Well this certainly ruined my day....
 

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Bleh, that sucks.

Something airborne hit the fender, debris from the subbie? Or just a high part of it's bumper?

ouch. sorry man

That sucks man, I'm assuming your okay?

He didn't see the cars in front of him stop, so he swerved over from the right hand lane over to the left hand lane (my side). He was literally perpendicular to me, slammed into the jersey barrier, then richocheted off and hit me.

Yea all were ok. Just me and the driver. His airbags deployed because he hit that barrier head on, literally ran out of my car to make sure he was ok before even seeing what happened to my car

good to hear no one was hurt, and don't worry that will buff out (sorry had to be said)

your much nicer than me. i probably would have checked my car first then made sure the other driver needed to go to the hospital but im an asshole

If my GF wasn't in the car with me with my wreck I'd be in jail for beating a man infront of his kids :lol:

pistol whippin

Yeah, I was prone to fits of road rage a while back.
It's not worth going to jail over, very few things are.
I actually threatened a guy at a red light & tried to drag him out of his car in front of his wife & kids for running a red light, then flipping me off when I laid on the horn.
That's when I knew I had a problem.
I felt really bad after I saw the look on his wife & kids' faces.
Good thing he locked the doors.
I'm doing much better now.

hahaha I would love to watch you do that on some YouTube crazy road rage driver video^^

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I did the same thing with a biker one time, a real Harley biker, long hair, beard, tats, not a wannabe.
He probably had warrants out on him or something, on side of a busy highway & he just sat there & listened to me curse him out after he cut me off then flipped me off.
I'm lucky I didn't get shot, I was stupid to even get out of my truck.
It's not something I'm proud of, it was a real problem for me for a lot of years.
People's lives change forever in moments of stupidity like that, it's not worth it.
Paimon did the right thing, cars can be fixed easier than people.

Is that a Subaru, Paimon?

Yup, Impreza wagon. The crazy thing is, i can remember exactly what i was thinking. I literally see this guy perpendicular to me, and in that fraction of a second im like "why is this guy trying to drive across the highway".

1. +1 for the Hawk HPS ... glad all that autox didn't beat them clean, very little ABS modulation, was able to stop, only impact was caused by his ricochet off the wall.

2. +1 for removing my Enkei's last weekend and throwing on the winters

Side Note

Will i have trouble at the body shop w/o a cat? Obviously his insurance is covering everything but not too sure how much body shops care about those details

Would be nice if they would replace that front bumper .... its all scuffed up, but i have a feeling they are going to try and repair instead of replace. Would be cool to get an R3 bumper lol.

body shop shouldnt care

I wouldn't think so.
You might be able to work something out with the shop to get what you want.
Insurance co. probably won't know one Rx8 bumper from another.

Just got off the phone with the claims handler, looks like im dropping it off on Monday (luckily i took the week off to use vacation time [irony])

Never had to go through this process before, didn't realize i had "a choice". i could either A. go with my own insurance (statefarm), pay deductable, get all the repairs done, then they go after the dudes insurance company (progressive) to get all the money back, or B. go to their insurance and have them just pay for everything.i figure that going with A. i can get the stuff done right because i feel like B. would try to do it as cheap as possible

It depends on your insurance company. I've never been given that option, my insurance company always covers everything up front, and they go after the other insurance company to get their own compensation.

Makes it pretty easy on my end.

Very interesting, yea that sounds easier, but i figure as long as i get the deductable back i dont care in the end.

So long as the the shop do the job right. That's the only part that scares me. The company that is doing the work is pretty reputable in CT. Just one of those OCD things.

Glad you are alright, i'm always paying attention to the people around me. I would hate for something to happen because of bad drivers.

Tis but a flesh wound. At least the two insurance companies involved are pretty reputable and well off, I'm learning how nasty it can get when the offending company is cheap (Dairyland, wtf).

+1 On body shop not caring about a de-cat. Usually they won't care about things like that. For the bumper damage, usually they'd just repair and re-paint it unless its damaged beyond repair. Like cracked or something like that.

If its just scuffed they'll most likely just re-paint it, sometimes not even the entire bumper, might just blend the scuffed area into the existing paint. Just pay attention to the invoice. Some shadier body shops might just repair/re-paint then bill the insurance for replacing an entire bumper.

I was thinking the same exact thing about the bumper. The headlight has some scuffing on it too, im wondering if they are just gunna sand it down....might be in my benefit since i converted the internals to HID and they would probably replace it with the Halogen that originally comes w/ the sport.

noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! that sucks!