My car must hate me. I was just taking it in to have a tune up and it goes off on its own and gets damaged. Well, it was partly my fault. OK, it was stupid and all my fault. I didn’t set the parking brake and it was on a very slight incline. It could have been worse. The guy at the service counter said someone else did the same thing not too long ago but her car didn’t curve into the post. It went straight and down the incline into a cement barrier. The airbags even went off on her’s.
I got an estimate of $1377 to fix the fender. Of course most of it is labor. I don’t know if it is worth making a claim on my insurance or if I should just dip into savings and get it fixed myself. It doesn’t look like that much damage but getting any body work on a car is always expensive.
I need to hear about other people doing stupid things so I don’t feel so bad. Oh, and a hug would be nice too.
I had just had about $3500 worth of body work donr on me car when I backed into a conctete pole. The pole was only about 3 feet huigh so I really couldn’t see it and I hot at at a very good speed.
Don’t feel too badly. I once decided, since it was winter and there was a foot of snow on the ground, that it would be easier to go forward out of a parking space instead of backing up into snow that had been plowed a few feet behind my car and risking getting stuck. I hit the gas, went forward, and experienced a moment of extreme confusion as my car straddled the parking stop thingie, all four wheels off the ground. I didn’t even know the stupid thing was there…there was all this snow, you see…
{{{{hugs to my fellow doofi}}}}
Don’t feel too badly.
Once, right after I’d gotten my Buick, I was driving OUT of the parking lot of the local Staples, curved a wee bit too much while trying to make a right-hand turn into the little svc road and ended up in a concrete flowerbed. Broke the edge of the flowerbed, squashed some baby flowers and a baby tree, flattened the tire AND nearly broke the axle. Took my FIL’s huge-ass truck to haul it outta there too.
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*Originally posted by zoid *
I had just had about $3500 worth of body work donr on me car when I backed into a conctete pole. The pole was only about 3 feet huigh so I really couldn’t see it and I hot at at a very good speed.QUOTE]
Wowsers! I can only imagine the damage a three foot huigh conctete pole would donrs at a low sped, no matter how you hot it.
I once tried to take the turn off McBride, east on Eighth Ave in New Wesminster. Totally nailed the curb and it was a right hand turn, too! Middle of the afternoon, kids in the car, and no discernable reason. Just - bang!
I didn’t hurt the car any, or us. Fortunately it was my own little Acadian. Those things really do bounce! :rolleyes:
Back in February I was driving to work (on my way there from school) and just two miles from the school where I work and about 1.8 miles from the fire station I began smelling smoke. I pulled over and discovered my engine to be on fire. No warning at all. In a nutshell, my car (96 Blazer 4dr) was totaled by the insurance company. I was just a few months from paying the car off too. GRRRR
Then two weeks after that I was driving to work and it was really cold out but the roads were clear. As I went around a corner the car suddenly did a 180. While sliding, one side of the car (a '94 geo tracker) lifted off the ground. So there I am, sliding, on 2 tires, towards a ditch, yelling OOHHHHH SHHHHHHHHHIIIIIT. I almost flipped. A telephone pole was VERY close. Spinning 4 tires at the engine’s max RPM couldn’t get the car out. 40 dollars to get pulled out.
Then the week after that I’m on my way to school for an important exam when I have a tire blowout (94 s10). At this point I’m ready to give up on driving and life in general. I called my mom and asked her for a good reason not to walk out into traffic.
Everyone goes through bad times. I know I did that month. It’ll get better for you.
