Well this day officially sucked

[Boggit]

Blimey Con, you're having a hell of a time. :'(

After all this crap going on you deserve a decent break. O0 Hopefully, your run of bad luck will soon change and you'll end up on a win cycle. :)

Care to tempt fate with a lottery ticket on the basis your luck is long overdue for a change? ;)

[Gusington]

Good for you con. Just for reference, my airbags never popped either. But it was still totaled.

How long til you get the car back?

[Con]

Just a quick update been dealing with a lot of things lately one of them having to do with the car.  When they got it from the wrecker to the repair shop and opened it up they found massive amounts of damage, the engine got dropped, frame twisted etc so it has been totaled.  I had to go yesterday and get my stuff from it and I was shocked how badly mangled it was (they had pulled all the front bumper off etc so you could get a really graphic view of the damage).  The mechanic was like "Dude you shouldn't even be walking around"  So even though this sucked donkey balls I have a new appreciation for car safety and the damage an 18 wheeler can do to you.

I am now actively car hunting.  Was thinking about one of these.  Lets see if this can give back better in a fight with an 18 wheeler

[Staggerwing]

Totaling the car is for the best.

I had a mazda years ago that got rear-ended and all you could see was a scuff on the back bumper. The appraiser would only give me enough to replace the plastic part of the bumper. Case closed... or so I thought. After about a year i noticed a lump under the rug in the cargo area (it was a hatchback) which turned out to be a wrinkle in the metal underneath. The wrinkle got progressively worse and I also started to wear out my tires unevenly a lot faster than normal. When I took it in for an alignment I was told that the entire car was actually out of true and while it was on the lift the mechanic showed me where the underbody itself was buckled, something not evident by just looking underneath while on the pavement. At that point there was not much I could do about it so i drove the car another year or so. Before I eventually sold it (dirt cheap with full disclosure) I was driving along a slow street when a loud bang went off and my side window exploded. I first thought that someone took a shot at me but it turned out the body was so distorted by then that the uneven stresses blew out the non-bendable glass.

The moral here? When a car has been in a serious accident all kinds of dangers could be lurking inside, hidden from sight, to only emerge later and strike.

[Sir Slash]

Can you get financing on that Con? And how's the insurance rate on 30 cal. MG's? Where would you park it........ anywhere you want to.

[Con]

I am still in the convincing the wife stage that it doesnt need to have latches for the kids seats because its armored :)

Con