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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 10:40 AM
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Just got hit

Right at the B pillar. Pics later, both LH doors are toast.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 10:42 AM
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Sorry, that sucks. Is the B pillar OK?
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 10:43 AM
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Damn,another one bites the dust
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 12:47 PM
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Whose fault? Insurance money for you?

Where were you at?

That really sucks...I almost got hit by a Portland Police car the last time I was in town at 122nd and Halsey.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin
Whose fault? Insurance money for you?

Where were you at?

That really sucks...I almost got hit by a Portland Police car the last time I was in town at 122nd and Halsey.
i almost got hit last night, and thank god not in the max. was driving a cavalier

here's what happened
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anyhow, i'm on the bottom straight lane going up, in a stickshift, taking my time cuz i'm not in a hurry (ok i lied. i was going slow because i couldn't quite adjust to his 90% useless-travel clutch)
some idiot in an suv cuts around me, goes straight in the turn-only lane, cuts me off just before we crossed the street... i was going maybe 15 in 2nd at the time but even so... he damn hear sideswiped us. granted, you have to basically move over about 10ft going across the intersection, because the right turn lane is actually the lane lined up with the other side's only lane... but it is labelled..


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i hope all you need is new doors. don't want to see Queen's music sung about third gens no mo'.

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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 01:07 PM
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i hope all you need is new doors. don't want to see Queen's music sung about third gens no mo'.
But he has 6 more 3rd gens, at least.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 01:15 PM
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Sorry, that sucks. Is the B pillar OK?
Pillar looks like it escaped unscathed Although the rear door is tweaked, hopefully it's just the door and hinges.

Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin
Whose fault? Insurance money for you?

Where were you at?

That really sucks...I almost got hit by a Portland Police car the last time I was in town at 122nd and Halsey.
Cop almost broadsided you?? How'd that happen?

Nope the accident wasn't my fault, I was heading N on 39th between Halsey and Sandy on my way to the 84 onramp, she came out of the parking lot there which used to be a karaokee strip club or something, it's a Real Estate office now. She was on her cell phone and took a left out of the parking lot without stopping or looking for traffic, right into the side of my car as I was driving by doing 20-25MPH. I felt bad for her though, she was crying about it, and was pretty hot too. I handled it well, I was nice to her and told her I understand, ect...

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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 01:18 PM
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On to the gore.. My Max is so fast the doors peel right off!





Old Sep 21, 2007 | 01:27 PM
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meh,a couple doors and your good to go..
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 02:03 PM
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yeahhhh new door time. sucks too my fav max are pear white ones
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 02:55 PM
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yeahhhh new door time. sucks too my fav max are pear white ones
they are rare though. Mine's a pearlwhite. Needs some help with the paint tho.. a couple flat-white touchups and it's kindda scratched and needs washing. there was another one near here but it's a GXE door so you would ahve to tear out the keypad and also it's got chrome trim and whatnot.. but my JY sucks and i'm done dealing with them anyhow.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 03:55 PM
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sucks you got hit but at least it's not trashed.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by capedcadaver
they are rare though. Mine's a pearlwhite. Needs some help with the paint tho.. a couple flat-white touchups and it's kindda scratched and needs washing. there was another one near here but it's a GXE door so you would ahve to tear out the keypad and also it's got chrome trim and whatnot.. but my JY sucks and i'm done dealing with them anyhow.
Are pearl white maximas really rare or are you just saying that?
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 04:24 PM
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3rd gens are rare period. It depends on where you are I guess, but there seems to be quite a few CH0 3rd gens around here.. Hard to find them in parts cars though. But it doesn't matter much now, I am now finally going to repair and respray the whole thing
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 04:51 PM
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In NY they have too many 3rd gens, if u drive for 20mins chances are you will see 1 every 15mins or so.

Damn!! atleast u werent hurt or the car wasnt too badly damage. Two new doors and ur good to go
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by capedcadaver
they are rare though. Mine's a pearlwhite. Needs some help with the paint tho.. a couple flat-white touchups and it's kindda scratched and needs washing. there was another one near here but it's a GXE door so you would ahve to tear out the keypad and also it's got chrome trim and whatnot.. but my JY sucks and i'm done dealing with them anyhow.
Blah!,try finding a emerald green 3rd gen in a yard,I havent found one yet in any of my local yards,(8 major yards within 40 miles of me/w approx 50-75 3rd gens in all..none are emerald green)

Originally Posted by Hectic
3rd gens are rare period. It depends on where you are I guess, but there seems to be quite a few CH0 3rd gens around here.. Hard to find them in parts cars though. But it doesn't matter much now, I am now finally going to repair and respray the whole thing

I think the rarity of them is a regional thing,there are quite a few just in my little town,and many more in the middle tn, area. for the most part,almost every time i am out running errands i see a 3rd gen somewhere.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 05:21 PM
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Id be pissed if my car got hit but then I would beable to get the rust fixed!!
I raaaaarely see a 3gen in my town of nebraska, everyone here has like an older honda but I do see one once and awhile but not everyday.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by MyGreenMax94
Blah!,try finding a emerald green 3rd gen in a yard,I havent found one yet in any of my local yards,(8 major yards within 40 miles of me/w approx 50-75 3rd gens in all..none are emerald green)
I saw an emerald green VE5 in a local JY a few months ago... although neither the VE nor the 5 were in it. I think it was rear-ended.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 05:24 PM
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if it goes through the insurance company they will probably total the car.

but it looks to be fixable.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by MyGreenMax94
Blah!,try finding a emerald green 3rd gen in a yard,I havent found one yet in any of my local yards,(8 major yards within 40 miles of me/w approx 50-75 3rd gens in all..none are emerald green)

I've seen so many mint ones in the yard its not even funny. And the thing is, they all have had PERFECT tan leather. Among many of em I clearly remember the last one which had 4th gen saw blades, it looked beautiful.

Anyway I doubt pearl white ones are rare. Blue and Gray are the rarest IMO

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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 06:00 PM
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I've seen so many mint ones in the yard its not even funny. And the thing is, they all have had PERFECT tan leather. Among many of em I clearly remember the last one which had 4th gen saw blades, it looked beautiful.

Anyway I doubt pearl white ones are rare. Blue and Gray are the rarest IMO
Shut up..
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 06:01 PM
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Shut up..

Its ok dude, you know that whatever you need, I gotchu
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 06:08 PM
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Its ok dude, you know that whatever you need, I gotchu
Awwwww..

I need to make a trip up there to pillage yur yardz..
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:14 PM
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I know its a little OT here but this is the last one I swear! lol

How about a 3rd gen meet at the local chicago JY. I'll arrange for the yard to be exclusive to maxima owners ONLY and arrange so we can get extreme out of town discounts
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:31 PM
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haha,teh wifey will shoot me dead if i buy anything alse for teh maxima right now,but maybe in a few months or at tax time..
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:37 PM
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Man this is messed up. This girl is 20 years old, was heading to her third day at this job she got so she could buy her own car. She wants to settle outside of her insurance and has thanked me repeatedly for agreeing. It actually makes me feel guilty though.. I just got off the phone with her after a 45 minute conversation that felt more like a "get aquainted" type conversation in the beginning of a relationship. I think that would be a first though, "hey babe thanks for the settlement, how about a night on the town, it's my treat?"
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:38 PM
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Rarity kind of depends on the year, but I think the white pearl isn't that rare because they made it for all 6 years of the 3rd gen. It was actually an option (cost more) to have the pearl paint. However, it was very popular and I think a decent amount of people paid extra for it. Same for the z32s.

For trivia reasons, I think the only color used for one year (1989) is Silver Green Pearl Metallic (code FGO) so I am going to surmise that color is the rarest.

Hectic, that looks like one of those deals where they total out the car, give you a check and you buy it back for $400 then put two new doors on it. I think a body shop would either want to charge a mint to match up that pearl paint or want to repaint the entire car. Plus, two new doors

If they try to go this route, make sure you get "fair market value" not their stupid value, which is always like 30 percent too low. Ask Jeff92SE about tactics. I know he got a lot for his car.




As for my near wreck with the cop, he had his lights and siren on, but he went through the intersection on my green light (his red) and he was going very fast behind a line of cars where I couldn't see him entering the intersection. He basically used the bike lane/right hand turn area to go around three lanes of cars. I was going North on 122 and he was going West on Halsey and it was busy, so there were a lot of cars in the Halsey lanes waiting for the light to turn.

I heard the siren (luckily I had slowed down to about 25-30 because of it), but I couldn't see where he was until we were both in the open intersection, where I locked up my brakes and he missed my front end by a couple of feet.
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:39 PM
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Man this is messed up. This girl is 20 years old, was heading to her third day at this job she got so she could buy her own car. She wants to settle outside of insurance and has thanked me repeatedly for being willing to. It actually makes me feel guilty though.. I just got off the phone with her after a 45 minute conversation that felt more like a "get aquainted" type conversation in the beginning of a relationship. I think that would be a first though, "hey babe thanks for the settlement, how about a night on the town, it's my treat?"
Sounds like a good date.

At least if things work out you would have a good story as to how you met.
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Originally Posted by Hectic
Man this is messed up. This girl is 20 years old, was heading to her third day at this job she got so she could buy her own car. She wants to settle outside of insurance and has thanked me repeatedly for being willing to. It actually makes me feel guilty though.. I just got off the phone with her after a 45 minute conversation that felt more like a "get aquainted" type conversation in the beginning of a relationship. I think that would be a first though, "hey babe thanks for the settlement, how about a night on the town, it's my treat?"
Haha, I can imagine an answer to that: "I'm not going out with someone who drives a messed up car"
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff Clavin
Sounds like a good date.

At least if things work out you would have a good story as to how you met.
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Old Sep 21, 2007 | 10:51 PM
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around here it's almost all black, blue, and gray and beige. never seen an aztec red in raleigh.. never seen an emerald green, and i've seen one or two CH0s and one of them is under a cover.

Anyone have statistics on production?
Old Sep 21, 2007 | 11:58 PM
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i got hit last week... hit and run... i heard from mcc that a lot of people got hit.. it's a bad year for the maximas
Old Sep 22, 2007 | 03:34 PM
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It really has been a bad year for me when it comes to accidents. I need to move out to bumble **** where theres space and people can drive. Not like this moron infested city.
Old Sep 22, 2007 | 04:57 PM
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My maxi got hit about a year ago in a parking lot. The person bent my right fender and broke my brand new clear corner I also had to bend out my hood do to it not closing properly.
Old Sep 23, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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So Hectic, Is she that good looking that you're happy that you got hit?
Old Sep 23, 2007 | 01:07 PM
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It really has been a bad year for me when it comes to accidents. I need to move out to bumble **** where theres space and people can drive. Not like this moron infested city.

No matter where you go, you will never be able to get away from moronic drivers.
Old Sep 23, 2007 | 01:08 PM
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So Hectic, Is she that good looking that you're happy that you got hit?
Let's put it this way, i'm not happy I got hit...but i'd be happy to hit it
Old Sep 23, 2007 | 02:08 PM
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Old Sep 23, 2007 | 03:32 PM
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Let's put it this way, i'm not happy I got hit...but i'd be happy to hit it
Maybe a couple pictures or a video of you two would be nice Kinda like the little teen bf/gf videos on youtube
Old Sep 23, 2007 | 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by nForce
Maybe a couple pictures or a video of you two would be nice Kinda like the little teen bf/gf videos on youtube
So I say you get her myspace and keep talking to her on the phone

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