On saturday, I had dropped my car off in the morning at my mechanic guy who I have taken the Clio to in the past to have a look at my engine mount (see my other post)
My girlfriend drove me back from there (liphook) to work (farnham) as I was working all day Saturday...
Anyhow... came to pick my car up on saturday evening with it all fixed and knocking free.... drove off with g/friend bringing up the rear...
I was well up the road and I get a tearful phonecall from gfriend saying she had just had an accident....
I removed several mm of tread from my tyres in turning round and coming back at warp 9 to rescue her....
Shed misjudged a bend in the dark and hit a traffic island... hard....gone over it and ended up across the thankfully deserted but potentially lethal bit of road...
The impact had ripped the tyre (but not too badly) dented the alloy (fairly badly) but more importantly, shunted the drivers side wheel back so it was almost touching the wheelarch and the steering wheel was now at completely the wrong angle....
so i limped the car back to where mine had just come from !!! The bloke there is a star... he had it fixed by monday evening.... he looked at in on the sunday... ordered the parts and fitted them monday....
pretty good turnaround....
new lower suspension arm and new track rod end...
so even though he didnt charge much to sort my car, he got more trade from me after all !!!
