D.B's Defender 110

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby ice4x4 » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:32 pm

Balls! Thats terrible :( You must be gutted....

Hope the wee fella heals up quickly....
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby uptomynutsinruts » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:34 pm

Hey dude, shit what a shame about the truck, and hopefully your wee mans leg is on the mend already and the mrs and yourself are alright soon. Your standard of work is incredible and by all the comments saying everyone comes to this thread to look at your work, I hope it helps motivate you to go bigger and better, all the best man, watching with interest and anticipation!!!

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby nzhunter » Mon Sep 09, 2013 5:36 pm

DieselBoy wrote:Giving the insurance company assholes to get her back to Hamilton ASAP. So much at stake with it sitting way down there full of everything!!


If you wanna go on a mish to go get it let me know aye

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:43 pm

nzhunter wrote:
DieselBoy wrote:Giving the insurance company assholes to get her back to Hamilton ASAP. So much at stake with it sitting way down there full of everything!!


If you wanna go on a mish to go get it let me know aye

Dan


She's all sorted for getting a ride home, should be getting dropped off at our place tomorrow, cheers for the offer though man :D

On the hunt for a replacement 110 now.

Only prerequisite is that it is a 300tdi, due my huge collection of engine spares, and all the new bolt on stuff my current engine has.

Keep your eyes out for me folks, anywhere in the country is with in reach for the right truck :D
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby churchill » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:56 pm

Geeze, just saw this. Best wishes to the family and good luck with the truck.

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby Smurf » Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:58 pm

Shit, glad no one was majorly injured.
Sorry to see such a nice wagon so messed up.
Best of luck to the family Pete.

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby MATT4U » Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:02 pm

Its in hamilton, just saw it pass by my shop

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:40 pm

Yup, got unloaded and dragged back into its parking spot in the carport at about 2pm. Bloody good going from Dion at Waikato Towing. Would recommend him if you ever end up in this unfortunate situation :?

Insurance assessor coming tomorrow hopefully.

I got some good carnage pics earlier in the day light, will get those up later when I head in side :D :D

I'm 99% sure after a good look today that with out a new chassis that's the end of the road Dusty. But all things are repairable if you throw enough $$ at it, so who knows what the outcome maybe.........
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby Jerry » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:10 pm

would another model LR chassis fit? eg cab chassis or ex army one?
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby kbjj » Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:32 pm

Fark me... glad to hear all are ok, considering. Why the fark can't people stay on there side of the road :x
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:36 am

Pics as promised

A sad sight:
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Wrestled the bonnet off for a look. Dam think was jammed on there good!!

Engine sitting high and off to the left
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That's gonna leak

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#### I gave that a hiding
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Engine mount on chassis is 200mm further rearward than the mount on the engine. Hard to see, but its that torn rubber looking thing on the chassis, and the other half is under the gold colored nut. Ripped it in half much!!!!

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Time to go underneath and find out why

Dented sump
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Kinky as
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Yup, she's rooted
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Hard to get a photo of this one, but its severely kinked just behind the bump stop. Ouch.
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So with the chassis kinked up that much, and front diff moved back, something in the drive line had to give, so I went hunting. Pretty easy to spot this one!!

It's popped the transfercase off the back of the gearbox :shock: :shock:
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Also looks like its given the chassis a tweak right back at the A arm mount
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So yah, not looking good at this stage.
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby kiwipete » Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:25 am

Shit DB, I'm gutted for you, such a shame. I do hope the driver had full insurance too.
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby callum007 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 6:55 am

Wow, Glad your all intact...
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby slidenyo » Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:37 am

whats the story with removing all the non insured add ons that you've been and put on post insuring the vehicle?
does the insurance company take ownership once a claim is applied for or once it has been accepted?
just as I drive past turners yard a lot and the pranged cars often have odd wheels and most of the good bits stripped off them that weren't standard.
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:54 am

kiwipete wrote:Shit DB, I'm gutted for you, such a shame. I do hope the driver had full insurance too.


The car did have 3rd party insurance, but it will be declined because he was a Learner driver just turned 16, driving his mates mums car with 3 of his mates in it without a suitably qualified person sitting in the passengers seat (full drivers license, held for 2 or 5 years or what ever it is). Even then he still would have had to have been a named driver because he was under 25, so no insurance for them.

Thing that guts me the most is that because of his age he can't be charge with careless driving causing injury.

I suspect all that's gonna happen is that he will go to youth aid or what ever it is, get some counciling, and pay my insurance company back at $2 a week. You just know he has no concept of the the consequences of the injuries he has caused and what the loss of our truck is going to cost, even with reasonable insurance cover, not to mention the countless hours I have spent chipping away over the last two years rebuilding it bit by bit ready for a overland tour of Australia next July.

Suppose I just have to just get in there and do it all again :lol: :lol:
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby slidenyo » Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:26 am

insurance to cover liability is sometimes lost on youth.
I think you are able to go to some sessions with the young chap to explain the impact of his actions.
Hell if I was 16 and did that to someone's truck i'd still be mowing their lawns and cleaning the new one once a week.
This is a really good time to see if his moral compass points in the right direction.
If you do get to do the victim impact thing through youth aid and he's remorseful enough and local. get him helping you.
Pretty bitter pill to swallow I know but at least it points another kid in the correct direction, not letting him develop an insolent FTP attitude.
Not to mention free labour.
We got burgled when I was at high school and my old lady did a similar thing with this young girl (a neighbour)that had broke in and pinched a heap of our clothes etc,
she was actually a good kid and ended up at uni when she probably would have been drinking piss pregnant and on the dole by now if the old lady hadn't asked her to do some gardening with her to repay for the damage.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if the insurance companys go the parents of both kids for liability one supplying a learner with a vehicle without supervision and the other for pranging the car.
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby mike » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:48 am

man I bet it would be hard to describe the crap feeling you guys have right now, with the injuries to the little one and sarah and also yourself and the loss of the LR which was the ticket to oz next year. I know you only have a year but given the speed of your builds hopefully youll be able to make it. Youll be doing everything a second time so the build should be quicker by default, and then add your build speed on top and youll most likely have one chopped out in 6 months :wink:
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby SMOKEY » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:55 am

Re- Insurance claims and who owns what on a vehicle, the advice I was given when I had a claim with OLD SMOKEY after a will it be written off or repaired accident. ----- Get in touch with insurance company, have a meeting with the person who is going to handle your claim and the assessor, be up front as to what extras you have got or have fitted to vehicle, let them know what could be put back to standard or how the vehicle was when first insured, it's the old story get on side and hopefully they will work with you. This is what happened in my case. Do not remove anything from vehicle as it will or could give the insurance company an OUT. I came to an agreement with my claims manager and assessor that if the vehicle was to be written off that I would have the opportunity to put it back to standard. (it was repaired),

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby De-Ranged » Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:40 am

Damm what a read.... at least your insured

As for the young driver, hopefully he has learned, probably not I used to get them come into the shed bragging about how much there fines were and wanting me to do illegal mods so they could "improve" there cars... its why I stopped doing boy racer stuff

Anyway Pete I was coming onto the thread to see what the latest was you had done to the toy as I'm planing on doing similar to a Slla 109 that I've found in the naki,missing a window (have a replacement) Has a holden 202 been parked up under a lean too for 15yrs... its yours if you want it, guy wants $500 I know its not a 110 but its there

Either way, I'm here if you need a hand to build up the new one... I'm looking at a few months of nothing while I wait for back surgery so anything I can build for ya just holla

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Postby Rotazuk » Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:40 pm

This would be a good start to the rebuild :)

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby mercutio » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:09 pm

looks like the only bits that aren't stuffed are your add ons
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby FORGE1 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:57 pm

Wow just had a chance to flick through. Not the goods mate hope all is well and on the mend.

Re the insurance you will be all good as a x insurance sales/claims person you will be looked after.

What they normally do if its written off is the buy back is 50% of the write off value. This can be negotiated from there though so if you want to try and get it cheaper but that's normally where they start.

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby danielroper » Thu Sep 12, 2013 12:17 pm

Sorry to hear about this Dave - what a sad photo.

Hope your boy heals up well and a new truck is on the horizon!

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby skid » Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:59 pm

danielroper wrote:Sorry to hear about this Dave - what a sad photo.

Hope your boy heals up well and a new truck is on the horizon!


who is Dave :? :? :? :roll: :mrgreen:
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:37 pm

skid wrote:
danielroper wrote:Sorry to hear about this Dave - what a sad photo.

Hope your boy heals up well and a new truck is on the horizon!


who is Dave :? :? :? :roll: :mrgreen:


:lol: :lol: All good :)

Dave (4x4Amb) is the legend who organized an inpromtu working bee last night and they spent until 11pm helping me pull all the cool bolt on bits off the wreck. He drew the short straw and got given the task of trying get the winch out from between the mangled chassis rails. He didn't win, porter power time :twisted: :twisted:
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby Worfie » Thu Sep 12, 2013 9:10 pm

Heya DB.

As a fellow Defender owner your latest pics are heart breaking, especially seeing the amount of time you've put into her. I hope you are able to salvage something from the old girl and perhaps rebuild her. As by chance a few months back I bought some 110 door liners off a guy up Whangeri who asked me if I knew anyone interested in a 110 chassis. I'll look up his details and see if he still has it.

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby DieselBoy » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:28 pm

Any one know they guy that owns this truck??

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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby slidenyo » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:42 pm

seems pretty legit get a local round to have a geez at it.
theres a couple in the photo's so may well be business vehicles that have been devalued a bit and may not want to pay much secondary tax upon sale hence low start price?
or fly down for a look , take cash, drive home
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Re: D.B's Defender 110

Postby wopass » Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:43 pm

In nelson at the mo bro, want me to bring it back?
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