friday night some chick backed up into me, smashing my FR headlight assembly and completly twisting my bonnet out of shape.
the damage? new hood, new headlight, one week without a car and $1500.
my god im pissed...

 

I had a motorocycle accident in grad school. 9 months in a wheel chair. I'm fine now (except for my ever increasing belt size). There was a guy in the hospital with the same injuries, but he was to loose his leg...... A little perspecive never hurts.

What I learned is it can always be worse. I'm much happier thinking about the bad that didn't happen instead of the bad that did.

Not to say you're not going through a royal pain in the ***!

My wife was driving my Mini when someone mergend ino my driver side rear quarter panel, and drove off! Cheryl followed, called the CHP (who passed her and kept on going!), go thte guy to pull overr, where he took off agian. CHP wouldn't even track his licence plate! (Thanks for our budget woes CA, now law enforcement doens't have the resources to track a non-injury hit and run). Car down for a week, and we paid the deductible because the CHP wouldn't tell us who owned the car (nor return any calls etc.)

So I feel you pain, but there are much worse pains that your not feeling, believe me!

Matt

 

Watch out for car doors too.

I fortunately have no dents on the MINI, but I see people opening doors like there are no cars around. Hit the other car's door...no big deal from their perspective. People can be so inconsiderate

 

As far as the CHP not tracking down a license plate, I'm sure the insurance company will pursue it on your behalf. They will want to recover their money, and should recover your deductable for you as well!

 

There is no problem so large as to not be handled by a rooftop and a high power rifle.

Cheer up, as someone said it could be worse.

My 91 Miata was totaled out by a woman putting on her mascara while driving.

 

The DMV will tell you who owns the vehicle. they have you fill out a form saying why you want it and if you have a good reason, and hit-and-run is a good reason, they are required to tell you. Seems to me when the law enforcement of our country can't (read WON'T) do their job it is a sad day. I know how busy these people are as I worked in a police department for 19 years, sometimes they are overloaded and other times they are not (which is most of the time). So, you have to pay the deductible out of your pocket.

Earl

 

i know guys. its nothing serious. it'l be fixed and im not hurt.
its just an extra headache i dont need. but of course, it could be a whole lot worse and i dont mean to sound snobbish or anything like that, by all means.
and im sorry to hear about your laying in the hospital that long.

bis densen,
peter

 

I've had this problem also. I've learned that when it's windy out to park nose into the wind and not tail into the wind. That way, when someone parks next to you, the wind doesn't fling their door open when they get in or out.

-Randy

 

To bad instead of a new hood, you could get the money and buy the cf hood lol

 

haha, i dont like the cf hood one bit. but i am going to try and get some hid's

 

My wife and I came out of a resturant this morning only to hear a guy yelling at the lady who had just backed into his new 05 Lexus RX 300. Part of what he said that I can repeat is that his new vehicle was bought last night and only had nine miles on the clock

The lady was in a late model Ford 150 P/U and it appeared her bumper went over the top of the Lexus bumper and creased his back door. This guy was some kind of Pissed

 

Bummer....sorry to hear about this.....hopefully the body shop will do a great job fixing the MINI back up again and you'll be out motoring soon...:smile: Cars can be fixed, people can't - I guess it could have been a lot worse....

Donna
02' CR/W MCS & 05' Cool Blue MCSC