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Clio will be off the road for a few weeks. :(

A car had stopped on a bend and by the time I saw it I didn't have enough time to stop and crashed into the back of it. :( Gutted!
 
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2k's worth of damage if your going through a professional body shop, providing its only cosmetic and you have bent anything structural you coul get it back on the road for a few hundred
 
He's going to have a fault claim and lose his no claims, so he might well just let them fix it properly.

Unless you can convince the others person not to claim. But then they have probably seen whiplash pound signs by now.
 
2 head lights, rad, bonnet, front slam panel and bumper. Got to be less than £2k.

What's the other car like?
 
The other car was a VW Tiguan or whatever it's called. There was virtually no damage to that apart from a small scratch unbelievably. Car was £4k but I will try some scrappies for the parts.
 
FYI this is a write off.
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According to an insurance assesor.

Hope you get it sorted asap.
 
Just a scratch on the Tiguan? Hmmm i'd be sceptical but obviously you're not complaining.

Without seeing the crossmember I couldn't say for sure but i'm confident they won't repair it. Those parts aren't far off 1k from Renault.
 
MattToTheR said:
The other car was a VW Tiguan or whatever it's called. There was virtually no damage to that apart from a small scratch unbelievably. Car was £4k but I will try some scrappies for the parts.
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Might have been 4k when u bought it but I doubt its worth much more than 2.5k now. As gally says, parts are nearly 1k from Renault plus a few hundred for paint etc.
2nd hand parts will still cost a few hundred I'd imagine. If its bent the subframe or anything else you're talking more money!
 
Gonna do the repairs myself, I work for a motorcycle dealer and we have quite a lot of contacts so I can get it checked over cheapish. I will go to scrappies to see if i can get the parts. Don't want to go through insurance as its already f**king expensive enough as it is.
 
Wtf were u doing that. Didn't notice it had stopped? If u went into the back of me I'd be raging
 
No i didn't know there was a car on the bend. It had been stopped for a little while before i came across it. f**king appeared out of no where because its a sharp bend.
 
MattToTheR said:
No i didn't know there was a car on the bend. It had been stopped for a little while before i came across it. f**king appeared out of no where because its a sharp bend.
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Lol. Well then it didn't appear from anywhere did it? It didn't move.

You were just going too fast.
 
I really don't want to turn this into one of those threads mate but accept the blame and move on. You were going to quick.

It's kinda the perfect example of not knowing what's round the corner.
 
Yeah, don't wanna flame but if you can't stop in time for a danger around a corner you are going too fast! Period!
We all get carried away on country roads though so people in glass houses etc etc!

Experience is one of those things money can't buy!
 
yeecup said:
Wtf were u doing that. Didn't notice it had stopped? If u went into the back of me I'd be raging
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Do you need somebody to define accident for you?

The lads made a mistake. Yes if he was following the always make sure you can stop in the distance you can see to be clear rule he wouldn't have crashed, but he did, accidents happen.

To the OP: Sorry to hear about the bump mate, been there myself when I first started driving, it taught me a lot and made a better driver.

Hope you get the car all sorted. Glad your ok.
 
Let us know how you get on mate, would say I could help you out but we have sold all the fronts off the ones we had. If I get anymore I shall give you a shout!
 
Just a heads up mate we have a clio coming in today on a 2003 plate which might have all the parts you need on it so shall keep you posted and let you know the score when it appears!
 
Daniel said:
Young lad crashes into innocent person and complains insurance is too expensive...
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Isn't the biggest thing that makes insurance so expensive is people falsely claiming for 'whiplash' etc?
Technically I'm not adding to the statistics that make insurance so expensive because neither party is making a claim.
 
MattToTheR said:
Isn't the biggest thing that makes insurance so expensive is people falsely claiming for 'whiplash' etc?
Technically I'm not adding to the statistics that make insurance so expensive because neither party is making a claim.
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The fact you crashed into a r****d isn't really the point is it.

You crashed your car. You are a young driver and people just like you are the reason we are all paying sky high insurance premiums.

And as for fake whiplash claims, its kind of a moot point because if people didn't crash, then there would be nobody to claim against int the first place.
 
Yep, last year of Clio ownership for me I reckon, May as well get an S2k as by the time my renewal comes around so many 1.2's will have been totalled by children that the insurance on a 172 will be more than a Veyron
 
Daniel said:
The fact you crashed into a r****d isn't really the point is it.

You crashed your car. You are a young driver and people just like you are the reason we are all paying sky high insurance premiums.

And as for fake whiplash claims, its kind of a moot point because if people didn't crash, then there would be nobody to claim against int the first place.
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Everybody makes mistakes, everybody will crash at some point. Yes, I may be young but that doesn't mean I'm going to crash, the fact that I'm inexperienced makes me more likely to have an accident.
 
Why are you trying to argue with me when all you're doing is agreeing with me?

All of what you just wrote is correct, so why complain about insurance when you are the very person that you are writing about?!
 
MattToTheR said:
I may be young but that doesn't mean I'm going to crash, the fact that I'm inexperienced makes me more likely to have an accident.
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way to contradict yourself in one sentence.

Thing is, provided you're not a complete remeidal, you'll have learnt from it and will come away as a more concious and safer driver.
 
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