Bye Bye Escort

[Flesh Gordon]

Last Saturday morning heading to work for 8am

 

went onto roundabout, that was wet and greasy

turned into the bend. back of the car lost all grip tried turning into it made no difference

 

hit the brakes to try stop it, that turned the car 180 degrees facing opposite way

still going sideways I hit the kerb drivers wheel first and landed on the embankment

1 metre from a lampost and not much further from the river below me

 

I got lucky, that roundabout is notorious

few years ago same thing happenend to a mother and daughter

but when they hit the kerb the car flipped and landed in the river

 

 

(not my exact trajectory, best I could do with ms paint in 1 min)

 

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/roundabout2.jpg

 

 

I was alright. thumb was a bit sore

got a lift to work from the guy behind me who stopped off and waited

called out the recovery company cause Quinn Direct don't cover accidents in their useless breakdown cover

 

 

had the car taken a local independent garage who've a crash repair centre and motorfactors in the same park

 

 

I was quoted €900 in total to get it running again

it needs

 

- 2x new wishbines

- anti roll bar (have a spare set)

- new shock absorber

- drive shaft

- 2x rear wheel bearings

- alternator belt

- tie rod

- new brake line (reservoir empty)

 

- new front bumper

- fog light

- rear bumper ( needed before hand)

- repair to front quarter panel

 

 

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/DSC01621.jpg

 

Doesn't shut properly

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/DSC01622.jpg

 

everything looks squashed together

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/DSC01625.jpg

 

buckled alloy top left - wheel pushed in

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/DSC01627.jpg

 

 

hard to see anything underneath

http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll42/The-Lumber-Maid/other%20cars/crash%20damage/DSC01631.jpg

 

 

 

seriously thinking of scrapping the thing but keeping most of the parts for the future when I can afford to restore a 3dr Escort from the ground up

 

didn't have the cash to repair everything in one go

so I was only patching one thing and hoping something else didn't break

 

tax was just up at end of March, which over here is stupidly expensive - €125 for 3 months

it needed an NCT ( our mot but a lot stricter) since jan 09'

 

and it needed a cat and new ICV

that and the fact the engine was only still running as I'd added steel seal when I started to get heavy white smoke and coolant loss

[danposs86]

Sometimes it just makes more sense to get a new car and swap the parts over.

[Flesh Gordon]

Sometimes it just makes more sense to get a new car and swap the parts over.

 

definitely, I bought that one cheap knowing it had a few problems

but at the time I was making about twice as much so could have fixed it up in 3 months

 

only had it since last July but since then so much went wrong

 

- new indicator stalk after lights stopped working

- 300mm brakes due to original discs warping

- new master cylinder - brakes totally failed after 300mm conversion

- new thermostat and housing

- speedo didn't work - cable snapped twice

 

probably a few other things too I'll remember later

 

 

that car will always remind me of the trampoline homer bought off krusty

 

I always wanted a white one anyway, resprayed in either S15 or Lambo pearl white so I'll keep the parts for that

think I'll go jap for the next car though, buy and sell a few civics, build up some cash

Edited March 24, 2010 by Flesh Gordon

[shawdreamer]

similiar accident killed my ST in 03........ the roundabout that got me is on a blacklisted road with a accident of one sort or another 3 times a week and a fatal atleast every 18monthes (god knows why they havnt changed the road layout).

 

I came round the roundaboput at about 25mph and my rear wheels went across diesel residue from a crash the night before and I 180'd, hit kerb side on and rolled 3.5 times down a embankment, through a fence and ended up upside down in the field (funnily enough when the recovery truck righted the car it had been sat on the remains of a caravan from ANOTHER accident)

 

the sideways slide was so slow Im pretty sure I coulda hopped out if Id thought on and I couldnt have hit the kerb at over 15mph, turned out both wheels struck at the same time with just enough force to tip the car....after that gravity had some fun with me

[Haych]

Crikey unlucky

[Ratspeed]

Very similar accident also killed my RS1800 too. Lost the back end, ended up 180. but then i got entered by an astra