Ncap Rating Deserved

[Badlass]

:( Well my lovely shiny C3 is no more.....I managed to write it off on Tuesday.
On first glance the drivers side wing is mangled and the door a kinda buckled, but on closer inspection the whole chassis is twisted.
Almost everything worked as it should according to the Ncap testing...the only thing that went a little awry was the drivers airbag...it inflated as I braked heavily to try and avoid impact making it impossible to see anything. The plastic cover flap on the steering wheel launched itself straight at my face, leaving me with a lovely bleedy nose and no glasses, they were found on the back seat.
My other half is going to have a look at the car tomorrow, but it's all a little too raw for me at the moment.
I've not had any REAL problems in 16 months of motoring with my C3 and depending on the insurance assessors offer may just go for another.

Badlass aka Crash Test Dummy

[scottp]

unlucky badlass, what caused the crash? bad weather conditions?

hope u get back in the drivers seat soon.

when i wrote off my mam's 1.4 Clio RT a couple of years ago she forced me to drive, otherwise i just wouldn't have got back in.

[Badlass]

The fault lay with me :( , I went out to overtake, the road appeared clear, next thing a fordie was bearing down on me and that was the end of my C3. At the moment I don't feel like driving, but I know it's a little unrealistic in this day and age.

BL

[scottp]

yeah i took mine off a 30 foot drop into a field, rolled end to end twice, not a straight panel left on the car.
only had a few scratches tho.

definately puts u off, u have my sympathy.

now u have the joy of going through insurance companies who's eyes will just see "£" signs, my parents policy went up from £250/year to £800+
moved elsewhere back down again.

2months later i got caught speeding, that was what slowed me down.

good luck getting urself sorted, if ur gonna get another C3 get a 1.4 hdi SX(92 bhp), not sure whatu had before but if it wasn't one of these, it should be now. Ace motor, excellent mileage, shows the boy racers a thing or two. (burned off a C2 VTR yesterday, he wasn't too pleased muhahahahahaha.

[macabe]

Given i drive c3 1.6 elc 110 BHP 16 v same motor as in c2 vtr ,I do the same when a des motor Taxi is in front i pull back for the stink, sometimes if road clear ,see then go away in the mirror driving there donkey

[Igloo_Vindaloo]

I can also vouch for the C3's crash rating, if not the quality of it's head restraints.

Some silly cow went into the back of us, while waiting at a roundabout.
"My foot slipped off the brake" :angry:

Although the impact shunted us forward a few feet, the rear bumper did it's job. It only looked like a couple of cracks on the outside, but the garage said it had to be replaced as the impact had weakened its honeycomb structure. Easy insurace job (once DVLA told traced the driver of the other vehicle, after I lost her details :blink: ).

You should have seen her (1994?) Toyota Corolla though - bumper bent, bonnet crumpled, etc.

Not sure about the head restraints though. I was the passenger and got a stiff neck and bad headaches for a few days. My wife was driving, and she's still suffering 2 months later. They say those with more slender necks are more vulnerable. But I say it was because she was leaning forward to peer around the dangerously obstructive door pillars. (All in the name of "safety"!).

Cheers,

Tim