Crashed my Polo GTI on the way home today :(

I've been driving my mum's '01Polo GTI recently, to keep the milage on the Mk1 down and because it warms up quicker. Well today, first thing was on the way to work!

I saw a poor guy slide off his little scooter coming out of a junction, so I did the right thing and stopped. Another guy stopped and we helped the bloke back on to his feet, and picked up his scooter. He said he was fine and their wasn't hardly any damage to the bike so off I went.

Then on the way home, I was driving normally and it was getting really cold. I went around a bend and the front wheels started to skid towards the outside of the bend. I over corrected, the car went the other way, then over corrected again. Next thing I was pushing the fence back and span around in a hedge!!! And ended up in a field.

The road was icy, nobody else was in envolved. Just skidded on ice. Air bags went off, filled the car with smoke! I thought the car was on fire at first 8O  Have a look at some of the pics I managed to snap as it was getting dark.


Heres where it happened. I was travelling in the direction of the yellow arrows. The Red star with the splodge, is where the car skidded and where I hit the fence and the hedge.


This is what it should look like, found this pic on the net, but exactly the same modle.





Front passenger corner is totalled. :cry:

gutted for you….. if i posted my response i would get a warning for swearing…

at least no one was injured though.

oh dear bud. hope you ok.
did the air bag hurt?

Courtesy car next week for them trips to school.?.Hope you are un-damaged  :?

Daz

Yeah, nothing wrong with me. Just dented pride. Couldn't do anything about it, just lost the front end on the ice. Went left, then right, then through fence/hedge  :cry: Just gutted that the Polo is trashed.

gutted the polo is trashed?!!!!!! think about it. atleast it wasn't the mk1  

bet its shook you up alot.  try not let it knock your confidende on the road

Shame as they are cracking cars. Glad you are OK though. Take it easy out there!

bumper, grill, wing, headlight. if they write it of let me know. i'll go buy it from the salvage yard.

I had a call tonight from the people who are collecting the car saying that were advised that it was already a write off! They haven't even seen the can and they are already saying it's written off!!!!!! If they do write it off, i'm definatly buying it back as I don't thinnk there is much damage.

Also I arranged to meet the RAC waggon at the car in the morning at 9:00 am. I then get a call saying that were at the car at 9:00pm tonight! and where was I with the keys. Cut along story short, I live 20 miles away from where the car was in the field. And they were collecting tonight because they were advised to collect coz it was a write off.

They drove all the way to my house to collect the keys, so I said "i'll only give you the keys if I can come with you to supervise the car being recovered", so that there was no more damage being done to the car and to remove as many personal belongings as I could. And they replied, "sorry you can't come with us, and it doesn't matter if you give us the keys or not. We've taken it anyway!" And then drove off.  

So I still have the keys, even though I said that I didn't want it collected without myself being there, and they have my car in some scrap yard.

Now thats what I call customer service.

bunch of tawts

I crashed my first Mk1 in much the same way

back end went, corrected it, then all of a sudden it gripped and I wasn't quick enough to straighten the steering up again, clipped a kerb, into a hedge then over on its side

bugger

i've seen write offs, that is no write off. was there any more damage?

how many miles on the car and what year?

The photos are all the damage the cars got. The air bags have gone off and the passenger sill has a small dent in the pladtic trim. It looks like the passenger wheel has been shifted back a little and is touching the back of the passenger front wheel arch.

Lovley car, 2001, 39,000 miles. Mint condition, but not anymore.

be sure to tell them that the car is of sentimental value.
and you want to buy it back.

Been and had a look at the car this morning. wasn't as bad as I first thought. The guy who collected the car said it would probably be written off because the trim on the roof is slightly pushed up. He thinks that where the wheel has been pushed back and hit the sill, it has pushed the A pillar up and slightly distorted the roof. It looks like the trim is sitting proud, about 3mm.
Heres the photos:








The guy startrd asking me questions about VW's, saying are you in to your VW's then? He then took me round the side and said is this worth anything? There was a 3 door Black MK3 Golf Colour concept. I asked his what wa wrong with it and he said it had been empounded nby the DVLA for not having any tax. He then said that the owner had 10 days to pay then fine or the car was going to be crushed!!! Nothing wrong with the car, lovely black leather recaro interior! I said don't crush it, i'll have the interior out of it. NO can do sorry, i'm not allowed to break it. If the registered owner does not pay it's getting crushed!!!!

Wo wounds ask to buy the whole car ARE THOSE DIAMONDS ON YOUR SPEEDO??? lol

could ask for the owners number, then call him andsay you'll pay the fine plus a little for him to buy the car.

i'm sure he would rather make something out of it rather than nothing

My brother just got a yellow mk3 colour concept for ?1000 but some of them sell for about ?1500! The leather used in them is really good quality my brothers one has 160000 on the clock and the leather is like new (needs a clean)

Go back and offer the guy a sly Nifty for the leather, once it's been crushed, who's to know anyway????

On another note, shame about the car. I've been led to understand (though of course might be wrong!) that the energy from a front impact dissipates through the length of the car, and that even low speed traffic light love-taps can warp the pilars/roof so that doors will no longer close properly, so that might be what's guiding their thinking?

In that one pic your mum does not look too happy that you have crashed her Polo Bob!  

You did a proper job though eh!  I'm sure she'l forgive you and the main thing is you're OK!  So are you going to let her borrow your Golf now that you have left her without a motor???   :wink: