It wasn’t fun and games at all as I said I didn’t like the thing and I would have preferred my car not being hit in the first place.
Car Hit by Drunk Driver
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It wasn’t fun and games at all as I said I didn’t like the thing and I would have preferred my car not being hit in the first place.
It’s a big old bus so it isn’t my kind of thing to begin with. The engine was smooth for a diesel (I’ve had a few 6 cylinder diesels so I don’t have a problem with them) but it was mated with a terrible gearbox or at least the software was terrible. The lag between throttle inputs and something happening was bordering on the ridiculous, if you planted your foot into the carpet it felt like there was a 2 to 3 second lag before it kicked down and shot off down the road.
It had a really annoying feature when you would get a vibration through the accelerator pedal and a symbol flash up on the dash. I never investigated what it meant as I didn’t expect to have it very long but it was damn annoying. The removal of AC /fan controls nested within menus in the infotainment system is really annoying. It was a pretty well specced vehicle with almost everything on it but had manual seats which I couldn’t for the life of me setup so I was actually comfortable and the fuel consumption was pretty poor.
After the car was assessed, the garage gave an estimate of £14k and 5 weeks to fix so I presume the insurance company thought at that point it was reasonable to proceed. I don’t think even the garage thought it would take 11 weeks, as they had a nightmare getting the parts apparently. They replaced most of the front axle which I guess aren’t standard parts sitting on the shelf?