My skyline has been banged up the rear

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NJ: Get your necked checked out (if you haven't already).  I have heard of far too many cases where people have a sore neck, that is then "better" a day or two latter, only to later find they have serious damage to the top of the spine.

Sorry to hear about the car

LW.

Thanks mate I will keep an eye on it.

UPDATE. This morning I went into smash repairers and he said he couldnt quote it without taking it apart and seeing what exhactly was bent. So I have to leave it there one day just for a quote. But, he said first estimate would be around 5K. You wouldnt pick it from looking at it.

So yeah, I just want to get the quote done for insurance and then get a good panel shop to fix it *properly*..

[fatz]

if the quote is 5k id say the impact speed was more like 15-20km/h

[hippy]

try to get a write off and buy a better car ... thats what i would do ...write off = $$$ repair + $$$ wreck > insured value

then u can buy the wreck and fix it up and make a profit LOL .... or maybe not

[lwells]

then u can buy the wreck and fix it up

Only if its a financial writeoff. If its a statutory writeoff -- which it may well be if the speeds noted in this thread are correct -- then it can't be repaired (although you can still buy the wreck for parts).

LW.

[Duncan]

nah I'm with Pete, for around $5k the impact is

Also I can pm my recent experience with Vision Smash if you are considering going there

[midnight]

70km/h thats fair fast, methinks its would have been more damage just because u didnt hear skidding doesnt mean he wasnt on the brakes, the quickest way to brake is not to lock the wheels, and maybe this guy knew that.

[fatz]

70km/h you would be in hospital

and you car would be quite furked

[Guest]

Okies everyone seems to know more about the speed the cars were travelling except me, cause I was there... How does that work?

Anyway, as I had already established. I had already taken off so even if he was travelling at 70 km/h the closing speed would have been about 60km/h. It take midnight's point that he may have braked without screeching, but if you saw how much time he had to react, I dont think that would be likely, you dont really have time to brake like an race driver when you have 5m to react and stop. Either way it seems he may have slowed a bit..

Reason he only had 5m was a car was in front of him travelling very quick nearly did the same but changed lanes and misssed me at the last second but guy that hit me said he was looking down and didnt notice what had happened until he had pretty much hit me. I dont know the distance between them but the other car was only just level with the car in front when the crunch happened, so I guess he would have only had a couple of car lengths to stop in.

BUT, can I please gently steer the discussion back to the main reason for my post and that was to find out if anyone had experiences with any of the NRMA smash repairers that I have been recommended to and see if I could get some ideas of who to use..

Cheers everyone for your replies.

[Merli]

Okies everyone seems to know more about the speed the cars were travelling except me, cause I was there... How does that work?

We don't know, but we can take VERY educated guesses because of our previous experiences, and seeing way too many photos of accidents on forums...

A few years ago, I was driving my mother's Mercedes CLK whilst my Skyline was getting a new clutch. A taxi driver decided that it was a good idea to run a red light across William St and ended up t-boning me right in the driver's side door. He hit me with such force that I was sent flying 90 degrees to the direction I was previously travelling, and hit a traffic light 10m away with enough force to completely bend it in half and sending it downwards crushing a Lancer waiting at the intersection. Before I could recover my breath from getting winded by airbags galore, I was surrounded by a whole platoon of plain clothes police cordoning off the middle of William St, 2 ambulances from St Vincents and 2 fire engines from God knows where. They were all literally there within 2-3 minutes of the accident. In between gasps of air, I was extremely impressed with how efficient the police officers were at blocking off the intersection, and how quickly emergency crew were on the scene. I was rushed to hospital and went straight to Emergency to check to spinal injury and whatnot.

He was travelling at 60km/h through the red light, and he managed to write off a $120,000 Mercedes CLK and send me to hospital.

You think you got hit at 60km/h and got away with $5000 damage? Experience tells me otherwise I know that it probably felt like he hit you at 100km/h, but from what you've told us, it was probably quite a slow hit... More like 15-20km/h which is still hard enough to feel like a Mack truck and do quite a bit of damage.

Anyway, if you want to hear about the job that Vision Smash Repairs in Artarmon did on my old Skyline GTS-t, please feel free to PM me. I cannot post up my experience with them in this thread.

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Merli U have PM.