darn ice

So I was going around a curvy road tonight on my way home. It was starting to get cold. I saw the road looked wet so I slowed down did 15 or so. All of a sudden car drifts over a bump in the road and slams into a pole at about 20mph or so sideways.

Totaled the bumper, passenger side fender, hood, passenger tire popped off the rim.

:/ fucking ice. Although it was quite fun watching the tow truck come and try to tow my car. He almost slid into it. My dad and I couldn't even walk on the road to get my stuff from the car we slid across it like we were ice skating.

Had snow tires too. My dads 4wd truck with studded snows was slipping also in 4 wheel low. Kinda a shitty condition and the state wasn't even on the way to salt tonight at all :/

Oh well I have insurance. And the bright side is there were stone chips in the hood. I guess thats one way to get them fixed.

That sucks...good thing you are alright! Maybe is the insurance company claims it as totaled you can get a TURBO!!!

POST SOME PICS OF THE WRECK!!

I'm right there with you man. ETA on my car is another 3 weeks at best. They declared mine totalled and I just had some front fender damage and rear quaterpanel damage. Best of luck. Glad to hear you are ok.

You should go beat it with a hammer a bit, like around the control arms and fuck up the suspension. That should get it totalled. And then you can get a gsx ;)

Glad to hear your alright.

Glad to hear your alright.

Glad to hear your alright.

Glad to hear your alright.

Glad to hear your alright.

It's good to know you really hope im alright (I think the forums double posted you a bit again :))

But yeah I'm glad im okay... I don't want htem to total it really. Because it was a good engine, no leaks (engine or top). I'd never give up the convertible even for a gsx...

I actually have most of a turbo kit sitting right here next to me. It was getting turbo'ed this summer. I scoured ebay. In parts so far im up to 850 dollars. I have 300 more on the way eventually and then I should have everything I need. I scored a SAFC dirt cheap someone spelled it wrong, got a pocket logger also spelled wrong cheap :) and most recently a short shifter where someone left out the word short in the bay ad.

So if it doesn't get totaled I have a 2.4l turbo.. if it does I guess I go for spyder gst and get a 2.0l turbo..

I had to go and pull off my front bumper undercar light today incase they total the front..

pictures of it here. no work yet if it's totaled or not.

pictures where o_O

nvm in sig lol

yea man id say thats totaled

pics at www.novaslp.net/pics/v/random/car/slide/ or through sig link

See the thing is it's all body work really. It didn't mess with the steering or anything. No airbag deployment. The tire is off the rim thats about it. Fuse box needs to be replaced . No other internal damage.

Headlight is busted (fog is okay), that side panel and hood are messed up thats about it. (front bumper a bit too)

In the second picture there you can see it pushed back into the drivers side door but didn't move it. A spacing still exists there although it's really small. I don't think I could open it however. I havn't tried. Don't want to do any more damage till insurance company checks it out.

The light on the front is def gone though.

I doubt there is any frame damage but I could be wrong...

Glad to hear your alright.


How in the Hell did you manage to post the samething 5 times in a row???????



The important this that you are ok. Cars can be replaced. Your life can't

i dk dude that fender looks bad it proably did do some frame damage but not to to much they will proably total it but u can buy it back from them cheep

I doubt there is any frame damage but I could be wrong...

I don't know if you saw my thread about my accident from sliding on ice but my damage was FAR less and mine got declared totalled. They are definitely going to declare it totalled. Basically, if the insurance company decides to fix it, they are liable to completely fix it. If it costs $5k to fix the body, and then you start driving it and discover frame damage, the insurance company has to come back and fix that too. It's a liability thing for them. It's easier for them to declare it totalled and just hand you a check for the value of the car than to worry about returning it to 100%

It's a shame but its good to hear you are planning on staying in the DSM world.

I'm gonna bet it's totalled, not only is the fender messed up but think about whats under the fender...the right strut support. Pretty expensive part (i know i put a new one on my eclipse) plus a ton of labor. You could buy it back and fix it yoursel for probably around $1000 depending on if you get some deals maybe less. Good luck, glad to hear you're alright.

i think if it's totaled i'll probably buy it back, buy a hood off ebay, buy fender off ebay (for both sides the other one is dented), front bumper also ebay. and lights.

I figure if it runs me 1k in parts. Maybe 1k in labor to have a shop striaghten out everything. I'll mount all the parts have macco paint it for another 1.5k

I'm sure they will at least give me 3500 for it. Blue book is 7k on it still.


I won't find out till tomorrow. We shall see..

the verdicts in: totaled 1000 if I want to buy it back from them. They are only going to give me 4k for it.

I think I can fix it for that i dunno. If it's got a salvaged title on it (should I choose to buy it back) I can't get collision insurance on it again can i? The company hasn't called me back yet with an answered.

I can't really go get another spyder with 4k. And that unfortunately is the one I want. I'm not a big fan of the hard tops (no offense)

I don't know about being able to fix it for that much. You probably have some frame damage. It's costing me about $4,800 to fix mine (and that's without getting the entire car painted, just the replacement pieces). I can post the pics if you want to see my damage but it's a hell of a lot less than yours. You probably should hold the 4k and wait for another spyder to come along.

Keep the 4k and go to a dealership or some car lot put down a 4k Dp on a sphyder GS-T!

I still owe my parents for this car 4200 for it. So I need to spend the money I get on teh car I get. And then continue paying off my parents.

Ah,i gotcha. To bad tho this would have been a good chance for a upgrade

Wow they want you to pay 1k for the car? Thats really shitty considering most companies just want the money it costs to tow it to your house. I'd say without paint it would cost (parts only do your own labor pussy jp) about 1000 if you have to get the parts new. I would try to get the hood and fenders from a local junkyard just to save the shipping. Who knows maybe they'll have one in black. The fender/strut support cost me just over 200 from the dealer. you can get the lights on ebay 100-200. and it looks like you need a rim.

i checked the car out today. But at this point it' s no longer mine I already submitted the car title to the insurance. I kinda wish I didnt' now..

Definately no strut tower damage just that outer piece was crumpled. my friend and I took it off to see. And bumper and hood and light. The light pushed back and cracked the fuse box. Only underhood damage. Still I can't get collision on it if they declare it totaled.

I hate them. but I figure I'll wait till may maybe and get another possibly a spyder gst

So did you just take your insurance company's word as to how much the car is worth? When I got into an accident (back in September) I was dicked around by the insurance company so bad it wasn't even funny, the accident wasn't my fault but they tried to make me pay for some of the damage. Long story short they said the car was worth $1300 (90 gs-t) so i demanded to know where they got that value (KBB was 2300) they faxed me a list of cars in my area saying they base it off that list...Three of the five cars were gs's and the average cost of the gst's was over 3k. Even if it's your insurance company they will try to screw you in any hole they can find.

i took their word at first but now that we looked at it today when we pulled my stereo out.; I'm calling tomorrow to ask how bad the damage is. They want to get it done quickly because it's costing them 35 dollars a day to leave it at the towing place. I'll gladly pay that if they arrive that they aren't going to total it.