was driving today, and this hapened.





was driving, looked over my left shoulder to check the blind spot. then i looked straight and a line of cars were slammed on their brakes. i swerve to the left to miss them, and over corrected and went under a pathfinder and hit a Lexus' bumper. was going about 45ish. the engine cranks still, but after putting $2k on a transmission last month, it sucks big time.

 

find a shell and transfer parts, dont give up.

 

oh my gosh! yeah right, don't give up!

 

keep hope!
and hit up your insurance company asap!
those bastages... then never seem to really care

 

what's done can't be undone. stay and think of all the positives that can be made of the accident and don't give into the negatives...

"what doesn't kill you, can only make you stronger"

 

Goddamn do these things get fucked up in crashes. Thing crumpled up like a soda can.

 

Rather than a 1950's era car or a large truck where there are no crumple zones so the car stays in great shape, but the driver has internal organ damage due to the collision...

Take a note of the rest of the car after the firewall. It's in perfect shape. I've looked at pictures of mostly first gens, but also a few second gens and other cars and this usually holds true. In fact, one first gen I saw was hit at 80 MPH. Hatch area was destroyed, Engine bay was destroyed... Passenger area? Good shape.

A LOT of energy has to go somewhere when you wreck a car. I'd rather it go into bending some metal rather than bouncing my guts all over the place.


OP, good that you're okay. Time to start a part out thread...
What color is the interior? (And are there any dookie stains on the seats?)

 

Thanks for the good words, people. im not really sure what im gonna do from here. Im most likely gonna try to sell some of the parts that are in a good condition, such as the new transmission that has about 300 miles on it and the engine.

i must say that that i was surprised that nothing in the interior was damaged, and the fact that the airbags didn't go off. i was always thinking that if i ware to crash this car, that since i am 6 foot 3 i would break my knees. but it held up very well. and yea the black interior is still clean.

 

Part it, put everything into a new chassis. Ain't no thang.

I've wrecked before.

 

I'd be really worried if any airbags did go off, since only the S5 'Vert had them.

Glad you weren't hurt, and very sorry about the loss of your very clean-looking car.

 

That will buff right out. Glad to hear you didn't get hurt.

 

a clip from japan will weld right up

 

stay up man!!

yesterday i almost had a close call last night myself...

 

is that an s5 with s4 mirrors?

 

+1 thats what i did def dont give up!!!

and take any part that wasnt damaged in the wreck. i did that i sell parts and have spare parts out the ***

 

Wow, good eye. It does look like he has the '87-88-style "Aero" mirrors on there, but you can see the mouse belt in the first picture so it probably is a real S5 rather than a conversion.

 

Were these pictures taken at the scene of the crash? If so, it's amazing there is no flid leaking from the tranny or oil cooler. It looks like all the real damage is in front of the radiator. You may be able to find parts and just fix this one to fix this one if you got the time and a place to do it..

 

yea this picture was taken about 10 minutes after in happened. all that i saw leaking was the antifreeze. if i do decide to fix it, the hardest part will most likely be the frame, its bent to hell and back on the front.

 

Damn dude that suck.

 

Damn that sucks dude . Glad you made it out alright. Like everyone else said, don't give up, pick up a cheap shell and swap everything over.

 

im really glad u decided not to say **** it!!!
but the handling has be compromized, ur best bet is to get the an ugly shell, that hasnt been wrecked

 

just find another shell and start the swap

 

I sorta know how this feels, we were on an rx7 cruise about 9 cars and something cut us off up the front and everyone hit the brakes, i stopped like 30cm from the back of an fd but the fb behind me was looking out the window and hit the back of me pretty hard. My fc held up fairly well just smashed the rear bar and pushed the spare wheel well up into the boot floor a little, he copped bent chassis rails and a completely fucked front end

 

whats a boot? >.> <.<
anyways, to the op, i know how you feel, just messed up my toyota thanks to a little **** stick at my school, and ive totalled my first love (rip mistress) thanks to a slide at 50 into a median.
just do what i did, part it out, chop up and junk the frame, sell some parts, new car, all the good **** goes in, you have a better car. at least, that works with me.......being an automotive technician and all.........

Lloyd

 

Whats a boot, ok it pushed it up into the rear hatch floor, that better?