bad day

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

get up at 10, head out to discount tires direct to pick up a new set of 17" enkei j10 wheels and some pretty nice tires (so the guy says)



go out to Rome Hilliard Road (from Grove City, about 15 minute drive north) and pick up the wheels, and they look like just about the best thing to ever happen to my car.



driving home from rome hilliard road i figure i should get an alignment... the car has been pulling lately and i didn't want the treads on my new tires to wear too fast.

i decide that the freeway is boring and that i wanted to take side roads to 315 south (about 10 minutes north of Grove City, and about 15 minutes east of Rome Hilliard... the alignment place Bee-Line is about 5 minutes north of grove city on 71)

so in taking side roads to 315 i have to drive through a pretty bad part of town. this is probably the bottoms of columbus. and as i found out, the streets are not very driver-friendly.

so i take a right turn from the main road, west broad, to travel south to west town street, then another right to get to the on-ramp for 315 south, where i need to go.

i look up and see a green light. so my foot's on the accelerator. and i'm going about 30. and coming from my left side a silver pontiac sunfire finds my liscense plate directly in the center of the passenger side door.



there happened to be two intersections really close to eachother. one was town and sandusky, the other was town and plato, and they were probably about 150-200 feet away from eachother and not synchronized. i saw the green light from the second intersection but the first intersection light for me was red.

my car is probably totalled. her car is probably totalled.

so i run up to her and she's really pissed off, she doesn't have insurance and the car isnt even her's. so i just call the police and they show up with a cop car, two ambulences and a fire truck.

there were two young boys, probably 6 or 7, riding in the passenger side of the sunfire. they both looked completely fine, but the lady said that one of them was hurt.

bluebook value on a 95 camry is $2,500. just got nice new rims put on the car, have done many many many many hours of work on the car, and it was all nearing the end just recently, and now that's all gone.

i'm just very glad that discount tires direct allowed for a full refund of the rims and tires upon hearing about my accident. i had put less than 25 miles on them.

this blows.

thanks for reading. and please buy from discount tires direct.

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[btmorris972 10+ year member]

sorry to hear that man

 

[iagrdshaka 5,000+ posts]

Sounds like a bad deal. What really upsets me are the people that drive around without insurance. That just drives me up the wall.

 

[Tehgregzor 10+ year member]

you better had ***** all thre of the people in that car before caling the cops. teach them to not have insurance.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

wow brian.

i mean, wow. this is like terribly horrible.

but i bet you are scrambling to find a car that can fit the 8's in the doors and the 6.5's in the kicks like that one can (and maybe do a better job, since its not our first time) at making the pods //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

think of it this way, there was alot of little stupid things (ie deadener sticking out the doors a bit) and stuff that you can fix on your new ride //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

it just REALLY sucks that your pods\kicks and that uber freakin box for the avalanches is now useless //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

What happened to that lady?

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

im sorry

god i hate people without insurance

 

[Satan]

get a new front clip, paint job.. good as new

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Wow, I'm sorry Brian...that just plain sucks balls. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

Good Luck.

NG

 

[GCAdidas13 10+ year member]

get a new front clip, paint job.. good as new

Tell me more...

What happened to that lady?

I'm not sure...

i bet you are scrambling to find a car that can fit the 8's in the doors and the 6.5's in the kicks like that one can (and maybe do a better job, since its not our first time) at making the pods

actually i'm looking for anything. i dont care about the 6's or the 8's or the avalanches. i figure someone will want the kickpanels for the 6's (FS thread up and coming soon) and the 8's box might go too, i have no idea.

i'm also quitting my pizza delivery job. too much driving.

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

get a new front clip, paint job.. good as new

Except that if there was structural damage to the frame, simply covering the damage won't fix anything - the car will never ride the same again. I can't tell from the picture how bad it actually is, but he might get away with it.

 

[AVSTANG02]

Except that if there was structural damage to the frame, simply covering the damage won't fix anything - the car will never ride the same again. I can't tell from the picture how bad it actually is, but he might get away with it.

I hate people that talk like you.

It is a car ofcourse it can be made to ride the same again.

But at what cost?

 

[liar2 10+ year member]

I hate people that talk like you.
It is a car ofcourse it can be made to ride the same again.

But at what cost?

Actually, if there is damage to the frame, it is extremely hard to get it exactly the way it was. Chances are, it won't ride the same, which sucks. I'm sorry to hear about the accident, man. But it sucks more that the dumb broad was driving without insurance.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

Fixing a fuked frame would be very very hard to do, and even if you could get it back to the way it was before (unlikely), it would probably cost more than what the car is worth...therefore making it a moot point to do unless he truly wanted to keep that car.

Anyways, sorry to hear that Brian. Life's a b1tch sometimes //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif Sux you had all that work done with the audio, good luck with whatever car you get next if your car is indeed totalled (which it seems to be).

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

I hate people that talk like you.
It is a car ofcourse it can be made to ride the same again.

But at what cost?

I don't know, I like to think economically...but if he wants to put more money into the car than what it would cost to buy something new, I guess that's his choice to make...//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif