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July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 6:44 pm
by Low-D
I fuckin wrecked my ITR about 3 hours ago. This fuckin sucks. Excuse all the curse words but I am really pissed at myself right now. Well Just thought i would share the bad news.

Later,

Low-D

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 6:46 pm
by hondafanatic
I am sure there is a story please share. your fault someone elses?

any pics? what are your plans for the car

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 6:51 pm
by Low-D
well it was my fault just because i ht him from behind. I was changing lanes and it was busy traffic it was around 1 or 2 so everyone was going back to work from lunch. but anyway, i changed lanes and as soon as i got behind this guy in an explorer he hit his brakes ad went from 60 to 20 in like 3 seconds.i was sqeezing in when i was changing lanes so i really had no time to hit the brakes. i was trying to go around him so only the drivers side is damaged. but pretty much every thing in the front of the car was pushed back about 5 inches.but since it was a non injury accident we just exchanged info and so no ticket was issued. I am not sure what is going to happen. Hopefully my insurance wont go up too high so i can keep the car.

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 7:02 pm
by hondafanatic
crappy, i feel bad for you.

good luck with the insurance. dont them them make you take it to a crappy shop for the body work.

try to take it to a place that restores valueable and rare cars, if its on the insurance companies dime.

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 7:03 pm
by Erik B
Sorry to hear about that man! Shouldn't be that bad since no ticket was issued. Whats your deductable? Sounds like someone is getting a JDM front end...

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 8:26 pm
by Low-D
ACCTUALLY I WAS THINKIN THAT. i COULD LOOSE MY JOB TOO. I PARK CARS FOR A LIVING SO THEY DONT LIKE IT IF YOU WRECK

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 8:33 pm
by Jan Niemi
Your employer cannot legally fire you because you had an accident with your own vehicle on your own time. If they try, it's an easy lawsuit. And I like Erik's idea about the JDM front.. :twisted:

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 9:20 pm
by George Knighton
Jan Niemi wrote:Your employer cannot legally fire you because you had an accident with your own vehicle on your own time.
I do it all the time.

I require employees to have good driving records.

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 10:15 pm
by Jan Niemi
As long as you disclose that prior to hiring, and it's documented and signed by the employee. I don't know that his employer did.

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 10:19 pm
by George Knighton
Jan Niemi wrote:As long as you disclose that prior to hiring, and it's documented and signed by the employee. I don't know that his employer did.
I'm not sure where you live, but it's different where I live.

I can change the terms of employment at will. I can fire someone simply because he's not getting along with his supervisor.

I must recognise protected classes and make sure that we do not discriminate based on someone's membership in a protected class.

But...that's about it. :)

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 11:08 pm
by Jan Niemi
we have wrongful discharge laws in Michigan. But it's definitely somewhat of a gray area - it depends on how far the discharged employee is willing to go to prove that their discharge was in fact wrongful. We have a lot of sue-happy people around here.

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 11:11 pm
by George Knighton
Jan Niemi wrote:we have wrongful discharge laws in Michigan.
A "wrongful" termination in Virginia is pretty much limited to firing someone solely because of his/her membership in a protected class.

I don't have to document things nearly as much as my Yankee brothers. :)

Posted: July 29th, 2003, 11:19 pm
by kabob
Don't fire me George, I promise to be good! :(

Posted: July 30th, 2003, 3:08 pm
by opie
Sounds like you wanna part out your R if your gonna put a JDM front than you can't possibly want your USDM wheels.. right.. anyone..
Bueler

Posted: July 30th, 2003, 5:03 pm
by Type R 98
i did something similar and my car wasnt so screw up only needed as far as a radiator support so im buying a jdm front end and my car wont even have anything thats broken.. don't worry man, youll be glad you wrecked if ever get the conversion done... well almost.. it makes up for things a bit... good luck

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: August 2nd, 2003, 3:34 am
by RGoose18
Low-D, you planning on parting out at all?

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: August 2nd, 2003, 10:46 pm
by sscguy
George, what exactly do you do?

Re: July 29, 2003 A day that will never be forgotten

Posted: August 3rd, 2003, 2:27 am
by BudMan
sscguy wrote:George, what exactly do you do?
He puts us in "timeouts" for being baaaaad boys :lol:

Posted: August 17th, 2003, 5:17 pm
by Low-D
im getting it fixed no conversion

later

Posted: August 23rd, 2003, 3:30 am
by Low-D
just thought id let you guys know that i got my ITR back today

still one bad mother

Later