Jonathan's Turbo D

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Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by jonathan_dyane » Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:58 pm

Hello everyone.

Some of you will remember my announcing in May that I had bought the Mandarin Turbo D that Medway had on ebay news of which has been conspicuous by it's absence. I can now reveal that the reason for this (with apologies to those on Autoshite who I have moments earlier already regaled with this sorry tail) is that after three and a half weeks of excellent motoring (in which I clocked up nearly a thousand miles, replaced a couple of spheres and got to really like the car) I crashed it :(

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Sixteen years motoring without any loss of no claims and I had to go and ruin it all by ploughing into the back of a minicab. Oh how I wished I could have smashed up my previous Vectra instead which I could have weighed in without a guilty conscience! I confessed up to the insurance bods and confused the woman by announcing that I wouldn't be claiming; no way those sums would add up!

I reflected on the best course of action and given that I had no desire for a different car at this juncture I might as well see if I could fix her. I stripped off most of the damaged parts so I could see what the structure looked like:

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Well aside from bending the inner wing most severely and ripping off the (clearly already rotten) bumper bracket things didn't seem too bad. I was particularly fortunate too in that I had access to specialist panelbeating equipment:

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Thankfully Paul from Anglesey was able to come to the rescue with secondhand parts from a car he had broken in the same colour. Annoyingly as well as mashing up the obvious parts I had also bent the intercooler and smashed the corner off the (otherwise immaculate) radiator so of course I had to replace them too.

After a morning of hammering it seemed she may just see the road again:

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And today I finally got her almost back to the condition she was in before I wrecked her (note the addition of correct wheel trims supplied by Lankytim which to my eye improves the look no end).

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Now I can move back on to the list of XM niggles I had to work through and was ready to approach before I had the bump!
Jonathan.
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by russ92xmsed » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:20 pm

Well done that man. That's fantastic saving it. Great work. :D You wouldn't know to look at the finished results from the outside. I suppose it's so much easier knowing most of the front end just unbolts, therefore straightforward to replace things.
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by Dieselman » Sun Jul 13, 2014 7:43 pm

Once stripped that inner wing didn't look too bad. It could really have done with a bit of a pull rather than just bashing, but.

Is the cab damage being claimed for, if so, why not claim for yours as well but you supply the panels, under a contract repair?
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by captainhaddock » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:19 pm

Looks like quite some bump you had. I suppose you hit the mini cab from the rear? Anyways well done, wish you more luck from now on.!

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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by jonathan_dyane » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:24 pm

Aye, could really have done with a pull Will but I had neither the facilities nor the money for that. Thankfully there was enough leeway in the bumper mounting poles to get away with the minimal movement of the chassis leg. Thankfully the subframe didn't shift which was the clincher...
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Post by Eddie nuff » Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:30 pm

Impressive work there Johnathon. I see you've put Paul's favourite trims on. :P
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by citroenxm » Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:45 pm

Well done.. been waiting for this thread.. Good Work!!

Always ready to sell those types of trims if I have any lieing around.

you want to see what johnathan came to collect all the parts up in.

Wing
Bonnet
front panel with fans
rad
intercooler
headlight
side light
bumper
nose cone
bonnet hinges

let the guesses begin..
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by CitroJim » Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:05 pm

Excellent stuff indeed Jonathan :D Good work sir!
citroenxm wrote: let the guesses begin..
A C1 with a roof box?

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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by citroenxm » Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:07 pm

CitroJim wrote:Excellent stuff indeed Jonathan :D Good work sir!
citroenxm wrote: let the guesses begin..
A C1 with a roof box?

:)

Uuu nope..
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Re: Jonathan's Turbo D

Post by Dieselman » Mon Jul 14, 2014 6:35 pm

Hmmm. A GS Club estate.

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