General Shunted

[pilgrim42]

My Twinair Lounge suffered a rear-end shunt yesterday from a late-braking Peugeot 106. The impact ( around 10 mph ) did surprisingly little damage to the Fiat: a punctured hatch door, although it opens and shuts OK, nasty scratches and a cracked bumper moulding and wheel-arch liner, all damage concentrated on the rear off-side corner.
The Peugeot is a different story. The driver must have swerved to the right just at impact, and swiped my offside corner with his nearside wing. It looked like he'd hit a tractor! I realise the principle of crush-zoning the front structure makes it more vulnerable in an impact, but to see it in practice..... his nearside wing was crushed almost to the engine bay, headlights and bumper disintegrated and the front pillar pushed back far enough to put a big crease in the passenger door, which certainly wouldn't open! No cracked screens though, and more importantly, no injuries, except for two bottles of beer (just purchased) in a shopping bag in my passenger foot well. Bugger. Smells like a brewery in there.
Now waiting for insurance chaps to sort it out.
Mike.

 

[nigelspanda]

I hope you get it sorted and back on the road as it was condition you had it in

 

[varesecrazy]

My Twinair Lounge suffered a rear-end shunt yesterday from a late-braking Peugeot 106. No cracked screens though, and more importantly, no injuries, except for two bottles of beer (just purchased) in a shopping bag in my passenger foot well. Bugger. Smells like a brewery in there.
Now waiting for insurance chaps to sort it out.
Mike.

no injuries is the main thing in any such collision,
I too hope you get it fixed properly, and all is not too inconvenient,

out of interest let us know if you get a nice / interesting loan car,

Charlie

 

[Andy Monty]

Bet the breathaliser came out like a shot

Hope the neck and back are ok Sometimes the injuries take a day or 2 to develop ((NO IM NOT TRYING TO MAKE A NO WIN NO FEE DEBATE)) Take it easy and if in any doubt straight to hospital / MIU / Doctors and notify insurance and police..

They can often sort out private Physiotherapy via the 3rd party's insurance which is worth its weight in gold my sisters on about her 7th session from an incident in March




If the New Panda is anything like the Grande Punto there is a heafty impact beam just behind the bumper.. Just depends on the damage to the shell brace yourself for the possibility of it been a write off

 

[jrkitching]

Glad everyone is unhurt.

If it's under 12 months old (24 months with some insurers), you'll do better if it's written off, as you'll get it replaced with a new one.

 

[jamesbrownontheroad]

Sorry to hear about the incident. Shunts without any injury are, in simplistic terms, such minor incidents and yet they cause a huge amount of inconvenience and disruption. Glad to hear the Panda stood up so well, it's been on my mind a few times over the last year when I've seen someone in my rear view mirror braking a little more sharply than I've just done.

 

[pilgrim42]

Just had the assessing engineer examining my Twinair and in his opinion there is no major damage: floor pan and frames are sound so it's just down to a new hatch and rear panel (plus reversing light, bumper and general plastic ware.) I await news of which repairer is designated, but the one the engineer considered most likely is only a couple of miles away. Here's hoping they extract the digit.
Mike.