It's Back!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a damn good idea Truckster!!!!! Actually my brother-in-law, who is a mechanic but now works in a car yard selling import Jap sports buzz-boxes, had a quick look at it yesterday when we got home, is going to go over it today....... so far so good!!! But I'll keep it in mind and tell others to do that!!
Thanks mate

"May i asked what happened?"
Sure!!

On the last weekend of August, my lovely bride dodged a kanga on a dirt road out from Aratula and flipped our Nissan on it's lid. Thankfully she was totally unhurt, having been driving at <50k's, the rollover apparently was quite gentle, but bad enough to do heaps of damage. Our Patrol now sports a new roof, bonnett, windscreen, and a schmick new paint job. Our two month old ARB winch bar even went to the powdercoaters!

I know that down in the southern states, the insurance companies are hard to get along with, and AAMI have their share off detractors down there, but, here in S.E. Qld, I can't praise them highly enough! This being our first ever insurance claim, I really didn't know what to expect, or indeed what to do, but in the end all I did was a make a phone call and pay the excess.

Yeah I agree totally Peter. But it's only since owning the Nissan that I learned all this. All my other cars, I was like... No.. don't tell 'em about the stereo, they'll jack the premium up... But with the fourby... well y'know how much accessories cost, and I rang AAMI and spoke with them and they explained WHY I should tell them about everything. So I did, except about a month before the accident I put lights and a UHF in but never got around to ring them up... so they had to come out... what a pain in the butt that was! So you can bet I've already told them to expect my calls over the next few weeks while I "put-it-back-together"....LOL.... I offered to send them pics as I add stuff!!!!

Thanks Baz... oh it was difficult mate.... LOL... but we kept it pretty much in perspective. The hardest part was we knew where it was, there's a laneway that runs between two main streets here and the repairer is on the lane.... so I started using the lane as a "short cut" to peek in and see how they were going... LOL..... and my bride dropped in there a couple of times... but told them we weren't trying to hurry them up... we just wanted a good job! We can be very patient when necessary and this was one of those necessary times!

She drove it home Friday, I have found every excuse imaginable to drive it since... "do we need bread??" Gayleen has been quite nervous behind the wheel since the stack, but is getting better. It was her first accident in 20 years of driving.... and she drives a LOT. (Not just to-and-from school y'know???) And although this happened on a main road, we have booked her in for the club's awareness day this month to "start again" as it were. Do the basic stuff first and build up from there, my theory being that as she builds confidence "off-road" she'll be more confident on-road.