Volksy Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Ello all, seems i've had a bit of an accident, not shite related but i'm layed up is a Swiss resort looking at the snow with a now very broken leg/knee.Although my insurance company is trying to get me home, the car rental company are trying to charge me 1000euro to come and pick up the hire car from the hotel (broken left leg and manual box arn't really compatable) they say as it's and international transfer, the car was hired from the French side of Geneva the airport and i'm now is Switzerland, despite the fact that i'm only an hours drive from the office.. GRRRR!!
pogweasel Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 I would tell them to blow it outta their asses.Happy convalescing [sp?] - perhaps we should set up a permanant 'shiters-sick-bay', complete with carry-on slapstick hilarity. Stripey pyjamas will be provided.
FredTransit Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Oh dear, is there nobody else that can drive it back for you? Hope the leg gets better, which I am sure it will in the fullness of time.....
mk1_4dr Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 E1000!!? Which leg you broke? Could you not drive it back without touching the clutch? Grind the barsteward into gear, that'll teach them for being unreasonable Anyway, have a nice relax, your leg will feel better in the fullness of time
Father Ted Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Nasty, Im betting you have a nice long leg pot on? Why not prop said leg up on dashboard and drive using only right foot - admittedly steering will cause much hilarity, but its only an hours drive.Comiserations. Enjoy the rest though.Im back in work now doing stuff that does not involve the left hand, steering the car is a joke as the K10 has no PAS, so low speed parking tends to be the "dump it whereever" style
VWPowered Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 but i'm layed up is a Swiss resort looking at the snow with a now very broken leg/knee.sod the car, man i feel for ya
andrew e Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Being serious, I'm in Geneva for the motorshow next wednesday if your still stuck, It opens this wednesday (I think) if your bored and is definately worth a visit.P.S. I have had the knee cap off myself (memo keep out of AX's) and its very ouch indeed
andrew e Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 EDIT: 14 swiss francs - thats £8.50 for a top level motorshow.... day trippers note it is 5 minutes from the airport on foot if you fancy a flight in and out.... http://www.salon-auto.ch/en/
pogweasel Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Just looked, you could go there and back on sleazyjet for £32. If I wanted to go to a show at the NEC, travelling by train etc, how much d'ya reckon that'd be?
binhoker668 Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 I'm with Pogweasel. Bust a cap in their asses. You don't need no shit from no sumbitch honky nazi-gold dealin' biatch...Shabba.etc
Albert Ross Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Ouch!!Get some pissed up locals to drive it off a mountain, and report it stolen, and post them the keys..................job done.
STUNO Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 OH Volksy..hope you are repaired soon. On the serious side check your insurance to see if the hire car is covered. It is quite possible that the return of the car is part of the legitimate costs of breaking your leg.
garethj Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Shirely all autoshiters have driven a car without a working clutch and brakes, engine, wipers, handbrake, door locks, left hand sill.... Start it in 1st gear, lift off the accelerator for changing up and bung some revs on for changing down. Don't stop unless you have to, or turn the key off when it's in 1st gear. It's a hire car, they're used to it Other than that, hope you get it resolved with some sensible advice
pompei Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 OOYAH Hope you feel better soon, and can get someone to sort the car out
Monkey_boy Posted March 3, 2009 Posted March 3, 2009 Oops....didn't see this post before I just put mine on.Speak to you soon mate!
Volksy Posted March 3, 2009 Author Posted March 3, 2009 Managed to get the car back to the airport, but i must say driving it wasn't the most pleasant experience. Sadly we got stuck in the mother af traffic jams and missed our flight!Now we're holed in the shittyist hotel you can imagine, my insurance company are such cheapskates! So 48 hours and i'm still not home!I have to have an operation to put my knee back together when i get back, so it's not in a proper cast at the moment. so there is movement which hurts like hell.. I feel a VERY strongly worded letter coming on to th einsurance company when i FINALLY get home..
Volksy Posted March 11, 2009 Author Posted March 11, 2009 I've finally seen the specialist, after numerous scans, xrays and such like (Recon i'm pretty much sterile now!) and it aint good news..I basically tried to twist my lower leg off in the accident, so the problems are 4 different fractures of the Tibia, including a massive dent/crush injury caused by my femur. All my ligaments are damaged, either stretched, crushed, displaced or torn, cartilage damage and various other bits.So looking at at least a year before i'm anywhere near right, and then i'm always gonna have a 'dodgy' knee.So shite wise I'm gonna have to look for some 'auto'shite in the full meaning of the word. I'm fancying a Merc E or S class, as they seem to be pretty dependable and reasonably priced.. Any pointers/ideas?
dollywobbler Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 Nasty. Think I'll stick to reading as a hobby. I can live with papercuts! (I'm not very 'extreme')My recommendation for Auto Shite, Rover SD1, but with the 2.6 engine.
wuvvum Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 I'm fancying a Merc E or S class, as they seem to be pretty dependable and reasonably priced.. Any pointers/ideas?Mr. Scrapman is the man to speak to on S classes - he has three of the bloody things. One very low, one quite high and one which can be either, or even high on one side and low on the other.
Ratdat Posted March 11, 2009 Posted March 11, 2009 My recommendation for Auto Shite, Rover SD1, but with the 2.6 engine.Good in theory but my experience of an SD1 shows the ability walk some distance to be essential My Vel Satis is great lazy auto with very good power and economy too but I still suspect in the long run it might be trouble. I'd still recomend one for easy driving though. probably be better off with something German or Japanese for long term reliability. What about a Lexus? They're cheap as chips now and my old mans never had any bother with his LS400 (well, import Toyota Celsior but the same thing).
Pete-M Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 You want my V8 Turbo Rangie. It's really brilliant when it works.It's just a shame that it's a wallet vampire. Going somewhere posh to eat, when you're running it on a daily basis, means maybe a sausage barm from the local butty van... because you're in your mates workshop, you've been there for 3 fucking hours trying to get the thing perfect, but you broke something or disturbed a seal made of purest Unobtanium, for a weekend, by the Land Rover development night shift after a night on the bong in Morocco or something. Otherwise it'll be something Janspeed did, and they don't remember exactly what they did to one custom turbo Rangie engine back in 1987, or what they did when they rebuilt it in 1999 - just before they 'changed owners' and destroyed all the blueprints for all the old stuff, including my fucking Rangie...... no, it doesn't irritate me when it works. I get to spend hours with all my mechanic mates, in their garages, using their tools to tweak it back to perfection.... it doesn't even piss me off when a round trip to my brothers house, which is around £25 in most large luxobarges costs anything up to £60 depending on how often you decide to listen to the turbo doing its stuff and being immensely amused by the looks on the faces of Chavved up Clios when 2 tons of 22 year old Land Rover over takes them with ease in the twisties...... what pisses me off is that I really can't justify owning the bloody thing. It's absolutely fucking immense at everything you can reasonably demand of it even when it's having an off day, but when it's having a good day it's so fucking rude not to enjoy the thing... but it's a 300 bhp Range Rover Classic. It's truly loveable, it gave me the greatest buzz of the year when I took it out with the Land Rover brigade near me and they thought it was doing to be an utter disaster for me... and it was about the only one that didn't even suffer as much as a scratch when they were ripping exhausts off and denting body panels everywhere... it pissed them off so much they kicked me out of their club. You've got to love any car that can do that, but I'm moving to Czech soon and I can't take it with me. Need to give it a service first though...
FredTransit Posted March 12, 2009 Posted March 12, 2009 You want my V8 Turbo Rangie. It's really brilliant when it works.It's just a shame that it's a wallet vampire. Going somewhere posh to eat, when you're running it on a daily basis, means maybe a sausage barm from the local butty van... because you're in your mates workshop, you've been there for 3 fucking hours trying to get the thing perfect, but you broke something or disturbed a seal made of purest Unobtanium, for a weekend, by the Land Rover development night shift after a night on the bong in Morocco or something. Otherwise it'll be something Janspeed did, and they don't remember exactly what they did to one custom turbo Rangie engine back in 1987, or what they did when they rebuilt it in 1999 - just before they 'changed owners' and destroyed all the blueprints for all the old stuff, including my fucking Rangie...... no, it doesn't irritate me when it works. I get to spend hours with all my mechanic mates, in their garages, using their tools to tweak it back to perfection.... it doesn't even piss me off when a round trip to my brothers house, which is around £25 in most large luxobarges costs anything up to £60 depending on how often you decide to listen to the turbo doing its stuff and being immensely amused by the looks on the faces of Chavved up Clios when 2 tons of 22 year old Land Rover over takes them with ease in the twisties...... what pisses me off is that I really can't justify owning the bloody thing. It's absolutely fucking immense at everything you can reasonably demand of it even when it's having an off day, but when it's having a good day it's so fucking rude not to enjoy the thing... but it's a 300 bhp Range Rover Classic. It's truly loveable, it gave me the greatest buzz of the year when I took it out with the Land Rover brigade near me and they thought it was doing to be an utter disaster for me... and it was about the only one that didn't even suffer as much as a scratch when they were ripping exhausts off and denting body panels everywhere... it pissed them off so much they kicked me out of their club. You've got to love any car that can do that, but I'm moving to Czech soon and I can't take it with me. Need to give it a service first though...sod that, stick a 2.5 DI in it and run it on veg. The county transits seem to manage with a paltry two and a half L. Is it a 2 door or 4 door?
Volksy Posted April 28, 2009 Author Posted April 28, 2009 Been to see my surgeon today, all good news, have three months of Physio ahead, and then a re-assesment to see if I need a key hole op, but at least i'm walking again!
Monkey_boy Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 Don't you have loose bits of bone in your knee?? I guess it's still OK to use it though. Everytime I hear or say the word bone I think of this angrykid cartoon : http://www.atom.com/funny_videos/angry_kid_bone/ EDIT : Just noticed the shite motors in the background of that little cartoon. How cool!!
Volksy Posted April 28, 2009 Author Posted April 28, 2009 Yes he may have to 'retreive' loose shards of bone from it, but hopefully thats the extent..
FredTransit Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 If ever there was a good reason not to go skiing, this is it. I hope you get better soon.
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