[b]wrote off my r19!!!!!!!![/b]

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

Check this out...
Hit a lampost and sign at 50 when kicking out sideways!
I'm lucky to walk away and my partner's seatbelt didnt work so she hit the windscreen, she is fine but both are a bit shocked!
The dampers on the car blew so as I breaked at a roundabout at the end of a dual carriageway we just skidded sideways and SMASH!!!!!

Have pics if anyone wants them... just ask!
They wont fit on the site.

edgesdesigns@aol.com

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

sorry to hear you had an accident mate ,glad you and your partner are allright .

were you aware that the dampers were gone or did it just happen before the accident ?
god i drove with two blown rear dampers for 50miles than realised they were knackard .
can send me the pictures if you want me to post them on here
evrenfencioglu@hotmail.com

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

found out about the dampers 2 days before because the tread on one of the front tyres was worn away to the steel on the inside,
wouldnt have even known about that unless my girl (jess) had bought me some nice green underlights...
thank god she did or we would have had a blow out aswell!

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

underlights? Confused

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

yeah some nice green neons, i was doing a really good job of blinging up the car, gold alloys, vynl, blue paint job, good ice, arch lights and the underlights would have been the final touch,
im gutted

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

Spammer Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 5717

looks really bad ,you must be gratefull to be fine out of this car

its a ph1 valver i believe????

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

thats almost exactly like Mad Pierre's old phase 1.

Site Subscriber Joined: 23 Jan 2005 Posts: 502

You have to keep it on the road mate.

Better to put money into dampers tyres and running gear than silly flashing lights.

Think about the wet-wear to trotter link, these are fast cars.

Good to hear there were no serious injurys.

But

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

well we'd already bought the lights and didnt know about the dampers so not as if we chose lights instead of shocks...

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

oop, yes it is a ph1 16 valver

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

Wow....good dent....

could probably measure the diameter of the lampost from that dent!

Gutted for you tho, musthave been scarey and also pissed you off loosing your car....

ah well, chin up, get on ebay, theres plenty of cheap 19s to pick up.

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

it's the poor lamp post i feel sorry for, i mean come on!
there it is, standing there all innocent like when this mad R19 driver comes hurtling into it without so much as a by your leave . . .

Arch Lights and Neons - thank God the car got wrote off before that happened to it, fate worse than being written off that is.

on a more light hearted note, glad to hear the pair of you are ok Smile

Level 10 User Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 614

Yep just like mine. I only got two outside pic's before the cam died. But now it give you a idea the mess I made.

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

hahahaha thanks 4 that! lol

oh and about picking up a cheap 19 to replace it...

did that a while ago, bought a 19 chamade in white on ebay for 112 quid,
bargain! only had 84,000 miles on it, thought i could use it for spares if something went on the engine but looks like we'll be pulling remains off the blue one instead!!! lol

thanks for ur heartfelt sympathies tho guys! lol

Site Subscriber Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 2281

Shame to hear about your accident mate, glad your okay. Well guess that's another 19 to the big scrapheap in the sky!

Level 10 User Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 614

Have you had any internal whiplash pain's. ? I did for about a week. Found it hard to breathe at times. Mine was into a traffic light at around the same speed. The car came two a full stop into about one foot in length

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

yeah sounds like pretty much the same sort of crash, do you know what caused it?

i've had bad chest pains when i sneeze and cough and things since but i dont like the nhs, itll heal on its own lol! only had a bit of a graze on my arm apart from that, feel very lucky really,
jess had lots of glass to pick out of her head, she did most of it at the roadside and then i got the rest out when we got home, she also cut a lot of her hair on the glass so shes a bit self-conscious about it at the moment, she has a short spikey bit at the front but the rest of her hair is really long and wavy, bit of a contrast...
ambulance said we didnt need to go to the hospital,

Level 10 User Joined: 18 Jun 2004 Posts: 614

I lost it doing around 70-80 mph on a bend. just before the light's. I only just fitted the 17's with new tyre's. and only done 23 mile's 'on them.

Newbie Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 19

ooooooch, not fun,