Z3M bitten the dust!!

After only having the M roadster for a few weeks it has gone to the great car park in the sky!!

My wife used it to go to work on Wednesday (day after my 33rd birthday) and on a 'slow' roundabout lost control and skid out of control and went up a large kerb and took out a lamp post with the drivers side door!!

Due to the impact she had to climb out of the passenger door but luckily she only suffered cuts and bruises...still a bit stiff now mind.

Anyhoo the garage that are the authorised repair centre for my insurance company have told us they wont be able to fix it economically so looks like our Z3M ownership is short lived!

Now comes the tooing and froing with the insurance company over payout...Ive only ever had bad experiences in the passed so am very worried.

I think the floor is shafted as she hit the lamp post at full force with the drivers door!

I didnt want to go and see the car as my stomach churns just thinking about it! Its not nice thinking about someone you love to bits having to go through that!!

Worse thing was I was day off and slept through her ringing me so she left a voice mail which makes me want to cry every time I hear it.....and Im not a big girls blouse!

Only thing the car will be good for is breaking but still worth a few quid in bits as it has had the brake upgrade (4 or 6 pots I cant remember but Ive got the receipt) and the engine only has 36k on it.

Cheers mate!!

Maybe, if we do get another, we will get the S54 which has traction control to limit the risk!

Ouch!!!

Hope you get what you want insurance wise. must be really dissapointed but glad there wasn't any serious injury.

Worse thing was it was getting recovered from the scene by the approved repairers but as we hadnt reported it to the police in time the recoverd it even though it was off the road!!

I/she felt a bit uneasy when we had a knock at the door and it was a policeman wanting to talk to me (registered keeper) about the incident!

He was a little arsey saying she shouldnt have been driving such a powerful car being so young and, in his words, inexperienced!!

His final words were 'I dont think we will take this further but you did leave the scene without reporting the accident'

Granted I got a little arsey back (knowing the rules). I said we had 24 hours to report the accident or as soon as practicable....which would have been as soon as I felt my wife was ok at home!

Chris,

Sorry to hear this but glad that your wife is ok. It is times like this that help us put into perspective what is really important to us.

Hope the insurance co don't give you too much of a runaround.

sorry to hear that. I really am! My first Z3M bite the dust in a similar fashion when I had the unfortunate moment of putting a "friend" behind the wheel.

About the copper... one of the things that most impressed me during the 3 years I lived in England was the copper's blant arrongance, unparalled by anywhere else in the world I've been to. I'm pretty sure they're instructed for this.

I'm just pleased your wife is ok, stuff the car, its insured and hardly rare !

Hope it works out. But will it be recorded by the HPI etc. You'll lose money
when you go to sell it. Personally I'd always prefer to get the car written off
and buy a new one rether then have it fixed. Although I've never crashed a
car.

falkster wrote: I presume it will be recorded as cat d but to be honest Im not that bothered as we didnt buy the car to get rid in a year or two, it was the car Sarah wanted so we will still have the car that we bought.

In my opinion a cat d makes a difference whenever it may be that you are selling, be it 5 years time, but I would not have thought that if insurer is repairing, without any pressure from you, that it would be a cat d, if it was I would not want it back. JMHO.