Dmon65
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Dunno if this is the right place for this, so let me tell the story, and if it needs to move it can be moved...
Last Tuesday, after work, I was on this atrocious on ramp to get onto Highway 270 around St Louis. It's a horrible ramp because there are actually TWO entrances to it before dumping out onto the highway. I was sitting on the second entrance, people come hurtling into the first at about 45-50 mph so you must sit with your head craned about 160-170 degrees over your left shoulder to see if there is a gap to shoot into.
There was a large Nissan SUV waiting ahead of me. Murrano or the next step up in size, not sure.
A gap comes open and the SUV takes off. I crank around one more time to make sure the gap was still open enough for me to shoot into. It was. ECON mode is off so I hit it to get into the flow of traffic cleanly, before someone else comes blasting into to the top entrance. I start moving forward, turn forward, see the SUV stopped on the entrance ramp, wet myself a little and crank the wheel hard to the right hoping to squeeze between the stopped SUV and the guard rail.
Didn't make it. My driver's side front met the underside of her passenger side rear. Not even hard enough to deploy the air bags. Got out, wondering how bad my not even 4 month old Civic was and this is what I saw...
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No idea why she stopped, and the impact wasn't even enough to pop my glasses off, but the damage looks incredible! There were a couple of nicks in the plastic on her bumper. Now I'm afraid the dealership and insurance may want to cashier my new ride. Just curious what the forum members who work in dealerships and garages may think of what they see. Car drove just fine, when I drove it to the dealership collision center. Turbo seemed to spool up fine. Didn't feel any pull in the steering. Just don't know.
Opinions?
Last Tuesday, after work, I was on this atrocious on ramp to get onto Highway 270 around St Louis. It's a horrible ramp because there are actually TWO entrances to it before dumping out onto the highway. I was sitting on the second entrance, people come hurtling into the first at about 45-50 mph so you must sit with your head craned about 160-170 degrees over your left shoulder to see if there is a gap to shoot into.
There was a large Nissan SUV waiting ahead of me. Murrano or the next step up in size, not sure.
A gap comes open and the SUV takes off. I crank around one more time to make sure the gap was still open enough for me to shoot into. It was. ECON mode is off so I hit it to get into the flow of traffic cleanly, before someone else comes blasting into to the top entrance. I start moving forward, turn forward, see the SUV stopped on the entrance ramp, wet myself a little and crank the wheel hard to the right hoping to squeeze between the stopped SUV and the guard rail.
Didn't make it. My driver's side front met the underside of her passenger side rear. Not even hard enough to deploy the air bags. Got out, wondering how bad my not even 4 month old Civic was and this is what I saw...
View attachment 11951
View attachment 11953
No idea why she stopped, and the impact wasn't even enough to pop my glasses off, but the damage looks incredible! There were a couple of nicks in the plastic on her bumper. Now I'm afraid the dealership and insurance may want to cashier my new ride. Just curious what the forum members who work in dealerships and garages may think of what they see. Car drove just fine, when I drove it to the dealership collision center. Turbo seemed to spool up fine. Didn't feel any pull in the steering. Just don't know.
Opinions?
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