so sorry to see another car looking poorly, i would be very suprised if thats writte off i did more damage when i had pile up last year and that got fixed up at lexus through insurance

as for affecting the price of the car when you come to sell it mine didnt decrease in value when i had it valued at lexus.

hope it all gets resolved soon mate

this is basuically what he did

Damn, that's just crazy, at least he can't really argue it so you'll have no problems with the claim............

Quite a bizarre road layout though, where is that?

Nice U-turn Mr Suzuki......NOT !!
Great photo to illustrate, send it to your insurer Chris

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Chris, Sorry to see that mate and hope your ok

Maybe it's a silly question, but why would you take your exhaust of for winter ? Do you do that every winter ?

i do with an exhaust like that as i dont want road salt damaging such an expensive piece, its just a 5 min job to put the old one on which only costs a fraction and is already rusty.

used to do the same with wheels on one of my corollas, put steelies on for winter

Sorry, I am not doubting the quality of any repair, its just that for some people the fact that their car has even been repaired puts them off and they don't feel the same about the car, no matter how good the paint job is.

My uncle is like this, if a car does not have original paint (for whatever reason) it totally puts him off and if ths his own car that had a repair he would just sell it immediately.

Strange I suppose to some.

just had a call from my mate, the bodyshop is coming to collect it from his workshop this morning, turns out the bodyshop is the company i used to work for so at least i know the people there

A little belated (not been on all weekend) but sorry to hear about your car Chris.....Hope everything turns out ok

Yeh me too. Sorry to see that man.

Saw photos on facebook. Any idea on fixing it yet? Shouldn't be a write off, I shouldn't think.

Could be worse, I assume their insurance is sorting it, and more importantly, nobody was hurt.

Sorry if goin

Though this is not a bad idea, will a stainless steel exhaust not be protected from rusting etc anyway? I thought that was the point of using stainless? My HKS has been on 4 years and not a sign of rust, same as previous cars.

(On the wheels, well thats a different matter!)

OMG thats awfull glad u r ok but im realy gutted 4 the Lexus

its just something i personally prefer to do.

That's what I thought, and it's reassuring to hear that yours doesn't rust Stoney. I'm planning on getting an HKS Silent Hi-power too.

i'll be selling mine wif and when the car comes back

Latest news

Been recovered to the bodyshop today and had a conversation with them which roughly results to

They wont know the extent of the damage until they have stripped it

At the moment its 50/50 of being written off.

We know the crumple zone on the chassis leg has done its job, its its just damaed upto the crumple zone the vehhicle will be repaired.

I've been told though that if the damage to the chassis leg goes beyond the crumple zone it would mean a new chassis leg, this would mean removing the engine. if this happens the cost of the labour would write it off.

just had a driverassist car delivered supplied by the insurance company and who his insurance will be paying for
so at the min im driving a 08 Merc E class 2.2d auto

That's not too bad I guess, I never get these hire car thingys, why do they give you a better car than the one you've got

Hope you get the outcome you want

my mistake its a C220

its done through a company called driver assist and they supply you a car closest to the spec of your own car

The value of the repair to mine is just short of £5000 so just awaiting an insurance assessor to inspect it and authorise it or claim it total loss

Good luck Chris !

5k!!

where are they getting it done?? they must have some extortionate labour rates!! cant be more than 1.5k in parts unless there is something else wrong?? prob £500 in paint at most so 3k in labour??

Good luck with it mate but it will be close i think..

sounds well over the top Chris, but I guess it works in your favour if you want rid ??

does sound a bit steep but they are the experts

i would imagine the labour is high as they may have to remove the engine to repair the chassis, but thats what roughly its going to cost

what value is your car ??

do you know what parts there repairing replacing etc

my little prang last year was £5800 ish if my air bags had gone of it would have been a wright off

i had the following
Bumper
Headlights
Both rads
sport front skirt etc
1 new alloy
all painting
pipework
fog lights
numberplate
bonnet
front sport grill
slambar
all labour (2 week turn around)

might add wasnt my fault lol some chav cut up a load of us on the M25and well caused a pile up i think i was lucky i would have murdered someone had it been a wright off

cars valued on my insurance at 10k, it was never changed from when i purchased it for 12.5k last year

if i was to go out and buy one like for like right now id be looking at between 8.5k and 9k

think my parts are very simuilar but i need a innerwing and chassis leg too

quick update

spoke to the repairers today and the cost of the repair at present is £4700 inc vat and at present is repairable but if more damage is found upon further stripping then it will be a total loss

looked at the car today and the wing, headlamp and bumper have been removed.

the inner wing took a good hit as its bent down

fingers crossed it sorted soon