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The Damage That Totalled My Tib

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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 09:27 AM
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Sorry These were taken on a camera phone and I just wanted to get the hell out of the rain and mud. This all happened the night before Thanksgiving as I was leaving work. It was raining real hard and there was a bunch of glass along the exit of the parking lot. Basically, I try to turn right out of the parking lot thinking both my front tires are inflated (driver side had a nice gash in it from a big slice of grey goose) and instead of going right the car just keeps goin left up onto a curb...





How she used to look...







Imma Miss my baby =(
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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 10:43 AM
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It was totaled for suspension damage? Talk about your DIY repair! Buy that puppy back from the ins. co. & fix it up!
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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 11:29 AM
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Yeah, that looks like a few hundred worth of damage, if that!
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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 03:12 PM
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I was actually thinking of just taking the check they cut me and putting it toward tuition for next year at college. I still have the tracer and That's what I was going to drive in the winter anyway. I woulda just been pushin snow in the tibby
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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 03:33 PM
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I really don't see the 'totalled' part of this damage.. Unless you're check is for $3000+ I'd buy it back and fix it. You could sell car, private sale for $4k.
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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 05:26 PM
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Dam that looks just like mine, except it was the passenger side and the airbags deployed.


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Old Dec 4, 2009 | 06:05 PM
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yeah my air bags didnt deploy... isn't that bad? haha. when my sister totalled her camry she got a couple grand for the airbags not deploying because it was faster than a certain MPH. so she got a nice fat check for mechanical failure from the airbags. my collision was only at 15-20mph so im not surprised they didnt deploy
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Old Dec 5, 2009 | 01:16 AM
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my accident was also at 15-20 mph and mine didn't deploy, and mine was head on with a non-moving concrete pole.

i also think i read somewhere that tibby's have bad airbags...
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Old Dec 5, 2009 | 09:05 AM
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You think they would have paid more attention to the airbags considering how many tibs are involved with front end collisions
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Old Dec 5, 2009 | 09:12 AM
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Airbags go off in a crash that otherwise might kill you. Deploying the airbags is a good way to total out an RD. Be glad they didn't go off.
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