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Old Sep 9, 2009 | 01:42 AM
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yes i had a wreck coming home from work today, what a way to end a already bad day. Sucks big time.
here is what happened:
Going down interstate truck in front of me swerved at last minute to avoid hitting large 18wheeler re-cap. I tried swerving to miss it also but caught it and ended up spinning through median which had the concrete water trough in the middle also slid of a small tree, into the oncoming side.
Thankfully i did not hit anyone on that side and i was not hit either.

year 2008

Just from visual, and trying to get it off of road way.

Basically whole driver side, deeply dented all the way down the car
driver mirror gone
Fender - crumpled
door was held shut from fender
bottom rocker-gone
front wheel tire off rim, pushed back into firewall area
broken axle
rear tire pushed all the way back towards tail light(when wrecker was loading it it just kept going farther back.)
Side airbag deployed.
leaking all kinds of fluids on driver side guessing brake fluid
From the little known what should i expect.
Does it sound totaled?
If this is in the wrong section I am sorry.
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 01:54 AM
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Sorry to hear that. Glad you are ok. Hope you had insurance if not your screwed.
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:12 AM
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ouch man. at least your okay
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:13 AM
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Don't worry it'll buff right out
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:15 AM
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Originally Posted by teejoker12
Don't worry it'll buff right out
Yeah thats what i thought about doing
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:26 AM
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damn that sucks bro.. hope your oki... just curious thou,, got any pics of the car?? d
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:49 AM
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I'm no car expert but that sounds totalled.
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 02:56 AM
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Does sound totalled...
I wrecked mine a couple months after I bought it and I thought it was totalled but they fixed it some how a little less then $15,000 in damages. So who know's may or may not be totalled but most certainly does sound like it.
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 03:29 AM
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yeah, but i owe less than 6k on it, and it had 31,2xx miles on it. So im thinking all the parts, body work ,paint, labor will be high and i dont know if it has been twisted. friend from work has cell phone pics will be getting those tomorrow.
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 03:47 AM
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wudnt it actually be better tho if insurance calls it totaled then they pay like the amount of the car or replace it with a brand new one?
Old Sep 9, 2009 | 05:22 AM
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that sucks bro, but on the brightside, you're ok. post some pics of the damage.
Old Sep 10, 2009 | 04:31 AM
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scionlife.com should start an online "person that estimates the damage".
lol it seems like every week someone is wrecking a car. and asks for info...


glad your ok... if it is totaled you should get around blue book
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