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Needed to share my pain with you guys..




So whilst visiting some extended family the week before last, I
was awoken whilst having fallen asleep at their flat in East London, last Monday morning, to this gut wrenching scene;













Just got the car back onto the road after spending over 1200 quid with BMW getting it serviced and all the belts, brakes etc, done and was really looking forward to this summer...

So apparently what happened was , some dude was off his trolley on Jack Daniels and decided to drive into my parked car, and my cousin's parked A3

the stupid tw*t turned out not only to be unable to grasp a single word of the English language but it turned out he lived 2 doors down..and then abandoned his stupid polo and ran into his flat..

after calling the police, who turned up.............. after 4 hours, bloke was eventually nicked for driving under the influence, criminal damage & being UNINSURED..


F*kks sake


been trying to get this sorted but its turning out to be extremely painful..

my insurance aren't being helpful in pursuing it all they'd rather i claim of my own policy and pay them an inflated excess of 1500 because apparently its in the small print... they can change it from 500 to 1500 because they feel like shafting me...

worst thing, after raining like stupid for 4 weeks, summer has decided to show up today.....aaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggghh!!!

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Had the car taken back up north and need to spend some time to understand how bad it really is..
my major concern is the orange auto gearbox light that now comes on, on the main dash..and the different fluids that escaped from somewhere around the engine..

i couldn't believe it the p*nis must have hit it at some real speed as the passenger side front alloy has also been bent , from where it smashed into the kerb...

guttted.




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Gutted for you.

Hope you can get it repaired fairly easily - doesn't look too bad, and could have been alot worse. At least you caught the culprit.

Gutted for ye mate. What a f***ing tosspot.

Have you got any idea how much it'll cost you to fix it?

At least you know where he lives... Most times this sorta thing happens, the guy is never even caught.

I'd be planning a little reccy round his place next time he's out... see if he's got anything of any value to cover your inflated excess

I'm really hoping its not terminal....

but I've got a bad feeling that it is going to have hidden issues..

and will it ever really be the same drive wise..?

bimmaman wrote:At least you know where he lives... Most times this sorta thing happens, the guy is never even caught.

I'd be planning a little reccy round his place next time he's out... see if he's got anything of any value to cover your inflated excess

haha

went round there just as the fuzz were dealing with him and the place he lives in is not much more better than a squat..

i was shocked that he was even legally here... could've sworn he was an illegal from the way he looked..

guy won't have much to his name i bet...

Typical East london

bimmaman wrote:At least you know where he lives... Most times this sorta thing happens, the guy is never even caught.

I'd be planning a little reccy round his place next time he's out... see if he's got anything of any value to cover your inflated excess

and a general life of misery !!!

(Gutted for you man, that would be heart breaking

is that a genuine Motorsport too?

Am gutted for you mate..

Jesus he hit that hard!! What an absolute c*nt!! I'd want to skin him alive if he did that to my car

Gutted for you man...

goldysingh wrote:is that a genuine Motorsport too?

Am gutted for you mate..

yeah man she is!

got her of the zone last year around Feb time..needed some love with the interior which I was slowly administering...

couldn't believe it though, a few hours on the side of the road and had about 6 or 7 lads offering me 200 quid to take it...

cheeky tw*ts

Foookin foreign cooont ! If they are not stealing our jobs, they are smashing into our turds !

really gutted for you mate, hope it all gets sorted easily. i believe if your involved in an accident with a uninsured driver its the MIB(motor insurance bureau) that compensate, heres their number 0800 587 4478. my mate works for a accident claims company so can get more advice from him if need be.

I don't know how you remained calm in that situation.

I would have done some f*cking damage!

Body wise It looks to be external only but as there is suspension damage and possibly engine/box if there is fluid loss you can pretty much garuntee it will be written off even if you manage to convince the insurance company it's worth 5-7k that some motorsports go for.

Best of getting a cash in lieu payout and getting it repaired yourself as this will stop it receiving a Cat C or D and will cost less to repair that what the insurance company will quote.

If you manage to convince the insurance company it's worth say £6k then you might get £2-3k cash in lieu payout which should be more than enough to repair it.

As for you ins company not playing ball and chassing up a claim, speak to e30beemerlad on here as he may be able to help with this.

bimmaman wrote: see if he's got anything of any value to cover your inflated excess

2 balls and a set of teeth should cover it. Fuck ing vermin.

BMW_E30vert wrote:really gutted for you mate, hope it all gets sorted easily. i believe if your involved in an accident with a uninsured driver its the MIB(motor insurance bureau) that compensate, heres their number 0800 587 4478. my mate works for a accident claims company so can get more advice from him if need be.

Thanks dude !

I did speak to someone who suggested the same thing but she said the MIB would only really get involved when personal injury was inflicted...

and as i was in the land of nod when the accident occurred , which is what i, for some reason, told the police, i don't think they can pursue it...

worth a phone call i guess !!

bss325i wrote:I don't know how you remained calm in that situation.

I would have done some f*cking damage!

Body wise It looks to be external only but as there is suspension damage and possibly engine/box if there is fluid loss you can pretty much garuntee it will be written off even if you manage to convince the insurance company it's worth 5-7k that some motorsports go for.

Best of getting a cash in lieu payout and getting it repaired yourself as this will stop it receiving a Cat C or D and will cost less to repair that what the insurance company will quote.

If you manage to convince the insurance company it's worth say £6k then you might get £2-3k cash in lieu payout which should be more than enough to repair it.

As for you ins company not playing ball and chassing up a claim, speak to e30beemerlad on here as he may be able to help with this.

sound words man..

i'll deffo keep everyone posted on how events unfold..!

thanks for all the kind the words too guys!!

if i was faced with such a position i would have probable done something very violent...I have a good mate in Bolton who could probably sort the bodywork out mate.

if you discover that this twat has any assets in the UK that could be realised to cover the damages, PM me.

i would of been bloody pissed off ! , of all the cars he could of hit the pr1ck,

i did a drift into a kerb early last year, id say check the guibo and the rack is probably gone an all... among other things,

Gutted for you mate, hope its nothing that can't be easily sorted.

And what of the prat that drove into you?

I would "politely persuade" him to cough up for the damage!

i could pm you my mates number if you wanted some advice, he told me mib was the best way to go about it as he had dealt with something like this before. i would suggest you also pm e30beemerlad as he would probably give you the best advice good luck mate.

Oh my fooooking days!!! I wouldn't be on here, id be skinning the bloke alive with a blunt knife. Really hope its nothing too major as engine/gearbox and that you get it fixed. Id be put complete suspension on the front on both as you say its bent the passenger front wheel too.... Thats some fu*king force for a car that was parked!

PM e30beemerlad NOW with a link to this thread.

That is just sickeningly awful! I hope something positive happens now!

Make a claim through the MIB, it'll take ages before you get paid out, but you'll only get bummed for a £300 excess.

If you want it doing quickly, then use your insurers, but you'll have to pay your massive excess and there's sod all chance you'll get that back from your neighbour.

Get some repair estimates sorted.

the fluid loss is a bit of a worry, could it have cracked the steering rack casing or something?

must have been a hell of a smack to damage the wheel on the other side too.

apart from the wheel this is the damage i had on my coupe when some guy perpendicularly crossed a junction and practically t-boned me i was doing 40mph and he was doing about 20mph i feel for you!

WHAT A FOOL bent the wheel as well

Hope this stuff works out for you okay.

That's a terrible shame chap, sorry to see it.

Prats like this drunken fool should get penalised more directly for sh!t like this... There's never any proper justice to whom suffers worse from a situation such as this.. ie you.

Hope you get it sorted..

If this immigrant scrote has a legitimate job they might order him to pay some compensation, but I bet he wont. A ban and some points on his licence is about the worst he will get, not that I expect he will stop driving, just change address/name

I got T boned at a junction also and it took nearly a year for the 3rd party insurance to cough up

He must have properly twatted that, it may take a while but you will get paid out by the MIB just got to deal with the aggro of it, i've been there myself

My 328 was parked up outside my mates shop and a pissed C**t in a mondeo must have drifted into it and just glanced my rear quarter but then hit the rear wheel and that's what stopped him totally crushed my BBS in half and did 2.5K of suspension damage, new rear wheel was £400 alone.

I ran out to the car scrapping down the road until he came to a stop, as i ran to the car he was trying to start it up, i opened the door and he went what's wrong, he was steaming and i had to grab the keys out of the ignition then he started going mental trying to stab me with a screwdriver through the top of the door so i leaned all my weight on the door and pinned his arm to the car till he f**cking screamed, I had to keep him there until the police arrived he was going mad trying to get out, when they up they didn't even bother to breathalize him at the scene just straight in the van.

Turned out it was his old mans car he'd taken without him knowing, he wasn't insured and already on a drink drive ban, think he got a 3 year ban and 3 year suspended sentence, luckily his old mans insurance sorted my car

The mondeo front wheel had been pushed back nearly half way through the passenger door so god knows how fast he was going, just thought that could have been a person he hit

This is awful! Looks like the wheel took the force. Keep us posted. They'll let the scum off with a caution of minimum fine. I'd deport the cunt!

Really sorry to see this mate, It makes my pish bubble just as much as if it were my car when I see things like this. If you get caught drink driving you get banned, fined etc but if you cause injury, or damage such as this, I think jailtime should be mandatory. Either this or the po-po should turn a blind eye to personal retribution!

There seem to be a lot of calm and collected zoners around! I had a bloke pull into the side of my cossie on the m5 and sent me into an 80mph spinning fest. I'm not proud but he ended up covered in blood lying in the hard shoulder and it wasn't from the crash! How I got away with that I'll never know. He must have felt guilty enough not to press charges!

Hope the cab isn't too poorly mate, and best of luck getting it back to glory with minimum headaches!

given the damage to the rim, i would be checking your PAS rack mate..