My Porsche Crash - A positive view
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Ouch! But thank you for having the courage to keep posting on this thread; as I said earlier I don't want to pillory you or enable a trial by internet. It's a thread we can all learn something from.
And getting back onto the original intent of your post... it looks like the Vauxhall nose dived enough under braking to allow your car to scoop it up. The nose of your car looks almost untouched. The front lid has been peeled back. But the structure looks amazingly unscathed.
And getting back onto the original intent of your post... it looks like the Vauxhall nose dived enough under braking to allow your car to scoop it up. The nose of your car looks almost untouched. The front lid has been peeled back. But the structure looks amazingly unscathed.
No problem I’m happy to accept my failings or argue my point either way. The nose of the car was reletavly unscathed, to the extent I was able to reclaim my Zunsport grills completely intact. The chassis bent slightly, and the rear hatch wouldn’t close hence the decision to write it off.
Photos to follow tonight.
Photos to follow tonight.
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Great thread, a lesson for everyone.
Its a lesson I learned when I was young. I was in a 2 months old XR3i (that’s how long ago it was lol, my dream car at the time) on the M62 doing my daily commute into Manchester.
Ca in front emergency stopped, I just managed to stop in time to not hit it although I thought I would. I automatically looked into my rear view mirror as I came to a halt and still remember the look of horror on the drivers face behind as he realized he was not going to stop in time, the next thing I remember is my brief case which was on the back seat flying past my head and hitting the windscreen that how hard he hit me. Pushed me into the car in front. My car looked like I had not stopped in time as the front crumple zone had done its job and the bonnet was in a V shape. By comparison the rear looked hardly touched (later the car was written off due to the rear intrusion behind the bumper which had remarkably sprung back into place without a split in in.
Taught me my most valuable motoring lesson, you need to worry as much about the car behind as the car in front on a motorway and for the last 30 years I have lived with that knowledge and adjusted my motorway driving accordingly ie adjusting for the driver behind as much as the driver in front.
At the end of the day I’m a great believer in there is always and element of luck ie to those drivers who say “I’ve never had a crash in 50 years of driving” ie its as much about what the other driving is doing as what you are doing.
Massive lesson learned, thanks for having the courage to post about it, you will be a better and safer driver for that knowledge. Good luck with the search for a replacement car ;-)
Its a lesson I learned when I was young. I was in a 2 months old XR3i (that’s how long ago it was lol, my dream car at the time) on the M62 doing my daily commute into Manchester.
Ca in front emergency stopped, I just managed to stop in time to not hit it although I thought I would. I automatically looked into my rear view mirror as I came to a halt and still remember the look of horror on the drivers face behind as he realized he was not going to stop in time, the next thing I remember is my brief case which was on the back seat flying past my head and hitting the windscreen that how hard he hit me. Pushed me into the car in front. My car looked like I had not stopped in time as the front crumple zone had done its job and the bonnet was in a V shape. By comparison the rear looked hardly touched (later the car was written off due to the rear intrusion behind the bumper which had remarkably sprung back into place without a split in in.
Taught me my most valuable motoring lesson, you need to worry as much about the car behind as the car in front on a motorway and for the last 30 years I have lived with that knowledge and adjusted my motorway driving accordingly ie adjusting for the driver behind as much as the driver in front.
At the end of the day I’m a great believer in there is always and element of luck ie to those drivers who say “I’ve never had a crash in 50 years of driving” ie its as much about what the other driving is doing as what you are doing.
Massive lesson learned, thanks for having the courage to post about it, you will be a better and safer driver for that knowledge. Good luck with the search for a replacement car ;-)
Edited by jonttt on Wednesday 11th July 16:24
woollyjoe said:
I suspect if there is no visual clue to an accident and someone brings their car to a stop in the most aggressive fashion on a motorway out the blue, then the person behind with a 2 second gap might not always react in time,
This.I always feel some sympathy for the guy who apparently explained to his insurance company that 'the traffic ahead was more stationary than I'd thought'.
Apologies for lack of video, BT have excelled themselves by being unable to provide broadband or indeed any kind of telephony to my new build house since moving in a month ago. I'll be waiting till late Aug apparently.. I'll post the video IDC
I have now received my payout which was fairly generous, and picked up another 987.2 CS last night - with a few nice extras like carbon buckets seats and carbon illuminated sills, as well as the full suite of buttons under the AC.
I have to say Direct Line were rather good and it was all sorted with the money in my bank 20 days after the incident.
Many people have said never to accept the first offer and play the waiting game. I played it a little differently and bombarded them with information on day 1, from Parker's (£3.99 for a value including options), Autotrader and any other source I could find. I told them what I wanted and their first offer was a few hundred under, still £2500 more than I paid for the car in the first place.
I count myself very lucky to come out of this unscathed and with a few extra pounds to spend.
I have now received my payout which was fairly generous, and picked up another 987.2 CS last night - with a few nice extras like carbon buckets seats and carbon illuminated sills, as well as the full suite of buttons under the AC.
I have to say Direct Line were rather good and it was all sorted with the money in my bank 20 days after the incident.
Many people have said never to accept the first offer and play the waiting game. I played it a little differently and bombarded them with information on day 1, from Parker's (£3.99 for a value including options), Autotrader and any other source I could find. I told them what I wanted and their first offer was a few hundred under, still £2500 more than I paid for the car in the first place.
I count myself very lucky to come out of this unscathed and with a few extra pounds to spend.
gwsinc said:
...I played it a little differently and bombarded them with information on day 1, from Parker's (£3.99 for a value including options), Autotrader and any other source I could find. I told them what I wanted and their first offer was a few hundred under, still £2500 more than I paid for the car in the first place.
I count myself very lucky to come out of this unscathed and with a few extra pounds to spend.
You did well there. They usually won't pay out more than the amount paid for a car, unless you've improved it (with proof of costs) or it's an agreed value on a classic policy. I count myself very lucky to come out of this unscathed and with a few extra pounds to spend.
Unless they never asked you?
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