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Offline VR6_ROB

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wet weather
« on: 22 May 2006, 20:54 »
was driving home from work today only been on road few minutes
went round a tight corner i had been round hundreds of times

car decided not to turn and go straight on tried best i could to get round corner
never did it enough though

took out a farmers fence and his hedge ended upo  halfway in his field grounded on a bank

scratch full length of the car
ripped lip off bottom of car
indicator does not work on front
ripped numberplate off

was not to bad really damagewise
thought i was gonna stop dead and
wreck the car

big land rover vogue thing pulled me out
eventually with steel rope

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Re: wet weather
« Reply #1 on: 22 May 2006, 21:00 »
oh dear!
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Re: wet weather
« Reply #2 on: 22 May 2006, 21:04 »
sh!te - could have been a lot worse by the sound of it!!
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Re: wet weather
« Reply #3 on: 22 May 2006, 21:07 »
Whoa! Glad to hear your ok, car can be fixed.  Trouble with this weather, cars drive differently!

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Re: wet weather
« Reply #4 on: 22 May 2006, 21:21 »
hope your ok bro! my mate rolled a metro once from aqua plaining! not good!

will your golf be ok?
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Offline VR6_ROB

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Re: wet weather
« Reply #5 on: 22 May 2006, 21:30 »
yeah im ok

golf is fine i think gonna have a look underneath it tomorrow
get the polish and compound get scratch buffed out

seems to drive ok still
im just glad it was my run about and not my white golf

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Re: wet weather
« Reply #6 on: 22 May 2006, 23:14 »
The woe's of understeer :sad: Glad your OK, and the car doesn't sound too bad, check you tyres have a good amount of tread!
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Re: wet weather
« Reply #7 on: 23 May 2006, 00:37 »
That sucks man, glad your alright though.

Your right, atleast it wasnt your white one.