South Member 323 Member For: 18y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 11/03/08 11:47 PM Share Posted 11/03/08 11:47 PM Well... last night on the way home north bound on the freeway, someone decided to mash their brakes, so I mashed mine and pulled up fine, looked in the rear view mirror and here comes an Excel locked up skidding toward me. KABOOM! First ever accident, in 10yrs of driving, and it'd be right that it's in my brand new (to me) Turbo.Bumper is toast, boot has a tiny mark on it and its been pushed up. Quaters are fine, maybe a very fine scratch where light popped out a bit, rear parking sensor MIA and the system constantly sounds now, tyre well buckled and bent, some other metal down there is toast too.Back, neck and shoulders ache, doctor was useless, must have had better things to do ey?!?Top it off, $600 at fraud over last 2 days for servicing and warranty repairs/recallsOther car is mashed front end, wouldnt be surprised if they decide to write theres off, doesnt look to bad, but cars worth less than repairs.Time to pop my pills again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XR06T Silver Donating Members 4,146 Member For: 19y 7m 19d Gender: Male Posted 11/03/08 11:53 PM Share Posted 11/03/08 11:53 PM spewin mate.. gotta be pissed off about that!did the excel have insurance? I take it you didn't hit the car infront which is some consolation at least.. buckled tyre well you say, wonder how hard that is to fix?hope it doesn't take too long to get back on the road anyways (april 13th latest so you can come on the cruise!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R-SPEC You are a dead set goose Silver Donating Members 3,968 Member For: 19y 2m 12d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 11/03/08 11:55 PM Share Posted 11/03/08 11:55 PM Ouch.Just bad luck mate. Exact same thing happened to me a few of years ago in my old Pulsar. They had my car for 9 days repairing it!Did you tick the hire car option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHR BOOST Moderating Team 5,698 Member For: 21y 5m 6d Gender: Male Location: Southern Highlands NSW Posted 12/03/08 12:49 AM Share Posted 12/03/08 12:49 AM Sorry to hear. Hope is back on the road soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Member 323 Member For: 18y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 12/03/08 01:17 AM Author Share Posted 12/03/08 01:17 AM Rear support frame is toast, so I reckon they will rip that out, then rip out the boot floor and spot weld a new one in... if they try and hammer it out, I'll hammer there head in )My insurance don't do hire cars, so if I get one, have to chase up the other insurance company for those costs. That's pretty gay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty32 Legendary member!! Donating Members 1,739 Member For: 18y 20d Gender: Male Location: Dianella, West Oz Posted 12/03/08 03:39 AM Share Posted 12/03/08 03:39 AM Unlucky there dude.Hope all gets sorted for ya asap.Best of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWSEY Member 441 Member For: 19y 2m 1d Gender: Male Posted 12/03/08 04:25 AM Share Posted 12/03/08 04:25 AM I had the same thing happen to me in a non turbo XR6 company car.it does not look that bad from the outside.but as soon as you have a look underneath the car the whole boot has been scrapped.they had to rip the whole boot up. and put a new boot in.then new rear bar and a new boot.make sure that when you get it back that your boot lines up with the rear bar and the rear glass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 9m 17d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 12/03/08 04:34 AM Share Posted 12/03/08 04:34 AM Looking at them coming for you and being trapped and unable to escape is not a pleasant feeling.You should be right claiming back hire-car expenses, usually the other insurance company will just pay up provided you have a valid reason (I.e. no other vehicle). If they don’t you have to take them to the small claims court (or whatever it’s called in your state), but there is the chance you may be left out of pocket.Hopefully they get it sorted out for you sooner rather than later dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilsson870 Member 88 Member For: 18y 8m 28d Location: narangba nrth brisbane Posted 12/03/08 05:27 AM Share Posted 12/03/08 05:27 AM Very unlucky mate, sorry to hear, nice colour too, Hopefully shell come back looking like newI no how u feel, only been a week after toasting the back end of mine and hitting a pole on my drivers side, and only just gotten to the repairers today, I no how frustrating it is ! Good luke with it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South Member 323 Member For: 18y 4m 18d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 12/03/08 05:28 AM Author Share Posted 12/03/08 05:28 AM Just dropped it at the panel shop, and yeh, the boot lid has to be unbolted from the inside to take it off, the left crumple zone is crumpled and will get straightened out, the boot floor will be out and fixed up, new rear bar, fit the boot marks, re-align everything.He's done paint on the car before, when I bought it, and knows if its not done right, it wont leave his shop till it is But there good workers, and produce good results.Just waiting for insurance to say yay or nay... but its going to be a long job :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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