New (old) Owner

Arkady001

Arkady001

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Apr 2, 2013
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Iserlohn, Germany
I'm pretty sure I was a member here previously, but not according to the site records.

Just bought a replacement 2.5 V6 in Silver Frost to replace the Panther Black 2.5 V6 that I managed to write off ten days go in Belgium. A combination of crap Belgian driver and icy slush on the road, meant I became suddenly and intimately acquainted with the concrete central divide on the E40 just neat Gentbrugge.
The Airbag deployment and smashed windscreen alone meant the car was a write off, before we even started to look under the car at any possible impact damage, which judging by the alarming creaking and squealing from the passenger door, may not be merely cosmetic...

A very sad day - that car and I had done over 100k miles together since I bought her nearly ten years ago - from Scotland to Spain and from France to Poland, we've driven over most of Europe... it was like losing a member of the family...

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Anyway there are a few minor niggles with the new car which I'll be asking about over the next few weeks - all the ones on the previous car were sorted years ago and I've forgotten or lost all the references I made back then...


Good to be here... :)

Rob
 
Fair enough, I guess - once all the tech problems were squared away there wasn't much point hanging around - traffic here was a bit too slow for bantering and closed/private FB Groups seem to be taking over a lot of the social aspect of 'Forum-life'...
 
Hello Rob and welcome back.
As Al has said I've also seen your name liberally sprinkled through old posts.
Shame about the Ebony and good luck with your new Frosty.
 
Welcome Rob, sad to hear of the demise of your old cat. I know how attached you can become to a car when there are so many memories involved. Enjoy the ride with the new one (y)
 
As a bit of an 'aside', the interior shot proves add_issan's theory about the way the airbag cover moves when the airbag depolys.
 
Well it meant the car's a goner because of it - that's at least €3,500 damage (over here) just from the airbag and windscreen damage alone...

At least the heated screen on the 'new' car actually works - that old one was down to about three 3" 'stripes' - all in the wrong place...lol
 
add_issan said:
Yep, it was also mentioned by JJ before me, but that's exactly how i thought it would deploy.. :)
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Well, if nothing else, I learned the one place you don't want to be is inside a car when this happens - I could barely breathe on account of the acrid smoke blasted out by the propellant charges - it's like being inside a firework when it goes off... zero visibility in an instant. I'm really glad the Mrs and my 2-year old daughter weren't in the car with me on that trip. I could't wait to get out of the car it was so bad...
I also got flash-burns across the backs of both hands as the driver's air-bag has small vent-holes at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions to allow the gasses to escape.
It really sucks...
 
Given the potential alternative though I'd still rather risk the airbag burns!!! Glad you came out of it ok though dude never nice to be in a car accident.

The car as sad as its demise is can be replaced you can't :)


JJ
 
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