Skidded on some flood water, just couldnt get rid of speed before a tight corner and couldnt corner at speed i was going (30 ish i guess)

Went up kerb and into roadsign, not good.

Done in:
bumper
wheel
passenger wing
tracking


bugger, anyone breaking a dark green mondeo mk2?

 

yes u are

 

i beleive spadge has a mondeo for sale,at a good price

 

I dont want to buy a whole car, this one is in great nick otherwise, has an lpg conversion and runs sweet at a nut, just need to bolt on correctly coloured wing and bumper and it will be fine again.

 

gutted for ya m8

 

No real harm done thankfully, only thing badly damaged was my pride, PMSL

 

Did you learn from it? If so it was a lesson well learned

 

Not really sure its possible to learn from it, i was obviously going quicker than it was ideal to do in floods, but had no idea there were floods round the next bend, and i do too many miles a year to crawl around everywhere at 10mph just in case, so no i probably havent learnt a thing from it unfortunately, could still just as easily happen next week!

Road was fine when i drove down it a few hours before :S

 

At least you're honest

 

Next time set it sideways before the corner and pray

Don't worry I overshot a corner in Saph Cossie with 5 people inside - that was deadly for my pride. Especially because we were spectating a rally and I was beeing followed by a mate - racing-driver who laughed big time :-(

 

Could be a whole lot worse! Try Ebay?

 

Didnt have time to set anything up, came round bend perfectly normally unaware anything was going on, visibility was poor in the rain and screen was a bit smeary, first time i realised it was flood not just a shallow puddle was as i went to turn the next bend and nothing happened, tried applying brakes but obvioulsy that didnt nothing either so went back to trying to steer only (brkaes obviously making hte understeer worse) and managed to turn it from a head on into a glancing blow, that was best i could manage though sadly.



XRT_si, yeah will do mate, shoul cost too much, only a mondaneo so no exactly rare, just a case of making sure i find them that dont need painting.


89xr2, brutally honest as always mate, lol

 

chip-3door well bad luck then... never happened to me so far in wet but in winter I came close on couple of occasion, last time - last wendsday - braking zone before the corner with nice shiny, layer of ice... must have looked very "rallystyle" what I did...

 

Ive never had an accident like that before either, only ever had a couple of accident and they involved other road users.

Probably driven about 500,000 miles in total now, so i guess law of averages meant it had to happen sooner or later.

At least it was a relatively minor bump

 

Chip, Bad luck on the little accident..

Next door neighbour is breaking his mondeo Mk2, will check colout tomorrow as not sure if dark green or black

 

Cheers andy, much appreciated

 

What parts are you needing .. Lights etc.. or just bumper, wing and other parts

 

Just bumper and wing i think mate, lights survived luckily, and so did the bonnet

 

chip-3door my mate (rip :-() used to say that small accident every couple of uears helps to restore sense of reality and remove invulnerability missconception we all somehow manage to develope.


I only know one person that does a lot of kilometers and never had even minor accident, but I think it's sheer luck... and that something big must be coming

 

Besides you? none that I know of.

 

it was very wet last night ... i had a point where all 4 wheels were spinning in a straight line going up a slight incline ....

the black rs turbo in front of me had the same problem .. but he did the sensible thing and used his brakes .. i think

 

Eagle If we were sensible we wouldn't be here, would we?

 

Chip

Might me worth a look if you cant find a green one breaking

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-MONDEO-MK...QQcmdZViewItem

 

ermmm ... yeah i can see what you mean ... got to the end of the dual carriage way and was laughing my nuts off .. ai accelerated .. hit this small river that i thought was road and just watched the speedo increase instantly ... thought foooked if im going to brake now .. might slide and hit summit ... like the slow rs turbo in front

 

sorry to hear about the crash mate, hope you get your mondeo sorted out ok.

 

Sounds ideal, might well do that if i cant find one in the right colour breaking at the moment, thanks for that

 

unlucky chap!

 

Don't buy that Chip, I'll get down my local scrappers first thing Saturday morning and get to work

There's also a dedicated Ford breakers not that far from me, although he once told me he bought RS2k bumpers in at Ł70 a piece and that's why he was selling them at high prices

 

oh well chip thats life

glad not too serious hope you find the parts ok

 

Have you got a phone number for them?

TBH if i canget the panels new and local to me painted in the correct colour for less than a couple of hundred off that company on ebay, im probably better off doing that unless this place by you wants sensible money and has them in the right colour.
no point getting them in the wrong colour and having them painted, will cost more than those ebay ones.

 

Indeed, no point getting upset over it.

 

Which place? The Ford guy or the regular breakers?

 

Thought you'd stuffed the cossie for a minute then

At least it was only a shitty mondeo I'm sure the 3 door will bite you one day though

 

There is a place called the mondeo center in liverpool

 

The dedicated brakers, and if you could have a look in your local scrappy that would be cool.


I just phoned the ebay guy, as i thought, they are non genuine panels, which in my expierence means they probably dont fit very well!

 

Here youg o Chip:


Mally's Ford Spares
40 Burton Street Dewsbury Road
Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 5NU
Tel: (0113 276 0310)

Dunno how good he is to be honest, but I'd be surprised if he couldn't get you the bits.

Ask for prices with and without shipping, cause if it's extortion you can either get your own courier to pick up and deliver or I'll go get the bits for you and send them.

 

Oh and I'll get down the scrappy Saturday morning

 

ya cock

 

Cheers Jay, i'll see if anyone has any luck with the local scrappy's first (xrstu is looking today and im going to look tomorrow too and now you as well) and the if not i will try that guy, if he hasnt got or cant get what im after, i will give the pattern crap on ebay a go, probably fit well enough not to matter in this instance, its only a workhorse anyway, dont really care if the panel gaps are perfect or not, just cant be driving around with it stoved in

 

Yes mate, its still fine, dont panic