Hey everyone i havent been on the forum in a while so i havent posted many reply's, but i do have a story on how i wrecked my G, i was driving on the expressway and it was pouring rain and thundering hard and i was cut off with very little room to brake. So as i broke hard my back tires lost traction at 55 mph so i switched over to the right lane to avoid slamming the car that cut me off. So when i switched to the right lane i was clipped on the back passenger panel and lost control of the car to the right so i turned my wheel to the left to try to catch traction but i slammed into an Honda accord and completely wrecked the front driver side tire, springs, headlamp, hood etc. My car was then dragging on the bottom floor of the expressway where i then continued to slam into the wall on the expressway causing more damage to my car. Thankfully no one was hurt. Total damage cost are $17,286 and i should have it back in 20-25 days. Luckily its not a total loss. Hope the story was entertaining. Ill try to post some pics up of it that i was able to get with my iphone.

 

holy crap! glad to hear you are ok... with that much damage I am very surprised they didn't total it out.... was anyone cited?

 

damn your insurance sucks if they didn't total it out.

 

Luckily?

You would have been better off totaling it. I would push the insurance co to do so.

 

Glad you came out ok! Were you on OEM tires? Was your traction control on?

 

I agree 100%. With the cost of the repairs... there's no sense in not having it totaled.

 

When i usually lose traction like that in the rain i throw it into TRIP and start downshifting no matter where my RPM or speed is ... it usually saves me

 

I hope this didn't happen because you were "Born to speed"

 

+1 on having it totaled out. A car's never the same after a collision, especially from the one you had but glad to hear everyone came out of it without injury.

 

Did you trip your air bags? Any freeway crash like that and without any injuries is a lucky one. Glad you are ok.

 

Coming just out of an accident and getting my car after a 16k repair bill. It has to be 75% of market value, right now my car is worth 32k so thats no were near that percentage. So his being 17k they can not total it out. (Or will not actually) And our cars even come with frames that can be bumped back to orginal if they are swayed... making it very hard to total it.

 

Glad to hear you are okay! Man, if you just take a look at how compacted everything is in the front end of our car you will understand why any collision involving the front end would cost so much.

 

maybe there is more damage then they originally thought? - id inspect every dot and ding, is your engine/tranny/etc all good? does the engine run? is it making a different noise, etc - with that much damage idk :S glad ur ok.

 

Sucks that it wasnt totaled. Your car will never be the same again. Who was ticketed?

Might want to change your user name to G37flyIntoU

 

Actually our cars are very easy to total out due to the high cost to repair it. I read in consumer reports a while ago that the G35 was rated the #1 most expensive car to repair from a front end collision at 20mph at $15,000.