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mcflux · 25-03-2007, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by EDXR6T

Il be using that excuse as it seam everyone thinks it's true when coming to paint your rear bar then D4V3.

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Doh! Own3d :(

Yeah it was incredibly slippery that night, I just about slipped on my backside at Forest Hill when jumping out of the car

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reded · 25-03-2007, 03:30 PM

sorry to hear that man but its good to see that your ok and around to tell about it,
my sister had the same thing happen to her (noone stopped to help).
made me pretty mad but at least she was ok.
and hope you have better luck in the future man!

cheers troy

AdzT3-146 · 25-03-2007, 11:38 PM

Tough break Joe, sorry to hear about it.

Glad to hear your OK.

snypereb · 25-03-2007, 11:50 PM

Shattered to here about this. Man the car was looking so good. Main thing is your ok.

EFFalcon · 26-03-2007, 09:02 AM

was a shock to hear about this joe.
lesson learnt i spose but good to hear you're all good.

crannersEL · 26-03-2007, 09:47 AM

Good you hear your okay Joe, cars can be replaced lives cant......

All the best for the Ea and getting that on the road :-)

Cranners

-jjM- · 26-03-2007, 09:57 AM

going to look at an ED Fairmont Ghia today, its not bad for its price so hopefuly its not in bad nik, also its black ;)

be getting the car today aswell so stay tuned for pictures...

walker · 26-03-2007, 10:03 AM

I've lost a car to it wasn't the best thing to happen,........Oh well least you are allright

Rmyers · 26-03-2007, 02:23 PM

Shame to hear man, can't imagine how you'd feel after putting so much effort into her :( Roads were very slippery tho, i've completely spun out once or twice in the past without intention due to the same conditionsn so i know how easily it can happen. Just hope this doesn't put you off modding your future car...

TZAKHAMMER · 26-03-2007, 02:26 PM

Sorry to hear the bad news mate, but like all said cars can be fixed, lives cant.

all the best with the next car mate!

M

Quasi · 26-03-2007, 02:31 PM

Damn mate, sounds pretty bad.

As said quite a bit already, it's good that you weren't badly hurt.......or worse.

mcflux · 26-03-2007, 03:41 PM

Joe: (regarding the ED you're looking at) Black is the new Grey :P

-jjM- · 26-03-2007, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghia5L

Joe: (regarding the ED you're looking at) Black is the new Grey :P

like anyone hasnt noticed since youve owned your thing...lol

today im really unhappy, for the fact i went to visit the car, it wasnt the condition of the car that made me this way, just what i had to pay for it to be taken off the road back to my place

1st Tow: 205.45
Salvage: 330 (it wasnt even stuck to anything)
Storage: 23.46
2nd Tow: 80 (im just down the road from where its being held)
Total incl GST is 702.81 (thankfuly the peson serving me let me off for the 2.81 cents)

im over the fact i had the accident, it happened, i wasnt doing anything stupit for this to happen, it was simply an accident, but to charge me this price when i asked to have it delivered to my place direct from the accident, this in outragouse

i asked wheather i can come just chuck it on a trailor but the person serving me said wed have to move it out to the road to put it onto a trailor because its a health and safty issue to have a trailor in there, theres tow trucks in there already, is that not a trailor?

the police said this wouldnt happened, being a weekend, FFS i live down the road from the towing yard and the accident site, not even a 1km radios between the 2 places...

i dont beleve for a second thow, that the police were on my side on this thow, they were probly ****ed off with me that i had to have an accident to come out to see that it was wet, it was some p plater driver and the person who invited me into there house to care for me was drunk and talking abit stupitly... not to mention it was 3am saturday morning

i feel like complaining but i dont know where to go to do this or wheather i can at all, dose it cost so much these days or was i just shafted, can anyone help me with this

eMpTy · 26-03-2007, 04:48 PM

$80 for the 2nd tow sounds pretty standard.
Salvage towing is a rort though. When our commodore got stolen years ago I told the wreckers they could have it if they towed it and they still wanted $200 on top of that cos it was out of town in the scrub.

Dezza · 26-03-2007, 05:56 PM

Tow truck drivers must make a killing. After my Black Spur incident, I rang RACV roadside assist, and they said they couldn't help me because I hadn't broken down. The free towing is only for breakdowns. I then rang a tow truck company (RACV gave me the number), and I was quoted $350 to tow the car from Healsville to Oakleigh South. Thankfully there were heaps of e-series members around who helped get the car driveable again. Unfortunately accidents aren't cheap. My Black Spur incident almost sent me broke. I'm only recovering now from it.

mark_TD · 26-03-2007, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -jjM-

like anyone hasnt noticed since youve owned your thing...lol

today im really unhappy, for the fact i went to visit the car, it wasnt the condition of the car that made me this way, just what i had to pay for it to be taken off the road back to my place

1st Tow: 205.45
Salvage: 330 (it wasnt even stuck to anything)
Storage: 23.46
2nd Tow: 80 (im just down the road from where its being held)
Total incl GST is 702.81 (thankfuly the peson serving me let me off for the 2.81 cents)

im over the fact i had the accident, it happened, i wasnt doing anything stupit for this to happen, it was simply an accident, but to charge me this price when i asked to have it delivered to my place direct from the accident, this in outragouse

i asked wheather i can come just chuck it on a trailor but the person serving me said wed have to move it out to the road to put it onto a trailor because its a health and safty issue to have a trailor in there, theres tow trucks in there already, is that not a trailor?

the police said this wouldnt happened, being a weekend, FFS i live down the road from the towing yard and the accident site, not even a 1km radios between the 2 places...

i dont beleve for a second thow, that the police were on my side on this thow, they were probly ****ed off with me that i had to have an accident to come out to see that it was wet, it was some p plater driver and the person who invited me into there house to care for me was drunk and talking abit stupitly... not to mention it was 3am saturday morning

i feel like complaining but i dont know where to go to do this or wheather i can at all, dose it cost so much these days or was i just shafted, can anyone help me with this

This happened to me aswell with the EA but I had to pay more for the first tow. I think it was around $320. I was very ****ed off too because I could have had it towed for free but no, the police organised it and I said I wanted to get it towed home aswell but they said no can do. It is really ******. That was the worst day of my life. I was lost for words that night. I know how it feels buddy.

PS.. BTW Joe you were not shafted with he tow, just that accidents are ****** and expensive. My accident set me back $920 inc GST so if you were shafted then I was shafted even more. Its really sux

LUXO_8 · 26-03-2007, 06:41 PM

that sucks balls joe....
when i had my accident in my XF, years ago, the car was suposed to go to a holding yard, but i insisted it go to my place..... which was about 3km from the site..... the fee was something like 250 or so... but at least i didnt have any holding fees etc on top of that...

such a shame to hear....i feel sorry for ya man

frd_crzer · 26-03-2007, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by mark_TD

This happened to me aswell with the EA but I had to pay more for the first tow. I think it was around $320. I was very ****ed off too because I could have had it towed for free but no, the police organised it and I said I wanted to get it towed home aswell but they said no can do. It is really ******. That was the worst day of my life. I was lost for words that night. I know how it feels buddy.

PS.. BTW Joe you were not shafted with he tow, just that accidents are ****** and expensive. My accident set me back $920 inc GST so if you were shafted then I was shafted even more. Its really sux

the cops think they can organise anything. when it happened they didnt even ask you if u had organised a tow. they also tried to chage u an additional $80 for the tow to your house but it was closer to ur house then there holding lot

nos_james · 26-03-2007, 07:36 PM

my last tow cost me $751 that was to get it out of the creak up the 7meter embackment then back to my house 15ks away

EDXR6T · 26-03-2007, 07:57 PM

Its a conspiracy between the cops and the tow company.

There both making there wallets very fat off us jump's.

efI_Fairmont · 26-03-2007, 08:14 PM

Bad luck mate, looked like a nice car. Most important thing is you're ok and no-one else was hurt. Hopefully you can salvage most things from it.

Agree with all the comments about accident towing being expensive, when I had an accident in my old ZL, I had to get cut out of it so didn't have a say where it got towed to, and cost me alot in towing fees and paying the holding yard etc.

Good luck for the future.

Hybrid34 · 26-03-2007, 08:23 PM

[QUOTE=-jjM-]like anyone hasnt noticed since youve owned your thing...lol

today im really unhappy, for the fact i went to visit the car, it wasnt the condition of the car that made me this way, just what i had to pay for it to be taken off the road back to my place

1st Tow: 205.45
Salvage: 330 (it wasnt even stuck to anything)
Storage: 23.46
2nd Tow: 80 (im just down the road from where its being held)
Total incl GST is 702.81 (thankfuly the peson serving me let me off for the 2.81 cents)

Hmmm It cost me $400 from Caufield to Wheelers hill, which apparnlty is very cheap...

bArNsY · 26-03-2007, 08:23 PM

just read the post, sorry to hear about your loss and hope you are ok, i guess you won't be wanting the lpg conversion kit! Do you have another car lined up already?

Jason[98.EL] · 26-03-2007, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -jjM-

1st Tow: 205.45
Salvage: 330 (it wasnt even stuck to anything)
Storage: 23.46
2nd Tow: 80 (im just down the road from where its being held)
Total incl GST is 702.81 (thankfuly the peson serving me let me off for the 2.81 cents)

ouch that would have to hurt almost as much as having the accident

once again mate sorry to see you in this position

jason

-jjM- · 26-03-2007, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bArNsY

Do you have another car lined up already?

went to check one out 2day, rock up there only to hear he had sold it, ******* couldnt ring/email me back, no matter, Ghia5L showed me a link of a very nice lookin Fairlane Ghia, its black too :o

top it off, its 8oclock and these towing pricks are late...wait for him to come here and just say na im asleep bring it back when im awake...

Hybrid34 · 26-03-2007, 09:10 PM

Hey man, have you got any pictures of the car? (old one ) i mean

mark_TD · 26-03-2007, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frd_crzer

the cops think they can organise anything. when it happened they didnt even ask you if u had organised a tow. they also tried to chage u an additional $80 for the tow to your house but it was closer to ur house then there holding lot

Yer thats right I forgot about that

Allen · 26-03-2007, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by -jjM-

Ghia5L showed me a link of a very nice lookin Fairlane Ghia, its black too :o

Go the Fairlane... you'll never want a SWB again lol :P

Nah, a LWB will be slow and handle like crap, but they are nice to cruise in as a daily... Plus hardly anyone does anything with them, so if you do mod it, it'll be pretty unique

Oh, and black LWB rocks :sm_headba

mark_TD · 26-03-2007, 09:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -jjM-

went to check one out 2day, rock up there only to hear he had sold it, ******* couldnt ring/email me back, no matter, Ghia5L showed me a link of a very nice lookin Fairlane Ghia, its black too :o

top it off, its 8oclock and these towing pricks are late...wait for him to come here and just say na im asleep bring it back when im awake...

Wat model Fairlane Ghia is it Joe?

mark_TD · 26-03-2007, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by fairlane_ghia

Go the Fairlane... you'll never want a SWB again lol :P

Nah, a LWB will be slow and handle like crap, but they are nice to cruise in as a daily... Plus hardly anyone does anything with them, so if you do mod it, it'll be pretty unique

Oh, and black LWB rocks :sm_headba

So so true they are the best cruiser these Fairlane ghia's and of course the Lincoln Type Design (LTD) and are ideal for these e- series cruises and they are very smooth and rare for a p plater to own them (howeva im off P's). I have so much planned for my LTD but I cant say. Ok I will tell you 1 mod only that i have planned after my full respray and that is a full extended (wagon) body kit minus real spoiler. I want mine really unique as much as the LTD is already