lasinthesauce
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So, just a couple hours ago, I was hit head on by an extremely intoxicated driver that was driving the wrong way on a one way.
I had no time to react, as he was coming into the one way instead of turning either left or right because the road he was on was ending before the one way street I was on. He continued straight into me (if that made any sense...), fortunately I was going at a low rate of speed while he was doing ~40km/h. Long story short, the push guard (GoRhino3000) I had installed had (to my extreme surprise) done a good job in saving a lot of damage to my car (as well as thankfully no airbags were deployed, it wasn't bad enough that they were req. but im sure they would have gone off w/o the bar and well that would have practically written my brand new baby off in an insurance/value stand point). His car still continued to wretch along the left side of my car.
Ultimately my car is still drivable, steering is extremely out of alignment, brakes feel normal and the wheel/tire is quite bashed up. Surprisingly the bumper and push bar is quite intact (of course bumper is cracked and such, but the fog light isn't damaged somehow). I left after writing my statement to the police and watching the irresponsible man be arrested (the officer told me he blew well over .25 and the legal limit here is .05), and as I was driving the car notified me an issue with the 4wd system and the tcs/stabilitrack was disabled. I could not re enable, even after restarting the car multiple times. My home was not too far away, so I continued on home.
I just drove it to the gas station to get some items, and there was no longer any notification of anything.
I need to drive this car tomorrow and I have zero time (being sunday, too) to get an inspection, and need the 4wd/winter tires to safely drive to where I need to be.
All of the above stated, in your opinion (I'm not gunna hold you liable if I get injured lol) would I be ok to drive ? Is there the possibility of chassis/frame damage ? and are my struts or what ever is causing the steering wheel alignment severe enough to my safety to not drive it at all ?
Thanks for the help, glad I had sustained no injuries definitely could have ended up worse if either of us were going faster.
I had no time to react, as he was coming into the one way instead of turning either left or right because the road he was on was ending before the one way street I was on. He continued straight into me (if that made any sense...), fortunately I was going at a low rate of speed while he was doing ~40km/h. Long story short, the push guard (GoRhino3000) I had installed had (to my extreme surprise) done a good job in saving a lot of damage to my car (as well as thankfully no airbags were deployed, it wasn't bad enough that they were req. but im sure they would have gone off w/o the bar and well that would have practically written my brand new baby off in an insurance/value stand point). His car still continued to wretch along the left side of my car.
Ultimately my car is still drivable, steering is extremely out of alignment, brakes feel normal and the wheel/tire is quite bashed up. Surprisingly the bumper and push bar is quite intact (of course bumper is cracked and such, but the fog light isn't damaged somehow). I left after writing my statement to the police and watching the irresponsible man be arrested (the officer told me he blew well over .25 and the legal limit here is .05), and as I was driving the car notified me an issue with the 4wd system and the tcs/stabilitrack was disabled. I could not re enable, even after restarting the car multiple times. My home was not too far away, so I continued on home.
I just drove it to the gas station to get some items, and there was no longer any notification of anything.
I need to drive this car tomorrow and I have zero time (being sunday, too) to get an inspection, and need the 4wd/winter tires to safely drive to where I need to be.
All of the above stated, in your opinion (I'm not gunna hold you liable if I get injured lol) would I be ok to drive ? Is there the possibility of chassis/frame damage ? and are my struts or what ever is causing the steering wheel alignment severe enough to my safety to not drive it at all ?
Thanks for the help, glad I had sustained no injuries definitely could have ended up worse if either of us were going faster.
