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Another sad "I wrecked my car today" thread

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BabyBlue240

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Another sad "I smooshed my car today" thread

It's true. I wrecked the wagon today. And it's sad indeed. Basically, everyone was being merged out of the far right lane on a big road in town. Everyone in the next left lane was being curtious and letting one driver from the right lane in, then going on. Things always seem to work best that way. So my turn comes, and this damn sef-centered guy decides he's not going to let me in. Then I guess he changes his mind last second and decides he will so he let's off the gas. The space is still tight so I'm looking back over my left shoulder to see if there's room to merge. I maybe had my head turned 1-2 seconds, started to merge, ang I look back in front and there's some Dodge Caravan parked in front of me. My guess is I was doing around 20-25 and was accelerating hard (in order to merge) until the split second before I turned around and saw him sitting there...

The Caravan wasn't bad at all compared to my wagon. maybe a new rear bumper and a smal dent pulled in the tailgate. Mine, however... didn't do as well. I was quite pissed at myself. Especially since my plans for this summer were to get the B230FT rebuilt, MS'ed, and in the 242 and get that one DDish, not fix the wagon.

Anyway, my plan is to be as proactive as possible. Most of the stuff is bolt on replacement stuff off good JY cars and I'll hopefully go source all of them within the next few days. I'll do the prepwork myself and take them down to MAACO while still off the car and have them paint them, that way it'll be hard to screw up. Then I'll assemble it. There's no frame damage done so the only real "issue" is the inner fender well. I took a pic of how bent it is. I know someone sectioned part of a good one in a little while ago, but that'll take some time, some time I don't really have. I can weld it and everything, I just don't want to. Would it be possible to bend it back into place or does it have to be that precise? I would get a better pic but the hood is curled under my broken E-code:-( and I can't open it. I'll hopefully get it open tonight. Unfortunately, I'll probably be selling this one at the end of the summer. I can't bring 2 cars to college and the 242's faster. I actually got sad looking at it today, I'm really going to miss it. Either way, I want to do a good enough job that whoever buys it won't need to go back and redo this, cause it's not fun work.

Also, anyone have just a right side E-code and signal? I'll really miss them if I'm forced to go back to U.S. crap.

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Um that looks unrepairable. I will try and help you out by buying your virgo's from you. How does $80 for the set sound?

Anyways that sucks that you wrecked your car but i really does not look to bad. Just replace the side panel and hammer out the hood.
 
Delfosse said:
uhoh better not do macco..

suck that your ride got trashed (well not trashed but,, you know)
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The things that suck about Macco are their prepwork and their taping jobs. I'll be doing the prep, and I'll bring them while not on the car. If I pay for the better quality paint, there won't be much for them to screw up. The actual laying down of color and clear isn't the hard part.
 
they use crappy paint.. my best friends dad gets cars in all the time from macco...

really I would trust a spray can over macco.. sorry just my opinion/experience/observation..

good luck.. hope it will still look good in a year..
 
man thats too bad ur car is wrecked. i could never imagine parting with mine :-( id keep it just to see it everyday. never thought id be so attached to a car. hope things turn out for the best.
 
Man...I'm sorry to see your ride like that.
Ya know...It's going to be alright. Work the project..put some love into it.

Betcha fall in love with your car again.
It will love you back with the work you put into it.
 
looks liek the same exact damage i got.... sad... but hey! its a easy fix i did all the major work in 3 days but still searching for a hood. thata to nice of a car to junk good luck on the fix it wont be that bad. hows the innerfender post pics. you could section in a new pice if you had to, i did mine was crumpled so bad. pulling is better if its posible
 
my innerfender was crumpled really bad! where the blinker bolts on seemed like it folded in half about 4-5 times lol. but the sectioning took maybe 2 hours or carful work. i cut the pice outa jy car then marked out where to cut on my car. cut teh part out. bolted the "new pice" to the fender and then boltedthe fender on with all the rad supports and such to make sure the new pice lined up. taced new inner fender in. then took the fender and rad supports off and welded away.
 
http://forums.turbobricks.com/showthread.php?t=98658&highlight=242+gt
this should be helpful sorry about the wreck it really sucks i know from experience i crashed about 2 weeks ago. if you have any sectioning question ask me, but i would trya and pull first. i did. and it helped i didnt have to splice nearly as much. i have pulling tools from a autobody shop that wnet outa business if you pay shipping you can barrow them but chekc out my thread it will for sure help. page 2 has splicing
 
RedFridge said:
Betcha fall in love with your car again.
It will love you back with the work you put into it.
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That's what I'm worried of... I was trying to slowly detach myself so I could bring myself to sell it at the end of the summer.

Well, I was doing some interior work on the 242 so I got that back together tonight so atleast I do have a DD. I'll probably get the wagon in the shop tomorrow morning and get started tearing it down.

Anyone with a right E-code??!! please!!!
 
2fast242gt said:
my innerfender was crumpled really bad! where the blinker bolts on seemed like it folded in half about 4-5 times lol. but the sectioning took maybe 2 hours or carful work. i cut the pice outa jy car then marked out where to cut on my car. cut teh part out. bolted the "new pice" to the fender and then boltedthe fender on with all the rad supports and such to make sure the new pice lined up. taced new inner fender in. then took the fender and rad supports off and welded away.
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Thanks a lot for the advice, you're the one I talked about in my original post that I remembered had sectioned the piece in. This is most likely what I'll be doing, seeing as mine is also folded about 3 times right where the blinker goes. Damn, you even hit a Caravan too, and it got pretty much the same damage. What I don't get is how my bumper didn't take the blunt of it. I was looking and my bumper height was pretty much the same as the Caravan's. Hmmm.... I guess the hard braking angled it down enough.
 
Maaco entirely depends upon the place you go to. This is a single coat, no clear, maaco job:
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I did almost zero prep, let them tape it up. I roughed up all the existing oxidized paint by hand.


Your wagon looks fixable, my condolences for the smackup though. :-(
 
was the caravan u hit purple and a walmart employee? the lady that cut me off and slmed on her brakes told me she worked at walmart and i camly said, "your a greeter arnt you?"
 
sorry to see :/ But this is a quick fix.. Kristian S. here on the board hit a traffic light with his 245 (The silverarrow) and got about the same damage. 2 days later he was attending a volvo meet :P So this is completely doable, but very sad...
 
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