Thread: Another D3- 1- piece of crap 0

Hi Steve,
As others have said, glad there were no injuries.

I have a 2003 XR6 (Blueprint Blue) and it has been run into twice in the last 2 years.

The first time I was at a stop sign and a goose (driving a Pajero with bullbar) was off with the pixies. Hit me at about 10km/h. Yes - very slow, but bent both rear quarter panels, boot and bumper. That was at the end of 2004.

About a month ago, it was parked near a school and yet another goose (this time driving a Nissan Navarra ute with bullbar) cuts the corner and side-swiped the XR6. This time, rear quarter panel, rear passenger door and drivers side mirror had to be replaced at about $3.5k.

I can say that the worst part of all this is the inconvenience of being down one car during the repair. It is even worse when the repairs are not done right and have to be taken back to correct. This is the hidden cost of accidents - lots of stress and inconvenience - which the insurance companies and geese driving crappy 4bees are happy to ignore.

Cheers,
Rob

just looked up some info from the ADF's driving instructors precies.

IF your wife was turning right across the intersection and is struck on the front or sides she is in the wrong....

If she had completed the turn and was struck from the rear the vehicle that hit her is in the wrong..

the grey area is in the angles of impact...

IMHO, if she was hit anywhere behind the b pillars then the other car is always at fault.

just looked up some info from the ADF's driving instructors precies.

IF your wife was turning right across the intersection and is struck on the front or sides she is in the wrong....

If she had completed the turn and was struck from the rear the vehicle that hit her is in the wrong..

the grey area is in the angles of impact...

IMHO, if she was hit anywhere behind the b pillars then the other car is always at fault.

thanks mate, am slightly pickled now , will post pics in morning, but where this toss has hit would indicate she has made the turn as the strike starts behind the rear wheel and towards the bumper ie clipped it. I agree if it was front or one of the passenger doors then she may have something to answer for , but a split second later he would have missed, if that. If it was in offroad height he would have just gone under

Regards

Stevo

Stay with the 'he was going too fast' angle, and stick hard to it. Get a lawyer and sue the mongrel and his mates for pain and suffering caused to your missus. Get the cops to charge them all with sexual harrassment and anything else relevant.

GQ

Just a point re crumple zone cars.

I had a transit van years ago with big piece of iron across the back, it was parked outside my house and the street had chicanes. We all heard the bang, underneath the transit van was a Corolla (about 1993).

He got it wrong in the chicanes and moved the transit about 2 metres, into the next car (which was my X1/9).

The transit van was only minorly damaged, but the exhaust pipe was broken in several places, the back of the X1/9 was a little bent, tho'.

The Corolla was rooted and he was in much worse shape when his mum turned up - it was her car.

Cops said his speed was about 60 - work that out.

BTW: The X1/9 is an Elvis car, its been run into so many times. After a full rebuild by a panel beater, a customer hit it at his premises the day it was due for return. A month later, parked at work, it was swiped by the bosses missus. Left door and guard stuffed.

The upsatirs tenant backed his Volvo into the right door before i got the left side fixed, so it has two new doors!

Two years later at a new offfice - as I was driving into my building - another tenant reversed out at 500mph in an old Benz - I needed a new bonnet, the old one was rusty anyhow. Butte nose alignment has never been perfect since that episode (and he was p1ssed) and the cops busted him and getting the dough was a drama and his chick told fibs, reckoned I hit the Benz, but the moral to that story is 'don't tell fibs, the security camera video footage may prove otherwise'. In court the beak got right into her for being a bs artist and threatened her with perjury.

GQ

Well, have taken the beast for quotes, looking around the $5k mark, not the same driving it around looking like this ( pics attached) . Now just have to wait and see when I can get it fixed,

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by stevo68

Well, have taken the beast for quotes, looking around the $5k mark, not the same driving it around looking like this ( pics attached) . Now just have to wait and see when I can get it fixed,

Regards

Stevo

Gee...that reflection in the photo is horrible. What happened to the leopard skin boxers?

The car doesn't look that bad but I bet the damage will be a few k.

let the insurance company worry about it and let them have the joy of chasing down the moron and bleeding him for the cash they have laid out for your repairs.

your insurance premium increase will always give you an edge in 12 months time with the wife when having an argument about what you have sacrificied for her

it will give you some excuse as to why the D3 rattles when driven in the future

the dent gives any future potential buyer a discount in the purchase value

you wont mind so much when driving through the scrub accumulating scrathces in the paint job anymore as you know its been bingled