CSI What car ? Rammed into my house last night !

[P700DEE]

OK Pistonheaders, this could be more of a challenge as a what car ! Last night at 11:50pm my wife and I were shocked to hear a bang from the road outside. I looked out of the window to see a single square nearside rear light which then drove off. The noise was load so out I went to investigate. No sign of vehicle but it had obviously been over the verge. Further inspection showed it had veered into a telegraph pole and on into the side of my house !! This morning was CSI time I have a selection of light parts, there is very little sign of any paint transfer to any surface although I do have black painted plastic gouges that may be from a wing mirror. No bumper parts but the impact with the house certainly finished off the offside front light and I have lots of shattered parts. The tyre width from the tracks appears to be 225 and the total track of the vehicle appears to be about 1550. Fortunately I live in a ragstone barn conversion (from piggeries) so no structural damage and the Police have no interest. I have a few theories but must bow to the expertise on here. Can you identify these bits.

[Goldmember1]

" Whoooooo are you ... who who , who who .. "

< Awaits the PH beards >

[pinchmeimdreamin]

They look a bit like some kind of lexus lights to me.










Possibly.

Edited by pinchmeimdreamin on Saturday 30th March 11:18

[rich1888]

looking at this picture:

http://photo.netcarshow.com/Mini-Cooper_Convertibl...

could it be the top section of the rear lights and indicator lens?

edit: or the front indicator from the bottom?

http://www.autoweb.co.uk/dealer_sites/car_pix/used...

Edited by rich1888 on Saturday 30th March 11:16

[Zyp]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

They look a bit like some kind of lexus lights to me.










Possibly.

That narrows it down to Subaru's, Novas, Corsa's etc.....

[premio]

With the reflective Orange lens (broken) and also the full round orange lens, it looks like it is an older car with an orange indicator and the round one is one that sits behind a clear lens (maybe)

OP is there a way that any of this bits fit together like a jigsaw and you can post up another pic of them arranged together?

[P700DEE]

Definitely not a Mini. Would have been beached on the bank. Lexus style lights certainly but they are now fitted to lots of types of car. Orange indicator cover is 7cm in diameter and this was covered by a shaped clear plastic cover. May have been molded in to the bumper/wing.

[P700DEE]

Not managed to extract all the parts out of the mud so the jigsaw proved too difficult. I think the separate broken orange parts are a side reflector that would have broken out. I do not think the side repeaters were damaged.

[dxg]

A face-lifted mk6 fiesta, perhaps? Although I'm not sure where the yellow reflector on the left of your picture would come from...

[baptistsan]

Sorry, can't help with the lights.

But what the fk re. the police having no interest?! Car smashes into your house, leaves the scene of an accident etc. Unbelievable!

[s p a c e m a n]

Spaceship, definately a spaceship

[P700DEE]

Been out this afternoon and my money is on a Volvo V70/S70. Failed to get a photo but it has the reflector in the side of the light.

[Monkeylegend]

Audi TT.

[mybrainhurts]

MX-5...

Always MX-5

[JayT]

s p a c e m a n said:

Spaceship, definately a spaceship

I think this guy holds the answer, looking at his user-name he must have been the driver. /thread.

[jcremonini]

baptistsan said:

Sorry, can't help with the lights.

But what the fk re. the police having no interest?! Car smashes into your house, leaves the scene of an accident etc. Unbelievable!

Accident with no structural damage, no injuries. What do you want the police to do, exactly ?

I'd rather they were spending their time dealing with things that have victims or have a good chance of prosecution, not chasing someone who they could not possibly convict anyway. Leaving the scene of an accident only applies when injury or damage is made to a third party, btw ( the law is actually very old and 'third party' includes goats and other animals!)

[P700DEE]

Volvo light

[Digger]

Daft question as you will have no doubt checked, but are there any part numbers?

[ambuletz]

try and piece together the light cluster a little more. should help a great deal with IDing it.

[Futuramic]

baptistsan said:

Sorry, can't help with the lights.

But what the fk re. the police having no interest?! Car smashes into your house, leaves the scene of an accident etc. Unbelievable!

The answer to that has been given, there was no damage to any property other than the errant car. When an owner damages nothing but his or her own car it is not reportable under the Road Traffic Act thus not a police matter.

Are you sure it wasn't a Mark 2 Mondeo hitting a stray crisp packet? That would account for all the plastic fragments and lack of damage to the wall.