Just got an Email from mi’ mate who saw this in the Daily Mail - assume he means today??
Have a look at the Daily Mail for today. A guy sold his modified Exige and part of the deal was the car had a full Valet. He took it to some outfit and then later got a call to say there had been an accident. The Valet Company owner had decided to take it for a ride and wrote it off big time. Apparently the Valet Co insurance will not cover it as there is no reason for the car to be taken off the premises.
Nice one the to$$er!
OOPs! Eye test for Thommo. Excuse: Just got up and looked over Mrs T’s shoulder and barely took in the details, despite being a trained observer. Sorry, all you S2 folk. And this from an Elise owner. too.
I saw this in the paper today, felt sick when I saw it. I always feel concerned when I leave my car with anybody to do work on it. you just cannot trust anybody. I hope the muppet who crashed it feels like shite for what hes done and gets sued for every last penny. will make him think twice before taking a joy ride in somebody elses car.
In these kind of circumstances (leaving the car at a shop for cleaning or repair) a programmable ECU comes in handy. On my turbocharged MX-5 I had a couple of years ago I could set the rev-limit. So I was just a matter of dropping the car of and after shutting the engine down, reset the rev limit to 2000 rpm.
Nico
ps. it’s also a great anti theft feature… (rev limt set to 400rpm, no way to start it)
having been an elise owner for a few years im now looking for a series 1 exige but think i’ll give this a wide berth when it appears in the salvage pages!
the front offside alloy looks like its gone a little past repairing, need more than a few stick on weights to sort that out.
Reassuring to see one take a decent whack and apparently not harm occupants (physically at least).
Ian
they did interview the driver but as he couldn’t string a sentence together before he drove the car then they had no idea if he suffered any head injury