Wrecked 19 days ago, car finally back home!
 

So here's the story, as I was driving back home one night from a restaurant a guy made a U-Turn into traffic(my lane) who then subsequently slammed on his brakes for NO reason. Since I had very little reaction time and didn't have enough time to stop, I rear-ended him causing over 9k in damages(This was at speeds less than roughly 15mph at time of impact). Luckily the guy I hit took fault for the wreck immediately since it was caused by his negligence. This made the process of dealing with insurance pretty easy. My car was in the shop until today when I finally was able to pick her up. Here are the pics of my now 4 month old wrecked car... advice for people the car is designed to crush fairly easy so even at a very slow speeds you can cause lots of expensive damage. Be careful out there!

People are stupid...

Glad you got your car back. I hope you don't hear any squeeks.

That was stupid of him, but you got lucky that he took the blame. I would say 9 out of 10 guys wouldn't do that without trying to fight it. Congrats on getting it back!

what damage?

congrats!

Ya the guy was older... so far the car looks and drives good, I got lifetime warranty on all the work done and for the paint work so if there is any issues I'm covered.

Glad you got your car back. It looks like there were two lanes; if he did a U-turn and was in one of the lanes, why wouldn't you move over to the other lane?

I was in the right lane, there was a person in the left lane, if I had merged left I would've side swiped that person.

Ah okay. Didn't know there was someone in the other lane.

no problem

glad you got finally got the car back. alls well that ends well.

My cars in the shop too from Atlanta driver stupidity.., gosh it's been 7 days and I'm dying! How's you do it?!

What happened to your car? Bro I literally thought about my car everyday whilst driving the Jeep Liberty Rental they gave me. It sucks man!

That's great to hear that your back and running, read your post a while ago and now I get nervous every time someone is pulling up quickly every time they go behind me.

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Glad you are back on the road!

Wow.. looks like that shop did great work! Glad you're back on the road.

I hate you. Its been almost a month since i got rearended, and still dont have her back yet

Body work yes, paint work no... http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31388

Thats crazy, I had 9K damage that was repaired and it took 2 weeks! Hope you get it back soon bro, it sucks not being able to drive the car you paid for because of some other assholes negligence!

Wow, you're right. That's awful! Looks like they initially applied way too much pressure with a buffer. I'm not even sure you could do that type of damage by hand; that last pic out of the 3 really shows the extent of it. I'm sorry man, especially having a black car. Almost every car I've owned has been black, so trust me, I can sympathize.

"black cars naturally have scratch/swirl marks in it" :bonk: What a hack.

Lol right, those pictures were taken after their second attempt at fixing it too. First time they put some glaze on it, washed right off, second time they glazed it then tried to wax the glaze in :iono:, smh, I took the pictures 2 days later, damage still there... pure asinine garbage!:mad0260: Took everything I had to just accept that their best is nothing more than shit and drive away.