Numpty

[laps736]

Here we go, driving home in the dark when some numpty coming the otherway over shoots a bend and comes onto my side of the road, now it's a country road and it's lashing it down. I swerve to miss him and he hits the drivers door with a massive bang. Great I think as I pull over ready to give this guy both barrells for driving like a dick only to find that hey, he didn't pull over. Thats strange I thought all decent type people pull over and apologise as they exchange details. But not this guy. He just carried on going his merry way as if nothing happened. Merry Xmas. Fortunatly he only broke the drivers door mirror, seems like the plastic over skin on the lower part of the door took the brunt of the impact. Just hope theres a sick looking Vectra out there with an equally sick feeling Vectra driver!
Now does anybody know where I can source a silver drivers door mirror for a W124 Coupe?

 

[turnipsock]

That is strange, when I was driving home two weeks ago, in my company Vectra, some chav pulled out to pass some parked and took my wing mirror with him. He also didn't stop, I turned round and went after him but there was a junction, not far away, and I lost him.

One of the neighbours had a similar incident and was at fault, he also drove off, but later got a visit from the police and was charged with leaving the scene of accident.

 

[television]

Now does anybody know where I can source a silver drivers door mirror for a W124 Coupe?

What part has broken,there have geen some on Ebay recently. when it happened on my Saab 9000,I went back next morning to the scene,found all of the gears etc and put it back together with a glass from Halfords. Back then i did not have the £200 for a new mirror.

I know the feeling,If I did not pull over and slow down for some of these numpties,It would happen all of the time in the rural area that I live. I saw on the news last night that more than 200 have been caught over the limit in Exeter already.

Malcolm.

 

[hawk20]

What part has broken,there have geen some on Ebay recently. when it happened on my Saab 9000,I went back next morning to the scene,found all of the gears etc and put it back together with a glass from Halfords. Back then i did not have the £200 for a new mirror.

I know the feeling,If I did not pull over and slow down for some of these numpties,It would happen all of the time in the rural area that I live. I saw on the news last night that more than 200 have been caught over the limit in Exeter already.

Malcolm.

This will not be popular:- one major problem is Top Gear, plus virtually all car manufacturers emphasising speed and performance in general. And cars are being made faster and faster. So naturally, when people get on country roads many want to try driving near the limits. Seeing how 'good' they are and how 'good' the car is. Being human they sometimes miss the limit and go over it. Which is why in a lifetime of high mileage driving I concluded -eventually- that staying alive involves a different approach to driving which includes leaving a margin of safety to cope with other drivers errors.

When you look at the arms race on performance between Merc and BMW (nowadays with VW/Audi and others joining in) you would hardly think there was a code of practice agreement between car makers not to compete on performance/speed.

 

[OmniCognateNeutronRangler]

you're right Hawk, not very popular.....