Deer + Car = Bad

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

I was doing 85 on the interstate to get home for curfew and Bambi dedided to jump out in front of me. Damage is $5000 on my

Looks like I'm in the market for a new car... so I was kinda thinking I'd like a little 4 banger because gas is so high. I was looking into the Probe, Celica, and Prelude. Most likely from the mid-90's. Any other suggestions?

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[Ignatowski 5,000+ posts]

thats messy

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! why did it have to happen to a taurus??

look into the Camry, those are great little cars and are great on gas.

 

[Worlddre 5,000+ posts]

pooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr qqqquuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeee???????????. yeah dude too bad for the car.

 

[InhumanAcura 5,000+ posts]

most probes are v6's...and preludes take premium..just to let you know..

sorry to hear your misfortune, lucky you're alive

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

insurance? what about asking the deer if he had insurance? LOL

lame. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/clap.gif.178cba2c538c68e720c727fcb024b19c.gif

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

yah car wasnt worth having insurance what was i thinking. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

well... that would just be illegal //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I had a similar situation with my car... only with much less damage. If the damage is more than the car is worth, they will reposess your car and give you it's estimated value. I really had to fight hard to keep my car, since you absolutely cannot find a car for $1800 that is in better shape than this one.

 

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

About the insurance, I only had liability because it was a 1992. It wasn't worth having full coverage for a $1500 car. And no the deer didn't have insurance... lol.

The Probe I'm looking at in the paper is a 4-cylinder, InhumanAcura, and thanks for the info about the Preludes. I'm leaning away from them because of the almost inexistant back seat... The Probe's backseat isn't much better, but at least you can fit people in it.

Oh, and I'm looking at a couple late 90's ZX2's, also.

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

maybe you shouldn't have been going 85?

 

[MetalMaxima 10+ year member]

Pastry, that avatar has me cracking up!!!

 

[XDrkmanX 10+ year member]

 

[Denial]

well... that would just be illegal //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gifI had a similar situation with my car... only with much less damage. If the damage is more than the car is worth, they will reposess your car and give you it's estimated value. I really had to fight hard to keep my car, since you absolutely cannot find a car for $1800 that is in better shape than this one.

They dont "reposess" your car, its YOUR car, in your name, your insurance company cant just take it.

I was going through the same situation with one of my camaros, they dont just "take" your car though, they give you the choice to either take what they are giving you for the car (blue book value) or just keep the car and get no money out of it, witch thats what i did.

They called it totalled, just becuase it needed a new radiatior support, new a arm on the right, and a new bumper and front spoiler, calling a 92 RS with 72,000 miles on it totalled and only wanting to give me $4,800 for it, i dont think so.

If you do go the other way though, they pay you bluebook value, then you have to buy the car back from them from whatever set price they have, useing the money they just gave you for the car, THEN if its totalled you have to get it fixed, or put all back to stock, witch is very stricked, no rims or anything of the sort, to get a salvage or reconstructed title, witch also costs lots of money to do the whole process, also, your going to have a nice RC or S on your title, whenever you sell your car, youll have a fun time explaining that one..

I work at a garage and just got done doing one of these for somebody, they spend over $8,000 fixing and getting their car back to stock, i had to inspect it, take pictures, and send them away to get them looked at, turns out it failed becuase it had bigger then stock tailpipes, now he has to start all over again, the process takes about 9 months... you can not drive the car during this time.

But, your just getting a new car, and i wrote all this for nothing basicly.

 

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

maybe you shouldn't have been going 85?

I had to get home in 5 minutes for curfew...

 

[PRIVATEpastry 10+ year member]

D*mn, poor car... its a deer sandwich!

 

[bri487 5,000+ posts]

you killed bamby you ****er!