Hi guys,
Shunted in the rear this morning, not great but hey thats life. Does this look repairable?
Mike
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:28 AM
Hi guys,
Shunted in the rear this morning, not great but hey thats life. Does this look repairable?
Mike
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:29 AM
I can't see a pic
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:36 AM
Sorry, here you go.
Mike
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:40 AM
Yup.
Hopefully it hasn't touched the subframe
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:45 AM
Thats good to hear, no hasn't touched subframe. Basically what you see in the picture, just boot and bit below. Valance is still sound.
Posted 07 March 2017 - 10:56 AM
How are you sorting it, did you get the other driver's details?
Posted 07 March 2017 - 11:02 AM
Yeah got all that sorted out, not an issue. One car into one and then them into me . But obviously insurance company have referred me to a garage but ideally looking to take it to a specialist.
Posted 07 March 2017 - 11:32 AM
Posted 07 March 2017 - 11:58 AM
Sounds straight forward. Don't blindly let your own insurers settle it and take your NCB, you'll still be stung when you have to declare the bump when you renew. Get in touch with the other party's insurers for a claim form and get some quotes and keep evidence of incidental costs, like transport while it's being fixed.
Posted 07 March 2017 - 01:31 PM
That happened to me once, much the same. Maybe about 1989. It was a big, fat Merc. He was a senior board member of the group of companies where I was working at the time. I has found a new job and handed in my notice, which he would not have known. He sent his secretary over to see me, to see if the involvement of the insurance companies could be avoided. No way was I agreeing to that! Anyway the Mini was fixed, as good as new. They fitted a new boot lid, pulled the floor edge back into shape, and fitted a repair section to the back panel, with very neat MIG seams barely detectable on the inside.
It happened because, not being a chancer (except on a clear open road perhaps...) I was waiting at a T junction to get out safely. He spotted what he thought was an adequate gap (in Merc driver's terms I assume that means giving the guy who actually has right of way sufficient time to brake!) so he accelerated his ill-handling 2-ton monstrosity hard from a few feet away into the back of a stationary Mini, with its footbrake firmly on, brake lights showing. His exact words were "I thought you had gone". What an attitude!
My Mini was not very old and the other party was very clearly 100% at fault so the car was repaired without quibble and there was no effect at all on my NCB. Insurance companies are often not so nice nowadays.
I hope all goes well for you.
Posted 10 March 2017 - 11:14 PM
Posted 11 March 2017 - 09:32 PM
We all make mistakes.
Posted 11 March 2017 - 10:25 PM
Those are all very nice Mercs. My wife and I have had a couple of 450SL convertibles and I have driven a lot of the big saloons. Before I bought my current BMW 730 I did think about an 'S-Class' Merc and they are certainly superb long-distance touring cars. The big V8 engines are wonderful.
As you say, the damage to the OP's car is not to bad and will be an easy job to straighten out. Take it to a specialist Mini body repair person.
Posted 12 March 2017 - 07:30 AM
Posted 14 March 2017 - 06:43 PM
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