Well ladies and gents...its dead for the time being.

[WormGod]

She must have been in an Escalade or a Tahoe man, cause if she were in a car, I would think your VX would have climbed her like the monkey bars, heh.

Sucks man.... hope you fund a way to bring her back from life support. Don't pull that plug.

[Nerve_Gas]

Well she was in a pathfinder or something similar. The beast tried to climb her car but I didn't push the throttle. It totally climbed from the ground to about a foot or so up her door though. This is like the worst end to some really hard times. First the missus leave me and all of that rubbish and now this...Thanks for the supposrt everyone it helps a lot.

[JoFotoz]

Not a solution...just a suggestion given yer a photographer too.


How about...

Find a cutie..give her a sledgehammer...

....and shoot some pics for next years calendar.

Dark , mad maxish Pin Upie.......??!!


Just a thought...simply trying to find some plus, in a really negative situation.


jo

[nfpgasmask]

Dude, that sucks. Good thing you are ok though. I would definitely find another VX and carry on! If you somehow get this one for parts, let us know. I am still looking for a complete tailgate in good condition (Ebony of course).

Bart

[tomdietrying]

Dude! Not another VX! You gotta save her somehow.
Peace.
Tom

p.s.
Glad you're alright.

[Sprey]

Gutted as for you

Hope your insurance goes through

[Joe_Black]

Oh yeah, if they do total it out DEFINITELY ask about buy-back! When they totalled my CUCV after the roll-over I asked about buy-back and got the entire rig back for only $350, so it's in your best interest to pursue every avenue no matter how it goes. Don't get screwed!

[don moore]

that sux.........Sorry for your loss.....

[LittleBeast]

Any update? How are things? Once again we are all so sorry, let us know if we can do anything.

[VXIRONwoMAN]

Gill and I are sitting here wondering how your baby is doing? We haven't seen you around. We are getting worried... Getting scuffing on the cladding in Moab is one thing, but damage from an idiot driver is something else. Hope we hear that your VX is back at Indy4x getting a makeover...

[johnnyapollo]

That's just sickening...

-- John

[Riff Raff]

Hmmm, I hate to say it folks. But, I think "NERVE GAS" has permanently faded away into the sunset. His insurance company probably totaled his VX; so he just cut his losses and has moved on with his life, thereby closing the book chapter on his VX (and Vehicross.Info) forever.

[rowhard]

That is F messed up.
The police didn't want to fill paper work & plea "no fault"? What kind of BS is it ? I don't get it,i mean,if there's a accident police report must be done,you can't choose that unless you guys have another kind of insurance regulations set up over there.

As Brian said, Nerve Gas probable cut his losses and took the money and ran. My question is this. Is there a lesson in this for us?

Scott, (Moncha), Your the only copper I know to ask. I know you haven't done traffic since Jesus was a PFC, but do we have the right to demand a police report be written? Is there a benefit to having one written in case this should ever happen again to one of us?

[Riff Raff]

As Brian said, Nerve Gas probable cut his losses and took the money and ran. My question is this. Is there a lesson in this for us?

ROWHARD, you asked if there was a lesson in this for us from the NERVE GAS incident??? You're damn right there is!!! It's called excessive "unsprung weight" in tires!!!

I just did a quick tire weight analysis of the huge NERVE GAS tires, and they weigh nearly 100 lbs each. Remember, our sporty and nimble VX's had OEM tires that weighed only 33--34 lbs each. NERVE GAS put on extremely heavy tires weighing nearly 70 lbs more over OEM or a whopping 280 lbs of extra unsprung weight (tire fat) for all four(4) tires. To further aggravate things, NERVE GAS made absolutely NO modifications to his OEM brakes (according to his list of modifications). Thus, when NERVE GAS asked his poor little VX to stop those big hefty tires in a panic emergency brake stop with the small OEM VX brakes; his VX politely replied "not today, soldier".

After all of those expensive modifications NERVE GAS made to make his VX "look good", it was actually the main cause of its demise. His highly modified VX wouldn't stop for *****, it wouldn't steer for *****; it was only good for hittin' *****.

The NERVE GAS incident is an clear cut example of why I keep harping on not installing excessively heavy tires with high "unsprung weight" on the light-n-nimble VX which has very small OEM brakes. Any aftermarket tire should not way more than 10 lbs over the OEM stock tire weight-- or 44 lbs maximum, if the VX is to be safely used on public roads. Any tire weighing more than 44 lbs on the VX puts your VX at risk, your life at risk, and the lives of the other drivers on the road at risk.

So, when shopping for new tires-- try to keep your maximum individual tire weight at no greater than 44 lbs each per tire and focus on tires that are "P-series" (aka: P-Metric). If you don't, you could easily end up exactly like NERVE GAS did (or worse, with someone being injured).

Excellent examples of lightweight All-Terrain "P-series" tires weighing 44 lbs or less are:

A: PRO-COMP - ALL TERRAIN in P285/60R18 (31.3" O.D./43 lbs).
B: GENERAL - GRABBER AT2 in P275/65R18 (32" O.D./44 lbs).

The lightest weight "Mud-Terrain" tires made are the YOKOHAMA - GEOLANDAR+, although these are not available in the 18" rim size. Riff Raff

[Ldub]

ROWHARD, you asked if there was a lesson in this for us from the NERVE GAS incident??? You're damn right there is!!! It's called excessive "unsprung weight" in tires!!!

I just did a quick tire weight analysis of the huge NERVE GAS tires, and they weigh nearly 100 lbs each. Remember, our sporty and nimble VX's had OEM tires that weighed only 33--34 lbs each. NERVE GAS put on extremely heavy tires weighing nearly 70 lbs more over OEM or a whopping 280 lbs of extra unsprung weight (tire fat) for all four(4) tires. To further aggravate things, NERVE GAS made absolutely NO modifications to his OEM brakes (according to his list of modifications). Thus, when NERVE GAS asked his poor little VX to stop those big hefty tires in a panic emergency brake stop with the small OEM VX brakes; his VX politely replied "not today, soldier".

After all of those expensive modifications NERVE GAS made to make his VX "look good", it was actually the main cause of its demise. His highly modified VX wouldn't stop for *****, it wouldn't steer for *****; it was only good for hittin' *****.

The NERVE GAS incident is an clear cut example of why I keep harping on not installing excessively heavy tires with high "unsprung weight" on the light-n-nimble VX which has very small OEM brakes. Any aftermarket tire should not way more than 10 lbs over the OEM stock tire weight-- or 44 lbs maximum, if the VX is to be safely used on public roads. Any tire weighing more than 44 lbs on the VX puts your VX at risk, your life at risk, and the lives of the other drivers on the road at risk.

So, when shopping for new tires-- try to keep your maximum individual tire weight at no greater than 44 lbs each per tire and focus on tires that are "P-series" (aka: P-Metric). If you don't, you could easily end up exactly like NERVE GAS did (or worse, with someone being injured).

Excellent examples of lightweight All-Terrain "P-series" tires weighing 44 lbs or less are:

A: PRO-COMP - ALL TERRAIN in P285/60R18 (31.3" O.D./43 lbs).
B: GENERAL - GRABBER AT2 in P275/65R18 (32" O.D./44 lbs).

The lightest weight "Mud-Terrain" tires made are the YOKOHAMA - GEOLANDAR+, although these are not available in the 18" rim size. Riff Raff

So when are you gonna start the church of "less unsprung weight general grabber"?...

We,ve all read it about a million times already, next time, save some bandwidth & post a link to this current rant...