Got a call from the insurance, cost to repair...
£6500!
£6500!
Stacked the car this morning (pics)
- Thread starter Defcon5
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is that inclusive of storage / recovery and other crap that insurers add on, or the pure repair price?
The garage said thats what it would cost to repair.
Soldato
Soldato
It's not just a black and white case of FWD you do this and RWD you do that...
The reason people have so many different views is because every car is different. Wildly different suspension setups and "feel" for the driver. It's very common that some cars literally just bite your head off with no warning at all - that's because they have crap suspension setups with no progressive characteristics. Others, particularly eurobox hatches, prefer to just let you understeer everywhere so that there is little possibility of anything but a front-on crash so that all their finely tuned airbags and crash structures can be used.
Loads of FWD cars now are so over-driven on the power steering that it removes almost ALL feel from the steering. So you don't even know when the wheel torque is trying to tell you something...
This thread is pretty worrying also. Loads of people going on about taking their car to its upper most limits and "losing traction"... Seriously - goto a track or airfield if you want to do that! Yes normal road driving can offer up plenty of opportunities to "lose traction"... ice, mud, oil/diesel, gravel... but unless you are already driving like a **** then you shouldn't just automatically crash. If it's icy then ask yourself if you need to make the trip at all... if you really do then just drive everywhere like a granny and brake in plenty of time and leave plenty of space from the car in front. If you encounter some mud on a backroad or whatever then don't be a hero by radically altering your car's inputs. If need be just steer into the slide. The most important thing to do is to not "lift off" the gas as that unbalances the car and will make things even worse. Same goes for oil/diesel and gravel.
You can have plenty of fun without ever coming close to crashing. Driving to the conditions and mastering the art of the road is almost a fine art in itself. Waaaaay cooler than any form of "drifting" sport.
The reason people have so many different views is because every car is different. Wildly different suspension setups and "feel" for the driver. It's very common that some cars literally just bite your head off with no warning at all - that's because they have crap suspension setups with no progressive characteristics. Others, particularly eurobox hatches, prefer to just let you understeer everywhere so that there is little possibility of anything but a front-on crash so that all their finely tuned airbags and crash structures can be used.
Loads of FWD cars now are so over-driven on the power steering that it removes almost ALL feel from the steering. So you don't even know when the wheel torque is trying to tell you something...
This thread is pretty worrying also. Loads of people going on about taking their car to its upper most limits and "losing traction"... Seriously - goto a track or airfield if you want to do that!
Yes normal road driving can offer up plenty of opportunities to "lose traction"... ice, mud, oil/diesel, gravel... but unless you are already driving like a **** then you shouldn't just automatically crash. If it's icy then ask yourself if you need to make the trip at all... if you really do then just drive everywhere like a granny and brake in plenty of time and leave plenty of space from the car in front. If you encounter some mud on a backroad or whatever then don't be a hero by radically altering your car's inputs. If need be just steer into the slide. The most important thing to do is to not "lift off" the gas as that unbalances the car and will make things even worse. Same goes for oil/diesel and gravel.You can have plenty of fun without ever coming close to crashing. Driving to the conditions and mastering the art of the road is almost a fine art in itself. Waaaaay cooler than any form of "drifting" sport.