E30 Zone

well i thought ide give the car a wee wash and looking atfer in my break from work.

was pleased with it looking clean for a change so took a pic


then went and did my evening shift(chefing)

then drove 24.8 miles home.

with 0.2 miles to my house took a detor via council property

bollox

bugger

wright off


before you come to your asumptions i slid on oil on a roundabout, nothing i could do.

Fragefest to follow shortly.

Shit mate, that is bad luck. Feel for you.

Fook

gutted for you mate

pm on its way

That's proper pants mate! I feel for you
It looks well bent.
Did it still drive?

Shit that's bad luck mate

doesnt drive
brake master cylinder ripped off,
strut is bent
glove box popped open so chassy leg bent also
kink in the scuttle under the window
doors all good
no broken glass

RIGHT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

getting a courtesy car later i hope.

Sanchez wrote:doesnt drive
brake master cylinder ripped off,
strut is bent
glove box popped open so chassy leg bent also
kink in the scuttle under the window
doors all good
no broken glass

RIGHT OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

getting a courtesy car later i hope.

sent you a pm regarding a 318is shell that weve got

Glad that your ok. So sorry about the car......

Ouch, Sorry to see this. Looks like it done a proper job of it all.

least you lived to tell the tale

were you hurt mate?

did the police attend? confirm oil/diesel on roundabout?

Possible MIB claim here.........

Thats bad luck feel for you

That's terrible luck

Good to hear you#re ok though.

E30BeemerLad wrote:were you hurt mate?

did the police attend? confirm oil/diesel on roundabout?

Possible MIB claim here.........

Like a cheap Tesco value superhero, Lee leaps to the aid of a zoner.

E30BeemerLad wrote:Possible MIB claim here.........

I should think the Men In Black have better things to do..?

Bloody shame about the car though. Glad you're alright.

Good effort!

Gutted for you mate. I bet u've shed a tear or two over that. I know I would!

Picked up on something else tho. - I'm also a chef and used to work in Edinburgh. Where you working at the mo fella?

When I was there I did stints at the following,

The Caley
Balmoral
The George
EICC
Zinc (Leith)
Martin Wisharts

Also worked at Stirling Castle for a while.

I'd be lookin at re-shelling the car btw.

E30Gheko wrote:I'd be lookin at re-shelling the car btw.

I wasn't the only one that thought that then

I wasn't the only one that thought that then

Nah I was agreein with you really. I'm trying to amass a load of decent E30 parts. At the moment I'm sticking them on the one I've got but I'm gonna re-shell at some point in the future.

Cloud wrote:

E30Gheko wrote:I'd be lookin at re-shelling the car btw.

I wasn't the only one that thought that then

i would be doing a reshell aswell its a shame as seen this car last year at glamis car show and it was a solid and straight shell.

me and a mate has a good solid 318is shell that ive told him about which i hope hell take as its other option dosent look good

it involves a welded diff a 325i engine 2 bucket seats and a track

Cloud wrote:

E30Gheko wrote:I'd be lookin at re-shelling the car btw.

I wasn't the only one that thought that then

ive already been offered a white 'is' shell but dont have time to swapthe bits over. the engine will need some work to it as well.

Sanchez wrote:

Cloud wrote:

E30Gheko wrote:I'd be lookin at re-shelling the car btw.

I wasn't the only one that thought that then

ive already been offered a white 'is' shell but dont have time to swapthe bits over. the engine will need some work to it as well.

if you need stuff swapped over mate we couldmake arrangements i could get your car over here and swap everything over and give you the other one back up and running give me a bell you have my number

James

I hope you weren't going as fast as jbh's Avatar....

TBH i really dont no, but definatley not that quick.

Gutted for you mate, i'd be devastated if that happened to me.

At least you're not hurt though

I'm not one for roundabouts. I nearly lost my white 325i on one many moons ago.

Hope you get things sorted.

When looking at the pictures I could tell instantly it was an oil/diesel spill on the road...

yep, the old oil/diesel on the road . i carry a can in the boot just in case
seriously though, bad luck in killing your car

Sanchez, sorry dude, I can't remember your name...


What I was referring to in my earlier post is that there is a possibility you can pursue a claim through the MIB (motor insurers burea) under the Untraced Driver's Agreement. But this depends on a couple of factors.

1- Plod attended and there is a report or at least a CAD number for the incident
2- They have recorded the cause of the incident being due to oil/diesel on the roundabout

If the above questions have a yes answer, then you have absolutely nothing to lose by going onto the MIB website and submitting an application online. It won't cost you anything and after a period of 2-3 months you are likely to get an answer as to whether they will deal with your claim or not.

There is a compulsory £300 excess which applies to property damage, so they won't pay the first £300. If you are injured and claim for injuries there is no deduction from that.

It is difficult to see from the pics if you have bent the lamp post or whatever it was you hit, the plastic illuminated bollard will probably just clip back on the mount, but if the lamp post is damaged then you really are better off using your insurance as the bills for these are stupid, I mean £1K+. The council always take forever to bother sending you a bill too.

When the wife stacked my soarer I had to wait over 15 months before my insurers would allow my NCD after I abandoned making a claim on my own policy for the damage to my car, as they wanted to see if the council would crawl out of the woodwork and present me with a bill for the signpost, which my insurers would then get the good news for. Fortunately, the council did nothing and I got my NCD back.

Anyway, the link for the MIB is http://mib.org.uk/MIB/en/Claims/UK/Untr ... ADVICE.htm

Effectively you are making a claim against an untraced driver who decided to ovefill their diesel/ carcinogenic polluting piece of shit/ HGV and spill diesel all over the road surface. Alternatively, if the spillage had been reported previously and plod & the local authority have done nothing about it, then they can get the good news of a claim for not acting on this and leaving a section of road dangerous to other road users and potentially fatal to organ doners, sorry I mean bikers.

Sanchez, Sorry to see this dude, glad ur alright

well the police and i looked in the road but couldnt tell if oil spill or not.
Was just slippy underfoot(he nearly fell over ).

He put it down as my fault which I accepted, but he did say the road was slippy.

Ive got a Crime Referance Number from the insurance company but not from the police.

I should got a watch to see if anyone else crashes in that spot.

If the police have not recorded oil or some other substance then you are probably wasting your time with the MIB. They will just say you were driving too fast for the conditions and it was a fault claim.

when my wee bro stacked his mk1 fiesta into a crash barrier then head on into a mini the cops did exactly the same thing he fell on his ass as the road was that slippy yet when it went to court there was no mention of this!!! luckily ( or not so lucky ) there had been a car done exactly the same thing on the same bit of road the following day and my wee brothers lawyer brought this up in court and made the cops look like a bunch of twats