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Then on the 28th of August, the prado got into a little altercation with a wash out on a dirt track up in the victorian high country, and now they tell me I won't see her again until the 20th of October 
Here's the story:
We had been 4wding all weekend and had just stopped for lunch on a pebble bank in the middle of a river. After lunch, we had 1 last track to do before we went home. We were going at about 30-40km/h as it was rocky but smooth. 2km's in we noticed a few wash outs so backed off the speed. I was going up a steeper bit (10-15 degrees) when before I could do anything there was a concealed wash out and I feel in it at about 20km/h. Bang! I bottomed out hard. Drove out of the washout and got out to inspect the situation, everything was good with the exception of the driving lights which moved 1", pushed those back into their sport and off I went.
The car drove perfect so though nothing of it. At the end of the track, we stopped to air up our tyres. Tyres pumped up, I closed the bonnet, and noticed that it was sitting up a little bit on the LHS, didn't think anything of it at the time, and figured it was just an optical illusion. Drove back to melbourne and got the car washed 2 mornings after. After washing it, this is the first thing I saw:
I was a bit bloody disappointed, but still didn't connect the two events.
Got to work and at lunch, I started stewing on that, and the moved bonnet and showed one of my fellow workers the scratch and shifted bonnet. He's looked at it and goes.. hmm doesn't look good, go to a panel beater as your front left fender has shifted.
Off I go...
Anyway, turns out I bent the engine bay skirting and the front left fender, as the front left tyre when it bottomed out, smashed up against the guard and pushed everything out of place. Got told it was no small job as half the engine would need to be dismantled to get to it and that I should contact the insurance.
Off I go on my merry way to contact AAMI, and get told to go to one of their SMART centres and in 3 days my car would be fixed... ripper I thought!
As soon as I get there, the mechanic looks at me and goes... mate way out of our league. Leave it with us, we'll get AAMI to have a look and they'll get it fixed.
Get a call a couple of days later and get told that it's a 6k job and that it'll be done in 2 weeks. 4 days later, get another call saying that upon further inspection and measuring, my chassis bent a little bit on the front left and that they'll have to send it to a 3rd mob to get the body removed, chassis put back into it's spot, then sent back for the panel work and then I'd get it back in late october. I also got told that this is an extra 8k on the quote... Now I got told to await another call from AAMI as the insurance bloke wants more info on the accident.
I'm starting to get a little worried that they're going to weasel their way out of fixing my car because of the suspension upgrade, or who knows what!
I guess we'll wait and see... In the mean time I'm car less, but on the upside I've borrowed my dad's 200 series V8 twin turbo diesel, and I'm loving it
Lorenzo
Here's the story:
We had been 4wding all weekend and had just stopped for lunch on a pebble bank in the middle of a river. After lunch, we had 1 last track to do before we went home. We were going at about 30-40km/h as it was rocky but smooth. 2km's in we noticed a few wash outs so backed off the speed. I was going up a steeper bit (10-15 degrees) when before I could do anything there was a concealed wash out and I feel in it at about 20km/h. Bang! I bottomed out hard. Drove out of the washout and got out to inspect the situation, everything was good with the exception of the driving lights which moved 1", pushed those back into their sport and off I went.
The car drove perfect so though nothing of it. At the end of the track, we stopped to air up our tyres. Tyres pumped up, I closed the bonnet, and noticed that it was sitting up a little bit on the LHS, didn't think anything of it at the time, and figured it was just an optical illusion. Drove back to melbourne and got the car washed 2 mornings after. After washing it, this is the first thing I saw:
I was a bit bloody disappointed, but still didn't connect the two events.
Got to work and at lunch, I started stewing on that, and the moved bonnet and showed one of my fellow workers the scratch and shifted bonnet. He's looked at it and goes.. hmm doesn't look good, go to a panel beater as your front left fender has shifted.
Off I go...
Anyway, turns out I bent the engine bay skirting and the front left fender, as the front left tyre when it bottomed out, smashed up against the guard and pushed everything out of place. Got told it was no small job as half the engine would need to be dismantled to get to it and that I should contact the insurance.
Off I go on my merry way to contact AAMI, and get told to go to one of their SMART centres and in 3 days my car would be fixed... ripper I thought!
As soon as I get there, the mechanic looks at me and goes... mate way out of our league. Leave it with us, we'll get AAMI to have a look and they'll get it fixed.
Get a call a couple of days later and get told that it's a 6k job and that it'll be done in 2 weeks. 4 days later, get another call saying that upon further inspection and measuring, my chassis bent a little bit on the front left and that they'll have to send it to a 3rd mob to get the body removed, chassis put back into it's spot, then sent back for the panel work and then I'd get it back in late october. I also got told that this is an extra 8k on the quote... Now I got told to await another call from AAMI as the insurance bloke wants more info on the accident.
I'm starting to get a little worried that they're going to weasel their way out of fixing my car because of the suspension upgrade, or who knows what!
I guess we'll wait and see... In the mean time I'm car less, but on the upside I've borrowed my dad's 200 series V8 twin turbo diesel, and I'm loving it
Lorenzo
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