How to Ruin a RR Phantom drophead

Pub247 · 25-01-2012, 10:07 PM

Repost from another forum funny **** really

Not sure if anyone has posted or seen it yet

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/newsbu...ould-cost-100k

Bucknaked · 25-01-2012, 10:15 PM

$40k to $50k for seat covers.

falconnut · 25-01-2012, 10:23 PM

Well thats one way to blow $100k, good thing its insured for a measily 1million $

Iggypoppin' · 25-01-2012, 11:50 PM

I fail to see why it's funny that someones car was damaged through a mistake like leaving the roof down. I'm sure others would not like to be laughed at for basic human error.

**Polyal** · 25-01-2012, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

I fail to see why it's funny that someones car was damaged through a mistake like leaving the roof down. I'm sure others would not like to be laughed at for basic human error.

Are you high?

Its mildly amusing if not slightly entertaining

2011G6E · 25-01-2012, 11:56 PM

It's hardly ruined...even brand new Rolls Royces are basically hand built...what a man made, another man can fix. There's really no such thing as a "written off" Rolls Royce or Bentley, unless it's actually been crashed beyond repair. They're all worth fixing...even the Shadows from the seventies that you can pick up for around $20,000 upwards now.
Remember too, it's a million dollar plus car...$100,000, even if it did cost hat much to repair, is only a tenth of the cars value. Say you paid $50,000 for an FPV Falcon...would ou be happy if they were going to write it off for $500 damage...?

Kryton · 25-01-2012, 11:56 PM

That could very easily be written off.
Warped wood paneling which cant just be replaced piece by piece, wiring and electronics that would be damaged etc etc.
Dont forget, any repairs have to be guaranteed for life.

Road_Warrior · 26-01-2012, 12:00 AM

Statutory writeoff I bet with all the probable water damage to wiring and electrical systems. It's the same as a car being in a river, obviously without the engine getting a gutful of water.

gtxb67 · 26-01-2012, 12:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Iggypoppin'

I fail to see why it's funny that someones car was damaged through a mistake like leaving the roof down. I'm sure others would not like to be laughed at for basic human error.

agree - i cannot see how it is funny
maybe people are jealous they cannot afford it, or maybe just lack respect for other people and cars

falconnut · 26-01-2012, 12:13 AM

I think its funny

Pub247 · 26-01-2012, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by 2011G6E

It's hardly ruined...even brand new Rolls Royces are basically hand built...what a man made, another man can fix. There's really no such thing as a "written off" Rolls Royce or Bentley, unless it's actually been crashed beyond repair. They're all worth fixing...even the Shadows from the seventies that you can pick up for around $20,000 upwards now.
Remember too, it's a million dollar plus car...$100,000, even if it did cost hat much to repair, is only a tenth of the cars value. Say you paid $50,000 for an FPV Falcon...would ou be happy if they were going to write it off for $500 damage...?

Ruined and written off are to 2 different things i used ruined in title as i it was better than write off that the other OP used.
I would call leaving the roof down on a million dollar car in ****ing down rain getting interior soaking wet "ruined"

Seriously how can you not get a giggle out of this ?

**Polyal** · 26-01-2012, 12:15 AM

Oh come on some people are too serious...its a car, and Ill take a wild stab and say the guy as enough poo change for some full comp. Its a nuisance and perhaps a waste of raw materials at best.

mik · 26-01-2012, 12:15 AM

Meh........ wack some AU fairmont buckets in her, a couple of cans of crc water displacer, be right as rain

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falconnut · 26-01-2012, 12:16 AM

HAhaahahha.

mik we should get some fpv and tickford badges and go to town!

VICFPV · 26-01-2012, 12:49 AM

Insurance fraud if you ask me.
How can anyone leave the roof open when they could see it was going to rain.
They just want to get rid of the car and get something else.

Scott · 26-01-2012, 12:56 AM

If you own a car like that and leave it anywhere, for any length of time with the roof down you are either:

1. Wealthy enough that it just doesn't matter;
2. A crim looking for an insurance job;
3. A complete idiot.

It's simply bloody funny when such an act of wanton recklessness or stupidity comes to the fore.

Bossxr8 · 26-01-2012, 01:02 AM

I'm sure that when parked in the street with the top down it gets plenty of fluids projected into it anyway.

I don't know why you'd park something like that with the top down unless you were trying to show off like a total wnkr. I'd keep the top up and know that at least when I get in it i'm not going to be sitting in someones spit.

Pub247 · 26-01-2012, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by gtxb67

agree - i cannot see how it is funny
maybe people are jealous they cannot afford it, or maybe just lack respect for other people and cars

LOL now thats funny, telling us we have no respect for this cars . THis guy obviously has none for his Rolls

2011G6E · 26-01-2012, 01:25 AM

I'm kind of betting that the leathers, materials, wiring, and other stuff used in the interior is of a slightly better quality than our average Falcons that couldn't stand a five minute summer shower coming in an open window...

In fact, you can just about lay real money on a bet that at some stage during the design process, a typically-thorough Rolls Royce team of designers and engineers would have tested what happens if some owner's a numptie and leaves the top down during a rain storm and know exactly the outcome and have designed stuff on dropheads to protect them in the remote possibility of water ingress...have you seen the trouble they go to designing the operation and details of little things like minor interior fittings you hardly even see? They'd have thought of it and done something about it...not to mention the typical over-engineering of everything in a Rolls...they make the entire dash assembly out of one huge lump of magnesium...not because it's easier or cheaper, but because it does away with a lot of joints that could in the future possibly become a squeek or rattle...

pottery beige · 26-01-2012, 01:28 AM

that rich you usually get around in a dilligaf t shirt......

Pub247 · 26-01-2012, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

I'm kind of betting that the leathers, materials, wiring, and other stuff used in the interior is of a slightly better quality than our average Falcons that couldn't stand a five minute summer shower coming in an open window...

In fact, you can just about lay real money on a bet that at some stage during the design process, a typically-thorough Rolls Royce team of designers and engineers would have tested what happens if some owner's a numptie and leaves the top down during a rain storm and know exactly the outcome and have designed stuff on dropheads to protect them in the remote possibility of water ingress...have you seen the trouble they go to designing the operation and details of little things like minor interior fittings you hardly even see? They'd have thought of it and done something about it...not to mention the typical over-engineering of everything in a Rolls...they make the entire dash assembly out of one huge lump of magnesium...not because it's easier or cheaper, but because it does away with a lot of joints that could in the future possibly become a squeek or rattle...

If so, let us not forget this is a million $ car, where's the rain sensor that automactically closes the roof when it rains? Should have thought of that one huh? maybe i should work there?

ccel · 26-01-2012, 03:51 AM

really how many sooky mummas on here. we have all seen friends/people ruin cars that shouldnt have, but i would've waited till owner came back then vid it, then you know the full story

ltd_on20s · 26-01-2012, 03:57 AM

all that cash, and rolls still didnt put an auto roof shut in place...

Stefan · 26-01-2012, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 2011G6E

It's hardly ruined...even brand new Rolls Royces are basically hand built...what a man made, another man can fix. There's really no such thing as a "written off" Rolls Royce or Bentley, unless it's actually been crashed beyond repair. They're all worth fixing...even the Shadows from the seventies that you can pick up for around $20,000 upwards now.
Remember too, it's a million dollar plus car...$100,000, even if it did cost hat much to repair, is only a tenth of the cars value. Say you paid $50,000 for an FPV Falcon...would ou be happy if they were going to write it off for $500 damage...?

You need a calculator

Kesh · 26-01-2012, 10:19 AM

I don't find it funny, but it says

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A commenter on another video of the car said he saw the owner return looking unconcerned.

That's a bit low to be honest.. That may be why some people find it funny..

Spanrz · 26-01-2012, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by pottery beige

that rich you usually get around in a dilligaf t shirt......

Think that this was the gist of the story. The owner didn't care about the rain and shrugged it off. Probably got another sitting in the shed at home or at the mechanics getting the last rain damage repaired. LMAO!

Auslandau · 26-01-2012, 10:39 AM

I am sorry but you really do need to chuckle at the absolute stupidity of some. Shame about the car ..... But really!

Reaper8 · 26-01-2012, 01:29 PM

and you wonder why our insurance premiums are so high , through stupidity like this

pottery beige · 26-01-2012, 01:58 PM

i rocked in to my favo seafood joint to grab some of my favo SA prawns...

parked and locked the BA all paranoid like......

walks up seafood place and out front is one of these flash RR's....

sitting there running.. idling away.. no one inside it....

man if i was three parts more dodgy it would have been a fun test drive.....

motto of story is....

these dudes are on another level.. wipe their bums with $50 notes rich..

mik · 26-01-2012, 02:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

I'm kind of betting that the leathers, materials, wiring, and other stuff used in the interior is of a slightly better quality than our average Falcons that couldn't stand a five minute summer shower coming in an open window...

In fact, you can just about lay real money on a bet that at some stage during the design process, a typically-thorough Rolls Royce team of designers and engineers would have tested what happens if some owner's a numptie and leaves the top down during a rain storm and know exactly the outcome and have designed stuff on dropheads to protect them in the remote possibility of water ingress...have you seen the trouble they go to designing the operation and details of little things like minor interior fittings you hardly even see? They'd have thought of it and done something about it...not to mention the typical over-engineering of everything in a Rolls...they make the entire dash assembly out of one huge lump of magnesium...not because it's easier or cheaper, but because it does away with a lot of joints that could in the future possibly become a squeek or rattle...

i don`t think you give our local cars enough credit, i`d put a 50 on it you leave a roller ungaraged like a big percentage of our local cars with varying tempretures of 0 to 47 degrees it would be pile of crap in couple of years.