Re: Pictures of my smashed up Ti :(

Nov 08, 2003 14 Replies


> Nevermind - could be worse :)


>
> Could be worse ?? Look at it, man, there's scratches everywhere.
> 620ti's are only worth about £20 these days as it is :(

Yea - you and the missus are OK, the damage isn't major and yo can still use the car till her insurance company foots the bill :)


Was only doing about 25mph as well, would have been worse if I didn't
> choose to go for the kerb as there were no pedestrians around.
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> > Her insurance will spring for it no doubt.
>
> No reason why not, she even said "I didn't see you" when she got out of
> the car (which was quite nice of her, heh). Bit pissed off with Direct
> Line tho, been extremely happy with them so far, but I was thinking
> before I rang them that now's the time to find out how good an insurer
> they actually are. One of the first statements they make basically says
> they won't arrange for any repairs to my car. They'll just pass it on to
> the legal department who will advise me what to do next. Wankers. >

Hmm - thats not too good, but then, they are very cheap. If i ever have to claim (whether i did the damage or not) the approved place comes to my house (assuming thats where my car is), collects my car, leaves me a Saxo (presumably as the local approved repairers is also a Citroen garage) courtesy car. Then when the repairs are done, they deliver it back (trailored, not driven by some pikey) and collect the Saxo :)

My current line of thinking is that hopefully the same thing will happen as the last time my car was twatted - Long standing members of the group may remember a milk float running into my car outside the house at 6am in the morning and then making a run for it (don't laugh, it wasn't funny ffs). I got a few quotes from main dealers, sent them to the insurers, they stumped up for the cheapest one - which was about £400 for a wing mirror and bumper - and just sent me a cheque. Quick visit to the scrappie and I'm sorted for about £40 :)

Cheers, but I may have been a little 'over-zealous' with the phrase "smashed up", it's more of a "scratched up".

Didn't even get the Police involved.

Didn't mean to sound like i didn't think it mattered/was important - just saying, its not the end of the world, look on the bright side :)

I know :)

It's scratched tho, not far off.

Heh - if i thought that about every little scratch on my car the universe would've imploded by now :)

Or my bent chassis leg :)

-- Chet

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Could have been better - it could have been your 4 week old car that got damaged. Now that /would/ have been funny, particularly when you had to explain it to your boyfriend.

Heh, cheers.

The bitch is going to try and do me tho (see other post) :/

Got my new Edge Comp today, just wondering if it's any good at scaling Puntos...

Just read it, cheeky bint

Edge Comp? Whats that? Wouldn't a sledge hammer do?

*several* scratches.

In fact, I'd almost call it a "ding".

let us know if you are going to the donnington show at the end of the month i'll see if i can tell if they matcvhed the paint up correctly :)

i "think" it's the ford show and spares day on the 30th with the big 1 hour queue to buy tickets to get in :)

worth it simply to have a spin round on teh muddy feilds :)

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