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Vehicle & Technical => Discovery => Topic started by: disco2 td5 on April 21, 2010, 21:33:44
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Today goin up the motoway in the td5 the traffic stopped so did I then a 206 crashed into the back of me at high speed bloody hurt me but I got out see if there were any surivers from the 206 luckly she were still alive and movin air bag went off in her face and her rads bumper and all the front end were in bits high ways men sweeped bits of 206 off the road and got recovery for a smashed up 206
the best bit is my bumper lamps are not even smashed my bumper has a few scratches the bad bit is the tow bar is quite badly bent
So my tips of the day are don't hit the back of a discovery ( I think a nuclear bunker is softer )
and never buy a small French car way too much plastic in it
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Hope your ok & the whiplash settles down once they have payed up for it. Your poor tow bar & bumper :roll:i'm sure after they are replaced & the garage has given your motor a full valet the TD5 will recover ok from the insult :D Hmm that 206 will be coke cans soon :lol: :lol:
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oh i like it . . . . hope the driver is alright though . . . oh and couldnt she see a discovery stopping .. . hmmmmm
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She said to me I did not see you stopping hello it's a big 4x4 with huge brake lights on it
funny thing were I were goin to go on the motobike and something did not feel right so I jumped in the disco thinking 2 tons of metal vs a bit of cloth I even said that to swimbo n then 10 mins later a huge bang
oh well it's only a bit of metal At least everyone walked away
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she was probably doing her make up or something haha
wow that was very lucky u didnt take the bike . . . :-k
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Its frightening how correct the voice in your stomach can sometimes be. Has saved me 2-3 times.
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She said to me I did not see you stopping hello it's a big 4x4 with huge brake lights on it
funny thing were I were goin to go on the motobike and something did not feel right so I jumped in the disco thinking 2 tons of metal vs a bit of cloth I even said that to swimbo n then 10 mins later a huge bang
oh well it's only a bit of metal At least everyone walked away
Ahh BUT, would you have been on that piece of road at that time had you been on the bike?
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Think your find most cars would have came off the same because they just dont make them how they used to!!
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If the tow bar is badly bent I would seriously get the chassis looked at, as the force from the tow bar wil have gone direct to the chassis. glad everyone is well though.
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A car braking hard would also be 2-3 inches lower at the front when it hit you, unbless she wasn't braking at all.
Glad you are ok, I'd agree youneed ot get the chassis checked and your neck X-rayed.
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It's goin into the garage at 5 Monday night so I'll find out if it's a repair or a write off sometime this week it's dammage tow bar bumper and the gearbox it keeps dropin into neutral auto box god knows what's up with the box pesonaly I can't see them writein it off unless it's bent the main structure
it drives ok and stright
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as said before get your chassis checked also there is a thing called delayed whip lash this can come on at a later time up too a month after the incedent
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If the chassis is bent they'll write it off. but also if the rear body is damaged at allthen it's beyond economic repair, the technical term for a write-off.
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It's gone in for repair or write off depend I told them to cheak it's stright it's stupid he told me if it's not bent they are fittin the bumper it's then goin to a tow bar fitter and also it's goin to landrover for the gear box I left it with half a tank of diesel what's bettin there's no diesel left
Now I've got a hire car ford focus 1.6 petrol and it's the sport one with huge wheels on looks good and drives well but I feel like I'm sat in a gocart it's too low lol
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I've just found out today that they are fixing it yippy it's only 3 weeks since they got the dirty hands oh it my god do the wheels of insurance turn slowly
it must be costing a fortune this job
the bad bit is even tho it were not my fault I bet my insurance goes up next year
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If your policy goes up you can claim compensation, however if it's been settled by then all they should care about is that it cost nothing on your part to repair so unless you have more claims than can fit their form you should be ok.
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If it's a rear shunt, it shouldn't be classed as your fault at all, so your NCB shouldn't be affected.
I had a Ford Mondeo go into the back of the Disco, and it in turn was pushed into the back of the wifes Audi S3..... the insurance company took some convining as to how the hell could it be MY FAULT as the car was parked, locked and we were eating dinner IN THE HOUSE when the accident happened!!
The pic attached is what happens when a Ford argues with a parked 2 ton armoured landrover...... the mark half way up the bonnet on the mondeo is wherer the detachable tow bar reciever came to rest!
The truck suffered a broken chassis mount for the rear axle, and some scratches on the rear bumper. All repaired by Landrover body shop, initially the insurance company wanted to write it off, as a damaged Chassis, until I pointed out if the part was avaibable from LR it must therefore be a recognised repair!
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I've still not got the td5 back off them Christ knows why it's takin so long to fix maybe it's because the have removed the gearbox then waited for the ok off the insurance componey to fix it as it would be expensive insurance gave the ok to fix it so the rebuilt the gearbox and fitted it now back to the body shop to work out what it needs order parts wait for parts to come fit them the send it to a tow bar fitting place for that fitting then back to body shop for a wash n clean out
Now to fix the gearbox 1990 quid,about 1500 for bumper and towbar, cost of hire car about 2000quid
total of about 5500 quid
Now I think this is rediculas for what is a 10 year old car n 3 years ago I payed 6000 for it