So, the Integra is fucking gone..........
 

So I was driving home from a friend's house, which is literally in the ------- middle of nowere. So i'm actually only going 5 over the limit (45), when all of a sudden I feel a loss of control. Dirt is kicking up everywhere, so I figured the road had dropped off into a dirt one like it likes to do out here in the middle of ------- nowhere. So just as I am regaining control, I end up hitting a hole in the road right where it's repaved. That causes me to slide even harder since my tire blew, and the road once again becomes full dirt, which doesn't help my ------- situation at all. Next thing i know, I'm in a ditch. The damage is pretty bad. My front end is pushed in pretty far, and the frame is pretty badly bent. I drove my car out of the ditch to the side of the road, and it dies on me. When I pop my hood, well, the pictures will tell all.

View from the front....
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/front.gif

Another angle....
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/corner.gif

Look how far the turbo is implanted in the radiator....just to show how bad the frame was pushed back
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/radiator.gif

My intercooler, just chillin, on the ------- floor
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/ic.gif

The oil line kinked, since it was pushed so far outta whack by the radiator. I'm assuming my seals are ---- now since the screen on the turbo was clean this morning.
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/seals.gif

There's that hole. What ------- aim huh?
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/killer.gif

My tire blew out after I hit that hole and made me veer to the right. follow the skid mark....More ------- impeccable aim huh? Don't you love colorado's middle of nowhere pavement?
http://home.comcast.net/~tranac/skid.gif


I just need a break from everything for a while you know? My ECU chipping ---- is gonna be suspended till who knows when. I don't know if i'm ever gonna do it again, or even ------- bother to build another car. I dunno, i'm just gonna try to get everything settled and figured out. Don't worry though, i'll be back someday. I get too ------- bored at work not to.

-S_K

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that really sux :(

Cant you sue colorade for indecent roads ? In Holland where i live u can sue your city for indecent roads without warnings

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hey man, keep your head up, to be honest that doesnt look like to much damage, call the city and they will pay for your ---- (because of the pothole) i bet you could fix all the damage for under 500 dollars.

Keep ya nipple's pointed to the sky f00

-Josh

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raise your car up, then call the city.

u should have gotten a police report, but call em anyway.

then get the hell out of colorado, we got some space over here in miami ;D


-good luck man

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thats not 2 bad man
a bumper, a rad and a lot of dent repair will help u comeback

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---- man that does suck ??? I can't beleive they'd leave the road like that without any signs or cones or something. Maybe it's time to go to the town with the situation and see if they can do anything for you... I mean this probably wouldn't have happened with some type of warning that the street was like that. :-\ Anyway if you need help with the ecu chipping let me know, I can take over for you.

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holy ---- that sucks ass, if you need any help let me know, look at the bright side that bumper was about gone anyway, i bet you could fix it for under $1000. ill keep an eye out. call me

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sorry to hear about your car, reminds me of how i felt, i couldn't do anything, i didn't care about anything else................................

look on the bright side, if they are paying for it,
::)
..JDM frontend.


**plenty of smooth WIDE roads here in south florida**

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too bad at any given time, at least 3 majors roads are being dug up and repaved for no F*cking reason!!!!

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the old people want the baby ass smooth so they can sleep better while driving. not that most of them know how to drive in the first place

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Sorry dude, I know how it feels.. Sucks, don't it? Hope you can repair yours and get 'er back on the road. If not, good luck with whatever you do elsewise with it.

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Is that how they do ---- around there? Just out of nowhere the road ends and starts back up? WTF? ??? That's some halfass ----. The city needs to be paying for that ----.

Something like that happened out here. They had this fucked up pohole down town that actually stuck out of the ground. Some dude with a lowered truck drove over it and it smashed his oil pan into his crank and fucked his ---- up. The city bought him a new motor and fixed the pothole.

Don't let thme ---- you. >:(
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you have the photo evidence...call the city or county (depending on whose jurisdiction) and get them to pay.

similar to georgia, except they love to dig up the road for no apparent reason and just put a thick steel plate over it. it's like hitting a curb. people bend rims all the time.

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They do that here too. Sometimes they use two of those thick ass metal plates. Even in a normal car/truck those things are crazy.
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Looks fixable. Sorry to hear it though. GET TO WORK!

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I say talk to the county, tell them to pay up to fix the car, get extimates, take the estimates to them, do just like an insurance company would do. Get 3 estimates, average them, and take it to the county or wherever. Then write an article in the news paper. Also, give them a reasonable deadline. 2 weeks???

this could turn out to be a good thing!-tell the shops to over-estimate it. and add in a rental car to, you gotta get to work! -it works where I live!

I know it doesnt matter, but how fast were you going?
also, a good argument, you drive a FWD car. Most people know, its hard to loose control in a FWD car.

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doesn`t look all that bad...
drill out the radiator support and bolt a new one back..

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Considering how far back that turbo is pushed back that car will never drive straight again. I had my cousin who was driving with like a flashlight and he ran straight up into a curb the front end looked exactly like that and the oil pan was fucked. When he got it pretty straight the steering wheel was still off center and still wanted to pull right when just cruising and on highway. Automatic right turning he used to call it :X

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it all depends on who does the repairs.

my integra front end was 10 folds worse that streetking's....they had to CUT the whole shyt off from behind the shock tower, and weld on a new front end.
they straighten it first with a laser machine, then they cut off the front and welded on the new frame. my car drive perfectly st-8, does not pull at all on the highway.

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Pfft you cant beat using some wood and a jack. That's the manly way to repair things! :P

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Maybe we could start a fund for getting your car back up and running? You chiped half of HMT ecu's for free maybe its time to repay? I didn't acually get a chance to get mine done yet but even if you charged for it, that would help too? ;) Just thinkin out load here.

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I know how that is man...My sweet EG got totalled a few month's ago :'(

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I used to work in a body shop all through high school, the way you tell if your car is not straight.....
there are holes, in the fender under the hood where the bolts are (where the hood shuts onto) there is one hole at the top by where the fender comes close to the door and the window(a pillar) and there is a hole down by the corner light on both fenders. you measure diagnoly and accross, and they should match up, by going diagnolly and going accross. I will try to make a diagram and post what I am talking about....

*edit, this is what i am talking about...

[img width=800 height=600]http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=2375Jb6j6&i=25151[/img]

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wow, that really sucks. hopefully you can repair that ----, that car was really nice to ride in. did you ever figure out what the hell that noise was that you though was the v-band bolt?

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lol yeah i fixed my exhaust that morning. Anyway, the front of the frame is worse than it looks int he pictures. Both front fenders bow out like the car has fender flares or some ----, and the frame folded downwards. The radiator's top half is sitting on about a 3rd of the way through the turbo, and the lower half of the radiator including all that other bullshit down there are pushed all the way back to the oil return nipple on the oil pan.

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so are you gonna take any advice?

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I already got a police report, called insurance, and all that ----. Right now, i'm in the process of getting reciepts for everything so i can get paid by insurance. The shitty part is, I need a reciept for a turbo, an intercooler, and a TiAL wastegate now since i traded ---- to get all 3 of those. I am planning on calling my lawyer in the morning with all the pictures and ---- to see what we can do. I guess there was a sign that said the road drops off into dirt, though, so I don't know what i can do. No sign for the hole that fucked me over though, that may be my key.

Oh yeah, the cops came by this morning and dropped me off my citation for "careless driving," 4 points. Asswads.

EDIT: forgot about my exhaust....need a reciept for that ---- too since it was a private sale. ----. >:(

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2 bolts will take that sign out, or pull the sign out of the ground, post and all.
dont wear your shoes(or get rid of the ones you will wear to go do this) and wear gloves.

also, tell your lawyer about that ticket. thats BS

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Ummmm....OMG I don't know if I would have handled that. Holy ----, I would have ended up in handcuffs by the end of that conversation. That is some seriously fucked up bullshit. Careless driving for hitting a ------- hole in the middle of the ------- city streets?? Are they serious? How can you call that careless? That's like getting struck by a meteor and getting arrested for disturbing the peace when your bones break and make loud noises. Wow, that really pisses me off and I have nothing to do with it. >:(
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That ---- pisses me off too. Cops are ------- jerks, tell your lawyer all that ----. Go back to the place where you wrecked and take a million pictures. If there was a sign, try to prove that you couldnt see it, if its possible. Also show them that little part they half-assed repaired.

Dude, same as Boost here. They would've beaten my ass down with nightsticks by the time I was done >:(

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Well ehhh quick question why is there tire marks on both sides of the pothole instead of just on one side ???

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by the way, is the turbo gone? :'( why not strip the parts?

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i got your back on the recepts so give me a call and well take care of that.

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if you need any recipts let me know (PM).

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the car just didn't instantly stop when it hit the pot hole. and if you're refering to the part where the tire blew, the tire didn't just explode into nothing when it toched the put hole, it probably just got a gash in that ----.

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I think you could chalk that up to a "OH ---- A POTHOLE w/ NO WARNING" situation.

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if i were you id fight that careless driving ---- all they way... its bs. In the end that looks fixable but itll take some time, but you should be able to chain up the unibody frame in the corner and hook it around a tree or somthing VERY SOLID and bump it out going in reverse... that approach works well if you know what youre doing and go very slow, so you might be in luck.

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^^^I tried that with a friends truck with my old Civic. I tied the front of my radiator support to the hitch on the back of his truck. It didn't work too well. :-[ Not enough traction.
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Pulling out with a chain isn't the way to fix things properly! You have to use as mentioned previously a piece of wood on top of a jack : P I guess you have a point there crx88si but bleh :P

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yeah, anchor the car to something stable then use a come-along or a ratchet binder to help pull the part out. Body shops use hydrallic machines.

Definately run this by your lawyer, you should take that ticket to court then file a complaint against your local PD. Some wack ---- dude