Ouch

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DAAmn B what were you thinkin? What are you gona do with the car now?

 

Actually I was coming around a curve on a highway and hit a metal pipe and lost control of my car, hit a curb and went into a grassy field. The car is actually fixed now. this was about 3 weeks ago. The grand total was about 2 grand, Insurance took care of it.

 

yeah that sux.......how did u do that....were you drunk (jk) or were the conditions on teh road bad....good luck getting that fixed......looks like an expensive job to me!

 

see above your post.

 

yeah baby! How do I around to getting me one of those mods?
JK Glad to hear you didn't get hurt and that your car is all fixed.

 

Good

 

damn man .... that must of been mad scary ... glad everything worked out ok

 

Damn the wheel looks bad, but did the axle just snap? I've never seen a broken half shaft before, but that looks like it snapped clean in half.
-hype

 

definately looks like some major damage, damn that looked wicked man..could the car even move afterwurds? isnt the strut/spring messed up as hell too? can that ever be aligned to perfectness again?

 

i did almost the same thing, except the axle didnt snap, just tore a little, and the wheel was moved back toward the fender, and it was a ***** to get it on the tow truck....3 trips to the ****ing mechanic and my alignment is tsill ****ed up....vears right sometimes, and steering wheel shakes between 60-80 mph

 

i would have cried if my car was injured like that...that to know that both of you are ok!

 

My car was in bad shape, they had to flatbed the thing every where and while doing that they ****ed up my rear bumper. but since I've gotten it back the only complaint I have is that the car makes a creaking noise when I turn and reverse or go forward, and if I brake and the nose dives or if I gas and the nose goes up. In any case, I could have been a LOT worse. Thank god there wasn't any other car involved. I was lucky that I didn;t damage the tranny, the car slid for a good few yards on with the front two wheels unable to support the front end.


Alignment seems ok, I had to replace three rims and three Kuhmo's. Car vibrates a little more then it used to on the higway, I think it might be wheel balancing or something, but other then that I think that car took the hit pretty well.

Kevin

 

that looks painful..

 

insurance didnt go up?

 

Back when I wrote service for a Chrysler dealer I had a rental Cirrus come in with the same damage, only the impact to the axle busted the tranny off of the engine and took a trans mounting ear off of the engine block along with it. Repair was over $11,000 with the new motor and trans! This was back in '96. Nissans must be a little tougher eh?

 

Maybe the Nissan front suspension was designed to "fold" a little
better and absorb impact rather than transfer it to the expensive
bits like tranny/motor.

 

This is very true... the lower control arm is designed to collapse backwards towards the rear of the car... if youv'e seen one off the car you can see how it collapses.

I did the same thing... fixed rim... junk yard control arm, sway bar, dealership bushings and bolts... rotate/balance and alignment... $310 plus 8 hours of my time... mechanic told me it be around 2 grand

 

I took a curb at 20 MPH after getting cut-off and losing control of my car. I hit the brakes, determined that I was going to nail the guy in front of me...took the next lane to the right...found out there was road construction...locked the brakes...flattened 4 orange cones and then bonked the curb. My wheel looks fine, but my steering is no longer centered. I have a lifetime wheel alignment so I'll see if they can get the steering straightened as well as any camber or toe that might have gotten messed. The guy who cut me off took off and pretty much left me with the damage....what a jerk!

 

wow thats crazy!

 

wow, that's amaizing that it got fixed, I would not want to be the mechanic fixing that thing, I mean, you look at it and say "hmmm... I guess it should be this way, so lets TRY and move it back to where it was and see what happens...

but it's definatly good that you got it all straightned out

Vinipux

 

Ouch is right !!!

 

I have yet to find out. Probably will.

 

Same thing happened to me but just on regular streets just messing around. Took a left turn lost traction completely and hit the curb front right wheel at about 35-50mph as people predict. Grand Total of $2900 and yours looks like you have more damage then me Kev.

Chris

 

The worst was the look on the mechanic's face when he looked at what was behind the wheel. OMG I wish I had a camera. It was priceless. But when I first saw the car on the flatbed I was like If the tranny was damaged, that would have been the thing that totalled the car. You guys should see the pics of the other side not as bad but the left side broke the lower control arm and axle.


Kevin

 

for one side $2900? Wow mine was :

Everythign on the right side.

Lower control arm, and axle on the left.

Two Tokico's,three rims and three tires.

That came out to $2500, but Of course $500 was out of my pocket for deductable.

 

Think of it this way. If both your wheels bent the same way, you could have the smallest turning radius ever for a Maxima!

I took a curb at 35 in my mom's Outback once, I only hit the left front. It was $2700 couting the deductible...oops, sorry mom. All I did was bend the rim and all of the left front suspension parts too!

 

dang, that sucks.

 

you know, I was thinking the fact that you have a FSTB probably saved you by making the car more rigit, so you get less or no frame damage

Vinipux

 

Is the FSTB able to do that? I always wondered if the FSTB increased the car's safety in a collision involving the front/side of the car.

 

here's a pic of the other side


Ouch 3

 

That's too painful to look at

 

Yet even more painful