Lude Generation

I swear my lude is fricken cursed!
Great day at Mimms today. But on the way back I had a mishap.
I actually can't believe what happened.
I was driving along the M6 north, around J2. The carriagways were pretty clear. Where out of what seemed nowhere, What I THINK was a wheel of a baby's pushchair or something similar came rolling across the the carriageway There wasn't any cars nearby that I could of fell off, it just seemed to roll out from the hardshoulder.
I tired to aviod it, to no avail and with an almighty clatter, it went under the back wheel. I thought it had done some serious damage the sound it made. I thought oh crap my rear bumpers gonna be hanging off or my sideskirts going to be in half or something.
So I pulled over at the next services to assess. A quick examine of the rear of the car revealed no noticable damage. Phew, I thought. Will get it on the ramp at my local garage to have a look at the underneath this week though.
I went into the services while I was there, on the way back to the car I noticed it. Light damage to the front lip. It's cracked the drivers side corner and took a few chunks out. Also it's got a piece of paint thats starting to peel aaway
I was only saying at the meet that I've already had to have the lip repaired like 4 times already. Famous last words

Thats insane a pram wheel out of nowhere. most random thing ive heard in a long time.

Aww Mart

Kind of relieved though... From that title and with the recent influx of similar threads, I was expecting you to say "write off"

Still sucks though

Yeah I suppose it's not really that bad in the grand scheme of things really. It just seems it's one thing after another just chipping away

Sorry to hear that mate makes you wonder if somebody rolled it from a bank

Some scary jobby can happen on the motorway - a couple of months ago I was involved in an incident where an oncoming van came over the central reservation of the M23 on it's side. I was in the overtaking lane and was the first car to meet him, luckily I had time to react and he came to a halt a few car lengths behind me. I couldn't sleep that night though

Them babies is dangerous

Rotten luck, Mart.


Edit: JJ's comment...

Sorry to hear this Mart.

thats proper crappy luck mate sorry to hear it was looking so damn shiny and in great nick looking back at the recent pics

NafemanNathan wrote:Aww Mart

Kind of relieved though... From that title and with the recent influx of similar threads, I was expecting you to say "write off"

Still sucks though

if it had been a 5th gen it would have been a write off but insurance companies are now recognising the collectability of a 4th gen and insurance values for them are now going through the roof

bad luck mart but 4 is gonna be 5 then 6 then..............
its all part of the ownership programme

Gutted for you mate you were just saying to me at mimms how you have had to repair the lip 4 times