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auf_wiedersehen_pet
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Yep, all fine. Only one person in each car and both injury free.
I'd followed him at a safe speed and distance (video to prove) for several miles. National speed limited became 40 became 30. He stopped to turn right. I braked but I couldn't get grip. I reckon I was a metre short of missing him. Brakes powerful and upgraded, tyres good, ABS good, 2+ tonnes, downhill on a greasy surface. Bugger.
Chatting to the guy, he said he'd had a speed awareness course and they'd shown a video of how bad the surface of this road was.
He wasn't bothered as it was a company car and he said he could have the rest of the day off.
I'd followed him at a safe speed and distance (video to prove) for several miles. National speed limited became 40 became 30. He stopped to turn right. I braked but I couldn't get grip. I reckon I was a metre short of missing him. Brakes powerful and upgraded, tyres good, ABS good, 2+ tonnes, downhill on a greasy surface. Bugger.
Chatting to the guy, he said he'd had a speed awareness course and they'd shown a video of how bad the surface of this road was.
He wasn't bothered as it was a company car and he said he could have the rest of the day off.
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I had a similar very minor bump. Entirely my fault as I was distracted by the car beside me pouring out smoke and didn't see the traffic in front stopping.
Zero damage to my car and a scratch on her bumper so slight her repair centre just resprayed it without replacing anything. Lady was really nice and very understanding but next thing I was getting a phone call from the police.Whiplash damages to her and her child were around £7k.
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I had a similar very minor bump. Entirely my fault as I was distracted by the car beside me pouring out smoke and didn't see the traffic in front stopping.
Whiplash damages to her and her child were around £7k.
On the plus side, it's all on dash cam.
Did you/your insurers payout?
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I was in a company car so the insurers paid out but not what she was looking. She tried to claim 6 months loss of earnings as well! Seriously you'd get a bigger bump in the dodgems. Of course I've been paying for it ever since in my personal car insurance.
Funny but the parents of the other child never tried to claim, maybe they were honest?
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Another year, another MOT passed.
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Fingers crossed for you.
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Not been keeping up with your updates but had a quick read and have a question as I keep cracking my gutter mount (bolted) light bar, I have a 46" led bar mounted to it, But I think your set up looks better, have you noticed any bad points of your 12 light set up? any wind noise ? thinking of 6 or 8 light set up and do you have a link to your lights. So many on ebay.
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I've not noticed any noise but then the Disco is a noisy beast anyway. I have added a lot of insulation including 25mm of foam under the headliner.
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Like a lot of LZers, I'm getting the Photobucket 3rd Party Hosting message. Looked into it and at $399 my Photobucket account won't be upgraded in a hurry. It's a shame that Photobucket have become so greedy as it means a wealth of photographic info can't be shared with other Landy lovers.
Bye all.
Bye all.
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long time no see how you been Rob
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He hasn’t been seen in this Forum since July 2017 so where did u see him?
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i see him around park gate near fareham most of the time in the green monster
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I've not ever seen it in the flesh, he put so much attention to detail into this thing it was unreal
discool
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His Discovery won him an award with LROi, but why would he be around a park gate?
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park gate is a place
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Of course it’s a place, just like and other park gate wherever there’s a park in the world I expect.
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