Panic buying a pandemic Ferrari

[selym]

I've just watched your 355 video and just wanted to say that Subaru Imprezas of the 2000 era used to suffer with non starting issues when parking under tetra masts. I experienced it myself and had to roll the car 20 feet away to get it to start.

[200Plus Club]

selym said:

I've just watched your 355 video and just wanted to say that Subaru Imprezas of the 2000 era used to suffer with non starting issues when parking under tetra masts. I experienced it myself and had to roll the car 20 feet away to get it to start.

Blackpool used to be the spot for that if I remember with day trippers caught out.

[selym]

200Plus Club said:

selym said:

I've just watched your 355 video and just wanted to say that Subaru Imprezas of the 2000 era used to suffer with non starting issues when parking under tetra masts. I experienced it myself and had to roll the car 20 feet away to get it to start.

Blackpool used to be the spot for that if I remember with day trippers caught out.

I think my two episodes were in Swindon and Oxford. I was lucky that there was room to roll away from the tractor beam! It's not the fault of the tetra masts, more the prehistoric immobiliser systems fitted into cars in those days.

[DanoS4]

Yeh, my MY2000 Scoob had a recall for the alarm/immobiliser issue.

They upgraded the item with a sheilded item.

[Slippydiff]

Off to see Andy with a view to getting the repairs done then Jack ? He's very knowledgeable and lovely chap too.

[CaptainSlow]

selym said:

200Plus Club said:

selym said:

I've just watched your 355 video and just wanted to say that Subaru Imprezas of the 2000 era used to suffer with non starting issues when parking under tetra masts. I experienced it myself and had to roll the car 20 feet away to get it to start.

Blackpool used to be the spot for that if I remember with day trippers caught out.

I think my two episodes were in Swindon and Oxford. I was lucky that there was room to roll away from the tractor beam! It's not the fault of the tetra masts, more the prehistoric immobiliser systems fitted into cars in those days.

Yup, same issue on my 2001 scooby...Sigma alarm.

First time was trying to start the car at the airport at midnight after returning from holiday. AA called out who pushed the car back 2 meters and it started.

[jackpe]

Slippydiff said:

Off to see Andy with a view to getting the repairs done then Jack ? He's very knowledgeable and lovely chap too.

Ah Great, you know him??

[Slippydiff]

Popped into his place a few weeks ago. Knows his stuff. Seems well regarded. Nice chap too.

[Truckosaurus]

Just watched the video about the latest iteration of the exhaust. Sounds pretty good now, the (more?) unequal length manifold adds the little extra something.

[Bright Halo]

I’ve just seen the video of poor Pepe.
I just don’t get people, how can someone drive into another car and then just drive off?
I feel your anger, it happened to me but not as bad.
Hopefully the power of PH and YouTube will find the culprit so you can get it sorted and your not out of pocket.
Gutted for you.

[jackpe]

Thanks buddy. Absolutely gutted

[familyguy1]

gutted for you aswell, can you post/link to pictures of the brake light, I'm sure one of us will be able to pinpoint the make, model, factory it was made in......

looks like a rear bumper lens to me..

Edited by familyguy1 on Wednesday 2nd September 17:12

[uncleluck]

I wouldn’t put it past some old codger in an Automatic reversing into it. Would make more sense with the rear lens.

I mentioned it to someone in the comments...

Went to an incident once where a lady had managed to reverse through a brick wall, into her garden, hit the gas heating (the big ones) tank & push it off the concrete pad breaking the pipework to it.

That was all done from her own garage at standstill. She’d selected reverse by accident and just ploughed through everything!

Quite feasible they turned round and stopped to check their own damage.

[MJK 24]

Gutting about the Peugeot. Looks like someone may have been paying more attention to their phone than their driving.

Impact speed must be 15-20mph and a much heavier car to push it back 2 metres and force it over a post. Hopefully they’ll be found. Thankfully, the poor car looks repairable.

Do you live in a housing estate? Perhaps a walk around the next couple of evenings paying particular attention to white cars might yield some clues...

[scottos]

Gutted to watch the video of the 205 last night. Hasnt anyone on the estate got CCTV at all? May be worth a walk along the route from yours out to the main road and see if any houses have it?

[anonymous-user]

Guaranteed if you post a quality picture of the lens on here someone will identify it in a heartbeat.

Sorry to hear this, video popped up earlier on YouTube on the TV.

Any identification numbers would help too from the rogue part.

[jackpe]

Hello all, car ha been identified as an MG ZS. Doesn’t get me much closer to finding them but it all rallies up. Was someone manoeuvring rathe than coming round the corner I think. I took it for a quote today. I think it may be written off as a cat d, or cat N now. But we will see. Drives absolutely fine. Update video out in next day or two.

[youngsyr]

jackpe said:

Hello all, car ha been identified as an MG ZS. Doesn’t get me much closer to finding them but it all rallies up. Was someone manoeuvring rathe than coming round the corner I think. I took it for a quote today. I think it may be written off as a cat d, or cat N now. But we will see. Drives absolutely fine. Update video out in next day or two.

Is it not worth shelling out to do the repair yourself and keep the car off the register? It's going to be worth peanuts when you come to move it on as a Cat D or N, even if it's mint?

Also worth having a wander around and see if there are any CCTV cameras around your way on private houses or petrol stations on main routes in and out. I take it you know about what time the collision took place from your neighbours?

Regardless of the cost of the damage, these people shouldn't be allowed to get away with such anti-social behaviour.

[LunarOne]

There can't be that many white MG ZS cars in or around Woodstock, assuming that the white car your neighbour saw was the offender. Since they looked right after hearing the noise, it probably was. Have you had any luck with finding any CCTV? Even if you do get a registration number, it's sadly unlikely the police would help you find the culprit. Mind you they did leave the scene of an accident without stopping to leave details, which is more of an offence in law than being a lousy driver. I'd definitely be doing a tour of the area to see if you can find any damaged white MGs. Might also be worth calling local body shops (the automotive ones, not the smelly soap ones!) to see if any of them have quoted an MG ZS driver for rear end damage. What I wouldn't do is allow my insurance company to write the car off. If you have an agreed value insurance policy (which you should on a classic in limited supply) then you should be able to avoid them going down that route.

[bungz]

2nd that about not going through insurance unless you are sure you will never sell it.

Really sad some ahole in a relatively new car stoves in a classic and doesn't have the balls to fess up

Edit:

That is also some unreal internet sleuthing to find the fog light.

Edited by bungz on Thursday 3rd September 19:48