...coming back for round two.

After a crap week what with work pressure and the xmas family demands etc I managed to add to it all by stuffing the Yeti into a Porsche Cayenne on the M62 on Tuesday night, I was recovered by the free recovery service to a cinema car park on junction 27 where I was dumped but assured it was a safe place.

Half an hour later another car transporter arrived and collected me and the yeti, we drove for 10 minutes to Pudsey where I was told the Yeti will get a lift home the next day to a body shop but I had to find my own way home and pointed in the direction of Pudsey station (crap insurance policy obviously)

In the train station, I bought a ticket to Preston and then change for a train to Warrington where a wife in a Fabia was waiting to get me home, to gloat that I had stuffed the Yeti.

All day Wednesday, we waited for the yeti to get to Warrington, late afternoon it arrived and we went to get my stuff out of it, the guy mentioned it would be assessed on Friday. To my surprise I got a call yesterday to go and collect a courtesy car, a Nissan Juke, strange ugly car but it is better than a micra sign written. I was also told by my insurer that the amount of damage and the high mileage of the Yeti it most probably would be written off, I was quite surprised.

We went to the Mitchell meet in the Juke last night and had a go in the DSG Yeti, and I started to hope my Yeti would be written off, bad thoughts I know.

Then today I got a call saying the approval had been sent to rebuild my Yeti and parts had been ordered, the strip down started and that the body shop would do there best to get Yeti back to me before xmas. For some reason I got a big smile on my face and I am now like a child waiting for xmas to have the Yeti back again, 61,000 miles in 18 months we have been through a lot together.

I can't wait.

Moral is you don't realise how good a Yeti is until you loose it, so look after yours!

Here is a before repair, I will post an after when I am re united.

Pleased to hear she's not to be scrapped; be such a shame.

Hope though they do a better job than our local VAG approved outfit in Hull; made quite a poor job of respraying the bonnet of the previous Fabia under warranty. Should have really gone back to the dealer who took it their and complained but was concerned they would only make it worse, so left it :S

TP

James, I'm so pleased to hear that your yeti should hopefully be out of surgery in a few weeks, we do seem to bond a tad with our cars as the miles pass. Your Yeti after a brief recovery should be fine and that old comfy pair of slippers will be back running on all four paws once again.

Keep us updated on the yeti recovery. Take good care of the SM, once a loved one has gone they will be missed but can never come back.... make more new memories with the SM.

Edited 7 December, 201213 yr by Hairball

With damage like that I would insist that it is repaired by a Skoda Dealer...... :yes:

I would have been happy to have given you a lift if I had known as I am not too far away from Pudsey.

I hope everything turns out okay.

work is being carried out by an insurance approved repairer, howard basford in Warrington, 2 year guarantee on the work they do and I will have another 18 months with this car. I haven't really got a say in who does the work.

You must feel better now, knowing he's/she's in good hands.

Sorry to hear about the smash you had, it's never a pleasant feeling and I should know because in my late teens I had THREE accidents in one day (family standing joke )

Glad they are repairing your Yeti as you both have a lot of history together and it would have been sad to have it scrapped :'(

I'm sure we will look forward to the 'after' photo and wish you a VERY happy Christmas with the yeti being fixed and back on your drive BEFORE this all happens.

Oh, and the Cheyenne driver can get lost His mistake for spending all that money on a less capable vehicle. :p

Had a call this morning off the body shop, he is hoping to have Yeti back to me before xmas holidays.

Thanks for all your comments too

that looks about same damage as wrote off my roomster with a 5-10mph shunt , bonnet, bumper, light, 1 wing and radiator

claimed it was cat 3 beyond economical repair £3500-£4000 to repair (5 year old, 165k miles) no damage to inner wings or structure

If your Yeti did not have a name before, it looks like it does now...............Phoenix... :coffee:

And a jolly good name it is too Hood. :yes:

Waddya think James??? :think:

I think it might just stick, my wife was thinking of Bionic, like the bionic man, he was rebuilt too. Phoenix I like.

Thanks Hood

Yeti is coming home on Friday, all repaired, just short of £3k to straighten it out, insurance premium should be interesting in March.

I will post a before and after when it's back. I can't wait, never mind 25th December 21st will be my xmas day

Yeti is coming home on Friday, all repaired, just short of £3k to straighten it out, insurance premium should be interesting in March.

I will post a before and after when it's back. I can't wait, never mind 25th December 21st will be my xmas day

Glad to hear she's due home soon, mind isn't Friday when were being invaded by Aliens and the earth iscoming to an apocalyptic end :wonder:

Unless were to be saved by a newly spruced up Monster that is

TP

I hope the world doesn't end as I have paid for my holiday!

Don't worry, the Mayans ignored the quarter days each year so their "ending" date passed long ago, and actually all it really was was the end of a "period" in their calendar, like a century to us now, and they would have restarted at year 1 again.

Don't worry, the Mayans ignored the quarter days each year so their "ending" date passed long ago, and actually all it really was was the end of a "period" in their calendar, like a century to us now, and they would have restarted at year 1 again.

Damn - now I'll have to buy some presents for the kids

Had a no fault of mine incident when the other parties insurers insisted I use their approved repairer

(30 miles away) which I declined..... a chat with my solicitor and was told I could select my own and after an argument (not involving the solicitor) they caved in.

I think you can do same if the fault is yours but they make it difficult by such tactics as withdrawing the courtesy car or any payment for it....and of course getting on the wrong side of them can have drawbacks.

I think the repairers appointed by the insurance company have done well, they have had the car two weeks or there abouts and I can have it back on Friday, I will let you know how good the workmanship is when I have had chance to look it over.

Always find the best way to inspect a car is give it a good wash; sadly that only happens after you've paid for it and it's on the drive :S

Oh glad to hear the consensus is that the world will still be here on Saturday and there will be no tripods stomping around firing heat rays at us

TP

Well I did get the Yeti back for our Scotland trip, I also made sure when I collected that they knew I would be back in the new year as the panel fit is terrible!

Nearside wing to the door is bad as the wing is proud of the door.

Bonnet fit, nearside gap is wider than the offside and the bonnet is higher than the nearside wing.

Both headlights have a 10 mm gap from where they fit to the wing and they look crossed when switched on.

Coolant has all but disappeared from the expansion tank but this could have been down to an airlock, topped up with water as this is all I have.

So in essence, body shop did rush to get the car back to me, but at the same time as rushing I think the apprentice put it back together or Ray Charles works there.

If anybody can send me some close up pictures of the fir from the headlights to the wing, also bonnet gap to wings and heights I can print them off and offer them as instructions when I go back on 4th January.

PM for my email address.

Thanks

See post #4....

See post #4....

Thanks for the "I told you so" information looby. I knew the job wouldn't be good, it is part and parcel of the body repair world.

I will however keep taking it back until it looks as it did.

Sadly this is an all too familiar tale....

As insurers serially screw repairers down to lower and lower rates, the quality sails out of the window. Bodyshops are going out of business at an alarming rate, but need the insurance work to survive!

It's not a question of 'can't do it', more a question of 'get it out of the door' on the basis that the vast majority of victims won't notice/complain.

Hang in there James - you'd be right royally p*ssed off if it was your own vehicle!