MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: RunRabbit on November 25, 2008, 09:05:17 pm
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Had a lovely experience today, a massive transit van hurtling towards little old me :scared:
Hopefully will all be sorted by the insurance company but i'm not too worried about the car, it's my neck which i'm worried about more :sick:
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Ouch, not good, hope you ok
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Ouch, not good, hope you ok
as said above hope your ok :happy2:
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ouch! were you stationary or going towards the van? hope it gets resolved quickly and its a hassle free claim!
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Thanks all for your kind words, i was stationary and he obv didn't check his mirrors. Offered me £200 to keep it from the insurance companies, i LOL'd. The grilles cost me that much :laugh:
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tell him about £1k then yoru talking ;)
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I cant see the pics i am at work, but if you have a sore neck thats a garunteed minimum £ 1850. lots of future mods. :evilgrin:
Mr Rabbit if you still want to come to the meet, MarkyMark or Greenouse live right by you if you ask them nicely i am sure they wouldn't mind giving you a lift. :driver: :party:
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Hope you get it all sorted out dude, and that your neck is ok.
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Ouch! Firstly, I hope you're ok.
Is your GTI bumper conversion all declared to your insurance company? I don't want to alarm you, but if it's anything out of spec they (the van's insurer) will declare yours void and refuse to pay.
Might be worth taking some cash, which IMO is often the best case for sub £1k claims - by the time hire cars, bodyshop's quadrulple rates and everyone else having a cut has been added up, it costs an arm and a leg... it doesn't come out of some magical pot of money, it gets lumped onto everyone else's policy, including yours for next year.
You also have to consider yours will possibly be listed on HPI and come resale it'll affect its residual value, so you could come out worse off in the long run by claiming.
Mike.
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Oh dear. Hope all turns out ok :happy2:
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Hope you get it all sorted out mate. Neck should be fine, just sore for a little while.
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I cant see the pics i am at work, but if you have a sore neck thats a garunteed minimum £ 1850. lots of future mods. :evilgrin:
Mr Rabbit if you still want to come to the meet, MarkyMark or Greenouse live right by you if you ask them nicely i am sure they wouldn't mind giving you a lift. :driver: :party:
Be happy to give you a lift pal if you decide not to take the car :wink: Just let me know :happy2:
P.S. Hope the necks ok.
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Pity to hear about the accident. As ha been said. I hope all is ok.
Mike :smiley:
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Ouch! Firstly, I hope you're ok.
Is your GTI bumper conversion all declared to your insurance company? I don't want to alarm you, but if it's anything out of spec they (the van's insurer) will declare yours void and refuse to pay.
Might be worth taking some cash, which IMO is often the best case for sub £1k claims - by the time hire cars, bodyshop's quadrulple rates and everyone else having a cut has been added up, it costs an arm and a leg... it doesn't come out of some magical pot of money, it gets lumped onto everyone else's policy, including yours for next year.
You also have to consider yours will possibly be listed on HPI and come resale it'll affect its residual value, so you could come out worse off in the long run by claiming.
Mike.
I'm not allowed to take cash as It's my companies insurance and not my own otherwise I would have had it repaired myself, would have been a lot less hassle. I don't think this will be HPI recorded as it's not really an uneconomical repair. I'm not too concerned about the car anyway, more-so about my health but I'm sure I'll be ok in a couple of weeks :party:
I might just take you up on that offer Greenouse :happy2:
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Sheesh, I wouldn't even bother wasting breath thinking about trying to sort that out then - bang in the claim and concentrate on getting better!
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Ouch, hope you are OK and it all gets sorted soon. :(
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I hope the neck pain goes away soon :smiley:
Remember......where there's blame.................. :wink:
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I hope the neck pain goes away soon :smiley:
Remember......where there's blame.................. :wink:
I'm already on it, my solicitors are on the case. I'm now in the possession of the CCTV camera footage from the car-park, shows the incident so I'm a bit happier that he can't come back and blame me :smiley:
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Aah you seee? This one... He is a clever bugger ^^^
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I hope the neck pain goes away soon :smiley:
Remember......where there's blame.................. :wink:
I'm already on it, my solicitors are on the case. I'm now in the possession of the CCTV camera footage from the car-park, shows the incident so I'm a bit happier that he can't come back and blame me :smiley:
Thats awesome, you will need all the evidence you can get. You should be fine with all that you have done and a nice cheque will be coming through you letter box in no time. I had an RTA a few years ago.... a women t-boned me at 45 mph while she was high on drink and drugs! Her insurance company still protested for months that it was my fault :angry015: :angry015: Needless to say the case is still ongoing, it will be 2 years this christmas since it happened and I have still had nothing whatsoever for the massive inconvenience it caused! :sad: