|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
12-08-2008, 01:10 PM | #1 | ||
1964 Thunderbird
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 93
|
This what a piece of gibrock off some lazy a$$ SOB builder's ute did to the front of our once mint Focus Zetec. $750 damage and no rego number to give to Insurance Company.
|
||
12-08-2008, 04:29 PM | #2 | ||
Focus TDCi
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 192
|
man that sucks! so sorry to hear about that.
|
||
12-08-2008, 08:06 PM | #3 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 804
|
That hurts!!
|
||
14-08-2008, 11:53 PM | #4 | ||
2007 Ford Focus Zetec
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 431
|
You should be glad that the bumper on the Zetec is two piece, from memory the bottom lip is $500 from Ford, then you'll need to paint it.
GMS Spares in Reversby have a LS Zetec, give them a call. |
||
15-08-2008, 12:49 AM | #5 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 3
|
[IMG][/IMG]
I'm hearing ya. B-Double truck, Majura RD, ACT. Boundced along like an AFL ball. If it had bounced up, I swear it was the windscreen. Tradies in utes are the bane of my existence. So important they are. Have to be somewhere now. Yes, this was a truckie, however, tradies, i swear, have a chip on their shoulder. Have to me somewhere yesterday. At least the number plate wasn't damaged:P I hope your insurance company was as helpful and as painless as mine (CUNA Mutual). Tis only cosmetic You really wish you could do more though, if it was legal. The offender exhibited total disregard to other road users
__________________
Inunated with Bu!!5hit, and constantly reading, hearing, and PAYING for it |
||
15-08-2008, 11:14 AM | #6 | |||
1964 Thunderbird
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 93
|
Sorry to see the damage to your car mate. Our car has been damaged 3 times now by irresponsible tradies losing off their utes. In one instance someone dropped a pail of epoxy paint on our street and the misses drove through it "I think I drove over something on the road dear" AARRRGGH It took me 3 hours to get it off before it dried. Each time its been damaged she has been driving, maybe she needs to open her eyes a little more as well, she's always in a hurry just like those tradies...
Shannons who I insure with wanted to take away our no claims bonus for 2 yrs and also take the $400 excess so better to avoid another black mark and sort it out myself. Quote:
|
|||
19-08-2008, 01:59 PM | #7 | ||
2006 Focus LX Hatch
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: St George Area
Posts: 255
|
Mind if I join in?
Front bar group buy? :P |
||
19-08-2008, 02:27 PM | #8 | ||
yum
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,417
|
I also have front bar damage, my father reversed into the front drivers side above the fog light with a towbar. Had it cheaply repaired and the paint's flaking away now.
__________________
2005 LS Focus LX
Nov05 | Manual | Black Sapphire 250,000kms. |
||
19-08-2008, 07:03 PM | #9 | ||
Ex EL Falcon
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bris-bane
Posts: 683
|
Yikes, people who don't secure their load really me off.
Few years back I was driving along in my Falcon, only had it about 2 weeks or something, see something bouncing down the road - it was a frickin construction hat!! Fortunately my Falcon had come with one of those factory-fitted bullbars - the hat hit that, went under the car and exploded into a million pieces. Didn't do much since the car also had a 1/4" thick steel plate on the underside (some country pack kit). I don't get why its so hard for these morons to stow their stuff safely - if it had been a motorbike rider on the receiving end of any of these things they'd probably be dead.
__________________
Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now! |
||
20-08-2008, 11:55 AM | #10 | |||
1964 Thunderbird
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 93
|
Quote:
|
|||
20-08-2008, 07:48 PM | #11 | ||
2007 Ford Focus Zetec
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 431
|
I've got a spare fog light insert, just need to find it, cant remember what side its for.
|
||
02-09-2008, 12:05 AM | #12 | ||
2007 Ford Focus Zetec
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Posts: 431
|
Its the passenger one for whoever wants it..
Suits any LS model. |
||
02-09-2008, 08:25 PM | #13 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Perth
Posts: 41
|
any one in perth WA Bumper exchange could probs fit all of them for 80 -100 bucks
93711167 |
||