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Author What a night with the corsa, so gutted *UPDATE*
Richie
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   26th Oct 03 at 22:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well its been an absolute bastard of a night, the corsa is ver ver fooked. Had to go to the petrol station, and as tim was turning out of the station to get on the road, clunk! Right hand side of the car dropped down.

Got outside, the front right wheel had found a new home right up in the fooking arch! Got a torch, looked under the car, the ball joint had snapped out! The bolt had sheared in half! To make matters worse, the drive shaft has also come out of the gearbox! So even as we speak the car is still stuck in the middle of the exit for the BP garage.


Heres what the wheel should look like:




AA have been 3 times, first lorry had no tools, the next two wouldnt consider moving the car without damaging the bodywork. So now we are waiting on a specialist flatbed lorry with a damage free kit so they wont fuck up the bodywork.

This is what the fooked one is like at the moment, we managed to get support for the car and move it:



To say the least, Timmeh is very unhappeh, but glad it didnt happen while he was doing a higher speed!




[Edited on 27-10-2003 by AustinPXX]

[Edited on 09-02-2004 by AustinPXX]
CORSA NUT
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26th Oct 03 at 22:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Oh dear
corb
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shit cunt bollox fuck
drunkenfool
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26th Oct 03 at 22:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
good job it didnt happen on the motorway! Bet you are kind of glad in a weird way.
Richie
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26th Oct 03 at 22:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ohhhh yes very!



AA guy said he scraped a corsa off the M4 about 2 months back because the same thing happened while he was doing 70mph+
Richie
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27th Oct 03 at 01:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
UPDATE:

Corsa is now moved. With a few cracks in the front bumper (yes i know ) it is now on my nans driveway, awaiting a new ball joint and a full checkover of the gearbox + driveshaft.


Pants!
DanielJ
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nasty
Kerry
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u aint havin much luck are u
Richie
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i wanna know why on earth you put urself in those positions for the camera! :
Kerry
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i was tryin to hide from it this time behind p4ult and novaless or someone
Demo
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nightmare man
what bp garage was this at so i know to avoid it
Elaine16v
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well i hope you get things sorted soon well goood job theres no shows now till nxt year so you dont need to rush good luck!
MattyB
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Richie
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what ye rollin ur eyes for?
MattyB
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Was it a kurb or sumat u went over?

Coz for a ball joint to "shear off" whilst driving normally is very very dodgy. I aint ever heard of anything like that happening before.

Matt

PS: the fact u have a large one piece custom bodykit isnt gona help matters when things like this happen. I told u so when u were gettin all the work done. I believe that flip colour paint cant be touched up? Therefore, if you were to properly repair the cracks, you'll need say, the whole front resprayed at least?
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27th Oct 03 at 13:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
AustinPXX what the colour of that blue/green flip car in your garge ??

WhaTS THE EXACT COLOUR ??? AND WHO SPRAYED IT ??
Richie
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27th Oct 03 at 13:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Jesus christ, it was on full lock coming out of a garage, no kerb or nothing.

And so for you saying you've never heard of it happening before, a guy called Pete up here has also had it happen to him.

And as far as the kit is concerned if you were to do your research you would see it is not a flip paint, all it is is little crystals sprayed on black, which can be touched up. The reason why it was left as a one piece kit is that the bodyshop doing the work had forgotten about that and he'd already begun spraying, therefore it would have taken more time to get it corrected. Hydraulics are on the way so it will sort any future problems out.


And another good thing is that the cracks are in pretty much un-noticable places.


So dont be rolling eyes at me, i found it extremley strange too but it happened and its scared the shit out of me to think what could have happened if it was moving at 15mph +.


Some people really fckin annoy me

[Edited on 27-10-2003 by AustinPXX]
Richie
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It was sprayed by a garage in Gwent and its Rage Extreme Crystalflake Ice blue.
blobs_cs_king
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ok cheers
blobs_cs_king
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Is it Expensive ?
Richie
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Well for about 3 litres including all the activators, black, thinner ect it would come to around £300. Can u stop posting in my post please about paint?
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the car is actually black, with lots of shiny bits stuck to it
Richie
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indeed
mike16v
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o u already replied
Richie
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I cant wait to see the video from the BP garage, seeing the car go dunk!

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