Took pics of my car (after wreck)

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URL: http://img200.exs.cx/gal.php?g=wrecked016ew.jpg

gthompson97 · #2 03-25-2005, 01:32 AM

hood and headlight for sure, you might be able to fix the bumper cover with a little tlc and some new paint. that sucks dude.

--- · #3 03-25-2005, 01:38 AM

It's worse than it looks. The thing the bar that holds your hood up after you open it has been pushed into the engine quite a few inches, not to mention the headlight (you can't really tell in the pictures).

gthompson97 · #4 03-25-2005, 02:10 AM

it bent the whole radiator support and everything?? man that really sucks. you're lookin at probably over $2500 in damages at a body shop.

shadow eclipse · #5 03-25-2005, 07:21 AM

Ouch man, that sucks ass, maybe you can do some of the work yourself and save money because it looks really exspensive. sorry it had to happen to you

dankid · #6 03-25-2005, 09:04 AM

If your going to fix it you might as well upgrade the parts you need to change. You should get a carbon fiber hood, some Eclipse 97-99 projectors with halos, and slap on a 97-99 Eclipse front bumper. Why throw on the same parts? If you have to change it might as well make it look better.

--- · #7 03-25-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by dankid

If your going to fix it you might as well upgrade the parts you need to change. You should get a carbon fiber hood, some Eclipse 97-99 projectors with halos, and slap on a 97-99 Eclipse front bumper. Why throw on the same parts? If you have to change it might as well make it look better.

That's what I originally planned on. I'm taking it to a shop today to get an estimate...since the radiator support is fucked I'm probably going to sell it as a parts car or something and buy a new one.

Urban_Squrill · #8 03-25-2005, 01:19 PM

About the same thing happend to me when I was cut off by an f-150.Totaled my car. But like the dumb ass I was I fixed it, could of taken the money and got a turbo.

Shpyder · #9 03-25-2005, 01:52 PM

Its amazing how some accidents happen... like when people BACK INTO you when your already PARKED. Or sideswipe you in a parking lot. Dumb asses like those should get life imprisonment. Hmpphhh (this goes out to that stupid cow at Palomar college who backed into my car, and then KEPT ON BACKING INTO MY CAR even after she hit it, making my car, with the E-BRAKE still on, move several feet backwards until the dumb ass bitch realized she had HIT SOMETHING. Not one to hit girls, I opted to fantasizing about pushing her fat face into a pile of fresh cow dung and keep i there for several seconds. fuckin retard). so yeah bro, I feel you pain!!! lol.

--- · #10 03-25-2005, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Shpyder

Its amazing how some accidents happen... like when people BACK INTO you when your already PARKED. Or sideswipe you in a parking lot. Dumb asses like those should get life imprisonment. Hmpphhh (this goes out to that stupid cow at Palomar college who backed into my car, and then KEPT ON BACKING INTO MY CAR even after she hit it, making my car, with the E-BRAKE still on, move several feet backwards until the dumb ass bitch realized she had HIT SOMETHING. Not one to hit girls, I opted to fantasizing about pushing her fat face into a pile of fresh cow dung and keep i there for several seconds. fuckin retard). so yeah bro, I feel you pain!!! lol.

God damn that must have sucked. You got her insurance shit, right?

I got some pictures of the entire front of the car taken off, along with the A/C evaporator + radiator bent into a "U" shape. I really want to sell this thing for a turbo but my parents insist that I take it to a shop and have it repaired...grr.
I'll have the pictures up within the next hour.

gthompson97 · #11 03-25-2005, 10:31 PM

if i remember right you said you didn't have insurance on it?? if you did you would have almost came out on top because aftermarket parts are usually cheaper than oem ones. the radiator support can be fixed and so can everything else. if i was you i would take it to a shop that has a frame rack so they can straighten the support themselves instead of taking it somewhere, then charging you double of what they payed. fix it, sell it, then go turbo.

--- · #12 03-25-2005, 11:38 PM

I had insurance, but only liability.

I may buy another turbo...but I don't have a whole lot of money, I may just have to buy a different car. :/

helliviknow · #13 03-26-2005, 01:17 AM

Here's what mine looked like after my wreck

$400 and some hard work later...

mind you i still need a hood and paint. But the paint I'm doing myself and the hood will only be another 50-100 depending on my luck. If you know what your doing its really not all that bad to fix stuf like this. Oh and I went ahead and upgraded to a 97-99 front and projector headlights at the same time. good luck with your fix. peace

--- · #14 03-26-2005, 09:20 PM

Looks about like mine...but my headlight/hood-lock frame thing (no idea what it's called) was bent and twisted inwards toward my motor. Did that happen to you?

helliviknow · #15 03-27-2005, 03:10 PM

yeah thats your radiator support. I can tell from the pic that its twisted up a bit. it can be either pulled back out or you can cut it off and weld on a new one. I origionally pulled mine back out so I could quicly mount a new nose and headlights because I needed it back on the road pronto. But I just picked up a new support Imma weld in for a perminent fix sometime this summer.

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