Skyline down

[Emre]

sorry to hear that dude...
hopefully insurance will come through with no hasssles and you'll move onto something better...a GTR perhaps...

[SDUCentral]

Bugger. Man that is unpleasant stuff but glad to see you came out of it ok.

Keep it vague with the insurance company....answers like I dont recall seem to work well when you're talking about speed related accidents.
:what:

[heresy]

Sorry to hear that dude ;/

You talk about a corner up around Beachlands/Maraetai.. my friend flipped his old-style Starlet GT and then rolled 3 times when he was going out there to pick up his girlfriend for the 2000 Big Day Out. He'd driven the roads like.. at least 120 times before ;/

Ah, the Z.. go for it dude. I _adore_ driving my girlfriends one. Expect to use a fair bit of petrol though.. at least as much as your skyline. As always, check prices on http://www.trade-exchange.co.nz , http://www.autopoint.co.nz and all those other car sites. We picked hers up from Turners for $6500

[Halcyon]

Wow, nice price.

There's a niiice manual Z on Autopoint for $12K. If insurance fully pays out, I can get a full bodykit and a lookatme chameleon paintjob too with the leftover cash.

An auction sounds neat. Are the cars on them normally any good? How often do decent vehicles come up at auctions?

Who does 300ZX bodykits?

A while back there was a TT Z going for $10k on Autopoint, with a fully redone interior and stage 3 mods.

[Halcyon]

Nnngggh. What do you guys think of the idea of getting a turbo? I know the insurance is going to be phenomenal, but leather seats....

[meggala]

My comment dude take a deep breath and wait till the insurance pays b4 you buy any thing and remember what happened to you also the 300zx's are a bit twichy aren't they also I don't believe they are as relable as an rb motor.
meggala

[verboom]

OK, I really feel that 150 at night was excessive, and that you don't deserve another nice car like that. And if I was the insurance broker, you'd have a tough time squeezing bus fare out of me. For crying out loud, you were driving over the posted speed limit AND the logical speed limit, and on top of that, you had restrictions on when you could drive. Jeepers... I'm just glad it had an impact on you.

[Halcyon]

Verboom: I accept that, but I can't get around that fact I was told to turn an hour drive into a 20 min trip at 5am when I wasn't coherent, and the loss of my job was hanging over my head. It was one of those situations where you have to choose between two bad ends. No-one else was hurt and this has instigated a major policy change at work, so I'm not certain I chose wrongly. I'm sure as heck not the first person to drive that fast, and I know you can't point a blameless finger, buddy. This WOULD be my first time driving that fast in such a dangerous situation, and I've learnt from it. I've had my accident, that's all I can say.

As someone said above the culture here is to take our cars to the limits and I bought into that fully. My own fault, I exposed myself to this knowing what could happen. Instead of throwing all that aside, I'll build on it. You can't expect everything to be roses all the time.

[WraithR32]

Halcyon,

do the people you work for know where you live???

There is NO possible way that they could give you the sack for arriving late due to how far away you live. You cold have sued them BIG time for wrongful dismissal.

In the end you didn't get there on time any way did you??

[Halcyon]

The thing I was called in to fix was negligible. I wouldn't fix it if I was there right now.

I told the guy I lived an hour distant which elicited the "we need it in 20 mins, get going" response.

The call I got was placed by our American owners, so suing them is still an option. However, the owner of the NZ part of the company has given the yanks a hell of a lot of shit since the accident, and has offered any help he can provide. I have a couple of weeks paid leave now, which is more than I expected.

I like sitations where either me or someone else can fully take the blame, but it comes down to: I drove stupid, but I would never be out there half awake if it wasn't for that call. Shared blame sucks, but I'm not going to try to decide who is more responsible. I just want a vehicle back and the opportunity to prove I've learnt from this. I know that what contributed to my employers side of the deal will never happen again either, so you could say the situation is very nearly resolved.

Just to keep some of you happy, I'm going to start appending "yes, I still think I'm stupid" to all my posts.

[s13man]

i here u dude and i feel for u also.

Z's are a great car and if you get a normally aspirated one and sort out the suspension then it will be a very hard car to push past its limits. judging from what u say these limits won't be approached.

be very careful though when purchasing your Z that it is in very good condition as if pretty much anything needs fixing on it u can talk to your bank manager. i personally think if its selling for less than 15k then be wary.

thats my ten cents worth anyway

[Halcyon]

I filled out the claim form, and can make some assumptions:

They don't ask for time of accident.
They ask for impact speed as well as prior speed.

Prior speed that I lost control with aside, I killed a lot of momentum before hitting the bank, or I wouldn't be here now.

It all looks rather good, and by the lack of accident time I would imagine they don't actually care if you were on your restricted.

Another vehicle wasn't involved, and today the number of accidents on that corner went up one more again, so things look good.

Hopefully that's the end to this thread, aside from the victory post when I get the money.

[zapf]

Halcyon,
The car is not too bad at all considering you came off at 150. The air bags didn't deploy because the sensor is for frontal impact only. Which you had none... its to stop you from hitting the steering wheel.
BTW next time don't hold on to your steering wheel. It can be dangrous.

I would ask you to reconsider the Z, they are not very reliable cars. And cost a bucket load to fix if anything goes wrong. 300ZX have basiclly the same suspension system / layout as R33 skylines. (Suprise!)

Guess you should have got those tires / suspension we talked about earlier..... next time don't drive fast until you get those essencials.

BTW as you found out... Skylines are a strong car.

Cheers
Zapf

Get well soon. And glad that you are still with us.

[zapf]

BTW was it wet when it all happened?

[mrmeal]

hey Halcyon. looks like you are coming away from this as a hefty learning experience. That's what life is really isn't it, a whole bunch of learning experiences one after another. I used to have a gts25 r33 myself, loved that car hugely. It got written off from under me by my insurance company when a student pulled out in front of me. He was completely in the wrong, and I know he too walked away from it as a learning experience (he lives just 100 meteres from our place - I was that close to home!) I got back into a skyline, this time piloting a r32 gts-4, I wanted a turbo, as I felt I lacked that in the gts25 (in hind site the gts25 was great in itself), and I definitely wanted to have far more control in future if a similar scenario layed itself out in front of me. 4wd, 4ws, abs. Since then I have been far more cautious of cars beside the road, you just can't second guess another driver eh.

All the best with what you get in the end. After something like that there are two paths you can take if you decide to keep driving (the only option really this day in age), one get back into a car and brush it all off, willy nilly and go back to your old ways, and two come away from it having gained a shite load of experience from it, realising your not invincible. It's obvious which one you have chosen, onya mate.
On the skyline club main site in the wrecks section mine was the charcoal gts-25 with frontal damage, I think from memory it was picture 13 (great luck eh, even more hilarious when you realise it was late on Thursday the 12, with it almost being Friday the 13th! hehe)

later dude.