MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
Location: Crowthorne Drives: Veccy SRI
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To cut a long story short, someone drove into me 3 weeks ago, and smashed the bumper & spoiler on my vectra, claimed off insurance & had a repair approved as being their fault.
Booked it into the bodyshop for tues this week (having not driven it for 3 weeks) and took it down on Tues morning, only problem being there is a ford just around the corner from the bodyshop, I've driven through it loads of times before just fine, must have been a bit deeper recently!
Anyway:
It's a write off, needing a runabout urgently to get to work next week, any Ideas? Happy to spent just over £1k if its decent, just hope ed doesn't sell his corsa today or I'll have that!
Mike
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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i coulda told you cars dont float without you going to all that trouble mate
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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Sorry mate but 
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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pmsl
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
Location: Hammersmith
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doh, that looks really deep, did the water start coming inside the car?
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Rob_Lee
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Registered: 9th Dec 05
Location: Folkestone Drives: Nova 1.6 16v
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Originally posted by CorsAsh
Sorry mate but
Harsh but fair!
Should have hit it at speed... would have gone straight through..... not!
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MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
Location: Crowthorne Drives: Veccy SRI
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Yeah, Water came up to the seats, had to climb out the window
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
Location: Hammersmith
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeLamb
Yeah, Water came up to the seats, had to climb out the window
did you not think, hmm there seems to be some water near my feet maybe i should reverse.
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MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
Location: Crowthorne Drives: Veccy SRI
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quote:
Originally posted by Reedy
quote:
Originally posted by MikeLamb
Yeah, Water came up to the seats, had to climb out the window
did you not think, hmm there seems to be some water near my feet maybe i should reverse.
Water didnt come until well after the car stalled..
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Linch
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Registered: 4th May 06
Location: Whickham, Tyne and Wear
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unlucky mate, looked like a smart vectra, shame.
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
Location: Hammersmith
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeLamb
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Originally posted by Reedy
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Originally posted by MikeLamb
Yeah, Water came up to the seats, had to climb out the window
did you not think, hmm there seems to be some water near my feet maybe i should reverse.
Water didnt come until well after the car stalled..
then it was poo it time
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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OMFG, and i though i was stupid
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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Originally posted by Andrew
OMFG, and i though i was stupid
Doesn't alter the fact you are though 
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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Originally posted by CorsAsh
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Originally posted by Andrew
OMFG, and i though i was stupid
Doesn't alter the fact you are though
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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No it doesn't 
I got told I was an intelligent guy yesterday  And got accepted to do a masters. I think they just want my money
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chris-sri
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Registered: 3rd Apr 05
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Oops! Oh well we live and learn
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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why is it a write off anyway? did you not think to stop when it started getting deep?
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Fonz
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Registered: 12th May 06
Location: Newbury, Berks
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob_Lee
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Harsh but fair!
Should have hit it at speed... would have gone straight through..... not!
tsunami!!!
thats tough but still funny for the rest of us!
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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..........................
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Mark330d
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Registered: 25th Apr 06
Location: Netherlee, Glasgow City
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Reminds me of a ford up my way where this happened
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MikeLamb
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Registered: 23rd Sep 03
Location: Crowthorne Drives: Veccy SRI
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
why is it a write off anyway? did you not think to stop when it started getting deep?
Didnt notice how deep it was.. until it cut out & it was too late..
Just bought a 1.9 D-Turbo 306 until this is sorted out
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chris-sri
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Registered: 3rd Apr 05
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quote:
Originally posted by Mark330d
Reminds me of a ford up my way where this happened
That's not a Ford that's a fcuking river
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Jonny P
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Registered: 11th Dec 04
Location: Merseyside Drives: Civic Type R EP3
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quote:
Originally posted by chris-sri
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Originally posted by Mark330d
Reminds me of a ford up my way where this happened
That's not a Ford that's a fcuking river
thats a Ford in a River
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Bez_SXi
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Registered: 24th Sep 05
Location: West Mids
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Originally posted by Jonny P
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Originally posted by chris-sri
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Originally posted by Mark330d
Reminds me of a ford up my way where this happened
[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/craigy3/river2.jpg[IMG]
That's not a Ford that's a fcuking river
thats a Ford in a River
That's a rather nice looking Ford in a river
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gavin18787
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Registered: 22nd Feb 05
Location: Basildon, Essex
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i loved your car. I remember playing PS2 in it at pvs
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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