dmchale
09-26-2007, 04:09 AM
I was hoping to jump back into the SL forums, after a long time away, about being how happy I was that my family was finally a Scion family after my wife's sunfire (pos... /kick) finally bit the big one. After months of gentle prodding and not wanting to oversell the brand, once she took a test drive she agreed that she liked the ride and couldn't beat the options for the price. So two weeks ago, her '08 xD sat side by side against my '05 xA. Very happy.
Enter this past weekend. We took our 22mo-old daughter to Sugarbush for a long weekend, which if you don't know is a ski resort in upstate VT. On sunday we were driving home when my wife suddenly had to pull emergency maneuvers to avoid an accident in front of us. Enter the Jeep we met while trying to avoid the *other* accident......
http://ravaged.net/bluecrush/blueCrush1.jpg
Our insurance company told us today that it is NOT being totaled, so we await the final damages amount once it goes up on a lift. All I can say is thank god everyone from both cars walked away from the accident. Our daughter's car seat did it's job to the 9's, my wife has a scrape/bruise on her right knee from the impact against the center console, and I walked away with only mild neck pain which has already been green-lighted by the docs pending 7-10 days of OTC pain meds.
While I'm extremely upset about the whole incident, I do want to give a HUGE shout-out to Scion for making one hell of a solid car. My xA was rear-ended last year and held up beautifully with only the bumper needing to be replaced, and while my wife's new car is going to need a lot of work, it's amazing to look at the outside and realize that I was sitting in the passenger's seat and walked away. From the inside, you couldn't even really tell how bad the impact was since nothing had truly collapsed into the vehicle - the different pieces of the door all kind of popped off each other, but there was no real "intrusion" into the passenger space which helped to keep us all safe.
My wife also has a habit of naming her cars appropriately to the color they are, but she likes to spend some time with them before a name comes to her. An old car was "Black Beauty", her last one the "Silver Bullet", and the xD..... now "Blue Crush" :P
Enter this past weekend. We took our 22mo-old daughter to Sugarbush for a long weekend, which if you don't know is a ski resort in upstate VT. On sunday we were driving home when my wife suddenly had to pull emergency maneuvers to avoid an accident in front of us. Enter the Jeep we met while trying to avoid the *other* accident......
http://ravaged.net/bluecrush/blueCrush1.jpg
Our insurance company told us today that it is NOT being totaled, so we await the final damages amount once it goes up on a lift. All I can say is thank god everyone from both cars walked away from the accident. Our daughter's car seat did it's job to the 9's, my wife has a scrape/bruise on her right knee from the impact against the center console, and I walked away with only mild neck pain which has already been green-lighted by the docs pending 7-10 days of OTC pain meds.
While I'm extremely upset about the whole incident, I do want to give a HUGE shout-out to Scion for making one hell of a solid car. My xA was rear-ended last year and held up beautifully with only the bumper needing to be replaced, and while my wife's new car is going to need a lot of work, it's amazing to look at the outside and realize that I was sitting in the passenger's seat and walked away. From the inside, you couldn't even really tell how bad the impact was since nothing had truly collapsed into the vehicle - the different pieces of the door all kind of popped off each other, but there was no real "intrusion" into the passenger space which helped to keep us all safe.
My wife also has a habit of naming her cars appropriately to the color they are, but she likes to spend some time with them before a name comes to her. An old car was "Black Beauty", her last one the "Silver Bullet", and the xD..... now "Blue Crush" :P