...Well guys I've not had the heart to do this until now so apologies it is late.
As the majority of members here know i was very active on here, setting up meets, getting involved etc. Now i have not been on this forum for quite a while as i kept trying to put what happened behind me and ultimatley seeing everyone's cars made me miss mine more.
On the 22nd November 2016 at approx 23.45 i was involved in a serious RTA just minutes from my house, coming back from the gym. If anyone remembers that was the cold patch we had and subsequently the rain that had been coming down had frozen over resulting in the formidable black ice.
Mid corner the back of my car decided to try to overtake the front (the majority of you know also i know how to drive my/a car in general) and all i remember is aiming for the tree away from the parked cars and then hitting it pretty much head on.
This was the result...
Will let that sink in.
So you might be thinking how is he alive or even what the hell happened to me? Well after coming to a stop i opened the door and sat on the floor. The door would not actually close afterwards so i have no idea how i opened it.
Now imagine your family had been informed that you had been in an accident, they arrive and they see the car before they see you. Don't want to know what they thought at the time.
Anywhoo there's not much to tell you about my injuries as someone was looking over me and i have nothing to report apart from the doctors face at the hospital when my mate showed him those pictures.
Now to the cheery more pleasant part. I now had to find a new car. I thought for a week or two and debating about what to get often going back to the car i originally had my eyes on. So a trip to the local VW garage was in order to see what deal i could get. At this point i was not so pushy as i had no car so wanted my convenience and freedom back...i hate asking for lifts.
So dealer came back to me and said they have a Golf Gti with the spec i wanted ready to go. After a brief discussion he came to me and said he has a cancelled order on a Golf R with the extras that i wanted in the same colour etc.
At this point there was a 6 month waiting list for an R and this was 2 weeks from being delivered to its owner when he cancelled. The R was give or take £10k more expensive than the Gti so i declined.
He spoke to his manager and after a full day of negotiations i more than halved the price difference and put down a deposit on a 65 plate 0 mile White Golf R 5 Door DSG with plenty of options.
Now all i had to do was get insurance in the two weeks i had before the car was delivered...i really should have thought about that before i bought the car. And too make it even worse they took me upstairs to show me it when I put the deposit down...
After somehow finding insurance which believe me was hard at my age with 6 points and a written off car but anyways I got to the collection day.
Took it home and briefly took more pics albeit not great ones...
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After a detail Polish and wax from the best in the business...
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/9798ca491b0ac5a346501004140334cf.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/eb0c56f8d9918b9e83f969a8a401bcc4.jpg
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So that's my story. Hope you've enjoyed the long read. It starts off bad but ends nicely. I currently have mods planned out to up power to 400 from 300 and some other bits as you all know i get carried away with mods.
I loved the Honda and I loved the support on here along with all of our meets that we had even meeting Steve's son! What a petrol head he will be.
Thanks guys and I hope to see you at meets and you'll have to forgive me being the German but I promise not to park anywhere near you guys [emoji1]
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As the majority of members here know i was very active on here, setting up meets, getting involved etc. Now i have not been on this forum for quite a while as i kept trying to put what happened behind me and ultimatley seeing everyone's cars made me miss mine more.
On the 22nd November 2016 at approx 23.45 i was involved in a serious RTA just minutes from my house, coming back from the gym. If anyone remembers that was the cold patch we had and subsequently the rain that had been coming down had frozen over resulting in the formidable black ice.
Mid corner the back of my car decided to try to overtake the front (the majority of you know also i know how to drive my/a car in general) and all i remember is aiming for the tree away from the parked cars and then hitting it pretty much head on.
This was the result...
Will let that sink in.
So you might be thinking how is he alive or even what the hell happened to me? Well after coming to a stop i opened the door and sat on the floor. The door would not actually close afterwards so i have no idea how i opened it.
Now imagine your family had been informed that you had been in an accident, they arrive and they see the car before they see you. Don't want to know what they thought at the time.
Anywhoo there's not much to tell you about my injuries as someone was looking over me and i have nothing to report apart from the doctors face at the hospital when my mate showed him those pictures.
Now to the cheery more pleasant part. I now had to find a new car. I thought for a week or two and debating about what to get often going back to the car i originally had my eyes on. So a trip to the local VW garage was in order to see what deal i could get. At this point i was not so pushy as i had no car so wanted my convenience and freedom back...i hate asking for lifts.
So dealer came back to me and said they have a Golf Gti with the spec i wanted ready to go. After a brief discussion he came to me and said he has a cancelled order on a Golf R with the extras that i wanted in the same colour etc.
At this point there was a 6 month waiting list for an R and this was 2 weeks from being delivered to its owner when he cancelled. The R was give or take £10k more expensive than the Gti so i declined.
He spoke to his manager and after a full day of negotiations i more than halved the price difference and put down a deposit on a 65 plate 0 mile White Golf R 5 Door DSG with plenty of options.
Now all i had to do was get insurance in the two weeks i had before the car was delivered...i really should have thought about that before i bought the car. And too make it even worse they took me upstairs to show me it when I put the deposit down...
After somehow finding insurance which believe me was hard at my age with 6 points and a written off car but anyways I got to the collection day.
Took it home and briefly took more pics albeit not great ones...
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/4f024c24456461b16646280bdba0ba8a.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/e01ec38e8859901684cdaecef8483b57.jpg
After a detail Polish and wax from the best in the business...
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/9798ca491b0ac5a346501004140334cf.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/eb0c56f8d9918b9e83f969a8a401bcc4.jpg
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160514/0e3b69df628318b624e01bf3a68e841c.jpg
So that's my story. Hope you've enjoyed the long read. It starts off bad but ends nicely. I currently have mods planned out to up power to 400 from 300 and some other bits as you all know i get carried away with mods.
I loved the Honda and I loved the support on here along with all of our meets that we had even meeting Steve's son! What a petrol head he will be.
Thanks guys and I hope to see you at meets and you'll have to forgive me being the German but I promise not to park anywhere near you guys [emoji1]
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