Someone just reversed into my Transit whilst I was parked.

Grunfeld · October 2014

Sambostar said:

What is the deal with insurance? What do I do?

Well, when G4S security van reversed into my bike, similar amount of damage....

New lid and leathers.

randomhandclaps · October 2014

Everyone's knocking this woman for not seeing you but maybe she did. You were sat in a transit tipper so she probably made the assumption you were a gypsy.... I believe this may have actually been a covert hate crime.

Sambostar · October 2014

Thieving itinerant pikie scum (See how I make the distinction from travellers and gypsies) do not drive smiley Transits, they have white MK7's or late white Mk6's at the very least. Mk5's (Smilies) have become the prestige vehicle of the self sufficient and efficient small businessman who doesn't like to squander cash and obviously, are very good at welding.

Anyway, even if I was a pikie, that wouldn't be a good idea and most people know it, because due to EU ethnic discrimination laws, I could have sued her for all of her life's possessions and still be entitled to have her living in my broom cupboard and mopping my floors fro the rest of her life, whilst my cousins would have caused her extended family endless misery for the rest of their days whilst the police wouldn't touch us.

jpfamps · October 2014

ICBM said:

If she reversed into a stationary building would you feel sorry for her? No difference really except that your truck has wheels and *can* move.

At least it should be an open-and-shut case, unlike when some old bugger reversed into the side of my car - which was also stationary, although I was in it and the engine was running - and admitted liability initially... then claimed I had driven into him, once he'd spoken to his insurance company. That did affect my no-claims even though there was no claim for damage to my car, I fixed it myself.

Presumably the only way that this could happen is that your car was moving sideways?

chillidoggy · October 2014

I know I've been banging on about this for some time now, but British schools including Transit tipper identification into their curriculum is long overdue. I mean, how the average person supposed to distinguish a genuine thieving bastard pikey from a hard-working tax paying, law-abiding, member of society once they leave school and enter mainstream life, is beyond me.

Sambostar · October 2014

chillidoggy said:

I know I've been banging on about this for some time now, but British schools including Transit tipper identification into their curriculum is long overdue. I mean, how the average person supposed to distinguish a genuine thieving bastard pikey from a hard-working tax paying, law-abiding, member of society once they leave school and enter mainstream life, is beyond me.

I thought this was common knowledge. It is like a sixth sense you are born with being a Brit. As is being able to identify every Transit model ever produced...until the Mk8..which is made in Turkey and looks like an LDV, which we can overlook. When I worry that my truck looks too old, the worst insult people can say to me is that they all look the same. These people should be deported, they have failed the their basic citizen test.

The facts that we have kids out there that can't identify Transit models, just puts the fear of god into me for hope for the future.

chillidoggy · October 2014

I can only assume that if kids can't indentify a specific model of Transit, they should be deported?

PolarityMan · October 2014

Transits are those ones that are like tallish and quite long boxy looking estates with no rear windows right?

Sambostar · October 2014

PolarityMan said:

Transits are those ones that are like tallish and quite long boxy looking estates with no rear windows right?

Where is Theresa May when you need her.

mart · October 2014

Sambostar said:
Where is Theresa May when you need her.

Out stood by a motorway, transit spotting.

ICBM · October 2014

jpfamps said:

ICBM said:
At least it should be an open-and-shut case, unlike when some old bugger reversed into the side of my car - which was also stationary, although I was in it and the engine was running - and admitted liability initially... then claimed I had driven into him, once he'd spoken to his insurance company. That did affect my no-claims even though there was no claim for damage to my car, I fixed it myself.

Presumably the only way that this could happen is that your car was moving sideways?

That's what I said - and I had photos as well - but the insurance company weren't interested. Presumably just not worth their trouble to fight it for a relatively small claim.

mart · October 2014

ICBM said:

jpfamps said:
Presumably the only way that this could happen is that your car was moving sideways?

That's what I said - and I had photos as well - but the insurance company weren't interested. ...

Ah, but they'd seen your forum post where you boasted about the Voith propulsion system you'd had fitted to your car.

PolarityMan · October 2014

Do you feel like you;re in the A-team when you;re driving it?

chillidoggy · October 2014

Sambostar said:

PolarityMan said:

Transits are those ones that are like tallish and quite long boxy looking estates with no rear windows right?
Where is Theresa May when you need her.

See? I told you so.

Sambostar · October 2014

What? Here is a educational video. It also has a tasty Mk1 Capri in it too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg6WdboK1nY

Sambostar · October 2014

One of the most fantastic vehicles ever imagined - there you go!

ICBM · October 2014

You'd never get all your band gear in that thing now they've put the engine in the back, which slightly defeats the point...

Still not as funny as Top Gear taking a bog standard Transit to a public track day at the Nürburgring and having it driven by a German woman racing driver who proceeded to overtake most of the men in their Porsches and Ferraris - round the outside of the bends in some cases. She was only very fractionally slower round the circuit than Clarkson in a fancy TVR.

Axe_meister · October 2014

ICBM;384466" said:
You'd never get all your band gear in that thing now they've put the engine in the back, which slightly defeats the point...

Still not as funny as Top Gear taking a bog standard Transit to a public track day at the Nürburgring and having it driven by a German woman racing driver who proceeded to overtake most of the men in their Porsches and Ferraris - round the outside of the bends in some cases. She was only very fractionally slower round the circuit than Clarkson in a fancy TVR.

Ahhh Sabina swooon. She's been popping up on Fifth great recently.

TTony · October 2014

Mk1 Transit = The Sweeney.

The end.

chillidoggy · October 2014

"Fire up the Tranny" doesn't have the same ring to it as "Fire up the Quattro".

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