crashed my car :(

marko · 12-28-2009, 05:10 PM

did a 180 on black ice... went ass backwards into the concrete curb & jumped on a highway divider median... broke a rear right wheel / bent a whole bunch of **** in the rear right corner / destroyed the front bumper & all the plastic molding in the front / think I bent the frame too, since the passanger door seems crimped ever so slightly...

insurance guy to check the car out later today or tomorrow... hope its repairable... if not - its part out time.

merry christmas to me...

**Bozola** · 12-28-2009, 05:14 PM

Damn. Sux to hear. I hope you can get it fixed.

Sounds like you are ok, which is the only thing that REALLY matters!
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projekt EPiK · 12-28-2009, 05:37 PM

aw man.. poor car. glad you walked away unscathed though.

marko · 12-28-2009, 05:46 PM

yep - walked away... 250HP through the rear wheels aint fun on ice.

hope the frame is not bent & mostly hope GEICO will agree to fix the car vs. totaling it.. dont really want the salvage title.

KINGAMR · 12-28-2009, 08:25 PM

Glad you're ok, don't worry too much about the car.

Marv17 · 12-28-2009, 08:40 PM

DUDE! NO!! damn. that totall sucks. you just put in that MM motor not too long ago too.

well if its fixable i have a new passenger door ready to be used i got a long time ago that i didnt end up needing.
at least you're still walking on your two legs after the accident. you can always swap out the motor into another ti.

zoner · 12-28-2009, 08:54 PM

Man, that totally (no pun intended) sucks. Frame damage, however, is not always an easy and/or cheap fix. If it's totalled, you might be able to talk the ins. company into paying you out to just below the total value and you picking up the balance, if it's the salvage title you're trying to stay away from. Good luck!

b.u.ti-ful · 12-28-2009, 09:03 PM

Sorry to hear it - glad nobody hurt.

**cooljess76** · 12-28-2009, 09:14 PM

Ohhhh Marko...

I loved your car man! Definitely one of the cleanest. Who cares if it's a salvaged title. Nobody will ever know and the only time it really matters is when you go to sell it. But with all of the money/time you have invested, you probably wouldn't sell it anyway. I vote fix it. It shouldn't cost more than 3 grand, that's nothing compared to the time and love you've invested already. Best of luck to ya, glad you're okay.

zoner · 12-29-2009, 12:12 AM

Jess is right- A salvage title really means nothing unless you're trying to sell it and even then, cars are given salvage titles for any number of reasons. My Camaro has a salvage title solely because it had some interior water damage and the ins. company discovered that redoing an entire leather interior, door panels, convertible top and headliner, and other interior parts that are next to impossible to find (it's a factory ASC conversion), was waaay more $$$ than just totalling it.

tiFreak · 12-29-2009, 01:41 AM

sorry to hear that, at least it wasn't the front (expensive) end, if you can't repair it at least you still have the engine to swap into another ti

marko · 12-29-2009, 04:48 AM

thanks for the well wishes guys...

yeah, the motor is fine! looked at it today while on the lift & even started it up. all good.
no leaks of any kind & no signs of contact.

front bumer got pulled out when I was sliding backwards over the snow covered highway median.

Options, so far:

1 - geico pays for all reapairs & all is well...

2 - Geico deams it total loss (if frame is bent) & pays me car value of about 3K + I part out the rest for about 5K (MM motor + trany + lsd + inerior + Cali roof + wheels + whatever else) & I put a nice fat downpayment on a new Gti.

3 - Geico deams it total loss (if frame is bent) & pays me car value of about 3K + I save (again) for a while & redo the car on my own terms...

4- Geico deams it total loss (if frame is bent) & pays me car value of about 3K... i buy an E21 (which I always loved) & swap the MM motor + LSD + trany + CPU into it & have a kick ass E21.

we'll see...

to be continued, sadly... pics to follow.

StealthBimmer · 12-29-2009, 06:49 AM

Oh man that's some sad news! The bright side is you didn't get hurt from the mishap. I hope insurance will pay for it and save the ti from being totalled. Hate to see our beloved 318ti go RIP one by one.

Keep us posted!

Jean H.318TI · 12-29-2009, 06:52 AM

no dude try to keep the car if is not that expensive to fix, or we can trade if u want lol

pdxmotorhead · 12-29-2009, 06:53 AM

Once it was reported to insurance its in carfax... and accident reports are public record which carfax uses for their service.

Dave

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