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Offline RunRabbit

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Poor Car
« on: November 25, 2008, 09:05:17 pm »



Had a lovely experience today, a massive transit van hurtling towards little old me  :scared:

Hopefully will all be sorted by the insurance company but i'm not too worried about the car, it's my neck which i'm worried about more  :sick:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2008, 09:23:13 pm »
Ouch, not good, hope you ok
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2008, 09:30:09 pm »
Quote from: 182_blue on November 25, 2008, 09:23:13 pm
Ouch, not good, hope you ok

as said above hope your ok :happy2:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2008, 09:40:30 pm »
ouch! were you stationary or going towards the van? hope it gets resolved quickly and its a hassle free claim!
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2008, 09:49:39 pm »
Thanks all for your kind words, i was stationary and he obv didn't check his mirrors. Offered me £200 to keep it from the insurance companies, i LOL'd. The grilles cost me that much  :laugh:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2008, 11:54:54 pm »
tell him about £1k then yoru talking ;)
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2008, 08:16:50 am »
I cant see the pics i am at work, but if you have a sore neck thats a garunteed minimum £ 1850. lots of future mods.  :evilgrin:

Mr Rabbit if you still want to come to the meet, MarkyMark or Greenouse live right by you if you ask them nicely i am sure they wouldn't mind giving you a lift.  :driver:  :party:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2008, 08:47:49 am »
Hope you get it all sorted out dude, and that your neck is ok.
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2008, 09:45:29 am »
Ouch! Firstly, I hope you're ok.

Is your GTI bumper conversion all declared to your insurance company? I don't want to alarm you, but if it's anything out of spec they (the van's insurer) will declare yours void and refuse to pay.

Might be worth taking some cash, which IMO is often the best case for sub £1k claims - by the time hire cars, bodyshop's quadrulple rates and everyone else having a cut has been added up, it costs an arm and a leg... it doesn't come out of some magical pot of money, it gets lumped onto everyone else's policy, including yours for next year.

You also have to consider yours will possibly be listed on HPI and come resale it'll affect its residual value, so you could come out worse off in the long run by claiming.

Mike.
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2008, 09:50:36 am »
Oh dear. Hope all turns out ok  :happy2:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2008, 10:31:27 am »
Hope you get it all sorted out mate. Neck should be fine, just sore for a little while.
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2008, 10:34:30 am »
Quote from: Top Cat on November 26, 2008, 08:16:50 am
I cant see the pics i am at work, but if you have a sore neck thats a garunteed minimum £ 1850. lots of future mods.  :evilgrin:

Mr Rabbit if you still want to come to the meet, MarkyMark or Greenouse live right by you if you ask them nicely i am sure they wouldn't mind giving you a lift.  :driver:  :party:

Be happy to give you a lift pal if you decide not to take the car  :wink: Just let me know  :happy2:

P.S. Hope the necks ok.
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2008, 11:12:23 am »
Pity to hear about the accident. As ha been said. I hope all is ok.

Mike :smiley:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2008, 01:09:54 pm »
Quote from: tony_danza on November 26, 2008, 09:45:29 am
Ouch! Firstly, I hope you're ok.

Is your GTI bumper conversion all declared to your insurance company? I don't want to alarm you, but if it's anything out of spec they (the van's insurer) will declare yours void and refuse to pay.

Might be worth taking some cash, which IMO is often the best case for sub £1k claims - by the time hire cars, bodyshop's quadrulple rates and everyone else having a cut has been added up, it costs an arm and a leg... it doesn't come out of some magical pot of money, it gets lumped onto everyone else's policy, including yours for next year.

You also have to consider yours will possibly be listed on HPI and come resale it'll affect its residual value, so you could come out worse off in the long run by claiming.

Mike.

I'm not allowed to take cash as It's my companies insurance and not my own otherwise I would have had it repaired myself, would have been a lot less hassle. I don't think this will be HPI recorded as it's not really an uneconomical repair. I'm not too concerned about the car anyway, more-so about my health but I'm sure I'll be ok in a couple of weeks :party:

I might just take you up on that offer Greenouse  :happy2:
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Re: Poor Car
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2008, 01:25:04 pm »
Sheesh, I wouldn't even bother wasting breath thinking about trying to sort that out then - bang in the claim and concentrate on getting better!
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