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**UPDATE

It's not necessarily over. Things aren't as bad as I thought, the chassis seems to be fine...

Wednesday night I managed to smash my car. I wasn't speeding at all, I just miscalculated the effect of the drizzle and lost rear wheel traction a bit too close to a parked car. The impact occured on the left and the car sort of span around against the second car which is written off because it was next to a power pole (and it was a shitbox anyway)

I don't think it would have been as bad if i had a proper front bar because of the bits of metal they cut out of the supports. The impact occured at about 20km/h but it still managed to do some serious enough damage.

The lesson: watch those aftermarket body kits, they don't offer any protection if you cut bits out to fit them

The car is now at a panel beater and I will decide what to do once I get quotes on labour and parts

Pics of the aftermath found at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~lymax/accident/

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Sorry to hear that buddy. A similar thing happended to me where the fibreglass bumper disintegrates on impact leaving everything behind to take a heavy blow.

The only advice I can give is to shop around before starting the 8k repair, you will find some big differences in repair costs between different panel beaters.

well i definitely don't intend on starting an 8k repair

the problem is i've only got about 4k i can spare to get the thing repaired. If i can't get it on the road for that (i.e. ignore things like painting panels etc) then I'm going to have to look at other options like selling it.

From what i've been told the engine is completely fine other than what i mentions, but i haven't got a clue about the chassis infront of the doors.

The guy said it would be 4k in labour alone, which i find shockingly huge.

How much could i expect if i sold the car as is?

*tears* ... so sorry to hear about that Max.. and it can happen so easily too - it just takes that one second and bang.

Yer, if the chasis is bent they gotta get it on the chasis machine (whatever the correct name for it), and straighten the whole frame if they can.. not cheap.

You may get $3-4k for the engine and gearbox on its own? Plenty of people want to whack them in r32 or another car so there is a bit of demand. The rest of it you may get $4-5k?? Might get something for the compliance plate if somebody is desparate enough to do a body swap job. So maybe $10k all up? Did you have any other gizmos on there??

btw: it pays to get agreed value on a skyline... they're worth a lot more than what the insurance companies claim..

Don't mean to be rude or anything but honestly what protection is a plastic or fibreglass front bar going to offer if the impact was strong enough to bend your chassis? Maybe if you had a bullbar.

I'd be taking a loan out to pay for the repair bill and then selling the car, or stripping it for parts.

a proper bumper is attached to the chassis properly, with a metal brace behind it... that absorbs a lot of impact through crumpling

the aftermarket one i had was attached to pretty much nothing but some supports at the front at the sides and it snapped like a twig on impact. when i was clearing it off the road afterwards i could snap it with one hand to fit it into my boot.

Keep your original body kits ppl

There is! bumpers are covered by ADRs, we just ignore them like all the other rules we don't like (can anyway say "external blow off valve?")

Sorry to hear about the accident. You did have third party property insurance, right? Otherwise, I recommend heading to Majorca

pooowaaarr mattee

ball breaker

i would cry if that happened to me...

what u do now..

u get ur car back the way it is

u get fu comp insurance...

u wait 4 months

then u make ur car disappear.........

and drive ur missus beast..

i still think that car rocks..

i cant believe it.. man i feel for ya.. i got 3rd party as well...

i say we organise a save maximus car fundation and organise a cruise 10 bux entry fee.. try get as much mates as u can to come along..

help ya out...

what all we need is?? ... um 800 people

hmmm

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yeah i'll borrow the mini from now on!

i'm sure i can get a better quote for the work too, i'm just looking for who best to speak too

if bumper bars are covered by ADR's, does that mean i can sue the engineer who signed off on my car for negligence? (i'm a law student but i haven't covered stuff like this yet)

lol! I like the sue the engineer idea!

I think that is the argument (valid or not) as to why you can't bring in modified cars any more - they used to approve an unmodifed car as meeting ADRs, but then compliers could bring in ones with different parts anyway!

yup, or chop and shuts could be done, and all sorts of things.

While its a bit of pain in the ass, i think its better in many ways they don't allow so many imports in without some type of checking. If there is an opportunity for a shortcut to be done, without adequate monitoring it will be done... and often it can result in dangerous shortcuts been taken (inadequate supports for bumpers is a prime example)

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