View Full Version : This is what happens...
stiffdogg06
12-06-2007, 09:57 PM
When you park your car on the street.
Car is no longer for sale due to a jack ace not knowing how to drive. Supposely the person hit another vehicle because the police got another call with the same vehicle description. The person also bounced off my car, ran up the curb, and lost their CV joint boot cover and then came back onto the road and then ran the up the curb about 100 ft away.
Was at the gf`s house, 2 hrs later. Her dad hears something, goes out and finds my car got hit. He gets in his Turbocharged Diesel Truck, flies down the road to find no one... :cry:
This WAS a hit & runs btw.:bolt
Here`s the carnage:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/100_1683.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/100_1684.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/100_1685.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/100_1686.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/100_1691.jpg
Honestly, it doesn`t look to bad. New axle, brakes, quarter panel, bumper, tail light, upper and lower control arms..
Anomaly
12-06-2007, 10:11 PM
Damn that sucks. Thankfully, it`s a civic; so finding parts shouldn`t be a problem.
stiffdogg06
12-06-2007, 10:13 PM
Well, I told the insurance and body shop to only use OEM parts if it repairable. I didn`t see any frame damage. But they will have to replace the WHOLE quarter panel which is HUGE, the bumper, tail light, brakes, upper and lower control arms, and any other misc. in there.
David Fermani
12-06-2007, 10:56 PM
Make sure they blend the left rear door and try for the decklid too. Who`s the insurance company?
stiffdogg06
12-06-2007, 11:00 PM
Make sure they blend the left rear door and try for the decklid too. Who`s the insurance company?
State Farm
Word of caution : EHs and EGs have really old chassis. Do get it aligned up with at least a proper automated, chassis straightening robot. or better yet, laser - aligned. I had to choke up almost USD 700.00 just to realign and repair my EG6 chassis!
Brian_Brice
12-06-2007, 11:11 PM
sorry to hear about that stiff
David Fermani
12-06-2007, 11:30 PM
I had to choke up almost USD 700.00 just to realign and repair my EG6 chassis!
Holy Cow! That`s alot for frame straightening! Did your car fall off a cliff?
BigAl3
12-06-2007, 11:31 PM
sorry to hear about that andrew. that is the same reason why no one in my family parks in the street, there have been 2 hit & run`s on neighbors cars, and no one caught them both times...
stiffdogg06
12-06-2007, 11:35 PM
sorry to hear about that andrew. that is the same reason why no one in my family parks in the street, there have been 2 hit & run`s on neighbors cars, and no one caught them both times...
Yeah ever since my car was broken into, I don`t park on the street. And the time I do; I pay for it.
stiffdogg06
12-06-2007, 11:36 PM
Word of caution : EHs and EGs have really old chassis. Do get it aligned up with at least a proper automated, chassis straightening robot. or better yet, laser - aligned. I had to choke up almost USD 700.00 just to realign and repair my EG6 chassis!
My car is an EJ1. I didn`t think honda ever made an EH....
stiffdogg06
12-07-2007, 12:01 AM
This is my car I normally drive. But the black civic is the car I drive when the turboed one is down. This is the turboed one..
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/newcar2-1.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/newcar16.jpg
This is the other car that was in the accident and that I drive when need be. Don`t mind the lambo doors. I got the car with them and have switched them to the normal doors.
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/Civic_30.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/Civic_28.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/stiffdogg06/Civic_21.jpg
Hehehehe...nope. My car got into a snap oversteer that damaged about 40% of the chassis and body. I sent the car the the only laser alignment bodywork shop in Malaysia, and sure as hell as they`re the only one locally, they charge a bomb.
But the car came out better than new. I knew about it because even my regular tyre shop who does my alignment was surprised to find out how easy it was to set up my car`s alignment up to my specs ( oversteering FF car ). :)
Holy Cow! That`s alot for frame straightening! Did your car fall off a cliff?
Oh yeha, forgot to add up, EGs ( as they`re known in Japan ), is knows as EHs in Malaysia ( for locally fitted, CKD cars ).
velobard
12-07-2007, 11:01 AM
My sympathies to you. I almost always park on the street and I worry about this as well. My neighbor across the street just had their second car in 6 years totaled while parked in front of their house.
My neighborhood is so old that driveways were an afterthought, people just walked to the train station a few blocks away to go to work in the city. I do have a small driveway off the alley in back, but it`s gravel and leans sideways. It`s also under a tree so some times of the year anything I park there gets a regular misting of sap all over the paint.