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A brief synopsis.....
Travelling along a NSL road in my new Volvo V70 with less than 2000 miles on the clock.
A car pulls out of a junction (without looking) to go into a yard.
(That's the entrance just behind where my car came to rest)
I was doing easily circa 60mph approaching the junction.
The car was right in my path as I approached and If I hadn't of swerved to the right, whilst hard on the brakes, I would have hit it side on, no doubt wiping out the driver and injuring everyone else.
New Volvo versus 10 year old eurobox made of "spit und kleenex"
Only one winner.
Those are the people I "didn't hit"
I was in the car with my wife, young daughter and my pup.
Shook up, but no serious injuries.
There was barely a mark on their car.
If you look at my passenger door, you can see where contact was made.
Long story short.
She was prosecuted for driving without due care.
My car was repaired but was never right.
It also dropped all its coolant in the accident, warping the head.
We got it back months later.
First trip was on holiday to France.
We never made it as it blew its head gasket before I'd even made it to the M4.
Numerous faults, knocking and clunking, paint defects, terrible.
And all from a Volvo approved workshop.
Got shot of it for another new one.(at a huge loss)
It took over two years to get some compo and my insurance excess back!!!
I found these pictures whilst looking for other pictures of my old E63 AMG Mercedes estate for @salty s thread and thought they may be of interest.
How Old? (Yeah 2000 I know)
I was referring to the "one blue tit" on top of the panda car!???
Travelling along a NSL road in my new Volvo V70 with less than 2000 miles on the clock.
A car pulls out of a junction (without looking) to go into a yard.
(That's the entrance just behind where my car came to rest)
I was doing easily circa 60mph approaching the junction.
The car was right in my path as I approached and If I hadn't of swerved to the right, whilst hard on the brakes, I would have hit it side on, no doubt wiping out the driver and injuring everyone else.
New Volvo versus 10 year old eurobox made of "spit und kleenex"
Only one winner.
Those are the people I "didn't hit"
I was in the car with my wife, young daughter and my pup.
Shook up, but no serious injuries.
There was barely a mark on their car.
If you look at my passenger door, you can see where contact was made.
Long story short.
She was prosecuted for driving without due care.
My car was repaired but was never right.
It also dropped all its coolant in the accident, warping the head.
We got it back months later.
First trip was on holiday to France.
We never made it as it blew its head gasket before I'd even made it to the M4.
Numerous faults, knocking and clunking, paint defects, terrible.
And all from a Volvo approved workshop.
Got shot of it for another new one.(at a huge loss)
It took over two years to get some compo and my insurance excess back!!!
I found these pictures whilst looking for other pictures of my old E63 AMG Mercedes estate for @salty s thread and thought they may be of interest.
How Old? (Yeah 2000 I know)
I was referring to the "one blue tit" on top of the panda car!???