Not long after my last update, I went down to the Juicebox BBQ. Always nice to pop down and see some familiar faces.
The day after, I had my NCT... Unfortunately I failed, but only on small things. The 'full beam' light on the clocks wasn't working. Was just missing a bulb and the holder. Got the fixed easily enough. The other thing was handbrake. Not enough braking power on 1 side, so could be the cables and/or brake fluid. I'll have my friend look at them soon.
This only happened today and I'm so annoyed about it.
I put the left front wheel into a ditch I couldn't see. Ended up damaging the front sway bar and part of the subframe. Luckily the Type C is fine. So is the rest of the car, but I'll have to have a proper look when the car is on a lift.
What happened was some b***h of a woman in a Volvo, on the opposite lane, wouldn't let me go by her. We're on this hairpin where I'm on the outside of the curve and she's on the very inside, so her car's front has to swing into my lane. I've already started moving before she even came around, but she didn't care and butted up her front to mine. Mind you, I've a whole queue of cars behind me, coming down a hill, so reversing isn't the best move. She had all the room in the world too.
Because she refused to move, I turned my Civic more to the left, away from her car. BANG! Car falls into a ditch... Whats funny is she reversed away from my beached car and drove off past me, which she could have done from the start... Anyway, I kept the steering wheel where it was, handbrake up. Threw the car into reverse and just launched out of the ditch without hitting the car behind me.
Some tyre smoke and I was out. Pulled over down the road to assess the damage. Took some photos as you can see. Hopefully its only cosmetic. Car still drives straight. No funny noises.