[928uk] Nightmare Scenario... advice

Sun Jul 11 15:11:16 BST 2004

Scott,

Bad luck on damaging your car, as Graham said most of us have all been there
and it is very depressing to have damage your pride and joy.

A bit of advice as to the insurance,please make sure that the insurance
company are aware that no matter what their verdict as to the cost of repair
i.e. uneconomical to repair. State that you want to keep the car and do not
let them take the car to any of thier storage facilitys etc.

This is because due to the incredible cost of the panels etc from Porsche
the amount could easily exceed the value of the car and it will be deemed a
write of. If you don't state that you want first refusal it will be disposed
of through an insurance salvage auction.

I have repaired a 93 s4 that had nothing more than a damaged rear pu/lights
and bumper bar that had been written off this way due to high cost of parts
and unavailability of rear pu's. Car was paid out to owner at 10k with the
owner bieng able to buy back thye "salvage" at 10%. The car cost around 2k
to put right using second hand parts(high due to most of the other scabby
areas of paint bieng repaired at the same time) so the owner came out with a
nice piece of money to play with .

If it helps i have all the parts needed and also a good bodyshop who can do
the work.

Chin up,

Paul.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manning, Graham" <graham.manning at tso.co.uk>
To: "Walker, Scott" <SWalker at ndsuk.com>; <928uk at 928.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [928uk] Nightmare Scenario... advice

> Hi Scott,
>
> I'm really sorry to hear your news. Many of us will have been there, and
we've all said "If only I hadn't done that..."
>
> It sounds like the bodywork could repair, even if it isn't cheap, and the
lights are probably just a dislodged connector. It'd be worth checking the
bulbs, as once the filament is hot it can fracture with the slightest knock.
>
> Keep your chin up!
> Graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walker, Scott [mailto:SWalker at ndsuk.com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 1:42 AM
> To: 928uk at 928.org.uk
> Subject: [928uk] Nightmare Scenario... advice
>
>
> Guys,
>
> The kind of thing that you wake up from, pinch yourself and say "thank God
that's only a bad dream!" has happened to me for real this evening.
>
> I've bent my pride & joy.
>
> On 2 corners.
>
> Entirely my fault. No other cars involved.
>
> I was just taking it for a 'dry-off' drive this evening before putting it
to bed in the garage, having been caught during the day in the heavy
showers. Just a quick run from my house, up the neighbouring
dual-carriageway, around the motorway junction roundabout, and back home.
>
> But leaving the roundabout to return homeward (with cold tyres and wet
road, and a downhill off-camber exit road) I applied power just a little too
early & the back end swung round ferociously-quickly. I came off the gas &
applied opposite lock but the car didn't want to come round. It just pointed
its nose at the nearside 'armco' barrier & (after sliding for a while)
bounced off the barrier. Then it decided to grip at the front & snapped me
back the other way so quickly that the rear whipped round glancing the
barrier too at the rear nearside corner. By this stage I'd reversed the lock
& stood on the anchors as I "skated" off toward the central reservation
(grass - no barrier). The car finally stopped, all 4 wheels on the central
reservation, pointing back up the road that I'd just come down (in fact,
pointing a bit toward the barrier - between 180 & 270 degrees rotation).
Engine still running.
>
> I couldn't see anything horrendous from the driver's seat, so I drove off
down the road a little way to a safe lay-by.
>
> I guess a crash-repair shop would call it "light front corner damage". It
looks awful to me. The nearside corner of the PU, including the fog/driving
light unit and the adjoining front edge of the wing is just squashed flat at
the angle that I hit the barrier. The headlight has partially popped up
(lights were was down) and lens has shattered. There's a small crease in the
wing at the top of the wheelarch. The front chin spoiler is just about
hanging on at the corner. Bonnet is okay.
> At the rear there is a single crease running along the back half of the
rear wing and into the rear PU just below the rear light cluster. Light
cluster is intact, but both tail lights seem to have been knocked out of
action.
> The car drives okay, and there's no damage in the engine bay.
>
> I drove home and mourned for a while. I tried pinching myself. My car
still looks ugly. On one side. Bugger.
>
> Okay - onto the bit you guys can help with (sorry for the long rant
above). Insurance. I rang Heritage (its on a classic policy). Answering
machine tells me "phone during office hours, Mon-Fri". I left a message
anyway, saying 'I'd goofed'.
> Can anyone tell me what the usual procedure is? Do I need to report the
incident to the police? Do I just wait 'till Monday morning, & ring
Heritage?
> Do I just get them to send an assessor down to look at the car? The 'scene
of the crime' too? (The skid marks in the grass won't last for long!)
>
> Can anyone guesstimate what kind of repair bill I'm looking at here? Car
is a 1991 GT in midnight blue metallic.
>
> Nominal car value I gave Heritage was 12K GBP. I never did get round to
doing the "agreed value" thing by sending off loads of signed & dated photos
etc.
>
> Any advice or cheery comments welcome...
>
> Scott '91 GT (v.sad)
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