Put it in a Miata? :
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/honda-v6-miata-in-the-aug-2014-issue/88114/page6/
Is it me or does the belt and the pulley on the right in the photo look bent?
Photo illusion, though it's probably bent now.
5/6speed?
Auto. Car is gone.
Glad your daughter is OK. That's the main thing.
In reply to Woody: Longshot anyway. They're pretty rare. Glad to hear she's ok. That's the main thing.
I am glad your daughter is alright, and I hope the insurance claim is as fast and painless as possible.
That's it, I'm all done. I have stopped caring.
Tis but a scratch...
wait your daughter smashed another one?
Yes, but at least this one is in her own name.
Yikes. At least this one looks fixable.
Another animal?
In reply to pointofdeparture:
No animal. She rear ended an SUV that slammed on his brakes.
Yes it's fixable, and her insurance company will pay a body shop to fix it, minus her deductible. My involvement will be limited to getting it to the body shop for an estimate. I'm sure her premiums will be going up.
Since the last accident, she's really matured a lot and we actually get along much better these days, though she continues to give me a hard time when I tell her that she follows people too closely. I've been telling her mother the same thing since 1994. Nobody seems to listen to the only driver in the house who hasn't hit anything in the last 25 years, aside from the occasional cone on an autocross course.
Holy hell. What happened?
EDIT: read what happened. Even though I'm a careful driver (when I'm on the streets, I drive like my grandma is in the car), I still don't buy expensive things. Why? Because things will get broken, and the less you're out of pocket when that happens, the better.
In reply to Woody:
Glad she is OK. Sometimes, you just need to learn the hard way as a young person. :-)
G_Body_Man wrote: Holy hell. What happened?
The first one was a small bridge abutment. The second one was the back of an SUV.
Fueled by Caffeine wrote: In reply to Woody: Glad she is OK. Sometimes, you just need to learn the hard way as a young person. :-)
I thought she had...
Woody wrote:Fueled by Caffeine wrote: In reply to Woody: Glad she is OK. Sometimes, you just need to learn the hard way as a young person. :-)I thought she had...
yeah, sometimes it takes a few reminders.
My son is a car guy and loves the GTi he bought new in 2008. Since his marriage in 2011, every surface, including the roof has beer repainted; some twice. The nice wheels have curb rash; not a little Oopsie, but lets walk it down the curb for 1/2 block.
It's tough, but there comes a time to just smile and nod; let them deal with it. A costly or inconvenient lesson lasts longer.
On the bright side, she's still just fine!
Good luck, Dan
In reply to 914Driver:
Between this, and the rate of divorce on this board, marriage looks somewhat E36 M3tty. You seem to always lose in the end.
This is why no one but me drives my wagon. My wife is a self admitted terrible driver. Several accidents, curbed and bent rims. Im not looking forward too my boys learning to drive. Its amazing my dad pounded defensive driving into me so much it worked!
I remember seeing some kind of PSA commercial when I was a kid where they described the safe following distance as a two second space cushion. They passed a sign and counted, "One thousand and one. One thousand and two." It made an impression on me. I've known this since I was seven years old, and it boggles my mind that the concept is so hard for other people to understand. Especially other people who live in my house.
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