I think I broke It

The worst day I have ever had since i have had my lotus was the day that I crashed it.

It was late September and I was on my way home from visiting my parents. I had decided to take the country lanes home as is a much more enjoyable than going on the motorway. I would soon be wishing that I had taken the boring root home.

I was winding my way through the country lanes near my parents house when I rounded a bend and a fox ran out across the front of the car, my natural reaction was to swerve to avoid it big mistake!!! on a narrow country road. My passenger side wheels went onto the damp grass and that was it I had no traction I was sliding straight towards a tree. Luckily I wasn't going very fast and the Elise had slowed down quite abit by the time I hit the tree that didn't stop it cracking my front clam shell and damaging the front crash structure.

Luckily the car was still drivable so I reversed back onto the road and continued on my way home. When I got home I rang the insurance to too start the ball rolling on getting the car fixed. Had to ring them back in the morning tho as the claims department wasn't open till the morning. Rang the insurance the following day and they were brilliant, they wanted to send the car to local body shop for repair, but I wanted it to go back to Christopher Neil for its repairs as they were a Lotus garage and felt more confident that they would do the best job. The insurance were fine with this I just had to get a quote off Christopher Neil and send it across to the insurance company.

Took the car to Christopher Neil to get a quote for the damage to the car, it needed a new front clam shell and crash structure lucky there was no other damage and these parts had done there job and protected me and the car.

The insurance authorised the repair work no problem and off my little car went to the garage to get repaired. They had the car for a couple of weeks took longer as I had asked them to have a look at my Stack dash unit as the LCD light had not worked since before I brought the car. It got sent away but unfortunately couldn't be fixed without replacing the unit so decided against it. Have now sorted this problem with abit of DIY. Car looked and drove exactly the way it always had when I picked it up after its repair good way of getting rid of the stone chips on the front of the clam.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I hadn't swerved to avoid the fox. I think the car probably would have suffered similar damage if I had hit it. No doubt that it would have damaged the front clam plus i would have had to scoop a dead fox out of my front grill yuck!!!

So pleased to have my car back exactly the way it was, I will have a few Strong words with that fox next time I see it needs to learn to look both ways before crossing the road.