Damnit.
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[TW]Fox;22901231 said:
I honestly cannot imagine I'd find another one worth buying. Hang on a minute.... SELL ME YOURS!!
Also, the issue I have now is that we only have one car, so I don't have the luxury of taking my time shopping for things (well I do, but the wife will lose patience if I keep having to drop her off uber early and pick her up late (we work anout 35 miles apart). I hope something good comes up at the right time. Perhaps I'll end up in a Mondeo yet...
the front is the repairable bit, but your probably right in that the rear is not doable.
Damn. That's a real shame.
I'd be really interested in buying it off of you though. I'll drop you an email.
EDIT - I've dropped an email to the hotmail listed in your trust.
EDIT - it bounced so I've sent it via trust.
I'd be really interested in buying it off of you though. I'll drop you an email.
EDIT - I've dropped an email to the hotmail listed in your trust.
EDIT - it bounced so I've sent it via trust.
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Considering you've owned it for such a short period of time I'd say it's pretty much what you paid for it. What was that?
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Yeah, buying a similar one the values could be anything from £3,000 to £4,500 really (I've spent the best part of the last month daily looking for E39 530i Sport). There are quite a few nice looking 530i just come up on Autotrader recently.
Would have thought the car behind would be liable for the car in front in terms of insurance i.e. you for X5, golf for rear damage to you etc.
Just because you hit the car in front does not make you responsible for the ones behind you, they were obviously too close too each other or unaware of the situation. That's what I'd thought would be the case anyway.
That's pretty much how it will go down.
Of course if Danza didn't hit the X5 until he was shunted from behind*, then obviously all of the blame shifts to the Golf driver.
* I know this didn't happen (well according to the OP anyway), just stating how it could be different.
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Unlucky, the way I read it is that only the X5 owner is a non fault claim.
Well at least you will have a couple of extra £k from your compo claim to go towards your next car
Hope it's nothing serious though.
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Unlucky. The person at the back automatically takes fault. In a situation like this, you take fault for the person you hit, the person behind you takes fault for hitting you etc etc. You'll all lose your excesses except the person at the front.
Yep. He's been totally fine about it too and has a good perspective on things.
Well at least you will have a couple of extra £k from your compo claim to go towards your next car
Hope it's nothing serious though.
My neck is fine ATM. Nothing a bit of bloody well manning up and a couple of ibuprofen can sort. On a related note, it's a sorry state of affairs when the ambulance chasers get onto you before your own insurance company does, basically saying that they have a £1.5K cheque waiting for them to put my name on if I say the words they want to hear. I had to up my refusal to just below the point of telling them to foxtrot oscar before my message went across and they left me alone.
Pics of rear?
Nah, it doesn't llok that bad until you look at the boot floor and then see minor creasing on the rear quarter panels above the wheelarches.
For the record, I won't be giving anyone the runaround. I hit the guy in front fair and square, then the guy behind piled into me. The guy behind me can hardly pull the 'car hit me from behind pushing me into the car in front' scenario as there's barely any damage to the Porsche that hit him. I feel worst about the 968 as looking at my pics, the bonnet is probably beyond saving and the OS front wing is creased below the light.