My friend bugs to drive my car all the time. He drives a 94 Maxima(Auto). To put more icing on the cake he pulled into a truck leaving school one day, and hes gotten 2 tickets. Not going to happen, and now Im going to show him this thread to show why. I dont think alot of people understand the boost is going to come on regardless if your going around a sharp curve or not, and there is no TCS to bail your *** out.

 

I take one of my good friends around in my FD and I asked him once "would you like to drive it" and he has a G35 and told me "no I just don't know how you control the car like that when you loose traction in the rear". I was almost in a movie scene, like ahhh what a great friend.

BTW, There is a law in Canada well at least in Quebec and Ontario that says that if you have collision coverage than the insurance company must cover the vehicle for 50,000$ of damage. If I find my contract ill try and scan. good luck. We have alot of good body/ paint shops around here but I guess it is a little far to go.

Good luck,

Alex

 

honestly is looks alot worse than it is..i got backed into in the same spot, and it cost me $300 to get repaired, the only reason urs would be more if cuz ur door is damaged also, where as for me it was just the 1/4 panel, but you shouldnt even be paying for it, ur friend should

 

Well that sucks..IMO I don;t let people Drive unless I know there not going to crash and also if they do they already agreed on taking responsibility for any damages which may occur.

 

ouch man .. good luck

 

That REally Sucks, i really wanted to see that car in person, the pictures made the paint look so good, and just looked superb. if insuance does total it, i would buy it back get another FD and maybee start again..... but thats me, whatever car you do choose to get, take care of it with pride......


when i Get my FD i will be very very cautios bout who drives it, it depends on how i know they drive, i was driving my buddies sklyine for 2 1/2 hours last night, he was in the back seat eating corn chips, and as long as i didn't hammer on the gas he was fine, cause he knows i have self control... no need to bag a car all the time, i'm all for seeing a cars limits, but in a controled and "safe" enviroment, although i dout any of my friends will be driving my FD when i frist get it, i will need to scare myself first before i let others try it......


Prôdigy

 

 

Ive only let 2 people drive mine so far. One friends who owns a fd more modified than mine, and my other friend with a 98 supra. I told the 2nd one if he crashes my fd I get his MKIV, haha.

 

Now that's dedication!

 

thats so sad, ive only let my gf drive mine but then she got one as well, and she drives like a nanna

 

well just an update..

brought it to the bodyshop. estimate is $5k CAD inclusive of the bent wheel being fixed. i'll need a new rear quarter panel, new passenger door shell, new control arm link (anyone has a new one?), and NOT included in the quote is the rubber piece under the skirt ($250CAD or so from mazda - anyone got a used one?). this is only the obvious damage - i wont know if there's any frame damage until we get it on the frame machine.. sigh.

anyhow, i guess now's a good time to get my front bumper resprayed since the clearcoat is peeling.. :o

 

Wow, man, I feel sorry for you... Are you really serious on getting it fixed rather than getting a another one?

 

Will it be a salvage title?

 

with a 5k price tag for fixing just buy another shell for 4 grand abd swap everything over or buy a running car and part this one out. sorry about this!!!! its sad another rx7 might be dead i hope there will be some left when i'm back from the dessert in 6 months. it seems lately that a lot of rx7's are getting into wrecks sice younger driver's are getting there hands on them. sorry again it must have been painful watching it happen. i would have been so pissed and made my friends insurance pay for it.

 

well, ideally i'd want a new one and start over, but circumstances woudlnt allow it so i gotta take this in stride and just ... appreciate what i have i guess.

as for the title, nope, it's just considered a car with an accident.

and remember guys, it's 5k CAD not USD! (and my friend who owns a bodyshop was saying bodyshops in US charge a lot more than canadian? dont know the truth behind that.. but..)

 

could be true...not sure...i wrecked mine in the same spot (4 years ago) and costs for repair were nearly 7k great bodyshop though and a near perfect fix

 

bloody hell!..... I,d be gutted if that happened to me, I hope you get it fixed.
Also get your mate to chip in on the cost......good luck!!

 

yeah i just crashed my friends 300zx the other day.. =[

 

my mrs. has driven mine - she's scared of it though, thats the key!