turbotrev

So I've had my saff a good few years now and recently was gonna try and get to a rolling road for another power run (following on from one of my previous threads some people may of been following) but over the Christmas period things went south, badly!

I lost control of the car on some ice in awful road conditions and unfortunately wrote the car off.
I was gutted.









But the good news is the insurance paid out and I had an agreed value so this weekend just gone I managed to pick up a lovely condition Flint grey saff for sensible money so now the plan will be to swap all the running gear from the damaged one into the new car as well as some extra goodies along the way, hell I may even start a resto thread!!



Cheers Paul

Caddyshack

Hi Paul, glad you were ok after that accident, could have been a lot worse. I assume you had to buy the car back? Looks quite a mess. Were you travelling quickly?

New one looks good though.

Mark Shead

Very lucky with that impact on the door.

Mark

costina

iTrader: (1)

I feel your pain Paul i done the same about 6 years ago now.
It goes to show that proper correct insurance will pay out.
Also glad you found another my flint grey one had more damage on the pass side.

Paul

Sierrasideways

iTrader: (1)

Glad you got out of it ok. Onto bigger and better things Good luck with it!

Philip.

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

You must of been gutted.

ajamesc

No good! Bet you was glad when the insurance paid out!

turbotrev

Yeah I was fine, not a mark on me, yeah bought the car back to use all the running gear as that's where all my money has been put into really.

It was just after a corner, car span 180 and I slid backwards off the side of a road along a grass verge, think it was a 40/50 mph roughly

Cheers Paul

turbotrev

God damn trees lol

Cheers Paul

gcfcos

Wow lucky to walk away from that unscathed matey. Shame about the car but great to see u got
Another lovely example!!

turbotrev

I was so angry with myself.

In Heinz sight I prob shouldn't of taken it out that day, weather was awful, took a few weeks to finally sink in and I was extremely gutted

Cheers Paul

turbotrev

Def, I was so worried when it was all going through, I should of upped the agreed value of the car a while back to espcially as I was still spending on it but in the end I'm not too much out of pocket so not too bad, just labour and time lost really

Cheers Paul

turbotrev

I know, luckily it wasn't too fast an accident.

The new car is lovely too. So happy with it. It's not mint but nice and useable.

Time for version 2.0!

Cheers Paul

mk22door

Sorry to see this but it seems you are okay and that's what matters

stevieturbo

What insurance company ?

Honouring a policy properly and treating the owner correctly seems a rarity these days !

cossynut2

Turbotrev Car can be replaced, you are a very lucky man to crash it and not get injured which is the most important thing.
The one you have bought looks good, swap all the good parts from yours into it, sell the parts which you dont need and money wise you should do ok.

lee2cossies

iTrader: (2)

Gutted for you mate these things happen so easily, but glad there's a happy ending for you, new car looks a cracker seen it for sale.

visa_broke

as others have said at least you didn't get injured and your here to tell the tail.

Good to hear you kept the old car for spares etc, should be able to get some cash back for what you don't need to put towards the new one (nice car btw)

Adam-M

Sorry to see what's happened Paul I'd be gutted glad you got another one

turbotrev

It was equity red star via Adrian Flux, it was not straight forward to start with but I got there in the end ha ha

Cheers Paul

turbotrev

That's the plan buddy

Cheers Paul

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Trev is the back bumper of the crashed saff any good or isnit damaged? Im after a rear bumper for mine.

Rick

turbotrev

The whole ns corner of it is ripped apart Glenn



Cheers Paul

ajamesc

Are you breaking the damaged car? I'm after the door rubbing strip of the passenger front door

gcfcos

I was waiting for the questions about parts hah hah.

Caddyshack

Can I have the fire wood that you cut down?

Adam-M

New car looks good prefer it with the ambers and comp TH's, where was it advertised?

JasonPD

Wow that got proper mangled! Glad you walked away from it and got another saff. New one looks like a nice clean car too

turbotrev

I'm gonna strip it then decide what I wanna keep and what I'm gonna sell.

The new one was advertised on the radio classics fb page and then on eBay

Cheers Paul

turbotrev

Yeah, no problem ha ha

Cheers Paul

Glenn_

iTrader: (1)

Ok thanks Trev. Shame about the bumper.

furry

yeah I was bidding on it

Less.

Gutted for you crashing the car

But glad your okay and the ins paid out and you got another lovely example

1374lee

iTrader: (11)

Terrible incident Paul, bad weather and rwd is not a good mix.Glad you was ok, that's the main thing and the insurance paying out to which is great. Good news on the new car then, looks tidy Paul.Swapping everything over will keep you busy for a while.Bigger and better ey,should be fun.

CheeRS.Lee.

ray barker

im glad your ok paul what a horrible sight to see i got that awfull sinking feeling seeing the pics im not being nosey but how much did you get the agreed valuation for im in the middle of insureing the saff with the same ive put on the papper work 20.000 they havent said no yet i should be hearing from them soon i didnt no what to put im not saying that there going to except this i got to start some where any advice would be great thanks

turbotrev

I had an agreed value of 15k.
That was the value I put on the car when I got it almost 3 years ago, I should of increased it as I spent more money on it and knowing they are increasing in value but I didn't.

Bit of a schoolboy error that but with the new one I will increase that value to about 25k ish espcially as I'm gonna pump more money into the car as well.

I was quite lucky I got the new car for a fair price and once I swap all my running gear over and sell the engine and transmission from the new car I shouldn't be too far out of pocket financially

Cheers Paul

cossynut2

I have my Saff 2wd with an agreed value of £23k. I have spent a lot of money on it over the years and what you have to think is, if it was stolen or written off you have to find (in my case } one that is not rusty for a start. Then how much will it cost for engine mods, suspension,Bigger wheels/tyres,big brakes etc etc to bring it up to the same standard.I think it could cost all of the money I would get.

turbotrev

Spot on mate, that's where I fucked up. My value was way to low!

Cheers Paul

FastLife91

Hi, I'm new here.

I'm glad you got out the crash okay, I'm sorry about the car too, but glad the insurance paid you out and that you have another nice example of this car.

take care