Anyone got some t-cut..?

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Post by Ronin » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:16 pm

Looks to me like the vehicle lost control and was travelling sideways and forwards into the tree with "the bandage".

Vehicle appears to have hit (our) O/S front corner as first point of impact and force continues diaganolly(ish) through to N/S rear (our).

Amazing the driver walked away, would have been different if it was RHD and there were no passengers - in which case there would have been fatalities.

Just goes to show you never want to hit a tree in an accident, lucky, lucky, guy to have survived!

Reading on RS6 International, ther fire crew did not do any cutting :shock:
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Post by dummi » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:23 pm

ok didn't see that wow his luckiest guy
Rupert wrote:Quote by Ian Ward on RS6.com
What you see is what you get, i.e. there was no cutting of the vehicle prior to the pictures being taken.
It is my brother-in-law that you see holding the mobile phone, he honestly doesn't know the speed that he was going at but wasn't near as fast as he has done in the past on that particular part of the road.

Although the road was completely dry he said that it felt he was on ice and the car just careened into the tree. He actually called the emergency services and climbed out of the car by himself, he spent only a couple of hours in hospital, apart from a few minor scratches he got a bandage around his little finger, I told him if he's not already religious he should take it up ASAP!

The car WAS a pristine RS6 ABT, I was supposed to pick it up that very day to borrow it from him for a week as I've always wanted to try out the ABT version. He really should have simply told me that he didn't want me to drive his car I'm so happy he is alive and all in one piece.

I have referred him to this forum.

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Post by MEV » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:27 pm

Do you think he'll take a punt on the alloys? :D
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Post by ZeroK66 » Thu Mar 01, 2007 6:27 pm

Un-real! I thought they were photoshopped! Incredible.
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Post by bobjebb » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:05 pm

He's nuts, I mean just leaving the keys in the ignition like that. Asking for trouble these days....



Actually - nice to see he came away from it in one piece.
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Post by fil » Sat Mar 03, 2007 5:02 pm

on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... 0088449961

4000 euros for what, maybe the sat nav if the screen aint cracked, i'd imagine as the exhaust has been ripped off the turbos will have cracked, and ill bet the engines bent in some shape!

tho, the drivers seat looks ok, maybe a bit of the wiring is easy to get at now if you need it :lol:
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Post by SteveH » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:06 pm

That just goes to show that you really can buy anything on ebay. I wonder what price it will go for?? If its starting and a little over £2.5K, even in that state I can imagine that you will reclaim quite a valuable pot of parts from the thing.

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Post by ScottyBoy » Sun Mar 04, 2007 12:05 am

At least the guy knows what the ar$e end looks like now from a drivers seat.
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Post by derdle » Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:16 pm

The rear bit has the makings of a trailer.....
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Post by QuantumJohn » Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:10 pm

You could probably count the salvageable parts from that car on 1 hand.
Modern cars are meant to bend in all sort of places through the shell to absorb as much energy as possible in an impact and this car will be no different - who I am kidding look at the shell!

What's the betting most of the wheels are buckled?
As mentioned the exhuast pipes have been ripped off so turbos are probably cracked.
All the seat frames have probably bent and the mounting to virtually every interior item will be damaged or bent.
Engine may have jumped a tooth on the belt with the shock of the sudden impact and who would want to put that gearbox/diff/transmission/suspension on their own car after a shunt like that?
A very risky buy.

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Post by ZeroK66 » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:54 pm

Wonder if DRC failure had anything to do wtih the crash...
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Post by Golfather » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:24 pm

ZeroK66 wrote:Wonder if DRC failure had anything to do wtih the crash...
yeah, the driver lost the will to live after yet ANOTHER trip to the dealer... :lol:
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Post by SteveH » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:22 pm

Jeez... it sold for over £4,500 :shock:
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Post by jonathanb » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:19 pm

the description of how the car behaved sounds exactly like my car when the DRC failed bouncing all over the road

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Post by grizz » Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:59 pm

I think the engine & box would have been ok , the exhaust pipes had come apart on the joint's , the joint on the prop would have done the same. £4500 is not that bad .
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