Robert SausageTrousers
Nurburgring
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- 2 Apr 2018
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So my Porsche dream has ended in absolute disaster
A few weeks into ownership, completely loving each and every second of driving it and looking at it on my drive, a few nights ago I was pootling out of the village I live in a few hundred meters away from my house, went over a mini roundabout and a holiday maker in front of me in a 07 mondeo slammed his breaks on having missed the turning he wanted on the roundabout, and bang, I went into the back of him. I swerved so just caught the offside corner of his bumper, taking out my headlight, bumper, wing and bonnet. I've just had a call from the garage to say that it's uneconomic to repair as the chassis leg was damaged
I've been driving 22 years, never had a bump, 3 weeks into dream car ownership and bang, wrote my 911 off doing 10-15mph on a mini roundabout
Now I've just got to hope I get a decent offering from my Insurance company, I've no experience in this but would hope that as I'd only bought the car recently I should be able to argue to get the full price I paid for it back. The trouble with that is that it took me months to find the right spec/colour car, I travelled to Yorkshire to pick it up as it was so perfect. It was immaculate with a peach of an engine with all the work done (IMS etc), tracker, 4 previous owners, new brakes/discs all round, new air con rads etc etc. At £15.5k it was frankly a bit of a bargain, finding another with the same spec/condition could be pretty much impossible, let alone for the money I managed to buy the last one for
A few weeks into ownership, completely loving each and every second of driving it and looking at it on my drive, a few nights ago I was pootling out of the village I live in a few hundred meters away from my house, went over a mini roundabout and a holiday maker in front of me in a 07 mondeo slammed his breaks on having missed the turning he wanted on the roundabout, and bang, I went into the back of him. I swerved so just caught the offside corner of his bumper, taking out my headlight, bumper, wing and bonnet. I've just had a call from the garage to say that it's uneconomic to repair as the chassis leg was damaged
I've been driving 22 years, never had a bump, 3 weeks into dream car ownership and bang, wrote my 911 off doing 10-15mph on a mini roundabout
Now I've just got to hope I get a decent offering from my Insurance company, I've no experience in this but would hope that as I'd only bought the car recently I should be able to argue to get the full price I paid for it back. The trouble with that is that it took me months to find the right spec/colour car, I travelled to Yorkshire to pick it up as it was so perfect. It was immaculate with a peach of an engine with all the work done (IMS etc), tracker, 4 previous owners, new brakes/discs all round, new air con rads etc etc. At £15.5k it was frankly a bit of a bargain, finding another with the same spec/condition could be pretty much impossible, let alone for the money I managed to buy the last one for