One more reason to go for the auto gearbox

It took me a long time to decide and I pulled every single excuse to justify taking the auto gearbox. But a few days ago I nailed it and crashed pretty badly with my mountainbike and broke my elbow. If it weren't for the auto gearbox, I'd be stuck in the house now . I'm the only one in the house with a driver's license.

Talk about accentuating the positive, broken elbow but I can still drive.

Hope it mends quickly.

Do you need to let your insurance know - presuming you have a plaster cast ? (seem to recall a similar story)

(21-10-2012 07:03pm)gw76 Wrote:  Do you need to let your insurance know - presuming you have a plaster cast ? (seem to recall a similar story)

No idea actually, I'll give them a ring tomorrow.

Wish you a speedy recovery so that you can enjoy your Evoque with both hands

(20-10-2012 03:27pm)Kimv Wrote:  It took me a long time to decide and I pulled every single excuse to justify taking the auto gearbox. But a few days ago I nailed it and crashed pretty badly with my mountainbike and broke my elbow. If it weren't for the auto gearbox, I'd be stuck in the house now . I'm the only one in the house with a driver's license.

Sorry to hear your troubles Kimv, dangerous stuff that mountain biking! having been laid up for a while this year I know what its like! Not overly sure you should be driving or your insurance company will be very happy with you driving in that state though, but needs must I guess. But i'll still stick with the Manual!

Get well soon!

Depends which elbow he broke - I bust the ball joint on my right arm years ago and changed my car from a TVR to an Auto Volvo 480ES. There was no way I could drive the TVR even without a cast on my arm (you cannot immobilise the balljoint in a cast!) it was too painful but I could drive an automatic. So if KimV has bust his left elbow he should be able to drive fine! Now he just needs to grow up and get a Defender to replace the mountain bike................ I did that too!

I have the auto box to. The main reason being that we have so much slow traffic in The Netherlands during rush hour a manual box get very uncomfortable. With an auto box you can just drive using the brake.

(20-10-2012 03:27pm)Kimv Wrote:  It took me a long time to decide and I pulled every single excuse to justify taking the auto gearbox. But a few days ago I nailed it and crashed pretty badly with my mountainbike and broke my elbow. If it weren't for the auto gearbox, I'd be stuck in the house now . I'm the only one in the house with a driver's license.

Breaking some part of me never entered my head when deciding between manual or auto. Maybe I need to look at things differently, or maybe not

Hope you elbow mends quickly, I packed in Mountain biking in my mid 40's due to not liking pain and my injuries taking longer and longer to heal