I just wrecked my car........

[sawtooth]

This is unbelievable, I arrive at the golf course today and I pull in greeted by smiles by my golfing partners. Found a car park space and get out of the car. Car starts rolling I try to get back in but too late. Car rolls down the grass bank and comes to rest against a tree. Window goes through on passenger side and I get in and move the car down to the lower car park. I get out and I cant believe the amount of damage to the passenger side of the car.

It looks like my car has been in a high speed crash, you wouldnt of thought that it just rolled a few metres down a bank!!!

 

[Aztecs27]

! Sorry to hear that mate! Unbelievable!

 

[sawtooth]

Shocked is the right word to describe how I felt when I saw the damage. I feel like crying.....

What are cars made of today? Tin foil?

 

[stevie_r]

Shocked is the right word to describe how I felt when I saw the damage. I feel like crying.....

What are cars made of today? Tin foil?

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I feel like crying for you mate

 

[bladeplayer]

Push button handbrakes are a bloody joke mate , nasty knock & will cost a few bob , needs new wing & door , its a full door on them aswell not a skin, feck it any way . unfortunatly with the drive for fuel effiency & light weight bodys the stuff just isnt in them , my sympathys mate but feck it, if it had hit someone & hurt them & car was ok you could feel worse , just trying to see a far distant positive ..

 

[USER1999]

Have your mates stopped laughing yet?

Bad luck.

Are you insured if no one is driving?

 

[harvey4banger]

A V dub too, they are normally well built

 

[sawtooth]

cheers bladeplayer it could be worse . nobody hurt I know what you mean. And spot on I tried to get it to touch the brake button but I didnt want to run the risk of it going pear shaped even more and it running me over!!!

Murph I'm insured but its totally my fault since no third party involved whatsoever. Protected no claims but wait for it.......excess £450 and if that isnt enough I'm getting a C2 courtesy car until my car is fixed. They wanted to give me a 2 door. lol I couldnt even put my clubs in the boot so they will have to go in the back seats. As for trolley, I think I will be walking for a few weeks.

 

[Oddsocks]

Have your mates stopped laughing yet?

Bad luck.

Are you insured if no one is driving?

cruel sod!

 

[CMAC]

as a kid I used to wonder why cars werent made of the same metal my toy cars were? I could throw them against a brick wall with hardly a scratch (yes I didn't play cars properly), only with adult 'wisdom' do I realise the full scale model would weigh about 65 tonnes:rofl:

shame about your -light- car, but no-one hurt and that's what insurance is for......accidents

 

[USER1999]

Ouch. Excess is always a painful business. Just before xmas too.

Bad luck.

 

[CallawayKid]

Oh not good mate, bet you won't do that again.

Remember, gravity never takes a day off!

CK

 

[stevie_r]

but to get back to the important stuff - how was your round?

 

[sawtooth]

but to get back to the important stuff - how was your round?

My playing partners were great they never fell about laughing at all, probably did after I drove off......I would have.

I couldnt play like that with the car in that state and window out so I drove home to add to the misery.

I'll look back and laugh at this but not for a while.....ouch it hurts.

Hopefully get out tomorrow in the C2 to make up for it all.

 

[CallawayKid]

Hopefully get out tomorrow in the C2 to make up for it all.

At least you're all set with a buggy, you won't need a trolley... :clap:

CK

 

[Monty_Brown]

If it was made by Ping you could send it back and they'd repair it free of charge!

Rotten luck... hope some good comes your way before Xmas to redress the balance.

 

[19thagain]

Re what are they made of?
I was on way to work one morning and the gentleman in front of me driving a Ford car allowed the young lady, waiting to drive across our lane, an opportunity to go by gently pulling up and waving her out. I was pulling up behind when I looked in my mirror and saw this Rolls bearing down on my tail, with last nights port still showing on the drivers face.
I swang in towards the kerb but the little stones at the roadside meant I skidded slightly and I caught the nearside rear light of the Ford with my offside front light.

The Rolls Royce ended up along side me with the driver looking at me as if to say 'Why did you do that, Boy?'

Anyway the Ford light cover cost pennies but I required a new front grill, offside wing and a new door!!

Bully beef body, the car not me, I fancy!!

 

[thecraw]

Its a lump of metal. No one was injured or killed. These things happen and that's what insurance is for.

 

[JustOne]

Sorry to read about your misfortune.

When you kept saying your driving was crap I thought you meant............





Chin up, it's just a car and £450!,... you'll earn more. Forget it and have a good Chrimbo!

 

[Crow]

I'll second that those automatic handbrakes are a pile of ****.

Same thing happened on my Passatt, though not quite so dramatically. Stopped at Corley Services, bent down to get some rubbish out the passenger footwell and while filling a dustbin bag (I'm a sales rep) there was a bump, the car had rolled across the lane and into another parked car.

I've since worked out how it does it, on mine at least:
If you drive up to stop, but before the car has fully stopped you pop out your seatbelt, the automatic brake will not engage, no matter how many times you press the footbrake.

Serious design fault if you ask me and I'll be speaking to VW when I go for the next service. No doubt it's covered in the small print of the manual though.