Well,
Coming home from meeting a friend I had not seen for years in the FR, I came around a corner and was greated by some ****er (excuse that!!) on a motor bike on my side of the road belting towards me, I swearved onto the other side of the road and missed him but lamped the car into a load of rocks on a corner, went airbourne onto the railings of a bridge over a river and the car bounced back onto all fours. When I came too there was no sign of your man on the bike, the airbags were out, steering wheel and dash only, car filled with powdery smoke and my shoulder and neck were in bits and continuing to get worse. Managed to move the car off the road, the bumper is scraped, the front left fog light is missing and the front left wheel is pushed back towards the back of the wheel arch and there is a wee bit of surface damage to the wing.
So, I'm up against a new alloy, new bumper + paint, possibly a subframe with a half shaft, CV joint and a wish bone and the fog, topped off with the airbags.
The car is in Ireland, it's the only Altea FR TDI that I'm aware of in Ireland so I don't want to lose it. It's a 07 with 115000 miles, just had the injectors done, full service and on the way down to the meeting I was loving it, it was going better then ever...........is it worth fixing, main concern is the cost of airbags with the steering wheel and dash. How much am I looking at??
Cheers guys, safe driving.
Gav
Coming home from meeting a friend I had not seen for years in the FR, I came around a corner and was greated by some ****er (excuse that!!) on a motor bike on my side of the road belting towards me, I swearved onto the other side of the road and missed him but lamped the car into a load of rocks on a corner, went airbourne onto the railings of a bridge over a river and the car bounced back onto all fours. When I came too there was no sign of your man on the bike, the airbags were out, steering wheel and dash only, car filled with powdery smoke and my shoulder and neck were in bits and continuing to get worse. Managed to move the car off the road, the bumper is scraped, the front left fog light is missing and the front left wheel is pushed back towards the back of the wheel arch and there is a wee bit of surface damage to the wing.
So, I'm up against a new alloy, new bumper + paint, possibly a subframe with a half shaft, CV joint and a wish bone and the fog, topped off with the airbags.
The car is in Ireland, it's the only Altea FR TDI that I'm aware of in Ireland so I don't want to lose it. It's a 07 with 115000 miles, just had the injectors done, full service and on the way down to the meeting I was loving it, it was going better then ever...........is it worth fixing, main concern is the cost of airbags with the steering wheel and dash. How much am I looking at??
Cheers guys, safe driving.
Gav
