A delight to drive but pricey to run, i will miss the v8 A6 Q
Sadly my skillz were not enough to save her when a woman in an A5 stopped unexpectedly in front of me, try as i might i couldnt pull the old girl up and now shes a write off :'(
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Oh well at least you will get your money back to go and buy another fun car! Perhaps one that doesn't use so much juice this time. :P
PS. Don't bother looking for an LPG'd Supra, there is currently only one i can find for sale :D
Terrible shame, I do like those Audi's, mine was lovely to drive. :(
On a more positive note though, if you want a Skoda that runs a treat on veg oil, I'm selling :D
sorry for your loss man :(
I hope your going to buy it back at a fraction of the price and scrap it, you could make a fair bit of cash back, is the engine still running as you could sell that with the LPG system for a conversion!
I would go so far as to say you might recuperate all your loss on the car
The main thing is, you're alright though?!
I guess it means no budget for new camera gear any time soon too :S
unlucky. that was a lovely car.
My Audi died this week aswell, fuel pump is dead (same as what happened to your Passat) and cba to fix as I've got a works van now so its been sold for spares.
Was this a factor in not stopping
Quote from: Binary Shadow on September 26, 2011, 18:42:13 PM
3 weekends later and its all done :) next weekend im changing the front brakes and doing an oil change.. it never ends.
no the brakes had plenty of life left in them so i never got round to changing them.. so i have brand new discs and pads in my garage lol great
Quote from: zpyder on November 01, 2011, 16:11:59 PM
The main thing is, you're alright though?!
I guess it means no budget for new camera gear any time soon too :S
Yeah im ok... been in worse sadly.
Quote from: Bacon on November 01, 2011, 11:37:02 AM
I hope your going to buy it back at a fraction of the price and scrap it, you could make a fair bit of cash back, is the engine still running as you could sell that with the LPG system for a conversion!
I would go so far as to say you might recuperate all your loss on the car
Dont have the time or space for that :(
On a side note I do think the rule that if you hit them in the back its basically your fault. It is DAFT!
You can be totally following the rules, good brakes, car etc and someone dumb in front of you just does something totally unexpected. Heck, F1 these happen and most of the time its classed as just a racing incident.
Quote from: neXus on November 01, 2011, 21:31:02 PM
On a side note I do think the rule that if you hit them in the back its basically your fault. It is DAFT!
You can be totally following the rules, good brakes, car etc and someone dumb in front of you just does something totally unexpected. Heck, F1 these happen and most of the time its classed as just a racing incident.
you should allways leave a gap big enough to stop if something completely unexpected happens. I know we dont allways but in the rules of the road there is no excuse for rear ending someone.
Quote from: DEViANCE on November 01, 2011, 21:42:52 PM
Quote from: neXus on November 01, 2011, 21:31:02 PM
On a side note I do think the rule that if you hit them in the back its basically your fault. It is DAFT!
You can be totally following the rules, good brakes, car etc and someone dumb in front of you just does something totally unexpected. Heck, F1 these happen and most of the time its classed as just a racing incident.
you should allways leave a gap big enough to stop if something completely unexpected happens. I know we dont allways but in the rules of the road there is no excuse for rear ending someone.
True and I do, but I mean, I had one car turn into the road in front of me being in the wrong, I had to bake to avoid them, did so, they picked moved off and I was still rolling of course still and then suddenly braked hard again and spun round. I had to brake hard again and move left a bit too. They just had no clue of anything around them but if Clipped them in the back I would be in the wrong.
I suspect if I brake tested a 40 ton lorry and got rear ended there may be some dispute over whos fault it was as well.. im not sure its always so clear cut
Quote from: Binary Shadow on November 02, 2011, 08:40:23 AM
I suspect if I brake tested a 40 ton lorry and got rear ended there may be some dispute over whos fault it was as well.. im not sure its always so clear cut
I know that its there as trying to sort out dispute, especially if there if there is no eye witness's around would be time consuming and more costly through the whole processes so a base rule resolves a load of those issues but it still sucks. I bet a lot of cases these days of people like us were giving the gap and at the speed limit but the people at the front doing it just at those daft movements.
Motoway, changing lanes your supposed to shoulder check to make sure your not bashing over a biker in your blind spot etc. The person randomly brakes hard because they dropped the hambuger they are eating (this sounds daft but I know similar true stories) and dumb ass brakes - You look and you got no time to brake properly.
Yep the insurance co have rolled over on me and putting me at fault, no surprise really.
I always wondered whether "A cat / bird flew out in front of me" would be sufficient to get off if you broke suddenly when being tailgated.