Ambition over adhesion!
09 September 2010, 11:29 PM
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It's going to be a whopping insurance claim.
GT3 RS - £12-15k guestimate
Petrol pump
BP station closed for the day - revenue loss
Golf squashed by petrol pump
Double ouch!
GT3 RS - £12-15k guestimate
Petrol pump
BP station closed for the day - revenue loss
Golf squashed by petrol pump
Double ouch!
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09 September 2010, 11:45 PM
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10 September 2010, 09:46 AM
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Here is a picture of the petrol station concerned. Once you see this the mind boggles as to how he did that!!!
Petrol Station
Petrol Station
10 September 2010, 10:00 AM
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Looks like he has gone down the slip road much too fast, hit the first pump and spun round. What do you reckon?
Edit: or the second pump maybe.
Edit: or the second pump maybe.
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10 September 2010, 10:53 AM
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Assuming no engine and gearbox damage this could sell for £50k easily. Looks very mendable to me.
The overall claim will probably make it a write off though and that is the word in the market. The most difficult bit will be that parts will be more difficult to get outside the network as it is such a new model.
Someone like Autofarm could sort this easily.
Buy for £50k, £15k to mend, worth £80-90k even as a Cat D.
The overall claim will probably make it a write off though and that is the word in the market. The most difficult bit will be that parts will be more difficult to get outside the network as it is such a new model.
Someone like Autofarm could sort this easily.
Buy for £50k, £15k to mend, worth £80-90k even as a Cat D.
10 September 2010, 12:35 PM
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I would assume all the fuel (other than in the hoses) is stored underground and they have some kind of fail safe to stop a spark etc going down.
Then again its a BP station so the safety mechanism has probably been neglected
Simon
Then again its a BP station so the safety mechanism has probably been neglected
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10 September 2010, 02:54 PM
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The car was on cup tyres and hit a large puddle = aquaplaned into the petrol station.
(these are the cup tyres that are possibly going to be banned for road use next year)
(these are the cup tyres that are possibly going to be banned for road use next year)
10 September 2010, 03:03 PM
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I have Cup tyres on mine. it would have to be a deep puddle as mine have been fine around the lanes through the puddles.
Mind you if you were going to fast for the conditions....
Mind you if you were going to fast for the conditions....
10 September 2010, 03:16 PM
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What is worse - to have smashed up your brand new GT3 RS, one of only 30 in the country? Or to have it splashed over every BBS and news channel in the country?
10 September 2010, 03:24 PM
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That is on my Daily commute every day i did wonder why there was soo much traffic a few weeks ago someone said a car hit the pumps small world 
And in Fairness it had been raining hard all day the first real spell of rain after the summer so the roads would of been greasy anyways but still muppett
And in Fairness it had been raining hard all day the first real spell of rain after the summer so the roads would of been greasy anyways but still muppett
