Crashed

[shaneyboi35]

me and my mate just went out for a little drive in his 1275 mini cooper, came of a roundabout going about 30mph down a nice straight road then CLONK the right wheel bearing snapped or something and the wheel completely buckled the steering wheel spun two whole turns to the left and weve smashed straight into a electricity box, complete write off !
gota recomend the sabelt harnesses and sparco buckets though! kept me in one peice, ill get pics up of the mess tomorrow

[Asa-James]

ouch! sounds like a good'un. at least you walked away, and thats always a good thing. cars and "scenery" are replaceable, lives never are!

[shaneyboi35]

yes thats the main thing at the end of the day , not really looking foward to the whiplash in the morning ! the sad thing is it took him a year to restore it and it was a real beauty. it will be a while till he replaces it!

[Asa-James]

is he getting the car back to find what caused it?

[brainsnova]

thats a real shame sorry to hear it.

[nova_saloon]

cant see why it would of snapped, but had got to be pretty bad to do so, but yeh i agre with novaSR-Ish, a life if irraplaceable

[shaneyboi35]

yeah hes going to have a look tomorrow in the light then the insurance will be coming round to investigate

[bmw156]

ouchy, sounds painful

[AlexW]

I bet that looks a mess, Minis dont crash well :(

[Gashgusher]

glad ure in one peice, CLUNK CLICK EVERY TRIP!

remember what jimmy saville says!

[Ernie]

At lease it wasnt the nova.
But glad your both ok.
my mate crashed his mini into a tree with me and my ex in there.
I took the stereo out with my leg then had to kick the door open.
Bit of wiplash the next day but they are bloody strong old things.

[shaneyboi35]

yea i had to kick my door open aswell, both the wings came completely out of place and the whole chassis was twisted looks a right mess, some of the welding actually came apart, but yes atleast it wasnt the nova

[shaneyboi35]

http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee337/shaneyboi35/Photo-0089.jpg

[shaneyboi35]

http://i533.photobucket.com/albums/ee337/shaneyboi35/Photo-0090.jpg

[let_nova]

i fail

:edit:

[shaneyboi35]

you can see from the first picture how bent the wheel is and the electricity box we got wrapped around

[nova_saloon]

yeh dewffinatly wernt going to fast by the size of the dent, still the realy shame that, looksl ike a nice mini! is he going repair it you recon?

[shaneyboi35]

no its beyond repair, the sills are al twisted and the bulkhead came in about a good 5-6 cms the whole dash fell out

[Welshy]

cut lot out and put a clubby front end innit and vtec it!

[Adam]

Not good.
Ive seen the front wheel fall off a Mini driving infront of me before. Quite weird seeing a wheel moving at 40mph shoot off down the road......

[Novasport]

I had a 1380 Mini Cooper as my first car, was an awesome bit of kit but I quickly sold it after a mate of mine crashed his into another car head on. We were lucky to be alive, they had to cut the roof off to get us out and he had a very long stay in hospital. After seeing the sate of the car I knew mine had to go, thats when I moved on to Novas.

[Novasport]

Thought I would pop some pics on of the old beast, just dug em out...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_054_1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_055.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_056_1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_057.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_058.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/NovaSport/IMAGE_059-1.jpg

[dj_wudgey]

well the main thing is your all ok dude

well it does'nt really bother me bout the car dont like minis lol

[burgo]

ouch, poor mini. those boxes are fooking tuff tho lol

[dj_wudgey]

ouch, poor mini. those boxes are fooking tuff tho lol

yea the front end off that mini does give the look that those boxes are tough!!