Well... I oredered my apexi induction kit from dan at DTA. Top bloke. Spent the morning fitting it - nightmare. Took out my zed for a drive - sounded sweet. Pulled into shared drive area, could see neighbours car on his drive and saw his reverse lights come on. Stopped and popped her into neutral expecting him to reverse back and then out forward onto the road like any other person would. Nope, he reversed into me at between 10- 15mph. Smash!

I got out, fuming... his words - 'sorry man, I wasn't looking!'

He's taking liability funnily enough.

 

As for my zed... It has a cracked bumper, number plate is wrecked, a small chunck of bumper has come off, foglights broke, paint cracked, bumper doesn't sit flush with the lights anymore - there is an inch gap on n/s headlight and i can see into the engine bay. I think its also dropping some coolant now - before I was hit the temp gauage was in the middle, after it was near the bottom.

 

I am gutted.

 

Insurance company very helpful and will be collecting it tomorrow for assessment. Do you think they will put it right? Or write it off? From what I gather the insurance company will have to repair it with all nissan parts.

 

And I got a sore neck. Never mind.

Well... I oredered my apexi induction kit from dan at DTA. Top bloke. Spent the morning fitting it - nightmare. Took out my zed for a drive - sounded sweet. Pulled into shared drive area, could see neighbours car on his drive and saw his reverse lights come on. Stopped and popped her into neutral expecting him to reverse back and then out forward onto the road like any other person would. Nope, he reversed into me at between 10- 15mph. Smash!

I got out, fuming... his words - 'sorry man, I wasn't looking!'

He's taking liability funnily enough.

 

As for my zed... It has a cracked bumper, number plate is wrecked, a small chunck of bumper has come off, foglights broke, paint cracked, bumper doesn't sit flush with the lights anymore - there is an inch gap on n/s headlight and i can see into the engine bay. I think its also dropping some coolant now - before I was hit the temp gauage was in the middle, after it was near the bottom.

 

I am gutted.

 

Insurance company very helpful and will be collecting it tomorrow for assessment. Do you think they will put it right? Or write it off? From what I gather the insurance company will have to repair it with all nissan parts.

 

And I got a sore neck. Never mind.

they might right it off even thou its totally fixable so be prepard and what a complete :xxx: :xxx: your neighber is

im sure he didnt do it out of malice and he probably feels really bad about it!!!

 

Im sure it will be repaired back to its glory its one of the joys of owning a car, been there, only i let the young guy give me cash to save his premiuims because accidents do happen.

 

I know how maddening it is but it will come right in ythe end

 

and you got your neighbour owing you one now, which could come in handy!!

Writeoff i'd say

 

But you should get a couple of grand and be able to buy the car back for 100 quid or so. Wideass kit time!

I got a feeling they r gonna write it off. Bloke from the insurance hinted toward that due to the age of it.

i hate insurance companies!

Can you settle with him?-it WILL be written! :(

iv already contacted my insurance company. Dont think he would settle it with cash anyways. if it is written off iv been told i might be able to buy it back - have to do a vic check on it tho

i'm in the same boat, think there gonna write mine off too when the insurance company come to look at it on monday (finally after 2 months) but its only a door & front wing, but i was quoted £1500 just for the labour to repair it

i'm in the same boat, think there gonna write mine off too when the insurance company come to look at it on monday (finally after 2 months) but its only a door & front wing, but i was quoted £1500 just for the labour to repair it

jesus thats expensive.

jesus thats expensive.

 

 

Tell me about it just hopeing when they write it off they let me buy it back for next to nothing so i can break it

Yeah I crashed a mini years ago

 

Garage quoted to fix it

 

£946!

 

I then told them its not going through the insurance, and they said ok £200!

 

I think that a lot of garages rip off the insurance companies tbh

Yeah I crashed a mini years ago

 

Garage quoted to fix it

 

£946!

 

I then told them its not going through the insurance, and they said ok £200!

 

I think that a lot of garages rip off the insurance companies tbh

 

Yeah i've been quoted £700 to repair it incl all the parts & fix the front bumper

Yeah i've been quoted £700 to repair it incl all the parts & fix the front bumper

do you still need to borrow them wheels then fella?

iv already contacted my insurance company. Dont think he would settle it with cash anyways. if it is written off iv been told i might be able to buy it back - have to do a vic check on it tho

 

It will only need a VIC check, if it gets categorised 'C'. If it gets a 'D' it won't need to and it won't be on the log book, but chances are it will end up a 'C' at that age. Also SOME cat 'C's don't require a test - but most do. :(

Well fair play they collected it first thing this morning as promised. The bloke looked at it and said - 'what u gonna get next?'

'What, arent u gonna try and fix it?' I said.

'Doubt it, parts cost.' He replied.

Just have to wait and see now.

 

And 2 months to come and look at the car!? Who are you insured with? Thats not on

do you still need to borrow them wheels then fella?

 

Yeah please been trying to get hold of you

Well fair play they collected it first thing this morning as promised. The bloke looked at it and said - 'what u gonna get next?'

'What, arent u gonna try and fix it?' I said.

'Doubt it, parts cost.' He replied.

Just have to wait and see now.

 

And 2 months to come and look at the car!? Who are you insured with? Thats not on

 

 

Bell Direct, my fault aswell tho haven't really pushed them as i have a brand new scooby as a hire car & don't erally drive that much due to work