provoke in some people very strange, to the point I wonder if the blokes that develop them go round the homes of various middle aged men every weekend and do their wives up the wrong 'un while Nigel is trying to watch Antiques Roadshow.

It's just another Toyota but developed for a different job to some of the other Toyotas, a job at which it excels. Just like every other Toyota.

I bought a Prius as an experiment once. I just wanted to try one out. Kept it 2 years before it was written off.

Truth be told, for just punting about and going to work and things. Its a great car and it's so good on fuel it means you don't need to have a diesel really. I dare say, these are what we should have been driving instead of a VAG TDI. They don't handle at all, but they're a very relaxing drive. The powertrain is super smooth because there are no gears. There is one planetary gearset with the engine and two motors connected to it and they just play tunes with each to alter the gear ratio. For all it sounding complicated, its actually dead simple and part of the reason why they're so reliable. If anything goes wrong on these, its the HV battery (and even that is usually long beyond the "design life" of the vehicle).

[Bonefish Blues]

Otispunkmeyer said:

stickleback123 said:

J4CKO said:

Yes, because that is all they ever do to the gallon and its nothing to do with being moved round a forecourt and not being used on the road.

Surprised the owners haven't complained about them doing similar MPG to an AMG Mercedes or similar, or, maybe, just maybe they do more than 21 MPG ? Like the 50/60/70 owners seem to report ?

I find the visceral hatred EVs and hybrids seem to provoke in some people very strange, to the point I wonder if the blokes that develop them go round the homes of various middle aged men every weekend and do their wives up the wrong 'un while Nigel is trying to watch Antiques Roadshow.

It's just another Toyota but developed for a different job to some of the other Toyotas, a job at which it excels. Just like every other Toyota.

I bought a Prius as an experiment once. I just wanted to try one out. Kept it 2 years before it was written off.

Truth be told, for just punting about and going to work and things. Its a great car and it's so good on fuel it means you don't need to have a diesel really. I dare say, these are what we should have been driving instead of a VAG TDI. They don't handle at all, but they're a very relaxing drive. The powertrain is super smooth because there are no gears. There is one planetary gearset with the engine and two motors connected to it and they just play tunes with each to alter the gear ratio. For all it sounding complicated, its actually dead simple and part of the reason why they're so reliable. If anything goes wrong on these, its the HV battery (and even that is usually long beyond the "design life" of the vehicle).

Exactly that. I would be running one if I could have afforded to - bought a smelly diesel Euro 3 instead

[Gilhooligan]

carlove said:

There’s a site called vcheck that specialises in finding these cars.

If you’re curious there’s a Facebook page that posts cars for sale that have undisclosed damage, some look fairly minor, some are wrecks.
https://www.facebook.com/dodgycarsuk/

Good to know thanks. Recently discovered that dodgy cars Facebook page. Put me right off buying a Golf R

[anonymous-user]

Otispunkmeyer said:

I bought a Prius as an experiment once. I just wanted to try one out. Kept it 2 years before it was written off.

Truth be told, for just punting about and going to work and things. Its a great car and it's so good on fuel it means you don't need to have a diesel really. I dare say, these are what we should have been driving instead of a VAG TDI. They don't handle at all, but they're a very relaxing drive. The powertrain is super smooth because there are no gears. There is one planetary gearset with the engine and two motors connected to it and they just play tunes with each to alter the gear ratio. For all it sounding complicated, its actually dead simple and part of the reason why they're so reliable. If anything goes wrong on these, its the HV battery (and even that is usually long beyond the "design life" of the vehicle).

Absolutely, particularly for urban use a hybrid petrol is by any objective measure a much better choice than a TDI; it's notable that this hard on for running oil burners where people live and breathe is a solely European perversion and comes largely from German companies lobbying the EU to introduce policies to favour their products for their own commercial purposes; they knew full well what a bad idea running NOx belching rattlers in populated areas was and our cretinous politicians are too venal to do anything but comply.

[Alex L]

Around 2007, I'd just cleaned the car and was stationary at a set of traffic lights when I was rear ended by a girl in a Megane Cabrio who struggled to spot my bright yellow Exige.

Fibreglass cars don't fare that well, even in low speed impacts. Most of the impact was absorbed by the clam but also bent the exhaust and rear diffuser. If I recall it was about £8k worth of damage but rebuilt as good as new.

IMG00042-20100206-1451 by Alex L, on Flickr

DSC01733 by Alex L, on Flickr

[Mezzanine]

Alex L said:

Around 2007, I'd just cleaned the car and was stationary at a set of traffic lights when I was rear ended by a girl in a Megane Cabrio who struggled to spot my bright yellow Exige.

Fibreglass cars don't fare that well, even in low speed impacts. Most of the impact was absorbed by the clam but also bent the exhaust and rear diffuser. If I recall it was about £8k worth of damage but rebuilt as good as new.

IMG00042-20100206-1451 by Alex L, on Flickr

DSC01733 by Alex L, on Flickr

£8k! Ouch.

Given what she was driving, it’s fair to suggest she was probably partially sighted anyway.

[FIREBIRDC9]

2012 , first car , No Talent

The rest is history!
I became a much safer driver that day!

[Rod200SX]

Alex L said:

Around 2007, I'd just cleaned the car and was stationary at a set of traffic lights when I was rear ended by a girl in a Megane Cabrio who struggled to spot my bright yellow Exige.

Fibreglass cars don't fare that well, even in low speed impacts. Most of the impact was absorbed by the clam but also bent the exhaust and rear diffuser. If I recall it was about £8k worth of damage but rebuilt as good as new.

IMG00042-20100206-1451 by Alex L, on Flickr

DSC01733 by Alex L, on Flickr

Weirdly enough, my brother was rear ended in traffic in his mustard yellow S1 Elise by someone who evidently struggled to spot it!

[liner33]

Otispunkmeyer said:

I bought a Prius as an experiment once. I just wanted to try one out. Kept it 2 years before it was written off.

Truth be told, for just punting about and going to work and things. Its a great car and it's so good on fuel it means you don't need to have a diesel really. I dare say, these are what we should have been driving instead of a VAG TDI. They don't handle at all, but they're a very relaxing drive. The powertrain is super smooth because there are no gears. There is one planetary gearset with the engine and two motors connected to it and they just play tunes with each to alter the gear ratio. For all it sounding complicated, its actually dead simple and part of the reason why they're so reliable. If anything goes wrong on these, its the HV battery (and even that is usually long beyond the "design life" of the vehicle).

Thats what we did , replaced a 2.0 vag diesel with a Prius back in 2015 and bought a Lexus hybrid to replace that 5 years later. Really are excellent cars imo

[LetsTryAgain]

FIREBIRDC9 said:

2012 , first car , No Talent

The rest is history!
I became a much safer driver that day!

All been there...

[Davyf]

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

[TheBALDpuma]

Davyf said:

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

Oh calm down - anywhere outside of a car forum full of miserable old men, that would get a chuckle.

[Richard74Halifax]

So I bought my boyhood dream car and sadly wrote it off on the A1 hydroplaning in the rain. I pop my foot down once an BAMM! ended up facing the wrong way on a patch of the road with no lights. Pretty scary and devastated to lose the MR2.

[eldar]

Davyf said:

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

Makes a change from that'll T Cut out. Progress, of a sort.

[carlove]

Richard74Halifax said:

So I bought my boyhood dream car and sadly wrote it off on the A1 hydroplaning in the rain. I pop my foot down once an BAMM! ended up facing the wrong way on a patch of the road with no lights. Pretty scary and devastated to lose the MR2.

That’ll buff out.

[smithyithy]

eldar said:

Davyf said:

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

Makes a change from that'll T Cut out. Progress, of a sort.

Evolving into... "that'll 2-bucket method full decontamination with 3-stage machine polish and ceramic quartz-coated PPF ... out."

[Bonefish Blues]

TheBALDpuma said:

Davyf said:

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

Oh calm down - anywhere outside of a car forum full of miserable old men, that would get a chuckle.

It's now a tradition, shirley?

[joshcowin]

Davyf said:

Greenwich Ross said:

That'll buff out.

I hate that stupid thing that always gets quoted by someone who can't think of anything sensible to say

Stop dominating this thread concentrate on the landing!

[havoc]

Rod200SX said:

Alex L said:

Around 2007, I'd just cleaned the car and was stationary at a set of traffic lights when I was rear ended by a girl in a Megane Cabrio who struggled to spot my bright yellow Exige.

Weirdly enough, my brother was rear ended in traffic in his mustard yellow S1 Elise by someone who evidently struggled to spot it!

I'd had my (bright yellow) NSX less than a year before some young lad in a Corsa failed to spot me stopped in front of him at traffic lights. Alex, Rod's brother and I should probably never meet up...

Thankfully in my case it was just a new bumper (which was a bonus, as it turned out the old bumper had been repaired and had a chunk of filler in it). Doubly-thankfully, he was insured, very apologetic, and made it no trouble.