As the title says i now have a new look mr2
certinaly looks different after aquaplaning, back end skiding out and putting the front end through a hedge
not bad for owning it for only 6 hours
2.30pm get mr2
8.30pm write it off
f**king brilliant
please tell me your joking?
wish i was, was only going at bout 30-40mph as well it all looks only cosmetic damage until you get underneath around the passanger front wheel. it was the only wet bit on that road aswel because all the water fromthe field runs acorss that bit of the road and it was like a stream.
s:shock: :shock: s:shock: Jesus... sorry to hear that mate.... so long as you're ok tho!
Chris s:) :) s:)
Arse, glad you're ok. Good job you can make use of the expensive insurance you just forked out for.
Sorry to hear that. As long as it's only metal that's damaged and not you then it can be fixed.
yeh i just wish that i can get that into ma head aswell though as long as i can get somewhere inteh region of £8500 back for the car i will be running around in another mr2 before long aint think the insurance goes up i just loose 2 years ncb which is ok because i only had 1/2 a day of ncb
it never rains for me it always bloody pours
Are you that sure are you it's going to be written off?
Quote from: "cfcdicko7"it never rains for me it always bloody pours
Cheer up mate, your not injured and thats the main thing, do you have any photo's?
Could've been worse:
(http://www.spydermagazine.com/files/carwithgull.jpg)
yeh the garage is pretty sure that it is goin to written off the body work is ok new bumper passanger font wing and bonnet no bamgae to driver side and nothing passed the passanger front wing but its stuff like the steering rack and the wishbone that joins onto the chassis (i think) has torn away from the bolt.radiator needs replaced.Im already looking at a couple on auto trader some new ones added since i bought this one with less milage on and for less money s:D :D s:D
If is it is a write off i might look at buying it back if it aint that much.
Would any one be interested in buying it as i say it is repairable with a bit of expense and no how but the engine has only done 37k miles and DID runs very very nice.
Il take sum pics and post them up
Glad to hear that your ok, hope your parents aren't giving you I told you so grief!
You might be ok, mine was pretty splattered after a rear end bash I thought it was a gonna but it was fixed - £3000 worth.
Dude that sucks!!
Glad you are ok!
You're in one piece. WAY the most important thing.........
Quote from: "mrbarney"Could've been worse:
(http://www.spydermagazine.com/files/carwithgull.jpg)
James bond was not so impressed with his replacement to the lotus ... but did like the periscope discuised as a sea gull ...
sorry ... back to topic ...
Dry your eyes, mate!!
There is an ancient Japanese poem that goes:
Do not cry, if you crash your MR2,
For there are many others for sale,
Often in Autotrader,
Or the back of your local paper. s:roll: :roll: s:roll:
It's not one of the better known ones, but I feel it appropriate here.
Great that you're ok tho buddy. Could have been MUCH worse!!
i am glad that your ok too
just look at it as minor setback
Not really heard of that well known poem mark
dont know why.
Well it aint as bad as i thought that it was going to be dad phoned the garage and they have assured me that the chassis is not bent or twisted so it wont need jigging and hopefully they could be starting fixing it 2moro
pity, saw a couple of nice 1s on autotrader
should get some pics up tomorrow hopefully aint know if i can host ne1 do it for me.
Cheers
here we are then people some piccies for ya
(http://www.tandridgecanoe.co.uk/roadster/dicko1.jpg)
(http://www.tandridgecanoe.co.uk/roadster/dicko2.jpg)
(http://www.tandridgecanoe.co.uk/roadster/dicko3.jpg)
spoke to the garage 2day and cost is round £4000 so should be starting to get fixed. nice blue colour as you can see on the last pic.
It's fixable? s:shock: :shock: s:shock: Thought that'd be a write-off. Glad you're ok – nice to see the passenger compartment is intact. And you only had it six hours... s:( :( s:( NASTY orange repeaters by the way. s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
yeh i was just about to place an order with passion when i got home that night for all the chrome surround for the vents and what not and scuff plates including white repeater good job i never. lol
Quote from: "Darth Paul"It's fixable? s:shock: :shock: s:shock: Thought that'd be a write-off. Glad you're ok
beleive it or not darth it doesn't actually look that bad to me s:? :? s:? mine was chopped off at the front bulkhead after my accident and they were going to rebuild it!
All that and the airbag didn't fire s:shock: :shock: s:shock: s:shock: :shock: s:shock: s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
can anyone tell me why the airbags didnt go off caus im sure that they should have caus u cant get any more central than that was if its not going to fire i might just change the wheel for a nice blue sporty one
Glad you are OK, that looks a mighty shunt.
Hope you don't mind me sticking my nose in, but were your front discs like that when you picked the car up? If they were perhaps you had brake problems - and a claim against the vendor ???????
mmm me and ma dad aint think so think that might have came from the fact that the compound that it has been sitting in at the garage is outside
good thinking though.
Ohhh nasty, glad its fixable s:shock: :shock: s:shock: . My discs go like that when it has been sitting on the drive for a few days - soon goes. Its the middle part which rusted which a few of us have had sorted out on warranty.
Glad to see your OK, if it's any consolation one of the staff at my local MrT told me that the then Liverpool player, El Hadji Diauf (if that's how you spell it) wrote his MR2 off driving away from the show room.
Quote from: "cfcdicko7"certinaly looks different after aquaplaning, back end skiding out and putting the front end through a hedge
You hit a HEDGE! and it looked like THAT!
What the heck was the hedge made of? Looks like you hit a tree head on by the angle of that "dent".
Too sharp an angle for a tree.
Hidden wall?
Simon
Quote from: "SimonC_Here"Too sharp an angle for a tree.
Hidden wall?
Simon
more likely a rock in the earth underneath, loads of cr*p like that around
no honestly it went into the very start of the hedgeif i was a eter before it i would be through a gap in the fence and straight into the field with no damage at all but the root at the start was a big muther f**er and then a couple of fence posts behind the hedge
Quote from: "cfcdicko7"here we are then people some piccies for ya
(http://www.tandridgecanoe.co.uk/roadster/dicko1.jpg)
s:shock: :shock: s:shock: What happend to your engine!!?
Oh yeah s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
funny you should ask that because a couple of my friends have asked me that aswel
just ti update you it is getting fixed in garage getting stripped down if it aint already and all the parts will be arriving on wednesday so im guessing it will be another week and a half and i sould be back on hte road. Garage estimating 30hrs work.
Still suprised that aint a right-off, there again Liz's pics when some one hit her where bad too. Amazing really what these places can repair
Well just to update you guys/girls
Getting the car back tomorrow afternoon
Could have had it back today but there must be a special power steering fluid for the car and it never arrived and the local dealership aint stock it so it will be arriving tomorrow.
Have to say the car is looking better now because there aint no chips on the bumper now and also a couple of chips along the door are away because when he went to flash off the front panel on the passanger side the paint took a big reaction. Later we found out that the car has already been sprayed in parts on the side and rear bumper (hopefully nothing to worry about).
Anyway cant wait and il get some pics off the running mr2 up soon complete with apexi which will be fitted over the weekend along with the JIC front strut and chrome side repeaters and mudflaps and hopefully David style bars fitted aswel.
Christ i aint half waffle on.
just remember this time
LESS RIGHT FOOT
god i sound like an old fart s:roll: :roll: s:roll:
Hi Craig,
Your car should have really gone on a jig.
I have done several damaged MR-S now and you can clearly see in the picture that the bumper bar has creased thus reducing it's length by about 3 or 4 inchs meaning that both chassiss legs will have also been pulled inwards.
I can see the drivers side one is definately bent.
In fact I dont think they would have been able to repair this unless it was pulled straight.
Just so you know
Adam
Quote from: "cstevens"Still suprised that aint a right-off, there again Liz's pics when some one hit her where bad too. Amazing really what these places can repair
A break down for you.
1 day on a jig - £180
front bumper bar - £80
Front panel surround - £120
Front panel supports - £60
Radiator - £200
Front bumper - £140
Bonnet - £120
Cost to respray - £300
Approx of course - £1200
Quite an easy repair when you see some of the ones I've done with collapsed A pillars and squashed flitch panels.
Craigs car doesn't seem to have suffered any mechanical damage either.
Well went to get the 2 and i was told that there was good news and bad news
Good news is that the 4 toyo proxies T1R had arrived and been fitted
bad news is that toyota who said yesturday that the fluid was on its way to the garage are now saying that they cant get the "special power steering fluid"
UNTIL 1ST JUNE
im away for a week on monday so i wont get the car back now until 5th june
As you can guess i wasnt best pleased
Quote from: "Jap GT300"flitch panels.
Isn't that a sexual practice? s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
Kidding.. but, out of genuine interest - what's a flitch panel? Not a phrase I've heard before s:) :) s:)
Quote from: "aaronjb"Quote from: "Jap GT300"flitch panels.
Kidding.. but, out of genuine interest - what's a flitch panel? Not a phrase I've heard before s:) :) s:)
It's the inner wings matey s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Quote from: "heathstimpson"It's the inner wings matey s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Ahhhh, ta s:) :) s:)
Ok iv got the car back all and had it for 3 full days now.
Had a bloody close one this morning at 1.30am when i was following ma brother back home. Saw him swerving severly across the road aint know how he kept it on the wet roads in his corsa then the next thing i hear is a massive THUD.
Bro stopped and so did i with an unsightly grating noise coming form the 2.
Hit 2 bloody badgers crossing the road only damage to ma car was a drip stray from under the driver door had came loose and was dragging onthe ground thats what was making the noise and the front wheel arch cover had came loose all sorted now though. Ma bro has smashed all his front bumper. Thank goodness he was in front.
Fitted the apexi this morning and what a noise.
Can anyone tell me if i need to put on the silver heatsheild with it or not
cheers
How were the badgers? s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Clicky (http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/)
s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
The special PS fluid is stuff that is specific for electronic pumps.
I've been quoted huge delays from the dealers on this stuff as well so I always use the Honda fluid instead.
Dan you beat me to posting that link!!! s:lol: :lol: s:lol: I can't talk I killed one years ago in my Calibra, just couldn't avoid it, there it was laying the the road with Simon looking at it and me shouting is it dead? s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
bet you thought you'd get some sympathy round here s:?: :?: s:?:
WRONG!!!! s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
hope your okay though Craig, as for the heatshield, find a box and put it in it, never had a problem without mine and i've never heard of anyone else with a problem either
Are there tyres directional? A closer look at the picture makes me believe so:
(http://www.peter-laborne.co.uk/crash.jpg)
And they appear to be on backwards s:shock: :shock: s:shock: . This would have had no effect on dispersing the water and would have led to you aquaplaning.
well when i picked up the car he did say that he has just put 2 new pirelli P6000 on the front as he was intending to use the car himself but decided to keep the SMART ROADSTER??????
I never noticed anything aboutthe tyres until you said but i see what u mean by backwards. It does look odd. But no way of checking now as i have got my Toyo T1R on all around and it has made a massive difference on the handling. Much more confidence now even in the wet.
Well i think il take that heatsheild off 2moro then stu if u aint had any problems with it.