Cheers :) Yeh It seems all sorted now, cant help thinking im going to encounter more problems though! lol

Lookin sexy

This car is now dead.
Parts that will be for sale in the coming weeks are:

Debadged boot with blank for washer jet.
Original boot with one small dent.
Plain black front and rear doorcards.
Euro style rear lights.
Gaz Coillies (As long as they arent damaged from crash)
3 maybe 4 newly refurbed VTS wheels.
3x 195/45/15 tyres two 5mm hankooks, 1 6mm michelin.
Gti Half Leather interior.
Rear bumper.
Ashley 3" backbox maybe with standard centre section

Maybe some other parts, once I take a proper look and see what isnt damaged.
Will put up prices once i get a thread up in for sale section.

Cheers, Josh.

What's happen to the motor mate? Guessing you had an accident as said above?
Hope your all good :y:

has a bump?

What happened, was starting to look really smart.

Going round a right hand corner on a b road/country lane. Wasnt concentrating nearly as much as i should of been, went wide and left wheels got caught in a fairly deep rut where road meets the bank. Tried to steer out of it and overcorrected while also breaking and I think most people know what happens when you break on a corner..Oversteered onto the other side of the road and my passenger side front part of bonnet/arch met with a vauxhall agilas bonnet. So my car spun out back onto my side of the road.

I wasnt speeding and the police analysis of the crash said i wasnt either, however i fully admit the crash was my fault for driving without due care and attention.

I broke my wrist and the passenger of the Vauxhall may of broken/fractured their hip bone.

Needless to say I've never felt this bad about anything before

1) For the people I crashed into
2) My pride and joy went from almost complete to a wreck in a matter of seconds
3) My wrist hurts

I'll get some pictures up of the car on Sunday when I go and check out what I can salvage.

You still going to be in the saxo scene or moving on?
I know most people after such experiences move on from Saxos :n:

Ah shit dude, this was a clean car.

not sure yet man, with the amount its going to cost with this claim i cant see myself being on the road till october :(

plus i'd rather wait and buy a fairly tidy car than rush it and spend £400 on a piece of shit that needs £1000 worth of work doing.

Truely gutted for you mate. Dan text me about it after work, hope you're okay though, at the end of the day its just some metal. Atleast you or no one else was seriously injured!

Nightmare mate. I wrote my pride and joy off 3 years ago and I was in bits with minor brain damage from the air bag so I couldn't sleep or make decisions for weeks so consider yourself lucky you have only minor injuries!

Is none of it salvageable to make some money back for yourself to help towards costs?

Cheers Grant. It's only starting to sink in that a few seconds of not paying attention has caused this. So many "What if" scenarios floating round my head. Yeh for how the car looks I was lucky to just have a broken wrist.

I know how you feel Sinque, its just a waiting game too for me too find out what the consequences are going to be. If I get 6 points I have to retake my test as I passed just over a year ago. :wall:

Ah thats not good :(
I had same thing happen but i had someone coming towards me!
Braking and turning = no no haha!

Shotgun the gaz btw;)

Yehh, never ever braked on a corner before, just one lapse of concentration and this. :(

I gotta check they are intact first, already got a few people interested so they will be up in the for sale section in a couple weeks.

No nor had i until it happened to me :(

I had to or itd been worse i think!

Ye thats fine; if not im going to buy new ones.

Yepp, i was out with my mates lastnight that came lakeside with us that time, even they were gutted for you. And i know what you mean man, i've had a few close calls just because of a moments lapse in concentration. Obviously i have no idea how the car looks though lol.. is it a headlight to windscreen style smash? If so i cant imagine the coilovers are too salveagable :n:

May be interested in your boot and doorcards though mate if it'll help you re-generate some funds!

Yeh its that kind of smash, however the coillies look in one piece from what I could see, we are going to look properly tomorrow.
It will be another week or so until I take the car apart, gotta check with insurance that they are happy for me to start removing parts.

sorry to hear bout the crash man, and well done for admitting! top man for that! whats next for you to do? you getting another saxo?

Shit sorry to hear about the crash mate.

I had a crash in my furio, in the lanes with a caravan. Fucking heart braking isn't it !

I absoloutley loved my car ! Being my first car, i spent all my time in it, cleaning it, putting little mods on it then bam, its all fucked !

You re-live it so many times its unbelieveable.

Keep your chin up mate, I was down in the dumps for 6 months, off the road for 8 due to the insurance.

All the best. Keep us updated.

Cheers guys, yeh the moment it happened is constantly going through my head.

Heres the problem: Because I broke my wrist which is a serious injury, the law states I have to go to court or at least plead guilty by post for careless driving. The minimum points for careless driving is 6.

6 points within two years of passing = test retake!

The police said that as long as the couple in the other car dont have serious injuries then they would argue that I dont deserve to have to retake my test but obviously they cant pomise anything.

The best case scenario is that I go on one of those driving improvement schemes. Worst case is 6 points, a large fine and therefore cant see myself affording a car and insurance within at least a year.

dam man, well hope all goes in your favour! TOP MAN FOR OWNING UP!!!!!

Cheers, there was no point trying to lie, the police would of figured out how the crash happened anyway. I put myself in a better position by admitting to driving without due care and attention to the first police officer to talk to me.

I didn't want to start asking for parts of your car seeing as its just happened but everyone else seems to be doing so regardless so I'd be interested in the interior haha

Ok bud, as said, give it a week or so and i'll get a for sale thread up :)

fuck dude! i know exactly how you feel as i crashed my mk4 astra sxi earlier on this year, wasn't the best car in the world but was pretty nice as i'd done quite a fair few mods to it and it was looking sweet, the alloy wheel gave way at 70 when i changed lane on the dual carriage way and i was wondering what the fuck was going on! Showed my college tutor a picture of the wheel and he said that it must have been a crack on it that was waiting to give, well needless to say it did exactly that, three 360 spins and four bollards ripped out the floor on the central reservation, 3 wheels left on and no front bumper later i ended up going backwards straight over the otherside of the dually, and down a ditch into a tree. The car tipped up twice, first time tipped sideways when the forces and speed caused the wheel that had already given way to be ripped clean off the back, with the stub axel and whole brake drum! fucking destroyed my car and shattered my confidence. Were the original wheels so no suprise it was cracked as the car was a '99.. The police saw the scene and just told me that as it was a single vehicle RTC that i would just have to scrap the car, sell bits off it and move on! I was so lucky tbh, for many reasons and by the sounds of it so were you. Just keep your chin up man, it'll be fine in the end, just be happy that your still here.

Lots of respect for you for admitting liability, and fingers crossed you'll get away with no points :y:

Was a lovely car mate, but it's only metal at the end of the day, you'll have another one soon!!

Shitter mate, but as long as everyone is still living thats all that matters, metal and plastic can be replaced

Nightmare. Actual.

Al least nobody is seriously hurt.

I know, its fucked my life up for the time being, especially if I get the 6 points and have to retake my test! :wall:

Thanks everybody for the support :y: means alot!

Just see how it pans out mate.

Nooo! absolutely gutted for you mate. You made such a tidy car :(

Ahh fuck this saddens me! I'm glad to hear you and everyone else are ok nothing serious!!

Had a lot of love for your car mate just had it looking spot on in my eyes! Let us know how it all goes and go steady with that wrist!

Thanks guys, yeah I'm happy that all I've got is a broken wrist and that the couple I crashed into arent seriously injured, could of been alot worse!

Cant help being so annoyed with myself though, poured a fair bit of cash into it, and endless hours of tinkering and cleaning!

Got some pictures of how it looks now.

I'm probably going to need to cut up the front passenger arch to get the wheel off and get to the coilovers, as you can see, its doubtful that the passenger side survived.

My drivers seat has collapsed one side, the whole dash has moved a couple inches backwards and the glovebox is now almost vertical when you reach into it. There is a dip all the way around the sunroof where the whole car has twisted slightly.
The wheel that took the impact is also kaput.




I'll be stripping the car for anything that is worth anything next week, then once I've decided whether or not I'll be eventually getting another saxo, I'll put a forsale thread up with remaining parts.

Omg josh lucky you didnt have a passenger ! Hope your alright!

I know, passenger side took most the impact!

I'm good, wrist should be out of plaster within 6 weeks. Going to ring the other driver tomorrow to ask how his Wife is, should be the most awkwards phone call of my life.

oh shit :( mannnn! So sorry to see that, was one of the nicest Saxo's i've seen in a long while and i feel so bad for you...

Hope everything goes okay mate, and hope you don't get the points and what not,

chin up!

Cheers man. I think either way, points or not, Im not going to rush into getting back on the road and buy an absolute heap. I'd rather wait a year (or more) and buy something tidy.
But yeh, words cant describe how gutted I am and angry at myself.

Needs lowering