screeeeech Thump crunch

....and the back of my car looks unhappy. :mad: :mad: :mad: :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

I was sitting stopped at a red light (as you do) with a line of stationary traffic ahead of me. I heard a screech of locked-up brakes behind me, which worried me. I looked in the rear-view mirror, but the car behind me wasn't moving, but I was still worried. Then I heard a thump behind me - which really bothered me - and then felt the crunch as the guy behind me hit me. Thankfully I have nice brakes, and the person in front had begun to move away, so I didn't hit them.

What had happened was that some woman (in a p.o.s. old cruddy normal car) had barrelled into the back of a Silvia sitting behind me, and pushed him into me. :angryfire The really worrying part is that she didn't know what actually happened!!!! :eek: The Silvia was a mess - the bonnet was bent up and couldn't open, the guards were fucked, the bumper was rooted, and he was worried about the engine, cos he said it made a funny noise when he started it up afterward. :angryfire Guess I'm lucky, but I'm still damn annoyed.

So of course we exchanged all the details, and I've rung my insurance co. and will go to see the panelbeater this afternoon. Helpfully, she admitted all responsibility for it at the time.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well doesn't that F*#k you right off!!!
:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

She has no idea what happened???
I can guess. Car in gear, brain firmly in "Neutral".

The best way to judge how a person drives is to watch how they push a shopping cart.

The Panda feels your frustration!!!

Awww, shit! :(

Poor Whale! :(

and mine's behaving like a slug again. Seems like the pod is sick. When one goes down the other goes out in sympathy! :(

Hopefully her insurance will cover everything. Last year I was hit buy a dumb tard teenage girl driving with NO insurance. Here I am abiding by our laws that we must carry insurance and then I get hit the by #$#( who doesn't have it :mad:

that sucks....hopefully her insurance will sort ya out...

Originally posted by ragt20
that sucks....hopefully her insurance will sort ya out... It should do, but if not, we’re covered so it should be fine. :)

Sorry to hear about the Whale moon, hopefully as already said, your insurance will take care of things.

That just sucks the big one. People that oblivious should not only have their license revoked, but be forced to carry a sign that says "Moron approaching"













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Originally posted by "Pandamonium"
The best way to judge how a person drives is to watch how they push a shopping cart.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... let's see....... I drift shopping carts :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil: :D :devil:

hey kat: At that point, can't you just sue her for damages from her own income if she doesn't have insurance to cover it?:confused:

I know the feeling, that same thing has happened to me. Glad you weren't hurt (though you should get the neck checked anyhow - it may start acting up later) and hopefully insurance does right by you. It's sad how a few idiot drivers can make things so inconvenient for the rest of us.

Goddammit
I hate it when that happens!!
Are the Police involved?
When that happened to me, the lad who caused the accident also got a ticket for reckless driving!!!

I feel for you

:( :( :( :(

now you will have to commandeer Spec2 Girl's car!!!
:D :D :D ;) ;) ;)

Originally posted by curious
now you will have to commandeer Spec2 Girl's car!!!
:D :D :D ;) ;) ;) :eek: :eek: But it's my whale!!!! :p

(just joking. We share in our house, we're good like that. :p )


and it has been reported to the police but I don't think she will be charged with anything. Wish people could be charged for stupidity though. :D

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
and it has been reported to the police but I don't think she will be charged with anything. Wish people could be charged for stupidity though. :D Call them 'punitive damamges.' Those always win. :devil:

Originally posted by jay@af
Call them 'punitive damamges.' Those always win. :devil:

Not here they don't.

whats her address Moon. I'll get my baseball bat and we can pay her a visit.


So sorry to hear the G.S.W is not 100%:(

There are four women drivers in this thread already....better watch out,my computer might crash.............:D :D :D :D

I trust you will resist the urge to behave like a gentleman, Moon....sad thing is that most women simply cannot drive in traffic,esp Auckland-style traffic.

That's a rotten deal Moondawg.

I'm a little surprised that no-one voiced any concerns about a Silvia getting worked on both ends...

Do you think there's any frame damage to your car, or is it mostly cosmetic?

Originally posted by ci5ic


I'm a little surprised that no-one voiced any concerns about a Silvia getting worked on both ends...



It's a fairly common Jap import here,and the driver is not an AF member...

shitty luck though,to get shunted into another car by a woman driver.;)

What is with all the drivers who don't bother to drive properly.

Driving involves making NO contact with other cars at all. Its bad luck that the silvia got shunted into you moondog.

But I wouldn't trust the insurance companies or the other driver. My Bro got hit by an International Student the other month, and they refuse to pay out, and their insurance company does too. (100% other drivers fault). So its had to go to the small claims tribunal.

sarujin

Originally posted by taranaki
I trust you will resist the urge to behave like a gentleman, Moon....sad thing is that most women simply cannot drive in traffic,esp Auckland-style traffic. That's a bit unfair. Just because this one happened to be female. There are plenty of idiot male drivers around Auckland, believe me I know. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by taranaki
There are four women drivers in this thread already....better watch out,my computer might crash.............:D :D :D :D

I trust you will resist the urge to behave like a gentleman, Moon....sad thing is that most women simply cannot drive in traffic,esp Auckland-style traffic.

I'll have you know that neither of my 2 accidents in two years were directly attributed to my driving!! Matter of fact I was not cited in either!! And both of those cited were men. :rolleyes:

See my sig.

Now do we appreciate the Jetta's plus-sides???? Seriously that thing has a thick steel bar behing the bumper that totals the car that rear-ends me, but does piss all to the cars rear-end. It happened to the old owner, and I got the half-sagging bumper with two small dents in the plastic trim to prove it (After a Corolla hit it at 100 k's, while the Jetta was going 60) :finger:


As for the driver that hit the Silvia that hit you, chances are she was yakking on her mobile or something else distracting, dammit cunts like that piss me off :mad:

Originally posted by boingo82


I'll have you know that neither of my 2 accidents in two years were directly attributed to my driving!! Matter of fact I was not cited in either!! And both of those cited were men. :rolleyes:

See my sig.

YESSSSS!!!!!

:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!
:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!
:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!

the masked mod reels in another one!:D :D :D :D :D

Originally posted by taranaki


YESSSSS!!!!!

:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!
:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!
:jump: :jump: :jump:I got a bite!

the masked mod reels in another one!:D :D :D :D :D

Didn't catch the irony of the '2 accidents in two years' now did we? ;) Ahh, my bad luck. Every time I have saved up some funds, something happens to my car and I'm back at ground zero.

Originally posted by boingo82


Didn't catch the irony of the '2 accidents in two years' now did we? ;) Ahh, my bad luck. Every time I have saved up some funds, something happens to my car and I'm back at ground zero.

:( :( :( sorry....accidents are not funny....but women drivers are:D :D :D

Originally posted by taranaki


:( :( :( sorry....accidents are not funny....but women drivers are:D :D :D

...says the ol' fogey driver who's been loping along for 6 miles with his indicator on...:D

Originally posted by boingo82


...says the ol' fogey driver who's been loping along for 6 miles with his indicator on...:D

I SWEAR IT WAS AN ELECTRICAL FAULT!!!!!!! :finger:


j/p :finger: :D

Originally posted by boingo82


...says the ol' fogey driver who's been loping along for 6 miles with his indicator on...:D

well gosh and darn,it's my hat, and if I want to wear it when I am driving,Ij olly well will!:D :D

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
Now do we appreciate the Jetta's plus-sides???? Seriously that thing has a thick steel bar behing the bumper that totals the car that rear-ends me, but does piss all to the cars rear-end. It happened to the old owner, and I got the half-sagging bumper with two small dents in the plastic trim to prove it (After a Corolla hit it at 100 k's, while the Jetta was going 60) :finger:

Got one of them in the Whale :finger: That's why the Saliva's front was a big mess, and mine's not really that bad. :p :D

Originally posted by moondog


Got one of them in the Whale :finger: That's why the Saliva's front was a big mess, and mine's not really that bad. :p :D

A new bumber shouldn't be that hard to source, especialy if insurance is paying for it, or any good panel beater these days also has a plastic welder, another easy fix.
And this time you know which panel beater not to take it to!!!
And be glad you own a skyline and not a Sylvia.



About large steel bars though, My old Triumph as well as being built from 1/8 inch British plate steel, also had a 1/4inch piece of steel box section mounted inside the heavy steel chrome bumber to surport the large towbar, that itself was mounted to a 1/5inch piece of flat steel.
Unforunatly no one ever ran into the back of it. :(
But I have been sitting at the lights in the truck and noticed the car behind me stop rather close to the back step, then felt the truck move a little.
But no one got out, so off I went. At the next stop I had to rub off a layer of that flash changing colour paint from the edge of the step. :D

Originally posted by moondog


Got one of them in the Whale :finger: That's why the Saliva's front was a big mess, and mine's not really that bad. :p :D

'Cause it's the whale :D :D :D


there is such car as a Saliva????? :finger:

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
there is such car as a Saliva????? :finger: That’s what we call them! :p

Originally posted by Spec2 Girl
That’s what we call them! :p


And I though I needed to get out more :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi
And I though I needed to get out more :rolleyes: You do! :finger:


j/k :p

damn ya beat me to it :(

sux0rz sorry :(

I just now noticed this thread because of the other thread you created with the pics. That sucks man, hope everything works out in fixing it. People should be more careful when they drive.

Originally posted by DVSNCYNIKL
I just now noticed this thread because of the other thread you created with the pics. That sucks man, hope everything works out in fixing it. People should be more careful when they drive.

Yep. Unfortunately, people should be a lot of things they aren't. :(

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Originally posted by DVSNCYNIKL
I just now noticed this thread because of the other thread you created with the pics. That sucks man, hope everything works out in fixing it. People should be more careful when they drive.
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Yep. Unfortunately, people should be a lot of things they aren't.



Well where else does anyone get to pilot an object weighing 1500kg, travelling at a velocity of 27.6 metres per second while they change their CD and talk on their mobile... and get their skills reviewed once in 55 years?

Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast. (John Carpenter's Starman 1984)

Originally posted by replicant_008

Starman: I watched you very carefully. Red light stop, green light go, yellow light go very fast. (John Carpenter's Starman 1984)

loved that quote! I can't remember much about the movie, but that line stayed with me :hehehe:

Originally posted by DVSNCYNIKL
I just now noticed this thread because of the other thread you created with the pics. That sucks man, hope everything works out in fixing it. People should be more careful when they drive.

Don't get me started. On my way to work yesterday, I was cruising along in the left hand lane of the freeway. To the right of my was a blue ford probe, who, without even using his turn signal starts coming into my lane, and I'm RIGHT NEXT TO HIM! I laid on my horn, and he didn't even flinch... I don't think he eve heard me. So I ended up behind him, and my mild case of road rage kicked in, so I was riding his ass and flipping him off... So, this guy finally pulls back into the right lane and slows down, I get up next to him, and he gives me this look like "what did I do?" That bastard had NO IDEA what he did. So I flipped him the bird again and took off. I was sooooo pissed.

:angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

It's kind of worse when the other person is oblivious to the havoc they almost caused. :rolleyes: - And when the only reason their car isn't occupying your passenger seat is because you're actually awake in control of your vehicle, but they shake their fist at you!!!!!!!!! :eek: That's the one that always gets me.

People were really trying to take me out today. Once in Andy's car and once in mine. I was driving Andy's car, and was driving past a bus pulled over in a bus stop. When I'm right by the side of him, he suddenly flips on his indicator and tries to drive into the side of me!!!!! :eek: Dumb-shit.

tell me about it. In the past week I have had 3 people try and change lanes into the side of me :(

the stupid shits need to wake up before they get behind the wheel. I would have let them hit me too had it been the passengers side of the car (as that needs repair work already) but they were all on the drivers side. The one today was a large concrete mixer that tried to change lanes without a) looking b) indicating and c) looking:eek: I had to sit on the horn for about 1/2 a minute before the prick woke up and realised that I was there:bloated:

Originally posted by tazdev

the stupid shits need to wake up before they get behind the wheel. I would have let them hit me too had it been the passengers side of the car (as that needs repair work already) but they were all on the drivers side. The one today was a large concrete mixer that tried to change lanes without a) looking b) indicating and c) looking:eek: I had to sit on the horn for about 1/2 a minute before the prick woke up and realised that I was there:bloated:

Truck drivers like that piss me off- Whats worse is when they stop and don't check behind if they are backing into a loadding bay :mad:


The worst part is- I don't have a horn- I was playing around with it an broke it :mad:

Talk about fender benders. The other day I was going home and I'm on this stretch of parkway which is just two lanes. I'm doing about 60, which is how fast I normally drive, when I pass this dude in a Ford Probe. Now, I passed him but only because he was going slower than me, but for some odd reason he thought I was racing. Out of the corner of my eye I see him creeping up to me. I speed up and so does he. Finally we come to a light and he pulls up along side of me. He's smiling and revving his engine, I just roll my eyes and then it happened. I hear the painful screech of tires trying to stop a car very fast. I glance into my mirror to peek and don't see a car, but I look over to my right and see the guys car jump forward from the impact. The screech was a car behind him. It was a lady on her cell phone and wasn't paying attention. I felt bad for homeboy, but, shit happens.

Another Ford bites the dust

Oops, yeah... :o I do feel bad for the guy who got hit. Fender Benders suck. Thankfully the few times I've been in a car involved, we've always been "victim" and very little if any damage occured. *knocks on wood* Now I'll be paranoid for the next week when I drive or ride. :o

I have had one too many fender benders- all I can say is Sorry to hear moon :(

$1000 repair bill. Yay for insurance. :D Hopefully all the stuff with assessors etc should be finished soon and I can get my baby back.