Have you ever totaled a car?

[MrCoffee]

I just got the call from the insurance company: MrsCoffee totaled ours. I have never totaled a car.


I now am morally superior to MrsCoffee.

[motely36]

1. 2 actually

one was mine, one was my partners

[MrCoffee]

4. I am twice as morally superior as you

Victory is mine!

[motely36]

8. yeah but what about...

ok fine you are :P

[redqueen]

2. Yes, I have totaled a car.

Yet I am still morally superior to you.

Also, based on the nonchalant tone of your OP, I'm assuming that no one involved was injured.

[MrCoffee]

7. Coming from your position of moral inferiority, all I can do is weep for you.

"inferiority" always looks misspelled

yeah, i edited it, you can't prove nothing.

[motely36]

14. especially when you misspell it in your subject

now who is superior????

[MrCoffee]

18. it just LOOKS that way

sheesh, can't you read?



:rofl:


wow am I dumb.

[redqueen]

16. " inferirority" looks misspelled?

Oh, does it? I wonder why that is...

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

19. I never said anything about being intellectually superior

Simply morally superior.

[redqueen]

33. Oh yeah?

Well I went from standing still to doing an 810 degree spin in the middle of a major intersection with nearly no effort at all.

AND I have a cool floater in my right eye.

So THERE!

[motely36]

30. it hard to misspell easy words sometimes

:rofl:

[XemaSab]

3. I popped the cherry on both the Element and the Corolla

That rock came out of nowhere. :hide:

And so did those garbage cans. :hide:

Neither car was remotely totalled, but the scrape and the cracked taillight weren't so great.

(And let us not forget what I did to that rental car in Arizona. :o )

[billyskank]

5. Not yet

Hope I don't, either.

[MrCoffee]

12. Enjoy the moral high ground, my friend

The view from up here is magnificent!

[billyskank]

I can see for miles!

Hope everything is okay. Apart from the car, which obviously isn't.

:pals:

[motely36]

25. uh..uh no post number

you guys should really stop bragging!

:P

[flvegan]

6. Yup, 2.

My 85 Mustang. Got cut off doing 50, went sideways into a telephone pole.

My 87 Grand National. (insert expletive here) in a VW Cabrio turned left in front of me.

*knocks wood* Neither one my fault, and I walked away from both of them.

I hope MrsCoffee is okay.

[XemaSab]

13. Californian for Cabrio:

(expletive) in the box

[MrCoffee]

17. MrsCoffee and the CoffeeKids are just fine, thanks

The accident was a week and a half ago. Completely MrsCoffee's fault, but the cop was supercool with the citation. He could have burned us pretty badly, but the fine ended up being less than $200.

Since the car was just over 2 years old, we are actually going to come out ok on the insurance settlement (and it was still insured up the wazoo, seeing as how we're still paying for it.)

[ohiosmith]

9. Yep. Brand new 1976 Honda CVCC. Hit black ice on the Vedder Canal bridge out side of

Chilliwack, British Columbia. An 80 foot drop did the rest.

[XemaSab]

15. OH SHIT!

WOW!

Were you not, like, screaming the whole way down? :scared:

[ohiosmith]

20. No time to scream. Like an idiot, I was trying to steer.

[XemaSab]

22. Did it work?

:P

[ohiosmith]

23. smart ass

:rofl:

[MrCoffee]

21. Holy crap!

I mean, literally, I'd have crapped a hole in my pants.

[XemaSab]

24. I'd have crapped a hole THROUGH MY PANTS

THROUGH THE SEAT

and THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE CAR. :o

[ohiosmith]

27. Fortunately my sphincter didn't fail me.

[redqueen]

31. Holy shit.

:scared:


Are you made of metal?

[ohiosmith]

34. Wired together for a couple of months. 27 facial fractures, 20 teeth knocked out, jaw broken in

three places, shattered patella, broken sternum. Years later it was discovered that I had likely suffered a sever concussion that was undiagnosed.

[krispos42]

76. Holy shit!

:wow:

[KitchenWitch]

10. Nope.

Never have.

[MrCoffee]

26. You and I are moral equals

except for that whole other thing...

[KitchenWitch]

37. Which means I am still better than you!

:P

[MorningGlow]

11. Yes indeed--my first car, my beloved Pontiac Phoenix

Drove into a street sign head-on. Dang, those suckers are stronger than they look. It was either that or t-bone a minivan full of children driven by a moran who ran a stop sign.

[MrCoffee]

29. Wow, you took one for the team

Your sacrifice makes you morally superior.

[MorningGlow]

36. Cool!

Now when my knee acts up because of the cartilage rattling round under my kneecap from getting whacked in the accident, I'll feel free to limp and wince with impunity! :hi:

[Rhythm]

28. Two of them...

First one, a 1975 Grand Prix, met the business end of a bridge support... i was 19.
Moderate to minor injuries involved.

Second one, a 1992 Explorer Sport, was met head-on by a Ford F-150 who was doing 80.
Only damage to me was PTSD related to nighttime driving...
took me months to get back behind the wheel if there were oncoming headlights involved.

[eyepaddle]

32. Well, there was this car I owned once that rolled down a hill and totalled itself

while I ran behind--would that count?

[OffWithTheirHeads]

35. Two. A Porsche 911 and a Chevy Pick Up

911 was 1 year old. I was driving highway 1 near Bolinas when some idiot tried to pass on a blind corner. There was no pace to go. On one side was the ocean, the other the mountain. Hit em head on doing about 45 mph. Walked away from it but the car was toast.

The pickup when another idiot blew through a red light. T-boned em and wasted the truck.

Hell, you haven't lived until you have wasted a car or two.

[TrogL]

38. Mine was totalled for me

Some idiot turned left in front of three lines of oncoming traffic. I was the third person he hit. It didn't look like much but it mis-aligned the front bumper and twisted the frame.

[Shakespeare]

39. I had one totaled for me by a drunk driver.

Damn near totaled me, too.

[Flaxbee]

40. earlier this year, someone ran a red light and almost killed

my husband (in the passenger seat; broadsided his side of the car about a foot from where he was in the passenger seat) and me - totaled the car. And the person-at-fault's insurance is being AWFUL. F*ckers. :grr:

[Shakespeare]

41. At least the person who hit you has insurance.

The filth who almost killed me had no insurance, and was driving on a suspended license. My insurance co had to eat the cost of the total. x(

[pokerfan]

42. Once

I rolled my 4WD into the Salmon River about twenty years ago. If it was wasn't totaled on the way in, the tow truck finished the job pulling it out.

[LeftyMom]

43. Nope.

I have precisely one parking lot ding under my belt.

[GOPisEvil]

44. Yeah - I rear-ended a pickup truck.

I loved that car. x(

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. MrG did. I only wiped out the side of an extended cab, extended

bed (did I mention it was black?) pickup after a "meeting" with a yellow pole at the bank. I guess that makes me better.

[lost-in-nj]

46. No my friends did it with me INSIDE

the car


3-4

not sure if the 4th one was "totaled"


:hi:

sorry about your car


I am happy Mrscoffee
is ok though


lost

[baldguy]

47. I haven't totaled a car.

The guy who hit me did.

[Zavulon]

48. No, but I was in one when it was totalled.

Stopped at a light and sitting still when I was hit by a drunk.

[skygazer]

49. I totaled a friend's mother's car when I was an unlicensed 17

She had just begun to forgive me for that when I completely and utterly ruined her 17 year old son a year later (I couldn't help it if he was so enamored of me after drinking that bottle of tequila that he had to sacrifice his innocence to me). O8)

[Midlodemocrat]

50. Dude. The very fact that you married her makes you superior.

:hide:

I am hoping beyond hope that no LittleLatte or MiniEspresso was hurt. and of course, the Mrs.

[Midlodemocrat]

51. Actually, prior to my forming an opinion on this. I need to know

the details.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

52. I have had a car totaled for me, does that count?

Back in about 1990, when I still lived in a small town in Oregon and had a car, I was driving along I-205 when I saw that the cars ahead of me were stopped. (I later learned that a group of kids had decided it would be fun to run across the freeway.)

Anyway, I stopped just in time to avoid crashing into a car that had three children in the back seat.

Unfortunately, the person behind me didn't stop or even slow down.

Since my car had fishtailed when I stopped so suddenly, the crash sent it across the median, across the opposing lanes of traffic, and onto the other side of the freeway. (It took the left tail light off the car in front of me, but that's all.)

I have no idea how I missed being hit as my car flew across the opposing lanes.

I wore a neck brace for months and had bruises in odd places, and the back of the car looked like tissue paper.

But that was SO not my fault.

[Common Sense Party]

53. I've never even been in a fender bender.

Not when I was driving, anyway. 24+ years of driving...I drive about 25,000 miles a year now. Well, 30,000 with rental cars.

Mrs. CSP got in a semi-nasty wreck in the second year of our marriage. I still bring it up from time to time, to lord my moral superiority over her.

[quakerboy]

54. Define "you"

then I can give you a better answer.

[seemunkee]

55. Totalled one, blew the engine on another.

warped the head on anther due to overheating.
I was hard on cars in my youth.

[Guava Jelly]

56. Two so far.

My friends 70-72 Cutlass S (It was a beauty)
And My 1970 Chevy Malibu 400 small block..sigh
I'm 42 and I still haven't to date received a ticket.
I did rear end a Papa Johns delivery guy once.:(

[TommyO]

57. Two

In the first incident, I hit a patch of black ice, spun around 270 degrees, went up a slight embankment and hit a light pole sideways. My '87 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe didn't like that and decided to give up the ghost (well, it was more the insurance company that did it, but you get the idea).

The second was my 2001 Pontiac Grand Prix that was rear-ended while I was sitting at a stop sign waiting to get onto a highway. The driver of the Chrysler 300 never slowed down, just plowed right into me.

[ogneopasno]

58. Yes, if you count the Kia that rear-ended my 2008 Taurus. The Kia will never drive again.

The Taurus didn't have a scratch on it. It was beautiful.

[Capn Sunshine]

59. MY car was totaled once- a pristine 3.0si BMW

I didn't do it, it was the six point buck who suicided into my front end. He just leaped once from hillside on Mulholland Drive in Calabasas in front of Calabasas High. A beautiful arc, must have been 30 feet, and landed directly in front of me going about 55. No skid marks. It was awful; he was so beautiful. Oh and my car was totaled.

[Roon]

60. I had a 64 volvo that was well taken care of and ran great

paid 500.00 for her. I didn't have it long. I was driving downtown and I approached an intersection where the stop sign was hidden by a tree. I pulled out in front of traffic and got t-boned. Totally my fault. Ironically there was a news station at the intersection at the time doing a report on how dangerous that intersection is. But it never made the air.

The car still had temp tags and I only put gas in it once. That shows you how long I had it.

This Volvo was so cool because it had twin carburetors and get DOWN after you punched it!

[Inchworm]

61. One

It was my only "real" wreck. I have slid off banks and into ditches on ice a few times, but when I was 17-18 I was doing..umm..TOO fast on a dirtroad and absolutly flew off a bank.

The car landed driver's side down. I climbed out the passenger window and walked miles to get to a phone. Naturally, "a big car, I think it was black, came straight at me! I had no choice."

That imaginary car took the rap :D

I have tried to drive like I did when younger on the dirtroads. Fuck that! I can't see how anyone rode with me! :crazy:

:hi:

[mokawanis]

62. One high-speed crash

Lost it late one night, going fast on a county road in rural Wisconsin, a high-school buddy in the car with me. Did a nose-dive into the ditch and flipped the back of the car up so we were airborne and upside down, our momentum stopped cold a second later by a telephone pole. Two people in the car, with only minor abrasions, we were shocky and disoriented for a minute while we unhitched our seat belts and then crawled out the windows. County deputies showed up a short time later. They knew, or rightly assumed, that our line about a deer in the road was bullshit . They wrote me a speeding ticket and called a tow-truck to haul away my totaled Javelin.

[DarkTirade]

63. Depends on your definition of 'totaled'

I have crashed one car to the point where it wasn't worth repairing, yes. But it was only a few inches on the front that was 'totaled'. And the car was old enough to vote, which is why it just wasn't worth repairing.

[kwassa]

64. Either three or four times: I totalled one car twice.

and only one of the totals was my fault, driving too fast in snowy conditions. Hit a snow drift, ended up sliding upside down and backwards in a ditch into a phone pole. Hanging upside down from my seat belt.

I was hit three times by other vehicles.

If a car is not worth much, by the way, a very minor accident will total some cars. Mine were major collisions however.

[gemdem]

65. Mine was totalled for me

by an 80-year old man who didn't know where he was. I lived to tell the tale -- nothing but the van "got broke," although the concussion and dealing with his insurance was a bitch.

[Adsos Letter]

66. Why yes, yes I have....

a jeep actually...

an US Army jeep...

the 36 hours that ended with that, uh...unfortunate occurance...

resulted in a nice Field-Grade Article-15 on my record.

One of three Article-15's I managed to accumulate. :dunce:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

67. Yes...it sucks.

Hydroplaned and hit a BMW (older model, thank God) Totaled my Ford (smallest SUV they make Escape?) and the Beemer both x(

[Adsos Letter]

68. Despite my having totaled a jeep...

my wife may make no claims of superiority in these matters:

She has a 1963 Chevy Nova SS...

It had never been wrecked; it had 43,000 original miles on it...

Her brother (the exceptional body and paint guy) spent a ton of hours stripping the car down, taking it all apart, and doing an immaculate restoral paint job on the exterior; ermine white, with a silver/metallic trunk panel, and zolotoned trunk, just like original...

2 months later she pulled out in front of a Ford F-350; nobody hurt (thank God) but major damage to the front end.

Her brother, distraught, refuses to even look at the car for over 2 years...

Finally, after a bunch of sisterly wheedling and the promise of a good financial reward, he takes up the project again.

We travel all over to find original parts, chrome, and trim.

Brother fixes all damage to front-end.

Brother also has special leaf-springs made in Sacramento, and installs them to give the Nova a slight 2" lift in back...

Brother installs anti-sway bars front and back...

Brother strips and repaints all interior trim...

Brother installs complete NOS interior kit: headliner, seat covers, side panels, carpet, the works...

Brother re-strips much of the car and repaints exterior as before...

.
.

.

6 months later, my wife skids on black-ice and does a 180* into one of those roadside emergency phone-box/pole set-ups that are designed to snap off at impact...

The pole does not snap off, but remains essentially upright, while the Nova SS receives a very impressive "dent" of about 10" depth running from hood to bottom of rear door, and bending the frame nicely in the process...again, nobody was hurt.


The car is now sitting in my in-laws car-barn (they collect Studebaker's) up in Oregon, where I am quite sure the mice are finishing off that new interior, and any wiring...

We keep saying we're gonna' start the project again, but at this point...

[Heidi]

73. Ouch!

I'm really glad no one was hurt in either of those accidents. A car can be replaced, but the love of your life -- not so easily. :hug: :hug:

[Adsos Letter]

75. Quite true...and she will have been the married love of my life for 30 years on Dec. 15th...

...but we actually don't raise the topic of the car as a project very often, and never in the company of her brother... :D

:hug:

[Heidi]

69. Yes. I was 16 and had the car only two weeks. But it was an accident. (nt)

[Adsos Letter]

70. yes, but aren't they all...

:rofl: :hi:

[Heidi]

71. That's what my dad said:

"Yeah, well, I didn't for a moment believe you did it intentionally." :rofl: :spray:

[Adsos Letter]

72. Dad's are full of wisdom...

sounds like yours loved ya' :D

Did you read my upthread account of my wife's Nova SS?

[krispos42]

74. Yes

Rather, the idiot in the 1993 Cutless Ciera pulling out of the parking lot and into my 1987 Samurai did.

We hit corner-to-corner. The Samurai flipped; his Olds was knocked about 45º from his original direction of travel.

I only had two bruises, one from the seatbelt and one on my shin. He sprained his ankle.


I walked away, he limped.


Well, I walked away after a quick trip to the hospital to make sure I was okay. :-)

[Eurobabe]

77. Yep, a year old Saab, it wasn't mine

it was my boyfriends (early 90s). Some dumbass rushing on her way to work turned left in front of me, and I had no chance. Boom!

Worst thing was, his insurance had lapsed, so he got 7K for a car that was worth about 21K. I was lucky to be wearing a seatbelt. The other person broke her leg and clavicle. I could have bopped her on the head!

Watch out, it was a week before Xmas, people routinely drive like LUNATICS at this time of year.

[raccoon]

78. Yes. I don't recommend it. nt

[El Fuego]

79. Mine was totaled last month only because the airbags went off.

There wasn't that much damage, but installing new airbags would be about $2K a piece. With two of them, it was $4K, which was more than the car was worth.

[tinymontgomery]

80. Just got the call today

my son in college totaled the car that his aunt gave him to use in college. Really sucks that I have to get him some kind of new (used) transportation now.

[CatholicEdHead]

81. Only monateraly 'totaled'

I had an old car in college that a hailstorm technically 'totaled' it but except for a few dents on the outside it ran just the same as before.

[Rambis]

82. MrsRambis did last year

we made out ok $ wise and I am now superior as well:)

Isuzi Oasis now we are in a Honda Odyssey

[dembotoz]

83. yep, several

but then again, when you buy crap cars like i do, it really doesn't take that much to total it out.

damn i must be a really shitty driver.