Ok, so I joined the not so great club of crashed VX's today. Guy in front of me stops really fast 40->0 in like 4 to 8 seconds with no turn signal. Luckily, I hit the brakes and stop within about 6 inches of his bumper. I'm looking in my rear/side mirror and see the lady behind me and she stops within about 1 inch (I'm guessing since all I really saw was her doors in my side mirror). Then the guy in front of me finally turns after about 5 to 10 seconds of having a free turn. 1 or 2 seconds later I hear a huge screach I hit the gas only to then hear a crunch and then a wham to my back end. Luckily me and my passenger seem fine, alittle sore mainly in our backs, but the middle car took the brunt of it, with both being taken to the hospital. They totally screwed up my back bumper and driver side quarter panel. I don't know what type of unseen damage is underneath. There is also a really bad rattle and shack when I come to a stop while turning.
I think we definatly came off with the better end of the stick since about 3 minutes before this I passed both cars and ended up in the front instead of being behind them. I thank God I wasn't behind them. With them still wrecking and me being the one in the back totalling my front end. Not to mention a 4000lb truck raming them would have been much worse then me just basically stopping the car behind me. They ended up just missing my back bumper and caught more of the plastic then anything or at least I'm hoping thats all they caught and didn't damage the frame.
The middle car was a mid-size chrysler and it was folded together to the size of a miata, they couldn't even get the passenger door open it was pushed together so badly. The trunk was basically inside the back seats. The last car was a dodge stratus that pretty much pushed her front end up into the firewall and down onto the ground, they couldn't even get it out of drive because it was so damaged.
So, for those of you that have crashed did you have a good source for parts? I know I'm gonna need at least a rear bumper, quarter panel and maybe tail light, it looks pushed up and bent but not cracked. It also caused the front dash vent clip to break and come flying out. The drivers side door panel + window is also loose and rattles as well as the front hood wont stop squeeking, damn grease wont fix this one.
I was thinking maybe if I gave the body shop St. Charles # or even contacted them myself and found out parts + prices, maybe it would save them some money and time in getting everything. Any ideas?
I'm not glad it happend, but I'm really glad I drove my VX and was as protected as we were. Rather than my friends little hybrid honda civic, I'm pretty sure we would have been toast in that cause the force of the crash would have thrown us into oncoming traffic.
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