I wish everyone thought like that. The road would be a safer place if everyone realized how dangerous driving on public roads is.

 

Eloquently put. Stand your ground and I wish you the best of luck with your car. It sucks to see another FD give up the ghost.

 

that sucks man

 

Aw hell........that sucks! Sorry to hear about your car, but glad to hear you are okay.
You'd done a lot with that ride, hope you can find another good one and have fun with it too.

It is sad that some 19 year old kid can basically just get away with having his head up his ***, scott-free. Oh sure, his (father's) insurance premiums will go up but that is about it.

They need to do something like this: Don't automatically have HUGE rates for teenage drivers, but hold them responsible for all their actions. Start off with cheap, affordable rates. However...
You go out and be a dumbass and get 5 speeding tickets? BAM! Quadruple the rates. You pull some dumb-*** stunt and have a wreck? BAM! You now have to pay $5000 a year for LIABILITY ONLY....which means your dumb *** ISN'T driving!

Anyway, once again cgotto....tough to hear about your car, my condolences.

 

sorry to hear about the FD...

they need to make the driver's license test harder...it's not a right to drive

 

Hey man

Sorry for your loss. I'm glad no one received any serious injuries. My condolences to your 7

Oh and I'm glad you made contact w/ the oncoming vehicle. If you swerved, missed him completely, and hit a tree or what have you, it would have been deemed YOUR fault by the insurance company. That's why it's always better to hit the object (within reason) than to swerve and try and avoid it (not to mention the chances of a fatality are lower if you hit it head-on, vs. if you swerve, lose control, and God Knows what comes next...)

~Ramy

 

+1

 

Thanks a lot for the advice and support. Ill definetly not be taking the insurance company's first offer. I have as much time as it will take to get what I want. My Fd was just my fun car, so i dont have to worry about not having a ride. Only bummer was my dad and I were just about to sign up for the local tracks certification course....Oh well, guess ill be doing that in a couple of months now..

 

sorry to hear about it man, at least your doing the right thing by getting another one. Best of luck with everything

 

that really sucks man at least you have a parts car
at least you can chop it up gt-one style and use it as a parts car
build a widebody 20b gt-one car hmmmmmmm...

 

There is no way I would keep a bent chasis. ESPECIALLY if I am going to race it. That chasis better be straight as an arrow to start off with.

 

Avoid a head on at all cost. If he's going 80 and your going 30 that's like hitting a tree at 110. Always avoid hitting any vehicle coming your way short of driving off a cliff of course

 

Oh I guess I should have clarified. That's a good and not-so-obvious point. I wasn't encouraging a head-on impact, which can easily result in a fatality. I was referring to ppl swerving into you and the such. Or in the case of a deer, DO hit it head-on. That's what crumple zones are for.

In fact, did anyone see that video of the lady a few weeks back that flipped her SUV 12 times? She swerved to avoid hitting a car that swerved into her lane. BIG mistake. If the car hit her SUV, almost nothing would have happened to her, esp. since she had momentum in her favor. AND it woulda been the other guy's fault. But she swerved, lost control, and rolled over literally a dozen times. Now it was her fortune that she survived, but most ppl aren't as fortunate in such circumstances...

~Ramy

 

man that sucks..
i guess you cant be extra cautious either way since others are gonna be driving like idiots

 

Ha, yea Im so glad I had the split second to swerve. If he hit me any more square on my door I would be badly injured or possibly killed. For sure dead if it was head on. He was so sideways if he met with my front bumper my car is so low he would have just rolled right on up the hood and took out the cab clean.

I cant believe how lucky I have been involving car accidents. I also walked away two years ago from a car doing 120 into a corner, ended up hitting a guard rail and flipping 4 1/2 times. Just had a few cuts from the window breaking next to me.

As far as luck with this FD though. Ive had the worst time with it. Dont get me wrong I loved it, but it showed no love for me. I have owned it for a little over a year and a half, and it never once performed quite right. No matter how much time or money I put into it it still had problems. ****, ive spent over a grand trying to diagnose the sequential system. The car was hit about 8 months ago by a COP, and it wasnt my fault. This thing was just asking to die, haha.

So hopefully I can just find another one, and have better luck with it.

Oh yea, and on the scene I was told that the other driver was 17, and thats why he wasnt being arrested...But when I got the police report, I found he was 19. At what point do they take somebody to jail? He was doing over 3x the speed limit. And 20ft before the corner there is a curve advisory that advised a speed of 20mph...Ha..

The kid told the cop on the scene he was doing 35mph, the cop just laughed and told the kid that you dont leave 500ft of skid marks going 35mph...

 

This suck so bad. At least no one got hurt badly. I hope it all works out for you.

 

So the insurance adjuster came out and took a look at my FD. He says it can be repaired, and the repair costs arent 75% of the value of the car. He says they will just replace the drivers rear quarter panel, the door, and the whole door jamb. Also the rear subframe will be replaced, along with the rim.

I was really hoping they would just total it, and I could re purchase it from insurance, then strip the parts I wanted from it. That way I could be on my merry way with a new fd, and all my parts that were still good to use. But, now Im stuck with a car, thats going to never be the same, and will have lost a good portion of its value now that its going to have accident history.

So to say the least Im pretty pissed. I did nothing buy get hit by a dumbass teen, and now im going to end up with a shittier car than I used to have, and I wont have the car for over a month. Of course its right in the summer when I want to drive the car most too.

Oh well, guess Ill keep this updated. Maybe ill post some pics of the car with the rear quarter off and the door jamb out or something.

This car is cursed I swear. I have had problem after problem with it. First I did the rebuild, on the first three startups I had engine fires (all caused by different problems), then after the car was running for 3 days a cop hit my front bumper/fender, then I fell asleep at the wheel a few months ago and hit a curb (my dumbass fault), now I get hit by some jackass, and during the course of all of this I have been fighting the sequential system. I have close to $600 in trying to diagnose my boost problems. I just want to be done with this car, but now I guess Ill have to wait and see what fun stuff it throws at me now.

 

Honestly, when I put myself in that situation, I would have been the one going to jail. Someone driving that irresponsibly, and showing no remorse, after almost having killed me and my girlfriend, and having destroyed my FD.....that kid's own mother wouldn't have recognized him when I was done with him.

I hope it all works out for you man.

 

it sounds like you have a guardian angel.sue that kid to compensate you for your pain and suffering,and financial loss too.

 

Actually, if the body shop that does the repair work does it right, the car will be just as strong, if not stronger than it was before. The whole car is put together with spot welds. Usually, when a bodyshop replaces a weld-in panel like the uni-side (frame around the door that's bent on your car) and quarter-panel, they usually weld the whole seam and grind it down (depending on the shop). I wouldn't worry about the repair job, as long as it goes to a bodyshop that will repair it right. Depending on your state's laws, you should be able to choose the bodyshop that you want the car to be repaired at.

Also, if you are the least bit familiar with these cars and how they are put together, I would stay close by and make sure that the shop doesn't miss anything (i.e. door alignment, quarter to hatch alignment, etc...). Also, you can probably pocket some of that money by doing most of the strip-down work yourself and by getting good used parts from someone like Fritz Flynn or Mazmart vs. NEW parts. I know Mazmart has the ability and knowledge to cut just about any part you want out of a 3rd gen so the bodyshop can just weld it in.

Sorry to hear and see of your accident. Good luck with the repair.

Joe

 

How many people have seen the car to determine if its fixable? I would have some words with the insurance about this.

+1 for sueing the **** out of the punk *** kid for everything you can get.

Also +1 for beating the kid up. Head against the steering wheel FTW.

 

Thank god your okay, seems like FDs just get pushed out of they way they are so light. Ive taken my door apart many times and its amazing how something so flimsy held up like that against another car. IIRC all Rx7s came equipped with a curse from the factory, I know mine did I was just cleaning the engine bay...and like TAPPED the green plastic piece on the hood release cable and it just like shattered.

 

This is exactly why driving in this country should be a privelege, not a right.

 

Larz, it IS a privilege. That's why you can have your license suspended and even revoked It's by no means a right It just happens to be one of those privileges that the majority tend to exercise...

 

Unfortunately you do have a point. Too many people excersize their right to breath and reproduce, too.