Hit A Fuc|<ing Truck.

I was driving rentals for the past week and had 2 near-hits. Was driving to a wedding rehearsal in Denver during rush-hour traffic, a Grand Cherokee right next to me decided to speed up and slammed in the back of almost stopped Dodge Ram - poor rental Taurus that I was driving tried to flip over when I was avoiding the Ram that was pushed in my lane. Then tonight back in Atlanta I'm driving a rental Camry - traffic in front of me stops suddenly, I slow down relatively quickly - had plenty of room in front of me - Silverado behind me is flying too fast - had to sverve around me and jump the small divider into oncoming traffic. Luckily everybody on the other side of the road stopped in time.

Oh, on the way back from the airport I was in the cab and seen firetrucks and cops on the shoulder trying to get somewhere in front of us - when we got to the place that they were going to - there is an Impala facing opposite direction on the highway and a flipped completely over Explorer. SUV/truck drivers need to take driving school before they get a license...

And serith - don't get all worked up because of this little accident - find a good body shop that will fix you up and thank some deity for keeping you unharmed. As much as we love our cars - there are more important things in life. Looking at the fuzzy pic - it might be anywhere from $500 - $1K to get it fixed up. Bumper cover is $200 or so, getting it painted is another $300 or so, then there might be some other stuff that's not obvious.

No way it's going to be that cheap to fix i think. I'll explain what happened later.. I'm still feeling REALLY ####ty about what happened.

Well, it was the first accident i've been in, and it all went pretty smoothly. Called 911, cop came in like 15min, he took both of our stuff, sat in his car for like 1/2 hour, gave the other dude a ticket for not having a rear bumper, and let me go with a police report. I called geico right when i got back to work, and i'm setup to get it looked at by an adjuster tomorrow morning @ 9am. Then i'm brining it to a good repair shop i know of (Nick Orso's in syracuse). Gotta pay the $500 deductable, and then wait for the parts and such to come in and get replaced.

#### sucks. I REALLY hope my rates dont go up a lot.

Btw, it's the hood/front bumper/grill

Yeah, but my "17k car" means just as much to me as most peoples cars who cost 2 and 3x that. It's the hassel more than anything, and the embarassment.


Whatever, that's why i have insurrance. Sorry guys, I didn't mean to make your premiums go up, lol.

You need a '77 Corolla

Originally posted by courier11sec@Oct 25 2005, 09:18 PM
You need a '77 Corolla

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You crazy? You want him to mess up a perfectly good 77 Corolla?

lol guys

Blah. It's not so bad I guess. Yes, it sucks that this happened, and I probably will end up paying more for insurrance now. ugh.

I'm dead serioius when I say I've never had car trouble before I bought this tC. I really hope it gets better. My friends at work think it's going to be the death of me, maybe they're right :/

Anyway, to make my life even better... I was promised a set of stock wheels/tires that comes with the tC by default when I ordered the 18"s with perelli rubber. Oh, that never happened. Then I was promised a set of snow tires instead, oh.. that still isn't happening, and guess what? It's snowing here in NY. Then I was told I'd have a new transmission b/c of the problems I'm having with 2nd gear grinding, oh.. that's still not happening. The tranny is on backorder, and has been for a month.

I'm inches from just selling this car, and getting an RSX or something. I mean, wtf!