Clio 172
Had an accident today so unfortunately my clio will be off the road until repaired. 
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Clio will be off the road for a few weeks. :(
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Chocolate Orange 172
Gutted for you mate, what happened?
Clio 172
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!
Gutted!
Chocolate Orange 172
Bugger, has it caused a lot of damage?
Clio 172
Bonnet is fucked, need a front bumper, both headlights, a radiator. etc...
Clio 172
Clio 172
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.
Clio 172
The other driver isn't going to claim, She actually lives just down the road from me.
260% JCW
The other driver isn't going to claim, She actually lives just down the road from me.
Jackpot!
DIY repair judging by the pictures.
Sash
ClioSport Club Member
A Yellow One
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!
Chocolate Orange 172
Do you have a plan then? Are you going through insurance or fixing it yourself?
Clio 172
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.
Clio 172
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.
Lol. Well then it didn't appear from anywhere did it? It didn't move.
You were just going too fast.
Clio 172
Was only doing 45 coming up to the bend.
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.
Clio 172
Ok, I'll accept the fact it may have been down to my speed... a little bit...
Chocolate Orange 172
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!
Clio 172
Cheers, that would be much appreciated.
Lesson learned then. The main thing is that you're not hurt!
Chocolate Orange 172
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!
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
Young lad crashes into innocent person and complains insurance is too expensive...
Clio 172
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.
Chocolate Orange 172
Yes, because there is no real way of technically proving someone has or has not got whiplast it is easy money!
Bluebeard
ClioSport Moderator
Whichever has fuel
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.
Clio 172
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.
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.
