I think the Elise may be totaled.

I'm sorry to hear about your accident. I hope both you and the car make a speedy recovery.

I simply don't understand why so many drivers fail to pay attention to what is in front of them. The other day, the car next to me locked them up and nearly slid into the car in front of him. I look over- his tire smoke is still in the air- and he's already back on the phone texting.

That's crummy, Doc.

Get well soon!

Don't take the back and neck thing lightly. It can creap up on you. Trust me on this. I got dinged in an accedent 30 years ago and my sholder still is an SOB.

Looks fixable from here. Once you get the buyback price make some profit for shiny new stuff for your replacement selling that heap to me!

and like everyone else said.. Don't mess around with the injuries, that stuff with haunt you.. Trust me. I know.

I'm NOT a suer (sewer?) but id be tempted to sue the stupid outta this guy.

I ALWAYS give distance meanwhile I'm getting TAILGATED.

Get better soon brother!

AngryCorvair wrote: that'll buff out.

Never have I been more disappointed in the GRM community. Here, we have a long-standing member of the community suffer injuries from a car accident, AND face the probable loss of his beloved car and it takes a full three pages for someone to post that? We are loosing our edge here folks. We need to thank Angry for getting us back on track

Fix it GRM/LeMons style....

OK, joke aside, yeah it's a total loss. Honestly, take it from countless experience, I'd suggest calling your insurance company to at the very minimum put them on notice. You can file with the other carrier, but the car isn't a Honda Accord, so putting a value on it won't be as easy. Do you have an agreed value policy with your own carrier?

Dr. Hess wrote: I think my first words to the young man were "You dumb berkeley!!!"

Woulda been mine too, along with a few others. And yes Dad I am resting, eating good and I don't smoke.

DrBoost wrote:

AngryCorvair wrote: that'll buff out.

Never have I been more disappointed in the GRM community. Here, we have a long-standing member of the community suffer injuries from a car accident, AND face the probable loss of his beloved car and it takes a full three pages for someone to post that? We are loosing our edge here folks. We need to thank Angry for getting us back on track

Come on, I made an inappropriate Lotus joke on the second page only an hour after the first post, we're not slipping that much.

Best wishes to you Dr. Hess.

Part of the reason I sold my Elise was my constant fear of clam damage. The fragile clams, coupled with the Krypton paint which two different body shops struggled to match when I had a bit of fibreglass repair done, left me in a state of constant paranoia when out in the car. I am not cut out for super car ownership. At least in my current income bracket.

My last collision with a berkeleytard I god a crushed vertebrate and an assault charge.

Glad to hear that you fared better dr hess. We can find you another car. We cannot find another you.

But hopefully you'll make out well enough for a build thread on an Elise exocete and a new muscle car daily.

Hope you feel better soon and may your next Lotus fair far better.

I dunno, Datsun. I think that is a much better joke than the previous English national joke:

ZOO wrote: ...my constant fear of clam damage...

Sorry, this just needed to be repeated.

So, is the consensus here that the good Dr. is going to have to deal with a clams adjuster?

nderwater wrote:

ZOO wrote: ...my constant fear of clam damage...

Sorry, this just needed to be repeated.

Looks like Hess got his clam slammed pretty hard from behind...

GameboyRMH wrote:

nderwater wrote:

ZOO wrote: ...my constant fear of clam damage...

Sorry, this just needed to be repeated.

Looks like Hess got his clam slammed pretty hard from behind...

I think it's fair to say he got his clam destroyed from behind.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

GameboyRMH wrote:

nderwater wrote:

ZOO wrote: ...my constant fear of clam damage...

Sorry, this just needed to be repeated.

Looks like Hess got his clam slammed pretty hard from behind...

I think it's fair to say he got his clam destroyed from behind.

And it was done with something quite large as well.

Now we're back to the normal grm content.

Thanks!

Hess is Grumpy. With good reason. Glad your still around to shop for a replacement

Adrian_Thompson wrote:

DrBoost wrote:

AngryCorvair wrote: that'll buff out.

Never have I been more disappointed in the GRM community. Here, we have a long-standing member of the community suffer injuries from a car accident, AND face the probable loss of his beloved car and it takes a full three pages for someone to post that? We are loosing our edge here folks. We need to thank Angry for getting us back on track

Come on, I made an inappropriate Lotus joke on the second page only an hour after the first post, we're not slipping that much.

Crap. I totally forgot about that. My apologies.
Like others have said, make sure you take care of yourself. I was rear-ended while sitting. I remember the doc said "Yeah, you'll be up and around in a few days, back to your normal activity in a few weeks, and paying for this with back pain in your 40s. I'm 42 now and I experience a constant, but fortunately, variable level of pain daily.

I don't know a lot about those cars in terms of how they are structurally put together. The photo looks quite spectacular in that the fiberglass body work is all rearranged (as it would be) and because it is fiberglass they tend to do that (see rear ended corvettes for reference) and not just crumple like metal. So correct me if I am wrong here but can it be fixed with just a rear clip? As long as the suspension points in the rear are not damaged.

Again this is based on one photo and there are a lot of unknowns about what happened structurally in the shadows of the photo.

If it's got any chassis damage, the chassis isn't repairable (as per Lotus). The clams themselves also cost a few, err, clams and insurance companies like to write Elises off for just fibreglass damage.

dean1484 wrote: So correct me if I am wrong here but can it be fixed with just a rear clip?

Probably not. Under the clamshells there's a unibody frame, and it looks like this hit went far enough to touch it, so the frame is most likely bent.

The Lotus frame is even less repairable than a typical unibody because parts of it are glued together (with bolts in for good measure...but the glue is very fancy stuff that can't be replaced).