Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

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Re: Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

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PaulC5 wrote: Yesterday, 20:10 Roundabouts must be a thing this week. Today we were out in the 308sw, blue colour identical to yours, waiting to go straight ahead at a roundabout in the left side of our road. All the roads and the roundabout do not have 2 lanes but are just wide enough for 2 cars. The wait was quite a while due to traffic and then a gap came and as we set off somebody in a soft top BMW from our road overtook us and turned immediately left, missing us by a few feet. If the 1.5 hdi had been able to accelerate quicker we might have needed an insurance claim.
Oh heck, glad it was (just!) a near miss for you!! :o
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Re: Suspension sinks on Sundays! C5 X7 that works hard + 206 GTi HDi (and 406 Coupe and 306 HDi). - MattBLancs

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Perhaps it was also a "poorly driven German car" thing this week too - selfishly I'm mostly been prattling on about the misfortune I found myself in mid week -

- but on Monday I came across a head on collision, maybe 30 seconds after it had happened. Thankfully both vehicles occupants were largely unharmed but we had the full emergency services treatment, including air ambulance (as initially was potential neck injury, so I guess took no chances).

That was a poorly judged decision to try and overtake by a Merc driver who found himself with nowhere to go, having not completed overtake of the artic tanker he was trying to pass and with a taxi minibus heading towards him.