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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Neaty on 01 December 2005, 18:56
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Bear with me because I have never done this before (that sounds familiar) :grin:
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pah thats not a crash..... :wink: :wink:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/Slick13/Picture14.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/Slick13/Picture13.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/Slick13/Picture19.jpg)(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v197/Slick13/Picture15.jpg)
/me waits for someone to better him... :grin: :grin:
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(http://www.photodump.com/direct/Rabbit_mk1/Whitegolf01small.jpg)
(http://www.photodump.com/direct/Rabbit_mk1/Whitegolf02small.jpg)
(http://www.photodump.com/direct/Rabbit_mk1/Whitegolf09small.jpg)
my first mk1
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(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/gaz8512/Robs%20crash/golfgone3.jpg)
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/gaz8512/Robs%20crash/golfgone1.jpg)
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oh dear guys.... men drivers eh?!
*han awaits retaliatoin*
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looks more like mk2s or mk2 drivers... mk3s = safe as houses.. :cool: :tongue:
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nah.. deffo boys n driving.. i'm fine!!!
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looks more like mk2s or mk2 drivers... mk3s = safe as houses.. :cool: :tongue:
thats cos they never get to the speed to crash so well.
come on you walked into that one.  :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
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yeah.. least i don't drive into things?! (you walked into that one!)
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a pic i had lying about. Hit my mate at 40 ish and didnt feel a thing. (was his fault for overtaking me then slamming his breaks for the roundabout)
(http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/8/web/224000-224999/224991_18_full.jpg)
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come on you walked into that one.  :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
:kiss:
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Mine wasnt my fault either, some pissed up smack head pulled out of a side road and i t-boned her!!
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(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/gaz8512/Robs%20crash/golfgone3.jpg)
GazB wins.....
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thats ipcture looked like the front end of my dad transporter when he rolled it.. kinda....
i hate accidents.. hope no one got sseriously hurt in these!!! :undecided:
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GazB wins.....
seconded!
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oh dear guys.... men drivers eh?!
*han awaits retaliatoin*
My pics are of Carpys car when......... A car coming round the corner on the wrong side of the road hit him. :cry:
Oh yeah I nearly forgot, it was a bird :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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cant find the pics of my saxo i wrote off but that was seriously wasted when i finished with it! rolled it 3 times through a woodland and left it upside down in a ditch! walked out with meerly a scratch. god bless my old cobra clubmans!
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cant find the pics of my saxo i wrote off but that was seriously wasted when i finished with it! rolled it 3 times through a woodland and left it upside down in a ditch! walked out with meerly a scratch. god bless my old cobra clubmans!
Sounds familiar to mine, but rear brakes locked onto the discs, sent me backwards, drivers side first into a crash barrier (at about 50ish mph), flipped it twice and slid back across the dual carriageway just stopping before a junction. Left hanging upside down in the car, windscreen was never recovered..... :undecided: and ended up crawling out of the passenger window. One of the first cars with a crash shell on it, the mk2 was, think it saved my bacon. :smiley: :smiley:
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the fac that its german saved your bacon also!
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Ohh you guys and your photos, sure know how to give new drivers confidence eh? :)
Im lucky, ive had no crashes yet.. but ive only had a few lessons - But in all but one lesson ive had near misses and none of them my fault i must add! But i suppose thats what u gotta expect when your learning to drive in the parts of manchester popular with joy riders and general idiots!.
I do have a few near miss stories for you though!
First one was my very first lesson, Just practicing pulling away and shifting through gears - driving along a quiet road (doing quite well i must add! perfect shifts ever y time.) and all of a sudden in the space of 5seconds 2 idiots on dirtbikes (Non road-legal i must add) came flying out of a wooded area, nearly hitting a woman pushing a pram, 2 parked cars, a car driving towards me and then me! not wanting to give up there though the guy on the back bike proceeded to drive into the back of the guy on the front bike who had to brake to avoid me. I guess i should of seen if they was ok.. but to be quite honest i didnt care! Im pretty sure anyone who drives like that wouldnt be missed greatly from the gene pool.
Second one was last week when the road was quite icy and covered in snow, driving down one of manchesters busier roads (The one that goes down the side of the park near manchester city stadium if anyone knows it) and i get to a blind bend, as im approaching it i see a large white truck going around the corner so i slowed my speed down to 20 just to give him enough time to get around, as he gets halfway around the corner some idiot in a punto comes flying around the side of him (Who the f**k overtakes a truck on a blind corner?! let alone when its icy!) of course he see's me coming towards him, panics and hits his brakes. Ends up blocking my side of the road with his ice fueled skid. Narrowly missed him... as you can tell Manchester has its fair share of darwin award winners.
The rest arnt worth boring you with, just old people pulling infront without indicating etc the usual annoyances. :)
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its the people that pull out that are the lethal ones!!
the bloody pissed up smack head! and the there insurers still havnt contacted me to come out and agree a fee for my car!
whats the deal with what happens when if you want to keep the car, do they give you money to fix it if its a mild "write off", coz i wanna keep my valver and get it back to its best. But what sort of money are they going to give me?
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it depends what the damage is worth, they paid me for the damage to my car, because the damage was bad enuff to write it off, but not bad enuff for them to take, they just gave me less money and said i could keep it.. you can discuss that with teh valuer...
the valuer that came said theres no point in takin mine, but if u say u want to restore the car, you don't want it writing off, they'll rob make it a cat C - so you can repair it... altho you might have to buy it back from them!? not sure how it all works tbh.//
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its all complicated and confusing isnt it! they had best give me a decent amount to get it fixed!
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I hope you do get it sorted neaty, that looked like a pretty nice car before the accident would be a shame to see all that work wasted!.
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I hope you do get it sorted neaty, that looked like a pretty nice car before the accident would be a shame to see all that work wasted!.
Cheers mate, i hope so too. It was my pride and joy! Now its just sat on my drive getting mouldy, i went to go and start it up the other day but the battery was flat! (thats how long it has been sitting there!!) it smells damp and mouldy! :cry: I am determined to get it back on the road and firing on all cylinders (if you pardon the pun)!
I have bought a scirocco to keep me mobile but i dnt get it until next weekend and i cant insure it until the claim is orted out with my valver so at the moment i am on the same mode of transport as thee, with the addition of:
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Wow if your in the middle of sorting out an insurance claim you cant insure another car? I didnt know that!
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^^^ well alls i am doing is swapping cars on the policy, and cant do so until all the nitty gritty is sorted out. It will be the 4th car on this same policy!!!. I cant afford to start a new policy you see!
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Ahh! You need to stop eating through cars then! Think of the poor dubs!.
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I was doing alright at one point i had my red 1.6 dirver which i had for about 10 months in all, it served me well:
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then my mate ended up buying 2 valvers on ebay so i said that i would buy the cheapest one, which was £255. Lets just say you get what you pay for...
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I had that for about 3 months maximum, most of which was spent off road after i spun it into a tree, and to make things worse it kept cutting out and coughing and spluttering! Which i sorted but when i did it was MOT time, it failed 3 times so i sold it to my mate who took the engine, g'box, interior out and scrapped the shell.
then to keep me going my dad put me on the insurance for his green 8 valve mark 3 (i dnt have a pic of this)
then i bought my current valver off my mate (valver number 2 in the valvers of ebay)
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/Neaty/Loweredvalver.jpg)
I took this picture as i got to the car park after work, it was all clean and had just been lowered that weekend at was looking particularly nice.
Wow that trip down memory lane has brought a tear to my eye :cry:
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Some pretty nice cars there! :) Unfortunately the only vehicles ive ever driven are an old Volvo (That was amusing watching me attempt to go around a tight corner with a 4ft drop either side), a westfield (only around the car park though :( ) and the car im learning it at the moment, a nice shiney '04 Polo! :)
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I liked the 1.6 driver, i had put big bumpers on it, dropped it 55mm, then 80mm on venom motorsport lowering kit (shocks and struts etc) and had GTI Rainbow interior, was a good all rounder. The grey valver was just quick, looked a bit ropey, in fact the passenger door was shot, i had seen stronger pieces of toast!
Volvo's ay, my mate has got a 240GLT in white, its a giant sofa on wheels, it wollows and leans into the corners!
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Haha yeah my dad loves volvos... its the only type of car he's owned the whole time ive been alive - Right now hes driving a 1992 940 - Quite a nice car actually! only cost him a few hundred and its got full electrics and seat heaters, and its comfy as anything! the inside of it is massive. Dashboards like a coffee table!.
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ha ha my mate's has leather heated seats, electric windows and all that bobbins, 2.3 litre engine aswell!
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It needs that size engine to get it 0 - 60 in 3 weeks, they are REALLY heavy.
Cra1g
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^^^ They weigh more than the moon!!
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They may be heavy, but the police T5's soon catch you up :embarassed:
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They may be heavy, but the police T5's soon catch you up :embarassed:
They're turbo'd though!
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No question that the T5 is quick, my mates isnt tho! 240 GLT estate thing!
I was a dual carriageway in Barrow about a year or so ago, and i had a head light out - unbeknown to me. about half way down this section of dual carriageway i passed a police car (volvo t5) and before i knew it he was right up behind me and pulled me over! he must of been giving it death! i was amazed :shocked:
Nice bloke the copper actualy, unlike the usual i get in sunny lancashire......cough cough bar stewards cough cough