M303CGO
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Sorry about the essay but I gotta share my sterss & anger!
Did a 'mate' a favour by taking him 140miles to pick up a 306 he'd bought on Wednesday aft.
Within 2miles of leaving the previous owners house the Stupid, useless badger drove into the back of me
Managed to stay calm & calm my 'mate' down when it happened but when I saw it on the recovery truck I had to swallow hard. My baby!
Done in my Bumper, both taillights, Tailgate, rr slam panel bit and creased boot floor a bit. Gutted
I had big plans for the Gsi... X18xe1 fitting, gaz coilovers i'd just bought off psychosport (cheers mate!) , arb iv just bought off Dave a (Thanks again)
and and endless list of performance & subtle styling mods.
Courtesy car tips up this afternoon so at least i can still get home this weekend. Shitter
[Edited on 06-03-2007 by M303CGO]
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Fro
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Sorry to hear that mate, what was the damage to his car? You could probably get most of the bits from the classifieds as there are a few gsi's being broken, And if boot floor isn't too bad you could prob get it pulled out for 150-200 quid.
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P1CK4D
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If you had them original plans matey, corsa gsi's are going so cheap on ebay no days. Prob beast looking on there, some even with broke engines so the x18xe would be ideal. Sorry to hear about the accident tho. Aslong as your ok
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gavin18787
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Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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corsatpot
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my boot floor got creased but they fixed it!!
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Fro
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quote: Originally posted by corsatpot
my boot floor got creased but they fixed it!!
How much did it set you back t-pot?
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corsatpot
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well, with the rear 1/4 fucked and all the side to be resprayed and all the bumoers door handles and arches to be colour coded at same time it was £700!! or mayb lesss was year or so ago though!! tpot
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SAL
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on another note if you get a insurance pay out u2u me bud ! belive its in your best interest...
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M303CGO
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quote: Originally posted by stavs
on another note if you get a insurance pay out u2u me bud ! belive its in your best interest...
Yours for sale like stavs? Am starting to look around.
Having to drive round in a 06 focus ghia, hate it!
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corsatpot
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yeah stavs beast been for sale for a little while now!! buy it
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Warren G
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hmmmmm, was looking forward to fitting an 1800 aswell
any pics?
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M303CGO
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quote: Originally posted by warren.g
hmmmmm, was looking forward to fitting an 1800 aswell
any pics?
Well had my heart set on the conversion, wouldve been interesting to do...
..and prob bloody fast. Gonna get photo up soon, need some batteries for camera.
Should i set about putting std springs on if insurers send an engineer as i dont think they know its lowered?
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Warren G
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put it back to standard - insurers can be funny and not pay out
but its not your insurers who are paying, so should be okay
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M303CGO
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Has any one got any std springs i could borrow or swap for my lowered ones? If the insurers fix her iv got some gaz coilies to fit any way
Good shout if any one can help
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gavin18787
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il have a look to see if I have still got mine. Their not gsi ones though. What springs do you have fitted at the mo?
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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M303CGO
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Thanks gavin, i think warrens got some i can borrow
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gavin18787
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no worries
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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M303CGO
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I hadn't even had chance to get to a meet in her!
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gavin18787
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just got myself a smoke grey gsi, lovely cars such a shame
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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M303CGO
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Was my 1st car gutted, had big plans too.
Caused so much hassle now with insurance & what not
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gavin18787
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Keep a look out for another, takes time though as it took me ages to find this one. But they do come up
Drives supercharged Tec with torque
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M303CGO
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Does any one have any experience of how long it takes to square insurance away?
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M303CGO
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Insurers called today. Said they've appointed a local body shop to look at the car. They want £700 excess if they fix! But say i can claim it back as it wasn't my fault.
Only got rid of my brand new coilovers & rear arb the other day thought it was going to be written off for sure!
Plan to keep it sorn to save cash when it comes back from bodyshop, buy another set of coilies & arb, Big brakes..........
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SAL
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glad it can be saved shame about selling the bits
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corsatpot
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thts good mate!! hope all goes well
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