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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 01:12 AM
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lol, that would have been amazing it it was just a fluke, i remember once i was driving home from work in my car, and felt something fuzzy on my hand and i looked and it was like a massive spider and i was like AHHHH and in trying to get it out the window and off my hand i was swirving all over and was driving down the middle median/turn area of the road lol
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 01:13 AM
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Unexpected bugs do strange things to the best of us. lol.
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by NewXJaddict
Unexpected bugs do strange things to the best of us. lol.
yes. yes they do.... but we still have to fix what happens when strange bugs make us do strange things lol
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 01:28 AM
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ya gotta love how something with a life span of like a day can cause hundreds in damage
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 09:23 AM
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Haha ya it sucks. i took it in to a couple body shops yesterday to see if they could find any extra damage and one company quotes $1750ish and another $2100ish. Thats outragous...
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 09:35 AM
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I miss Az wheeling, just moved to Iowa a few months ago after 30 years in Az. Some of the best wheeling ever.
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Tankerblade
Haha ya it sucks. i took it in to a couple body shops yesterday to see if they could find any extra damage and one company quotes $1750ish and another $2100ish. Thats outragous...
whoa...... damn unibodys
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 05:06 PM
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well other than pushing in a small section of the seal seating lip there was no other damage!!!! so now we have swap the window over fomr the broken hatch to the new hatch, paint the hatch (before window instal), instal plastics but it works and it needs some final alignment but its looking really good!!! better than it did.... kinda..... it is atleast now functional!!
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 05:09 PM
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btw it was the little metal rod that was bent preventing the hatch from opening!!! pulled up on that and "pop" it opened right up!
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 06:24 PM
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dont forget the completed pics!
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 07:34 PM
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Here is how we kinda took the hatch off ha. we bent the sides in so the interior plastic broke free and we could get inside enough to pop the latch inside and open it up



Only pic i got during the whole event ha
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 08:25 PM
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Well glad to see its starting to get better. When I heard the bang I thought It was me. Then my dad was like I think they hit... Was that of that 97 at pnp?
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 09:15 PM
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It was a 97 or 99 i dont remember which. It was in a rollover. All the damage was on the front driver side.
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Old Aug 4, 2010 | 09:18 PM
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Ya I know which one your talking about. Let me know how it goes
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