E30 Zone

someone went into the side of my e30 calypso 4 door on saturday night, was driving past the manor farm pub in worcester and an old girl just pulled straight out into the side of me, looks like its a write off, which to say im gutted it a massive understatement.

il get some photos up asap, i cant look at the damage at the moment its to upsetting

Thats a shame mate, but at least your ok. Now its your decision wether to claim on insurance or bite the bullet and break the moredoor!?

claim,buy it back,fragg it .

Win !

magpie wrote:claim,buy it back,fragg it .

Win !

Back of the net!

agreed lads i think thats what im going to do, the old girl said it was totally her fault, which it was, so hopefully wont have any problems there.


theres someone coming to look at my car tomorrow to asses the damage, but considering both doors, the rear qauter, the front wing, total loss of power steering fluid etc im pretty sure itl ne a write off, so il probably be doing as suggested above and buy it back and sell the bits to you lovely gents and ladies on here

at the moment though, im just massively gutted id only just waxed the whole car, as we were on the way to my mates wedding.

cheers for the comms above chaps made me feel better, e30 zone is a good palce to be

I've always considered that polishing cars is asking for trouble - tempting fate!

I had some berk in a van drive out of an alleyway into the side of my first E30 320i more-door. Fortunately, there were witnesses to it, so I was easily able to claim the insurance payout, which came to about £1,000.

Bought a replacement driver's door from a breakers, sprayed it myself, and I was back on the road for about £200 and quids in.

I hate driving my chromie about when its busy, give everyone a wide berth! So many people on the road that are oblivious to most of the cars around them

DanThe wrote:I hate driving my chromie about when its busy, give everyone a wide berth! So many people on the road that are oblivious to most of the cars around them

agreed mate, when it happened the first thing the old girl said was well i have no idea how that happened!

first thing i said was i bloody do, you just came straight out the pub carpark into the side of my car, probly to many sweet sherrys

I hope you got some pictures as no doubt her insurance company will tell her it was your fault

shouldve called the police out, she was probably over the limit

should have slapped the bint...guess what..i saw a female driving instructor teaching a female driver...i mean wtf is the world coming to ..!!!

diable wrote:

walrus1968 wrote:should have slapped the bint...guess what..i saw a female driving instructor teaching a female driver...i mean wtf is the world coming to ..!!!

now now don't be sexist next you'll be making racist comments....

females are another race !

the damage, then one as it was before from the other side, just got a call from the insurance assessor to say he's coming tomorrow to do a report.

Rich320I wrote:

It was a fragger anyway........ Arch woe there!

On a serious note, grrrrrr feel for you mate

mate that rust was blatantly caused in the accident.

cheers bud, rear arches were on the to list though

Phew it's a four-door...

Ditto should've called the Police if she'd just driven out of a pub car park straight into your car!!

[quote="suchy"]Phew it's a four-door...

Lol

Thats a shame mate. Good Luck!!

Get a payout (you DID have agreed value insurance - didn't you...?) and buy the car back for 20% of the agreed value. You should get a pair of doors and a decent wings for around £120. About £500 to fit the panels, repair the arch and paint the side. Not the end of the world and it looks to be worth fixing if you liked it.

yeah it was agreed at £2000,

iv not had an accident like this before so im not sure of how thigns are supposed to work, but the insurance assessor came to look yesterday, said its going to be a write off, but because the accident wasnt my fault, then they would make me an offer and deduct the scrap value of the car from that and leave the car with me.

which is what i think im going to do, im going to get it down to my parents drive the weekend and sorn it and have a think about a plan of action.

cheers for all the support folks, and yeah i really like the car so would like to fix it if its economical enough to do it

Shit happens, at least your alright.
Good luck, hope you get this sorted.

Rich320I wrote:mate that rust was blatantly caused in the accident.

there must be quite a few on here that have been involved in accidents then!

Thats the real scary part of owing an e30, that most may be worth 1-2000 quid and an insurer is likely to just write them off in an accident. When in actual fact they mean more to us that just a grand or so.

thats true mate, theyv given me a new insignia as a temp car, which is nice enough, but just reminds how much i love driving the e30.

£2000 agreed value = you'll get a cheque for £1600 and you keep the car. They may or may not ask for the logbook and MOT, and they may or may not inform DVLA that it's a write off. Could be Cat C (requiring a VIC check) or a D (which won't).
If you get it fixed for £600 (quite likely), you've made a grand and had a nice air conned Insignia to smoke around in.

cheers for the info andy boy,

like said just gutted its happened in the first place, the insignia is pretty funny its white and iv noticed when i get close to someone, they start doing bang on the speed limit and driving perfectly, im thinking its because it looks like undercover 5-0

When my E34 touring got pranged they gave me a cheque for the value -10%

Are you letting your insurers sort it out?

yeah mate shes accepted liability, so apparently her insurance (RAC) are sorting everything, so my insurance tells me, also aswell i keep getting loads of calls from personnal injury lawyers! lol
all i want is either my car back how it was, minus rusty arch would be nice , or the money to go and buy another and il keep the calypso locked away for a long term project. i know i wierd not wanting to frag a four door