Well, first things first ... this post is concerning the '96 Cobra in my signature.
The thing has 37,300 miles on it, has never been in a wreck before and has never needed any sort of work done on it.
Yesterday, while driving home from about a half mile round trip to the local PC Club store, I lost traction going through a curve and spun out (damn Tulsa street sanders ... I swear, the tons of sand they put down on the roads is more dangerous than the snow itself, especially after all of the snow has evaporated. Furthermore, I was an idiot for giving it ANYTHING besides coasting). Anyways, the front end of my car popped up on a curb -- there appears to be no damage to the front end of the car, there's no knicks or scrapes anywhere, but when the right-rear wheel hit the curb, it broke off entirely. The engine still starts and runs fine. It appears the axle is broken, the rotor is destroyed, and there's some bent plastic here and there (looks like the rubber sheeting on my parking break is torn, too). I'll probably need two replacement rims (the back right one is destroyed, the front right has a huge dent in it) as well as a tire or two, plus whatever damage was done in that rear-right well.
My question is this ... what kind of damage, based on the sort of assesment I gave here, might I be looking at? Like I said, there appears to be no damage to the frame or any other elements of the car ... it's really quite amazing there's no body damage ... but the axle appears to be broken (when my father was surveying the damage, he used the phrase "half shaft" ... but this car's a solid rear ... Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean I don't have half shafts?) and the whole rotor/brake assembly is kaput.
I doubt we'll tell the insurance company of this as there were no other cars involved and I luckily managed to hit no roadside objects (I was about five feet away from a tree and a fence ... about fifteen feet away from a light pole). But, the car is eight years old and the best I could sell it for, before this anyways, was $12,000 or $13,000 privately, or maybe $10,000 back to the dealership. My brother-in-law got a little bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when I told him what had happened, as he offered to pay the car's worth and fix it up himself if we decide it's not worth it to pay for the damage.
The car was going to be traded in or privately sold for either an upcoming '05 GT, or a payment on paying off another lease come next year. It's really ****ty timing, honestly ... and to think, I spent all this time babying the thing and being so weary of my driving only to spin out in a neighborhood. Perhaps I should be thankful I didn't hit an oncoming car or the like.
Suggestions/comments/people who are familiar with this type of situation, your input would be very much appreciated!
In the meantime, I'm officially
The thing has 37,300 miles on it, has never been in a wreck before and has never needed any sort of work done on it.
Yesterday, while driving home from about a half mile round trip to the local PC Club store, I lost traction going through a curve and spun out (damn Tulsa street sanders ... I swear, the tons of sand they put down on the roads is more dangerous than the snow itself, especially after all of the snow has evaporated. Furthermore, I was an idiot for giving it ANYTHING besides coasting). Anyways, the front end of my car popped up on a curb -- there appears to be no damage to the front end of the car, there's no knicks or scrapes anywhere, but when the right-rear wheel hit the curb, it broke off entirely. The engine still starts and runs fine. It appears the axle is broken, the rotor is destroyed, and there's some bent plastic here and there (looks like the rubber sheeting on my parking break is torn, too). I'll probably need two replacement rims (the back right one is destroyed, the front right has a huge dent in it) as well as a tire or two, plus whatever damage was done in that rear-right well.
My question is this ... what kind of damage, based on the sort of assesment I gave here, might I be looking at? Like I said, there appears to be no damage to the frame or any other elements of the car ... it's really quite amazing there's no body damage ... but the axle appears to be broken (when my father was surveying the damage, he used the phrase "half shaft" ... but this car's a solid rear ... Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this mean I don't have half shafts?) and the whole rotor/brake assembly is kaput.
I doubt we'll tell the insurance company of this as there were no other cars involved and I luckily managed to hit no roadside objects (I was about five feet away from a tree and a fence ... about fifteen feet away from a light pole). But, the car is eight years old and the best I could sell it for, before this anyways, was $12,000 or $13,000 privately, or maybe $10,000 back to the dealership. My brother-in-law got a little bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when I told him what had happened, as he offered to pay the car's worth and fix it up himself if we decide it's not worth it to pay for the damage.
The car was going to be traded in or privately sold for either an upcoming '05 GT, or a payment on paying off another lease come next year. It's really ****ty timing, honestly ... and to think, I spent all this time babying the thing and being so weary of my driving only to spin out in a neighborhood. Perhaps I should be thankful I didn't hit an oncoming car or the like.
Suggestions/comments/people who are familiar with this type of situation, your input would be very much appreciated!
In the meantime, I'm officially
SVT isn't making one in the first model year of the new Mustang.
