the magnetic force of a transit works again lol

[Frag]

My mate bought a damaged tranny that had hit a stray kerbstone in the carriageway "at speed",
It went under o/s wheel then up through rear floor

Killed wheel & tyre obviously (and shocker),on closer inspection axle was back at that side.

Traced to leaf spring,it had "uncurled" at front eye round bush

[MONSTER 0NE]

Ive seen a spring snap on the curve of the bush loop on the back of a transit before dont know how it happened

[madmark]

what about a jig!
you could be crabbing!

[MONSTER 0NE]

slight up date on the story, I took the van to the local ford dealer for a quote and to replace both rear springs and check geometry including the dreaded the total is £721.25p. Had to chase my insurance company about the claim forms as I hadnt recieved them, i mentioned the repair quote and was told when they recieve the forms back they may have to send out the engineer to value the van to see if its worth repairing. If they do send someone to look at it Im gonna give it a nice clean and tidy up so it looks nice and expensive so if they do write it off I will get a decent payout hopefully. Mind you whats a S reg 100 sht lwb transit with aircon and just over 150k worth these days ?

[MinorMatt]

probably about that quote....

[MONSTER 0NE]

probably about that quote....

Hopefully it will be worth a bit more than that as i know finding one with aircon is quite hard these days

[AndyG]

£2K Tell them to find another

[MONSTER 0NE]

£2K Tell them to find another

That would be nice Dont worry I will say something along those lines if they try and fob me off with a low offer

[MONSTER 0NE]

The accessor is looking at the van today, only problem is Im not gonna be there when he looks at it as im on a course so the vans gonna be parked up at a mates garage so he can have access to it, so hopefully I will find out what is gonna happen by mid week

[madmark]

you might be lucky but i cant see them offering much myself! buy it back and move into this!
http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk/ww ... rd=transit

so rare and low miles as well!

[Gurj51ngh]

what a lovely clean van

[trigger]

I hope the Rover was a write off, be one less crappy Rover on the roads.

[madmark]

:shock: what a lovely clean van

as rare as a smiley without rusty arches!

[MONSTER 0NE]

mark dont worry i will buy the van back if they write it off and remove the bits i want and sell it on to get myself a lwb low roof hopefully as there has been a few for sale recently, but whats the betting if and when i get the money there wont be any around

[trigger]

mark dont worry i will buy the van back if they write it off and remove the bits i want and sell it on to get myself a lwb low roof hopefully as there has been a few for sale recently, but whats the betting if and when i get the money there wont be any around

What about getting your one fixed up?