djhampson
18th July 2009, 11:00 PM
My poor red beast has for the second time offered to help another vehicle stop by offering its mass to a Landcruiser on the Logan Motorway who couldn't pull up intime.
This time the damage is worse with a hole punched through the tailgate, tail lights broken and the muffler ripped off and buckled all the way up to the engine. The rear quarter panels are also buckled but I'm pretty sure the rest of the structure is still straight.
Oh yeah the rear bumper is completly buggered.
I was hit while slowing down for roadworks around the toll booths on the motorway. I'm not sure what speed the LC was doing but it was fast because it was a hell of a bang and I'm suffering from some bad neck pain.
Inside the cabin, my subwoofer shifted far enough to break the speaker cable and the amplifier mounted under the passengers seat also broke free. My iPhone which was siiting in the Land Rover cradle on the dash, hit the windscreen and went to that place in the sky that dead iPhones go to.
The LC pushed me into an Astra which put a few marks in the bumpers of both cars. I think the intercooler might have been moved back a few degrees but I think that it was its mounting point that moved because it doesn't like it has touched anything.
So far Allianz have been great with getting the car towed to a repairer and assessed although I'm yet to find out how long it will take to get back.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/726.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/727.jpg
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This time the damage is worse with a hole punched through the tailgate, tail lights broken and the muffler ripped off and buckled all the way up to the engine. The rear quarter panels are also buckled but I'm pretty sure the rest of the structure is still straight.
Oh yeah the rear bumper is completly buggered.
I was hit while slowing down for roadworks around the toll booths on the motorway. I'm not sure what speed the LC was doing but it was fast because it was a hell of a bang and I'm suffering from some bad neck pain.
Inside the cabin, my subwoofer shifted far enough to break the speaker cable and the amplifier mounted under the passengers seat also broke free. My iPhone which was siiting in the Land Rover cradle on the dash, hit the windscreen and went to that place in the sky that dead iPhones go to.
The LC pushed me into an Astra which put a few marks in the bumpers of both cars. I think the intercooler might have been moved back a few degrees but I think that it was its mounting point that moved because it doesn't like it has touched anything.
So far Allianz have been great with getting the car towed to a repairer and assessed although I'm yet to find out how long it will take to get back.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/726.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/727.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/728.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2009/07/729.jpg