#of cars destroyed by rearending you
02-01-2010, 10:17 AM
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#of cars destroyed by rearending you
Here's a question I've been interested in for awhile. Since getting my '96 Cherokee I've been rear ended 3 times. 2 by cars and once by a plumbers truck. In each case the front end of the vehicle doing the rearending has been absolutly destroyed, with "minor" damage to my cherokee. Is this common or have I been lucky.
Sometimes I feel like I'm driving a
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02-02-2010, 06:33 AM
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I don't have a hitch either.
Yeah, by minor, I mean bent bumper/exhaust, broken exhaust hangers, dings and paint scrapes. Repairs much less than $1000. Driving away, while the other car is undrivable.
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02-02-2010, 12:59 PM
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i thought a guy rear ended me in a parking lot the other week. he was in a little lower civic hatchback and he drove under the back, a little moer and he wouldve got the hitch in his hood. same thing happened to a friend of mine and he jumped outa his durango and was about to bust some guy.
02-02-2010, 01:01 PM
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My lights work and everything... people hit my trailer hitch usually at stop lights... it's always old people running into it lol
02-02-2010, 03:20 PM
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my jeep took a full on hit to the rear bumper by a Lexus IS300. Lexus = screwed (punctured radiator, front bumper/clip ripped off, belt shredded after the fan bent and got into the track, busted trac-bar, etc, etc, etc), my XJ = replaced bumper from salvage yard and lost a plastic end cap.
02-02-2010, 03:24 PM
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old people should have to take a road test every 2 years because of how they are a road hazard due to their deteriorating reaction times.
my jeep took a full on hit to the rear bumper by a Lexus IS300. Lexus = screwed (punctured radiator, front bumper/clip ripped off, belt shredded after the fan bent and got into the track, busted trac-bar, etc, etc, etc), my XJ = replaced bumper from salvage yard and lost a plastic end cap.
my jeep took a full on hit to the rear bumper by a Lexus IS300. Lexus = screwed (punctured radiator, front bumper/clip ripped off, belt shredded after the fan bent and got into the track, busted trac-bar, etc, etc, etc), my XJ = replaced bumper from salvage yard and lost a plastic end cap.
02-02-2010, 06:25 PM
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You lost an end cap? That sucks! You should sue him. LOL.
Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
02-03-2010, 12:22 PM
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You lost an end cap? That sucks! You should sue him. LOL.
Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
i think we should create a new name for this type of personality, and call it the Lexus-Complex. it's like the Napoleon Complex, but for Lexus owners.
02-12-2010, 06:41 AM
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my old XJ got rear ended by a brand new gto the kid bougth it that day destroyed his whole front end not a scratch on my xj but i still got $1100 out of it!
02-12-2010, 12:29 PM
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