Girlfriend had a bit of an argument with a lampost in a car park on New Years eve, was trying to cut across all the empty parkind spaces INSERT INTO post VALUES ( towards the exit ); as the car park was totally empty and in the dusk light out of the blind spot sprang a large unlit post.
Looking at teh damage you'd think she was doing at least 20mph at the time of impact, not so, she was in fact travelling at 9mph, I wouldnt have believed it myself except I was in teh passenger seat.
Total approximate damage was 6,500 quid, Elephant.co.uk coughed up after I convinced them that their book prices on what the standard Galant is worth, bears no relation to the VR4. Because the full impact was taken by the wheel which was turned therefore exposed, pushed the wheel back into the arch and pretty trashed the front suspension, then the roll off from the tire meant that the lampost traveled down every driver's side panel as teh car was still moving. Had the car not been so heavy the damage probably would have stopped with the front.
Anyone else suffered a heart breaking moment like this with their VR4 ?