Thanks for your constructive input.

I did, she was balling her eyes out after I got done yelling at her. The state trooper made me sit in my car just so I would just the hell up.

For everyone telling me about insurance and court, I get it yeah.... I could have gotten money out of her eventually. I understand that. It doesn't really matter to me, I didn't feel like wasting hours and hours of my life battling for a few grand. I understand that it was a lot of money, it just wasn't worth it for me to go after her. You win some, you lose some. Not a big deal. Can we stop discussing this now? I didn't post this thread to get legal advice.

 

agreed

 

car looks great, dont listen to people saying you shoulda scrapped it etc. your car is worth to you what it is and thats that.

 

I say 5k was well worth spending on a car like yours... good job, looks awsome...


sad thing is she is probably still driving... now without a license either

 

Yeah, probably. =/

Amen. I'm glad someone else understands the reason.

P.S. I love the targa GXL

 

well, the car does look good.... and it's your 5k, so **** it.

 

good Job on the car!..nice and Clean...I don't think it's the Monetary value of the Car,It's the sentimental value.To see your Car all fudged up and Bent out of shape,after putting your heart and Soul into it,it would be hard to let go.I'm glad to see everything worked out for you.Also glad to see that you weren't hurt,and you get to "drive another day"in your car.Thumbs-up!

 

I'll throw in my two-cents worth...

It's great to see ANY FC in that good a shape. I have junked a couple of pretty decent RX (including my original RX3 Wagon), and regret it all the time.

I have a black 89 vert now that is in fair-good shape, and all original. Giving it the slow fix up now, and glad i didnt get rid of it

Fixin' it up was the right thing to do!

 

You could have at least asked her to pay the cost of repairs.

Either you are an idiot or the accident was your fault and you're an idiot.

So now you have a FC with $10,000 invested and its still stock, slow, and non-turbo.

Oh, but it has low miles!

Oh, but you can buy an FC in good condition for around $2000 and rebuild your engine for under $2000!!!

Congratz, you are an idiot.

 

YOU IDIOT! you painted over the black rubstrips

your car is ruined now

It was very pretty before spoilerless white/black rubstrips and s5 tails

Sorry,
Ben Martin

 

or he's not just another broke *** FC owner.

If he can afford $5k for bodywork, he should be able to do other stuff.

Some people prefer clean cars over shitty looking gutted out tunacan racecars.
-Ben Martin

 

you most of missed it where he wrote when he got the it had 27,xxx miles and 3 years later summer drivin i suppose it has around 35,xxx with a brand new paint job that looks amazing so go ahead and try to find 3 like this for 5k

 

you must be the idiot here you dont get it do you... ill perfer to throw 10k and have a beatiful fc the runs perfecttt then other fc's out there that have rust, look like ****, and are drivin like 1 week out of year because it keeps breaking... where in that situation you'll end up spendin the same or more to get your fc loooking like his with NOO problems... and im surprised noone mentioned it yet... the guys fc looks better then most on this forum and if you have nothing good to say about it dont saying anything at all... as its probly just jealously because i wish mine looked like that right now but its getting there

 

So when I have some money to blow and someone tries to screw me over I'm going to let them because I can afford it.

Yeah right...What I do get is if I bought another FC in good shape and invested 10k, it would be better than stock when I got done.

 

I'm putting 10k into my car and rebuilding/porting the motor, ceramic coating lotsa stuff, doing coilovers, standalone, the fuel system and ignition
pretty much everything is brand new, every nut/bolt on the engine and everything besides rotors, irons, pulleys and front cover will be brand new.
new radiator, new hoses, new tstat, new wiring, etc etc etc

Why? because FCs are 20 year old rotten junk. Well not junk, but they sure as hell are rotten.
I would love to have a great paintjob and a clean *** interior, but thats next.
I just did this because I blew my motor and it prompted me for a rebuild.

I think he's totally smart. It's a beautiful car besides him painting over the rubstrips and I'm happy for him upkeeping his 7. And $5k is about what a paintjob costs. Much less and you either have a good hookup or are getting a not-so great paintjob.

You go and tell an FD owner that a $5k paintjob is a waste on a stock car.

Now not having the bitch pay for anything is another story, but thats his issue.

 

The paint job for the RHD FC project would run you just over 7k + body work time. The paint job on our v8 vert would run you around 3.5 + body work.

Repainting noble or crystal white and masking off the windows and so on is not a very pricy paint job.

 

nice fc clean and only 46k. those other guys that say 10k blah blah blah can leave because if there not willing to put the money in there cars because they would rather buy new ones. there just not really into fc3s and fc3c like every body else, it dosent mater if it makes monitary sence its for what you want.

any who props on the fc

PS the painted white strips makes it look cleaner and better less 80's

 

If I really really cared about going after the girl, I would have. I don't care. $5,000 isn't that big of a deal to me. If it is for you, whoop-dee-do... you're probably broke as ****. You don't know the situation, you don't know how much trouble it would have been. Why do you care so much about what I decide to do with my own money anyways?

Thanks for the support.

$5k was for redoing the whole car. The damage alone was not $5k, obviously... probably some where around $2,000 - $2,500 (for the body work). There was damage to the unibody and the frame. I bought new taillights, a brand new bumper and a brand new front fender which cost ~$900. So now we're up to a little over $3000. That's $2000 left over for the paint job. From my experience with my other cars, he did this whole car for quite a bit less than he usually would have.

And, let me make this clear for one and final time. I did persue her for quite some time. It is still unclear if she is going to pay me or not. We had a court date set up and everything. A week before the court date, she called up my lawyer and pleaded with him to drop the case and she would settle out of court on the account that she is a college student and has absolutely no money (not even to pay for insurance) and there was no way for her to pay for my court costs, hers and the car. She would have had to drop out of college to pay for everything. My lawyer and I talked it over with her and she had agreed she was going to pay us some, if not all of the money once she was able to secure the funds. However, I have lost all faith in that and she now refuses to return my phone calls.

She was not soley responsible for the accident anyways. It was a 10 car pile-up (hence the title). From what I know from the police report, she was not the person directly behind me 2 seconds before the accident. The person behind me was the one who caused most if it, if not all of it. He swerved out of the way just before he was going to hit me. He went off on the side of the road and just drove away. Since the girl right behind him did not see the person in front of him braking, he swerved out of the way and she hit me dead on. And the rest is history.

For this, I am sympathetic because she did not have time to stop and she did not have any other time to do anyhting else. She braked, but it wasn't good enough. Now, usually how these things work is that whoever hit who is responsible for the other car's damage. Yeah, I know she is technically responsible. However, I'm not going to wrestle someone out of college and their career right away because of some stupid accident. It wasn't that big of a deal to me to just suck it up and pay for the car.

That's that. Sorry if I'm an idiot for letting a poor girl go to college and not rip away all of her money.

 

Er, well, I can't edit my previous post anymore... but this will probably be quite confusing once you read the rest of the post. I stopped going after her after she stopped returning my phone calls. I don't really care about the whole thing. It was a whole lot easier to just say I didn't go after her than write out that whole story. But i did anyway. oh well.

 

lol Id prolly of let her go too unless she was non english speaking illigal mexican.

Just saying 5k for the body work is a bit high.

And no its not that big of a deal ive spent over 80k on FC's the past year alone.

 

Do you mean $5k for everything? Cause, like i said, the bodywork alone was probably less than half of that.

 

Thanks for taking the time to clear up your situation. Now it makes sense why the repairs cost 5k out of your pocket.

I know you didn't post pics to get bashed on about how you spend your money but your account of what happened was a little vague.

The car looks great. It looks like a real pro job. I like how you had the black stripe painted- with the tail lights it could easily be mistaken for a S5. It has that more modern look.

 

i still think painting the rubstrips was teh worst decision you could make.
leave that **** for the 10AEs.
The white s4's w/ black rubstrips are the best looking of the s4's....

s4 ftw!

 

i mostly agree. the two tone thing looks great-- but the all white still looks alright.

 

Thank you. Whether it was a little vague or not, It's easier to ask questions to clear things up rather than bark at me. It was irrelevant to the time line and progress of the car. I didn't think it was necessary to go off on a tangent about the legal situation.

As for the molding... it's just as easy to take the paint off of it if I ever get tired of it. It's not an irreversible modification. I still haven't made up my mind on how well I like it. What is the general opinion/concesus on the shaved badges? Does it look good?