Earlier on this evening a white van man decide to turn into the side of my car and force me off the road. I have got body damage but he also brushed the alloy and forced me into the kerb with the other front alloy so the wheels don't align and one side has a strong lean from top to bottom. The car will go into subaru tomorrow and is fully insured but I just wonder what kind of damage could it have done the suspension and drivetrain ? Plus has any body had experiance of when two of a set of alloys have been stuffed and you can't get the alloys new anymorec (oz super t evos). How do the insurance play it ?

Dave (due to open the big bottle of whiskey)

 

It looks even worse in the day light

 

did he just drive off then?

 

OH NO!!!!!

Why does it always happen to the good guys?

Where did it happen dude?

Keep me informed

Mikey

 

No did stop and eventually admitted fault. (I had requested the police to attend). Happened on western bolevard near chalfront driver, but nobody stopped to witness.

Got the company and driver details , but having fun trying to get the insurance details.

Dave.

 

We had this recently when a Landrover hit my wife's car and then refused to give his insurance. There was no argument as to fault as we were parked outside our house, he was going too fast and cut too close when overtaking.

All you need to do is provide his registration details to your insurance company, it's their job to get everything else. If there's a problem just report it to the police.

Hope this helps

Laurence

 

Just an aside, but make sure you carry a disposable camera in the glovebox. Always comes in handy in case of any problems if you're unfortunate enough to have a ding.
Joolz

 

Cheers for the advice and support chaps.

Feeling a bit better

Got the insurance details they where just bit busy to phone me. They have phoned the accident management company they use and admitted it was their fault.

Joolz,

Did that ... had a camera that I took photos and need to get developed. I think that helped in getting him to admit fault.

The assesor is going out to see the car as there is £3.5K - £4K worth damage. I'll discuss the alloys then.

Dave

 

Dave, I don't know the first thing about insurance, but I do know it might look at lot worse than it is ...

My car was seriously damaged earlier this year, see and the wheel looked totally out of place. I thought the car was a write off.

It turned out it was just the "support arm" (technical term ) that needed replacing.

I did a test afterwards at 120 MPH on the German autobahn releasing my steering wheel, and the car went straight on, so no permanent damage was done.

Can't promise you that you have the same, but my car really looked sh1tty It all worked out in the end.

HTH,

Theo

 

To make it clearer what I meant :

 

Glad you like the new Morette stylee "Armco Imprint" look Paul

 

sorry to hear your sad news dave

Phil

 

Likewise, hope you can get it sorted quickly.

One observation - some of the posts above seem to have come from Timelords - November 2002? October 2002? Something weird's going on here!!!

Richard

 

Richard ... see http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...threadid=63194 for the reason of this timewarp

 

Theo,

Thx for this. Makes me feel better that at hopefully the car will be good as new when its back. It is just compounded because I forked out for a full geometry setup a week before !

Dave

 

Thanks Theo Interesting bug!

Richard

 

I had exactly the same happen to me about 2 years back in a pug306 i used to own. He forced me off the road into a curb then drove off, i gave chase for approx 10 yards then my car just died. Got his number plate which i wrote quickly on my windscreen and dialled 999. Waited for the police for about an hour but no show. I suppose they must have been busy doing more important things like pulling people over etc etc.. Called the AA out, fixed my car, just about, then reported the incident again back at the local plod shop, however they couldnt get anything on the reg number i gave them. NICE!!!

Hope your car gets better mate.

Scrappy

 

Pics in gallery if interested

 

As for the alloys, it depends on if you declared the alloys as a non factory item to the insurance company. If so they will probably have to replace all 4 if the fronts cannot be purchased and if you didn't declare them best will be an offer to replace the fronts with the original factory supplied item and worst case they will refuse to pay out any money as you have modified your car from the factory supplied spec. Check your insurance details before speaking with them.

Good luck

[Edited by Scooby-Doo - 1/10/2002 11:13:29 PM]

 

Declared all mods on the car as I don't like to risk it. But I brought them 2nd hand and I did tell them because they asked how much did they cost. The section on the policy reads.

Wheels (Non standard alloy)

Cost of bodywork/cosmetic mods £251-£1000

Thanks



[Edited by DemonDave - 1/10/2002 11:15:47 PM]

 

Just a point perhaps worth mentioning.

A lady i know was driving her mx5 down some hill on a reidential estate in brighton, when a red builders van failed to stop at a junction joining the hill she was going down, it skidded into the side of her and spun her into a telepgraph pole and a parked car.

Two of the alloys took the brunt on the kerb, the third just being mightily scuffed up.

The insurance companies answer to replacing the alloy wheels (which were unavailable new as the newer mk2 mx5 was now out) replace the three damaged ones with suitable equivalents.

hmmmm nice one odd alloy wheel.


[Edited by ptholt - 1/11/2002 3:33:50 PM]

 

evilbevel

Sweet car!

Edited coz I can't spell!!!!

[Edited by paulpalmer - 1/11/2002 5:11:54 PM]