Well the day started off pretty well. Up early, feeling good and a nice leisurely drive into work dreaming of Friday when I finally get the first service out of the way and can rev the nuts off the car.
Pulls up to a T-junction looks at the traffic and decides to wait for the next space when all of a sudden THUD! and the car shoots forward three feet. I get out to find some twat in a Rover 75 has rear ended me. What he got to say for himself? “Sorry, wasn’t looking”. Somehow I managed to restrain myself from knocking him out (mainly due to the wife 2 cars back urging me to calm down) and swapped the obligatory details.
So in a nutshell looking at full rear clam, diffuser plus any other hidden damage plus whiplash for the next few days. Thankfully he’s insured so it should be pretty straightforward otherwise he’d still be picking his teeth up.
Nightmare. Feel for you on this one, get a new toy and another kids brakes it syndrome!
If it was me, and its not so you night feel different, I’d be straight on to Steve Greensmith (AnniesDad) on Pistonheads. His company will sort it all out. He’ll give you a Lotus as a loan car and your car will be repaired by whoever you want, not on the cheap or by a non-Lotus specialist.
Nightmare. Feel for you on this one, get a new toy and another kids brakes it syndrome!
If it was me, and its not so you night feel different, I’d be straight on to Steve Greensmith (AnniesDad) on Pistonheads. His company will sort it all out. He’ll give you a Lotus as a loan car and your car will be repaired by whoever you want, not on the cheap or by a non-Lotus specialist.
If you need any details mail me.
So far the insurance company (Royal Sun Alliance) and Adrian Flux have been pretty good. Due to the age of the car (all of 2 weeks!) they have stated that it will go back to Lotus (MMC) and that Lotus will supply an equivalent curteousy car (wair and see on that!) plus are filing for personal injury through the whiplash.
Calming down at last (or perhaps that’s the red wine to numb the pain!). The missus was only a few cars behind and said that the guy had been tailgating me for a while. What is it with these pr1cks in sh1tty old cars that when they see a fast car they think they’ve got to race it to prove something? Maybe I should have filled him in, wouldn’t have helped the car but would’ve made me feel a whole lot better!
You would deffo get a Lotus car with us whilst yours was being repaired and we will get it repaired with who ever you want. We have our own approved bodyshops or we can use Lotus.
You would deffo get a Lotus car with us whilst yours was being repaired and we will get it repaired with who ever you want. We have our own approved bodyshops or we can use Lotus.
Cheers
Russ
Northernpar - I can recommend this, I recieved excellent service after a similar incident
Yes Russ 15 Titanium Grey, Grey stripes with Skull & Cross Bones on the rear wing. I should of said hi, little rude of me sorry didn’t realise the Lambogenie tie up. What happened to your Elise at the weekend, saw it on your trailer?
lol no Rob that was the chap two down in the Graphite (is that right) Grey S…it had just poured down to be fair. I got busted for noise and drove positively pedestrian all day, never wished so much for a cup holder in my life !!
No probs Johnny, I could have just as easily said hi to you, we had five clients with two hire cars so we were a bit manic.
Our race car was on the trailer after its little love tap from the race weekend.