On my way home from work, literally 3 minutes after I left next to our wonderful 18 lane expansion highway and a cement mixer who didnt see me drive right into the side of my car. He apparently didnt see me at all, didnt know that he had hit me and he didnt even hear my blaring my horn as he kept driving into me. Fortunatly the company that he works for will be paying for it. The guy from the company was extremely nice and helpful.


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HOLY SH*T thats bad

i hope theirs no structural damage.

 

thats bad...but i think that company will be buying him a new one.....

lol....

 

Holy F*** Dude, thats bad.. hope all is well and it gets taken care of.

 

My God thats nasty. Sorry to see that happen to your car. Good thing he didn't just run over the top of you. Glad your OK.

 

He's lying... even if he were driving a tank, he'd have felt it. I know cos i've hit things driving a tank in the army. Tree logs and stuff. It's not very obvious, but still detectable.

 

They better pay up.

 

were you in his blind spot....?

 

Woz, you seem to be taking it very well. Glad to see you're okay.

The 8 fortunately does fairly well in side impacts.

 

Doesn't look like it was hard enuff to set the side airbags and curtain off.

 

He was in the far left lane, I was in the Middle, he wasnt changing lanes, just pulling into the Construction area on the left. Everyone was stopped at the red light as well, I wasnt moving when he hit me. Technically I was in his blind spot to me it looked like a Big wheel and a front bumper.


No airbags went off as there wasnt really an impact, it was more of continuous pushing.

 

That sucks. Sorry for your pain.

Can't believe another silver cars gets bent.

 

As stated above - you should be getting a new 8, i wouldnt bother with trying to repair that damage.

-hS

 

I don't agree... while it looks nasty, that's not a bad damage at all. A competent body shop will fix it so that you can never tell anything happened. The rear door must be replaced anyway, the rest can be fixed fine.

I remember many years ago a similar thing happened to me - I was at a gas station stopped next to a semi because someone was blocking my way and I was waiting to be able to drive past. All of a sudden, the semi driver decided to move and his huge front wheel hit the door of my car, right next to me. He probably didn't see what he's doing, so he kept pushing some more until he realized that something's not right and stopped. Was about time, hehe.
It was pretty scary seeing that wheel come towards me and trying to push me into the ground...

 

oops

 

The RX8 horn is one of the loudest I've heard.

Not hear ya?????????

 

Sorry for that! That's painful to look at.

 

Dude you need to lower your car.

 

Sorry to here that but I'm glad everything is OK. Is it me or are your tires worn to the bone?

 

The rear door is aluminium. Needs to be replaced and is almost impossible to repair. Don't worry, your 8 will be back up and running in no time at all

 

I don't think that if it's even repairable or not, it's you won't apcept the repair.

Would you want to have your repair if the exact same case happen?

I know i wouldn't personally.

 

If they replace they rear door everything else should fix right up. My last car, an IS300, has similar damage when a tech backed it into some garage equipment going quite fast. Everything came out fine in the end. i wouldn't be worried if you find a competent repair shop

 

sorry to hear it, fix those rusty rotors!!

 

Yes, I would.
I spent quite an effort to customize my car (no body kit but other things) and with that damage, I'd have no problem with getting it repaired instead of replaced.
But then again, I know a very good and trustworthy body shop where I live... if that wasn't the case, I'd be more vary.

 

Well. I guess you can put it that way....

But I just can't justify myself to love the car just as much as before.

and it's also kills the resell value..