So due to just a few people knowing and more asking whenever I reference it I thought I'd make a post detailing what happened to my truck. STORY TIME:
Two and a half weeks ago, Friday, I was driving my buddy back to his house. We had just gotten off of school and didn't feel like doing much. So I was driving him back. Imagine this: A two lane road with a turn lane to split the two lanes. I was going up the described road behind a fair amount of traffic but I wanted to turn left. The light was red and I was way back the line so I checked to see that nobody was coming up the lane and hopped into it to turn left at the light. I start driving up to the light doing ~25-30mph cautiously passing cars making sure to watch that nobody else was going to get in the lane to turn (it happens and sometimes people don't look). I was probably 40ft away from the light when suddenly a woman in her Honda Fit veers straight into me. I s*** you not. No warning. No turn signal. Nothing. Immediately after the impact my buddy looks to me, chuckles, and says, "I knew this thing would take an impact like a tank."
Her defense to the officer was "I was trying to avoid rear-ending the person in front of me." She was probably texting but the officer didn't even check, which kind of surprised me. What surprised me even more was how cold the lady was who hit me, even though I put on my cordial southern smile for her.
Anyways, things went pretty well after that. "Sweeet, new front bumper" I thought to myself. I was also planning on purchasing new turn signal housings anyway, so now insurance gets to pay for that but more on the damage later. I decided I was probably going to be waiting around for a while so I started chatting with the officer (she took a solid hour to get to the scene too). I get tired of standing around so I hop back in the truck to sit with my friend and out of nowhere another car slams into the two people in front of him! So what was a pretty nice two car collision basically turns into a five car pile-up. I wave down the officer who was back in her cruiser and she looked a bit puzzled, sticks her head out the window and I yell to her, "Yeah you're not gonna believe this... Three more cars just wrecked." She laughed and got back in the cruiser to finish up her paper work before going to deal with the next three drivers.
This is where the story winds down. I gave Nick (2000UZJ) a call to tell him what had happened and like a hero he skipped out of work for a couple hours to come help me out. Thanks again, Nick! And after that the rest is history.
^Yeah, that's Nick's hood.
Now I'm rollin' in a 2014 Chevy Tahoe LT with all the bells and whistles. Still doesn't drive like a hundy though. My truck has been in the shop for about two and a half weeks now but they haven't started working on repairs yet. Exterior damages totaled to about $5200, that is, not including suspension damages. I just received a call today about the suspension.
They threw the truck on the alignment rack and said that basically the entire front right suspension is going to need to be redone: UCAs, LCAs, knuckle spindle, maybe shocks, tie rods, the whole 9 yards. Right now I'm just hoping that they don't total my baby. I should get an estimate back from the collision shop tomorrow on what the suspension is going to run and I'll update with that info when I get it.
That's all for now except for one small tidbit I left out. The woman who hit me? Yeah, I saw her in Fellini's less than a week after the wreck. I think she recognized me but she definitely kept her distance.
Two and a half weeks ago, Friday, I was driving my buddy back to his house. We had just gotten off of school and didn't feel like doing much. So I was driving him back. Imagine this: A two lane road with a turn lane to split the two lanes. I was going up the described road behind a fair amount of traffic but I wanted to turn left. The light was red and I was way back the line so I checked to see that nobody was coming up the lane and hopped into it to turn left at the light. I start driving up to the light doing ~25-30mph cautiously passing cars making sure to watch that nobody else was going to get in the lane to turn (it happens and sometimes people don't look). I was probably 40ft away from the light when suddenly a woman in her Honda Fit veers straight into me. I s*** you not. No warning. No turn signal. Nothing. Immediately after the impact my buddy looks to me, chuckles, and says, "I knew this thing would take an impact like a tank."
Her defense to the officer was "I was trying to avoid rear-ending the person in front of me." She was probably texting but the officer didn't even check, which kind of surprised me. What surprised me even more was how cold the lady was who hit me, even though I put on my cordial southern smile for her.
Anyways, things went pretty well after that. "Sweeet, new front bumper" I thought to myself. I was also planning on purchasing new turn signal housings anyway, so now insurance gets to pay for that but more on the damage later. I decided I was probably going to be waiting around for a while so I started chatting with the officer (she took a solid hour to get to the scene too). I get tired of standing around so I hop back in the truck to sit with my friend and out of nowhere another car slams into the two people in front of him! So what was a pretty nice two car collision basically turns into a five car pile-up. I wave down the officer who was back in her cruiser and she looked a bit puzzled, sticks her head out the window and I yell to her, "Yeah you're not gonna believe this... Three more cars just wrecked." She laughed and got back in the cruiser to finish up her paper work before going to deal with the next three drivers.
This is where the story winds down. I gave Nick (2000UZJ) a call to tell him what had happened and like a hero he skipped out of work for a couple hours to come help me out. Thanks again, Nick! And after that the rest is history.
^Yeah, that's Nick's hood.
Now I'm rollin' in a 2014 Chevy Tahoe LT with all the bells and whistles. Still doesn't drive like a hundy though. My truck has been in the shop for about two and a half weeks now but they haven't started working on repairs yet. Exterior damages totaled to about $5200, that is, not including suspension damages. I just received a call today about the suspension.
They threw the truck on the alignment rack and said that basically the entire front right suspension is going to need to be redone: UCAs, LCAs, knuckle spindle, maybe shocks, tie rods, the whole 9 yards. Right now I'm just hoping that they don't total my baby. I should get an estimate back from the collision shop tomorrow on what the suspension is going to run and I'll update with that info when I get it.
That's all for now except for one small tidbit I left out. The woman who hit me? Yeah, I saw her in Fellini's less than a week after the wreck. I think she recognized me but she definitely kept her distance.
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and maybe an 07 but that's out of price range. Plus I would want an 03+ without NAV and those prove hard to find. So either a 98 or 2000. Definitely LC though, no LXs for me!
repairs should be complete by friday and I'll have the cruiser back in action 
