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Title: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 16:37

i had to say "bye bye" to my gti today , off to the bodyshop for rear end repairs done before xmas by lazy ass minibus driver forgetting to use his break peddle!, Anyway i kicked up stink because my insurance company were gonna give the car to a non v-dub dealer to repair, so VW uk in there lovelly wisdom have given me an equivelant car"in their words" as replacement, non other then a vw polo 1.2  E !!!!! FFS!!!,POLO PEDDLE POWER!!!. :grin: Boy do i feel a RIGHT PRAT driving it, go down the motorway and i pray that the wind is behind me cus it cant even overtake a sodden lorry!!!!!.  hurry up fixing mine plweaseeeee. :cry:

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 17 January 2007, 16:51

Crikey Phil, that accident seems like ages ago!

VW should be able to get it back as new for you.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 17:08

Fingers crossed they do, i was looking foward to seeing it come back with the edition of Brand new mudflaps fitted too, and gliming and shiny, but the weather forecast is gonna be bad in a few days so, by the time they have driven it 40 motorway miles back to me, it will be all sh!tted up again. i would post some pics when shes back as im one of a rare bread owning a laser blue dsg gti, i dont know how to add pics to this forum, have tryied before but cant get it to work!! need help!

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: 2007GTI on 17 January 2007, 17:20

Phil,

try and upload your pics to http://www.imageshack.us/

then it will give you a link you can post in the forum

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 17:26

cheers 2007, will try ,watch this space

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 17:42

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Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: 2007GTI on 17 January 2007, 17:44

I cant see that, I think you have to take the [/URL][/img] bits out, just make it like a web address, so it starts with http

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 17:47

[](http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/7727/slickpics005ji2.jpg)

Well there she is, shame they dont still make it in this colour. More pics to come when she comes back

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 17 January 2007, 17:53

[][(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3431/slickpics006iw1.jpg)]

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: 2007GTI on 17 January 2007, 18:47

agreed, nice colour.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 08:40

Any pics of the damage?

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 18 January 2007, 08:43

no i dont  have any, mainly cus the damage was minor, cracked offside light lense, and skuffed rear  upper and lower offside bumper, so they are replacing the lot. about £550 to repair all in+ mudflaps

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 08:53

Sounds not too bad given the accident description!

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: laney on 18 January 2007, 10:26

That blue looks spot on.  I've always been convinced that its a choice between Black and Red (or white if the missus doesn't get her say) but I think I'd have been tempted by that.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: illyun on 18 January 2007, 11:31

Phil, does your car now go on the HPI register? I'd be well p155ed off if it were mine and that happenned.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 18 January 2007, 14:28

i dont know about that , good question, anyone know?

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 14:33

Think thats only if it is written off. And even then they grade the write off.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: illyun on 18 January 2007, 15:48

I was under the impression that it was recorded as accident damaged whatever that means - maybe (hopefully) I am wrong.  Its like a stolen car - people say 'stolen/recovered' in ads sometimes... does that mean the car was stolen and in some cases not damaged but still recorded?  If so, it penalises a car owner which is hardly fair.  I wouldn't want to be in an accident or have my car stolen only to have the vehicle repaired but then tarnished by this label of 'accident repaired' or 'stolen/recovered'.  :sad:

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 16:00

It is only recorded stolen/recovered if the insurance company involved have paid out for a total loss. If it is recovered this does not apply, hence the appeal of a tracker. Unless they turn up at a burnt out shell!

Accident damaged means the car has been written off as the cost of repair exceeded about 75% of the market value, but the car is not so badly damaged that it is irrepairable. Hence some people buy busted cars from the scrappy really cheap and do them up. Then it is HPI recorded.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 18 January 2007, 17:44

[(http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/8615/carspicsdark025ct2.jpg)

As quick as the Polo came, the GTI is back, well pleased with the results, I agree laney, i think this blue is great, shame they stopped making it, nearest to it now is shadow blue which is darker.I think because of the arrival of the deep blue r32 .

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: illyun on 18 January 2007, 18:03

Quote from: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 16:00

It is only recorded stolen/recovered if the insurance company involved have paid out for a total loss. If it is recovered this does not apply, hence the appeal of a tracker. Unless they turn up at a burnt out shell!

Accident damaged means the car has been written off as the cost of repair exceeded about 75% of the market value, but the car is not so badly damaged that it is irrepairable. Hence some people buy busted cars from the scrappy really cheap and do them up. Then it is HPI recorded.

thanks for that - I'm definetly getting a tracker for the Edition 30 now...

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 19:51

Spoke to my insurance today. they said they would give no discount if i got a tracker installed. Seemed a bit rough.

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 19:53

Good to see it's back so quick Phil! Hope you managed to remove a few layers of rubber from the Polo's fronts?

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 18 January 2007, 21:31

haha,it didnt have enough horsepower to do that!!!!!, 62bhp!!! staggering!!,mind you, the guy from vw certainly had a big smile on his face when he dropped mine off and said what a great car it was!,im sure i had more then 4mm of tread on the fronts on mine before it went away! :undecided:

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 18 January 2007, 22:22

Always take a note of the mileage!

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: Phil mcavity on 18 January 2007, 22:45

i did but you can do alot in 80 mile round trip cant you!

Title: Re: Gti's gone, courtesy cars a real corker!!! NOT
Post by: wantmygti on 19 January 2007, 08:39

Very true!