R.I.P My VT :(

[FstStig]

Hey Guys,

Was driving home from a Friends place yesterday when I hit an oil patch and the back end swung out. The road was to narrow and wet to bring it back, so into the clay wall i went. I managed to swing it so the front end went in and not the sides. I was only doing 40ks in the 60zone as i knew it was really wet and was going up a hill. Will post pictures when i get home. At a mates place at the moment as i had about 9 Jim Beams to help with it all last night

I would say its a complete write off Air bags went off, so they will need to be replaced, but from what i understand the whole interior dash needs to be replaced?

Pics will be up soon

Cheers

Mumbo

[fuzzy2308]

waiting for pix. ya got insurance?

[Troy711]

I hope you were not wearing your army uniform..

Hard luck dude, but atleast you are ok. I'm sure something bigger and better is around the corner for you

[FAT.36L]

Ouch man as troy said, as long as your all good and well

I bet you spewing you didnt even get to mod it

[PaulSV6]

Damn, tats hard luck. At least ur ok.

[Morton]

That's tough man. I had a bingle in my VP on an oily road in the rain. Dead straight line, the car just rotated and left the road.

Hope it's repairable

[FstStig]

Thanks guys, Yeah I'm ok just a few cuts and red mark where the air bag hit me and also abit of Whip Lash. Morton yes that's excat same situation that happened to me. People have been saying you could of gotten out of it. Those people have no idea how bad the road was nor driven a rear wheel drive before.

Fat.36L I only got the 2.5" red back exhaust on it and that was it Going back out to where i got it towed to tomorrow to have another look and hope i can get it back here. Praying for the best that i can get it repaired Left my camera at my mates place, so pics will be coming tomorrow. Sorry for the delay

[S.O.S]

You're safe that's the bets thing, you can always buy another car bro.

[HamaTime™]

Hopefully insurance comes through. Get another sweet car.

Hard luck dude, the weather and conditions can be mean to us at times.

[chevy_big_block_bro]

Thats too bad mate

I hit an oil patch today around a roundabout and its so sudden even at low speeds.

Not your fault so insurance will see you in a nice ride soon.

[Low_VX_Taxi]

Hard luck, hope it turns out for the best, had similar situation with an oil patch....

Lotsa nice cars on the market at the moment too

[h0Ld3n`VN]

this happened to me too.. i saw a vr/vs wagon all smashed n i was wondering why it happened.. i drove abit more down the road "stoped" then turned right to a main road and there was oil everywhere i slidd but controled it , that explained the vr

[tivoom]

Shit me that's so ****ed hope it all works out for you the roads up here are so bad after the dust storm and that stint of hot weather there have been some big acco's around keep as up to date with what's going on

[chevy_big_block_bro]

post some pics of your handy work

[Vee-ard]

seems to me that there's a lot of oil on the road these days...

[h0Ld3n`VN]

probley from hyundai excels that blown up during cruises ;D

[Keepleft]

Drive to conditions people, pure and simple.

YES, a Commodore without ESP can be light in the tail, so can older Porsche 911's etc, - you compensate.

[FstStig]

Mate if you had any idea of what the road was like and the condition you would no one could of gotten out of the slide. Almost every car that was stopped then tried to take off was spinning the wheels trying to get some kind of traction. The Car is now back here and I will be stripping it for parts. There is a Statesmen next door that has just had the motor ceased up, so i might take the gearbox and motor out of the VT and put it into the Statesmen.

Keepleft why did you have to make a stupid comment like you did. I was the only one hurt and damaged. No one else was. I agree with FAT.36L you are a wanker!

[FstStig]

Yeah well HWP didn't attend. I wasn't hurt badly, I was the only one involved and I'm not that stupid to have the cops called just because i totaled my car. You are right I' am always responsible as the driver, but when you car hits an oil spot in the wet then there is nothing you can do once it goes into that slide, not in the narrow street i was in anyways!

[Low_VX_Taxi]

Drive to conditions people, pure and simple.

YES, a Commodore without ESP can be light in the tail, so can older Porsche 911's etc, - you compensate.

I understand where you are coming from however its not the rain on the roads rather the oil that caused an accident.

Ask yourself one exceedingly SIMPLE question: HOW MANY other drivers of the same make 'made it', without crashing?? Then consider my statement.

I love it how people can say "well no one else hit the oil" maybe because people take a different position on the roads with their vehicle especially when entering corners, The fact that you hit it firstand dispersed the oil slick or simply just sheer bloody luck (be it good or bad)

OP soldier, you are not meant to take offence, but understand this, REGARDLESS of on-road conditions, at l.a.w - you ARE always responsible for your actions. Crashes don't just 'happen', if HWP attend, then usually a Neg Drive fine will result.

Neg driving charges for single person accidents are generally bullcrap and nothing but revenue raising.

You can be the best driver in the world and have situations that are out of your control but unless you can prove it was the fault of another party (RTA or another driver) it is negligent driving..... how is that not just revenue raising?

[levymetal]

*sigh* looks like you can't post anything here any more without someone starting some sort of argument.

the main thing is that you're ok mumbo, that's all that matters. cars are replaceable, time to upgrade

[NORTI]

Yeah well HWP didn't attend. I wasn't hurt badly, I was the only one involved and I'm not that stupid to have the cops called just because i totaled my car. You are right I' am always responsible as the driver, but when you car hits an oil spot in the wet then there is nothing you can do once it goes into that slide, not in the narrow street i was in anyways!

I had a single person accident a couple months ago, & I got into a fair bit of drama with my insurance company, one of the things was because I didnt file a police report on the accident, like you I didnt think it was worth the police's time. However the insurance insisted I had to go in & file the report, & then get hit with a fine.

[holdenhero]

aaah man, hate hearing stuff like this. sorry dude!

[FstStig]

Here are the Pics











Thanks for everyone's concern. I now need to move on and start to strip the car and start selling it for parts. Back to the drawing board

[Keepleft]

Mumboman:-

Is this near Copacabana???