Time for goodbye

[Wack61]

I am not saying everyone should take the PI, I have been bumped twice now and told all those PI companies to go forth and multiply as it would be wrong to take the money.

Same as me, if I'd been injured I'd have used them without question

Good news on the other driver admitting fault , **** driver, decent chap

I was on the M6 a few years back , truck in front of me hit the truck in front of him, crushed his cab which meant he started rolling back down the motorway until he reached the front of my van which stopped him

First copper on the scene said , you didn't hit him very hard, I didn't hit him at all but I could tell he didn't believe me , all the drivers that witnessed him rolling back had buggered off before the police closed the road but luckily there was some broken glass up the road a bit where the impact was and the guy (who was walking wounded once they'd cut him out) admitted liability and apologised but I can see how it would have easily gone against me

I bought a dashcam the next day and wouldn't drive without one now

 

[mikem]

Sad photographs. Does anyone know a good detailer?

http://www.sportsmaserati.com/asset...com/asset.php?fid=31384&uid=4790&d=1463335869

 

[CatmanV2]

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C

 

[mikem]

Sorry should be three photograhs.

http://www.sportsmaserati.com/asset.php?fid=31383&uid=4790&d=1463335815

Mike

 

[CatmanV2]

*sob*

c

 

[StuartW]

Oh dear, a sorry state for sure

 

[BennyD]

Sorry should be three photograhs.

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Mike

As it's no longer attached, can I have your V8 badge?

 

[mikem]

You can hve the rear wheel as well. So long as you don't mind searching a field in Kent.

Mike

 

[GeoffCapes]

That's heartbreaking.

 

[beemaser]

Brings tears to your eyes. So sad.

The hunt for a replacement starts starts here.

Good luck with everything.

 

[BennyD]

You can hve the rear wheel as well. So long as you don't mind searching a field in Kent.

.

Are they 7spokes or those infernal 3200 AC things?

Edit: looking at you avatar it would appear they are 7spokes. In that case, I might visit my relatives in Whitstable, stay a while, and mount a search!

 

[GeoffCapes]

You can hve the rear wheel as well. So long as you don't mind searching a field in Kent.

Mike

What was the road you were on, I'm not far from you. I'll have a look!

 

[safrane]

Sad sight indeed...glad you were both unhurt. Best of luck with the search (car, not wheel)

 

[BruceyBonus]

Those scratches are not going to buff out this time Mike!

So sorry to here about this very upsetting news but very glad you are both OK though.

I had a 5 month battle to get a decent payout on my Porsche 993 so know what is required if you need some pointers.

Only today I nearly rear ended the car in front as it stopped suddenly for a Crow that was in the road

Good luck with you recovery and claim.

ATB
Bruce

 

[Mott The Hoople]

Maybe i should eat crows as well as rabbits.

 

[Slowly]

Maybe i should eat crows as well as rabbits.

I can assure you that crow, especially in crow and nettle soup, is horrible. Now I've grown from a small boy with an air rifle and good aim into a bird enthusiast, especially for corvids and feel sad when I remember the slaughter, particularly about the crow as they partner for life and his/her mate was flying about, miserable. The second day I got the GS the roads were infested with pheasants determined to ignore the grain they're provided with in the woods and to cross but one has to remember that ultimately the bird has to look after itself... one pheasant did make a nasty thump beneath me when he made the wrong decision, fortunately for the car at only about 35mph. Crows are much more intelligent and whilst a favoured food (part-flattened pheasant, rabbit, etc) is often to be found on the road, flat crows are far rarer.

Grim picture of the car - what was the bruising from, given that the door doesn't look to have intruded into the driver's space? Hope all physically well now.

ETA <- that's Ken, our Jackdaw..

 

[mikem]

That is a bit dispiriting. We had already planned to take the Maserati down to Italy for our summer holiday (Channel Tunnel already booked). So we had been hoping there was going to be enough time to receive the payout buy another car and just have to change the registration.

Five months sounds like a war of attrition (C'est la guerre.)

I should be hearing from the assessing engineer today, so that will be interesting.

 

[CatmanV2]

Equally it might be really quick.

C

 

[mikem]

I can assure you that crow, especially in crow and nettle soup, is horrible. Now I've grown from a small boy with an air rifle and good aim into a bird enthusiast, especially for corvids and feel sad when I remember the slaughter, particularly about the crow as they partner for life and his/her mate was flying about, miserable. The second day I got the GS the roads were infested with pheasants determined to ignore the grain they're provided with in the woods and to cross but one has to remember that ultimately the bird has to look after itself... one pheasant did make a nasty thump beneath me when he made the wrong decision, fortunately for the car at only about 35mph. Crows are much more intelligent and whilst a favoured food (part-flattened pheasant, rabbit, etc) is often to be found on the road, flat crows are far rarer.

Grim picture of the car - what was the bruising from, given that the door doesn't look to have intruded into the driver's space? Hope all physically well now.

ETA <- that's Ken, our Jackdaw..

The other guy was really moving and it happened in the blink of an eye. My feeling at the time was that I had been hit in the ribs by the door armrest. However I wasn't even aware the airbags in the armrests had gone off as no other airbags had gone off.

In A & E I saw two doctors and they had differing opinions. One thought it was caused by the airbag in the armrest, another thought it was probably the armrest.

I don't know if other forum members have experience of airbags inflating and causing injuries?

 

[Slowly]

Actually, on reflection the armrest is pretty close to one's lower chest (I've just had a look - 10-12 cm away for my puny frame) and I suppose that it isn't so much intrusion by the door/rest as your body carrying on in the direction it was travelling whilst the car + armrest moves in an instant hard to the left - so, particularly as the seatbelt is designed primarily to prevent you continuing forward onto the steering wheel / dash and out through the windscreen in a frontal impact and provides little impediment to movement of the chest/abdomen to the R (as a driver) then it isn't surprising that your chest would contact the armrest at some speed... I expect it was that rather than the airbags.