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02-21-2013, 12:37 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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My plastic car exploded!
This sucks!
I got in my very first accident, ever, today! We had a snow storm last nite. Not much really, about 3 inches, but it was one of those that freezes into ice. I applied the braks well before the intersection, the anti-lock starts chattering like crazy, I silde 300 yards before the intersection, thinking all the time, "it's 6 am, I'll hit some sand some time soon". No such luck, into the intersection I go. Damn plastic Saturn just exploded on impact! Facia and both fenders disentergrate. Mechanically, she fine. Nobody hurt, thank God! Damn air bags scared the crap out of me! At least I did it right! Hit a one month old new car! Stupid Hundai Elantra! He was picking pieces of my car out of his rear fender well. Took 42 years, but my cherry is now popped!
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02-21-2013, 12:46 PM | #2 (permalink) |
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Really happy everyone's OK, Tom. As we all know, plastic is secondary and can be fixed using sawing thread and CA.
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02-21-2013, 07:08 PM | #3 (permalink) |
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Yeah, I'm so very glad nobody got hurt!
So far, insurance has taken good care of me. They lined me up with a collision service here in Erie. It so happens my sister is good friends with them! Told them the facia was in the trunk, just superglue it back on. Insurance pays for the rental. Been awhile since I was in a new car. Had a devil of a time figuring out how the damn thing works! You know, they make automatic transmissions now? Who woulda thunk! Had to call the boss up, tell him I'm not comming in tonite, ( only have 3 hours sleep right now ). After answering everybody was all right, he asks what happened? I couldn't resist. "You and your damn 12 hours, I fell asleep behind the wheel!" Not what happened, but to me it sounded good. It's really suprising to me how attached I've become to my car. I've been driving that thing for 15 years now! The thought of having to make a car payment just makes me sick! The car ain't worth squat now, so I fully expect to hear they will total it. Got some thinking to do. My nephiew does auto body. Might have to have a chat with him.
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02-21-2013, 08:16 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Well that sucks Tom. Good record you have there though, or did. Goes without saying that I echo Jerry's sentiments that it is good to know everyone was okay. It's only money and a bit of a pain now, and the money might not even be that bad if the insurance are going to cover the loss. Suppose you have an excess though. My car is coming up to 15 too, but at least it's automatic. Something of a rarity in the UK compared to the US at least.
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02-21-2013, 10:57 PM | #5 (permalink) |
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Thanks Andrew.
We'll see what the insurance adjuster says tomorrow. I fear they will total it, but I did do a little checking on-line and was suprised how little it will cost parts wise to put it back together. The big thing will be labor. As I said, structurally, there isn't a damn thing wrong! Just that cold weather and plastic thing. It's not like I slammed into him, but I figure I must have hit him doing somewhere around 15-20 mph. The Saturn is an SC2. It's a damn fun car to drive. It reminds me, fun wise of my old 280z. Plus, it gets 33 mpg no matter how I drove it. Handles like a dream. Still, labor might not be too bad, I guess, It's all held together with plastic clips. The ticket will cost me $169 plus 2 points off the liscense. Spent more than that a few times just putting a heli back together. What sucked the worst about the whole thing was it really got my heart rate jacked up! Took quite a long time to get her settled back down. The rental place came and picked me up. The car I rented was the one the guy picked me up in. I told the girl, " hell, if I had known that, I would have just took the keys, the kid could have walked back." Nice car, 2013 Ford Focus hatchback. I have no idea how to turn on the radio. Figured out the headlights are all automatic, finally. All that time I spent doing field work at the auto plants was 20 years ago, so it's been awhile since I drove a new car. I remember going to the Jaguar plant. They offered me any car I wanted on the lot while I was there. I turned them down. Driving on the wrong side of the road just scared the hell out of me! Any more, just driving scares me. I'm getting old, I guess. I avoid Denver like the plague. This sure didn't help.
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02-21-2013, 11:11 PM | #6 (permalink) |
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Glad to hear you're ok. I thought it was going to be an r/c car but no it was a real car with you in it. The insurance company will make you an offer if it was fully covered you can choose to keep it. I used to be purchasing manager for a very large company. Airbags are expensive to replace too though, I dunno. Maybe a nice used car to replace it?
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02-22-2013, 12:05 AM | #7 (permalink) |
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Thanks.
You mean,,, like a vett?
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02-22-2013, 01:21 AM | #8 (permalink) |
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No just from the title before I started reading. Sorry I wasn't clear lol This is the Belt CP forum so I guess I thought a plastic r/c car by reading the title.
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02-22-2013, 02:33 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Not good, the damn air bags are so expensive that the repair will push her over the top. I expect them to total her. So dies the best and most dependable car I have ever owned.
I absolutely detest car payments. Even more so than I detest winter! Think I'll just look for something cheap to get me by for a few more years. I'm on what I call my 4-8 year retirement program. Trying to sock in every penny I can to finance this old age shit. Pouring in every thing I can into the 401k. Just not ready to go out and buy what I consider will be my last vehicle. I'm hoping that when I do an alternative to gasolene will be not only attractive, viable, but also proven dependable. Not into beta testing hybrids and electrics. Even though analysts predict the USA in 15 years will become the next Saudi Arabia for oil, I feel personally that 1. our energy policy is non-existant, and 2. there has to be a better way. So much for my plan to drive my car until the wheels fall off. Almost made it! My neck is a little stiff, nothing a little time, and some sleep won't cure so I'm taking time off tonite and then I'm rotated off shift for a couple more days.
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02-22-2013, 07:12 PM | #10 (permalink) |
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Well that all sounds great, apart from the fact that electric cars burn more fossil fuel than petrol cars. Other than that, good choice, fill your boots. Seriously though, electric, are you having a laugh?
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02-22-2013, 07:37 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Just driving the new cars off the lot is an expensive proposition they lose value instantly. My wife and I both went used on our last purchases for this reason. Both times it was a car only a few years old, low mileage, look new still. My wife's used 2005 Lexus I believe we bought in 2008 with 19000 miles on it and it has been worth more than we owed since 2010 which is roughly two years after we started paying. My 2006 Jeep bought the year before is already paid off, the Lexus is less than a year to pay off. Soon I will be done with payments! I've went used lots of times with cheaper cars before also and I do good at picking winners.
I hope your neck is ok I personally have neck issues and it is the worst pain I have ever dealt with. Can't sit, lay down, stand, a bath doesn't help, there's nothing but living with the pain. I guess that's why they say "pain in the neck" like it's a bad thing.
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02-22-2013, 08:51 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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Well Sut, electric is trying to get a foot hold here. They have a charger that plugs into your natural gas line at home and converts to electricty,
At work, in the parking garage they have a few slots available to plug electric cars into to charge back up while at work. They even passed laws now to make electric cars emit more noise, ( funny to hear, I know ), for pedestrian awareness. Hybrids are becomming more and more popular here. Personally, until somebody can invent a better battery rather than tieing a couple hundred lipo's together and enclosing them into a fire and collision proof case I just don't see the point. That is a hell of a lot of weight. As I said, until our government mandates a 'real' energy policy nothing is going to change. Instead we will continue to use fracking methods to get to oil on our soil. Another contriversal practice. Why would we allow the chance to contaminate our ground water? As I said before water is going to become the next gold. A hell of a lot sooner than people realize, I might add. I have no idea what the answer will be. All I know is that we are far away from finished with rapeing the planet. For what is left for my life, gasolene is it. I was really hopeing that by the time I retire there would be something different. Just don't see that happening. As far as a brand new car goes, I'm afraid my ol' Saturn will be the last one I will ever own. That car really impressed me, As far as what has failed on it in the near 15 years I've owned it, the only part I have had to replace was the radiator! I got 33 mpg with it its entire life, no matter how light or heavy footed I drove it. She will be missed. I've been researching used cars today. Think it's time to move into a land yacht. There are a hell of a lot of the full sized cars for really cheap prices. Nobody wants them anymore. I'm thinking it's time now that I moved into comfort. Work is only 9 miles away for me and I don't touch any major arteries, just a country back road. Couple that with this new work schedule where I'm only on the road a few days a week, fuel consumption wouldn't be too bad at all. Hell, I might even enjoy being flipped off by the eco crowd. The only complaints I had about the SC2 I owned was the seats weren't great for comfort and I felt every crack in the roads.
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02-22-2013, 09:43 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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I dream of the day when our battery technology increases. I love nitro because of the consistent power yes, but also because it is a loud combustion engine.. If battery technology increases I can't see paying high prices for the love of a combustion engine though. Yes I will keep my relic nitro but the day battery technology increases I will be saving for that. Electric motors absolutely dominate combustion motors with a consistent power source but on my heli I can sag a lipo in a heart beat.
By the way though I don' t think anyone can hold down a scientist after a nobel prize it's more than the moeny or politics in my mind, I could be naive. I have to believe that when the technology is upon us we will know. It works out that cars and helis both need a light weight solution I don't follow that stuff closely fuel cell sounded intriguing other than that I have no idea where they are at P.S. You getting any flying in? Probably make you feel better.
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02-22-2013, 10:13 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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HeliSmith, I only wish I was flying!
I started working 12 hr nite shifts reciently. Couple that with short light conditions during the winter months and no, there has been no flying. I took today off, as sleep was hard to come by. So, I was up early, noon for me, but though the snow has moved off the cold has remained. As people will attest to here, I deplore winter. I have my Hexa ready, ought to get busy revamping my fleet of heli's. I got an Align 3g sitting on my 250 that I haven't bothered programming for 3 years now I haven't a clue what revision of firmware my Skookum 720 on my 600 is up to now, and my Avant needs a carburator overhaul. Since I got into the 'dark arts' of drones and fpv flying my poor heli fleet has been ignored. There is absolutely nothing to campair to strapping on a pair of goggles and going out to explore! For me, it's all I ever dreamed about in this hobby, and I've been doing this for 52 years. The good news, spring is soon to peak in at us poor ol' mountain folk.
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02-22-2013, 10:19 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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I was hoping for at least a little mcpx tuned for indoors but those do sound like dark days. Well I will let you rest instead of keeping you on the forum. Wouldn't mind being nosey to hear what kind of car you pick
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02-23-2013, 04:06 AM | #16 (permalink) |
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Jeez. We got rid of our last car because we only got 35mpg out of it! My wife's C3 now gets 45mpg and I consistently get 50mpg+ out of my VW CC! I had a VW Bora (Jetta in the US I think) that I drove everywhere at 80mph on the motorway and got 60mpg! But at 180BHP, it was going to cost me my licence in speeding points, so that went!
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02-23-2013, 05:43 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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Holly crap, Luke! The 2013 VW CC is only rated to 32mpg hwy and 21 city here! The jetta is only a couple miles better! Your miles over there must be shorter than ours?
The CC is one beautiful car!
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02-23-2013, 06:59 AM | #18 (permalink) |
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Luke, was this a turbo diesel version?
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02-23-2013, 09:07 AM | #19 (permalink) |
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Yeah, I hope for the day when electric is practical, I just misread in my drunken stupor and thought that you were planning on getting one right now. I also totally missed that your neck was a little stiff. Hope that mends up quickly enough.
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02-24-2013, 05:12 AM | #20 (permalink) |
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Yep, Turbo Diesel (2.0 Litre TDI 140 BHP) with Blue Motion.
Rated over here as between 36mpg and 61mpg. http://www.carbuzz.co.uk/car-reviews/Volkswagen/CC I do about 25,000 miles per year, so I wouldn't even consider a petrol car. The wife's C3 is a 1.6L petrol engine, but it's plastic and only does local mileage (about 5,000 a year max).
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