On 16th October I had a minor crash in my MCS. It's a slightly complicated story to explain here, but I was trying to turn right onto a main road and ended up slamming into the side of a car coming from my right while I was checking for gaps in the traffic to my left. The thing is to my right a large white van had flashed me out so I wasnt expecting anything to come from that direction.
The long and short of it is that as there are no witnesses (the van driver didnt stick around) it'll probably turn out to be partial blame, so I'll lose my no claims. Thats going to push my insurance back up well over £1000 again. As I am currently trying to renovate my house I cannot afford this so it looks like my little buddy Blue (the car!) is going to have to go.
No real reason for posting this, I just lurk here mostly and absorb the MINI vibe, just thought I'd share my pain with some fellow MINI drivers. Nobody else seems to understand how gutted I am that this has happened.
One upside is that I only had minor bumper damage (that has been quoted at £700 to replace!) whereas the Fiesta I hit is almost certainly a write-off. Tough little bugger. Oh and some how this has made the steering column knock as well, which is being fixed under warranty tomorrow..
The long and short of it is that as there are no witnesses (the van driver didnt stick around) it'll probably turn out to be partial blame, so I'll lose my no claims. Thats going to push my insurance back up well over £1000 again. As I am currently trying to renovate my house I cannot afford this so it looks like my little buddy Blue (the car!) is going to have to go.
No real reason for posting this, I just lurk here mostly and absorb the MINI vibe, just thought I'd share my pain with some fellow MINI drivers. Nobody else seems to understand how gutted I am that this has happened.
One upside is that I only had minor bumper damage (that has been quoted at £700 to replace!) whereas the Fiesta I hit is almost certainly a write-off. Tough little bugger. Oh and some how this has made the steering column knock as well, which is being fixed under warranty tomorrow..