Banged up your Subie lately? [Archive] - Subaru Legacy International

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10-03-2006, 09:00 AM

Funny you should mention this....

So I'm driving to Costco. There's a Canada Goose on the side of the road just hanging out. I keep an eye on him and as usual he just ignores me and I drive by.

For those of you who don't know what one looks like. They are literally the size of a turkey and weigh around 35lbs.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2006/10/goosecanadalg3-1.jpg

Well a split second later two of his buddies on the grass who I didn't see decide to get up and fly across the road. I only have time enough to hit the brakes and BAM ! I nail one of them with the front end of the car. He bounces off like a beach ball and lands on the other side of the road, flutters for a few seconds and is gone.

Now that he's out of his misery I'm thinking...HMMM, I wonder why damage that will cause to my car ? Pull into a spot at Costco and have a look :

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Bastard ! Well what should I expect when I hit a flying 30lb turkey at 80km/hr ? On the bright side this light was broken anyways and I'm glad I didn't already replace it, I just about bought one on Ebay two weeks ago. Well, now I need to look for another grill as well. Swell.

So, if anyone has a grill for a '95-99 Legacy guess who could use one...

losdiosdeverde86

10-03-2006, 01:36 PM

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This is from....well.....poor approach angle.

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this is from a road rage incident....LONG story, but if someone cares enough, i'll type it up.

JordanIsHere

10-03-2006, 07:50 PM

Heh, I 'd like to hear the road rage story.

Just last night I hit a 'coon myself. Busted off my pasenger side plastic-would-be foglight plug. I went back and found it today but one of the mounts is broken :-( Now I want JDM fogs but I don't have the cash. I need headlights too, the angle screws are busted on mine and I can't see animals too well when they're aimed at the ground :roll:

Reason

10-03-2006, 10:25 PM

2 years ago I let my GF at the time drive my car, and it still looks like this (but a new fender is on!)

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warrior

10-04-2006, 07:40 AM

I ran over a rabbit saturday night at 3am.. no damage to my car.. but deadly damage to the poor suicidal rabbit :-(

speederfly

10-04-2006, 10:00 AM

I tried parking my car in the garage with my mt. bike on top.
The story lies somewhere in here...

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/viewtopic.php?t=2932&highlight=

....still can't believe I did that..... :smt011

The wall...
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The bike...
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The car...
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The broken parts of the car...
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I siliconed around the broken sections to ensure no leakage.

About a month after this happened my wife backed her 04 nissan quest into her dad's truck bumper, puckering the corner of her bumper... and if that wasn't enuf, about a month ago I was doing some work at a friends house with an excavator (I'm a heavy equipment operator), it was about 8pm and I was hurrying to finish up...well I caught the cab door on the side of the dumptruck and put a small hole in the door. It being a rental and all, they want the machine back in the same condition it left. New door=$3,000.00!!!
No joke. So, incase you're wondering why my car, bike&house haven't been fixed, I'm waiting till the damaged door sells on ebay.

The excavator door...
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The damaged area...
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It's been a discouraging summer. :cry:

Nite_net

11-09-2006, 05:10 AM

Yeah, i got a good story about getting banged up...

So i'm driving along on a STREET travelling forward at 50km/h when out of NOWHERE something hits me in my rear quarter panel.

Guess what?

Some stupid kid had climbed into her parents vehicle (WHILE it was running) and released the ebrake... the rest, is well, a big dent in my car.

So, damage tally

Rear quarter panel
Rear bumper mold
Rear Stripes
Rear gas tank release thingy

Total Repair cost : 3054$ ... heh, good thing the kids parents footed the bill, otherwise i'd be angry, i'll post pics as soon as i know how to upload em and where to?

blueb3

11-09-2006, 08:17 AM

Photobucket.com is your friend for pics

The only damage to the subie was hitting a rock while mud running and knocking a manifold bolt loose, which in turn fried a gasket. No visual damage, but my car sounded horrible for a couple days.

sansMYSTi

11-10-2006, 07:53 AM

I caught an older S-10 in the passenger side door @60km/H when he ran a stopsign. I guess those side impact door beams work. That kind of impact, and no intrusion into the passenger compartment - not too bad.

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5595/mygt18cy.jpg

Wiscon_Mark

11-10-2006, 09:37 AM

oh wow...frame damage? How's the insurance going to handle that one?

sansMYSTi

11-10-2006, 11:41 AM

I wasn't too upset at the time, 'cause it looked like the only damage was the door itself, I was able to drive away, and he didn't damage my Rotas :wink: . But when I went to a body shop and ripped the door open, I found out the door frame mounting points on the body at the front and rear of the door were also damaged - slightly pulled towards the center of the door. No problem to put them back into shape though - as good as new. As for insurance - I didn't care, my insurance never found out about it - it was all him. I just had to deal with a Ford Fusion rental for a few weeks :cry: .

jey

11-10-2006, 01:22 PM

Well, there's the time I hydrolocked my engine and bent/cracked a rod and a few valves. I drove around like that for about 300 miles before it finally spun and punched a nice hole in the block, right where the "EJ22" plate sits.

http://www.jeyping.dynip.com/blowupt.jpg

http://www.jeyping.dynip.com/hole.jpg

http://www.jeyping.dynip.com/ej22.jpg

So I used that as an excuse to replace the stock engine with this:

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Of course, I needed a hood with a hood scoop so I bought a carbon fiber hood from Ion Performance. That worked great until it separated from the frame on the highway.

strat81

11-10-2006, 06:33 PM

let's see... so far this summer, my buddy simon ripped the front bumper cover off with his jeep (note to self: don't play bumper cars unless you are in bumper cars), punctured the a/c condenser on a fallen tree while 4wheeling (tall grass=poor visibility), destroyed a factory crank pulley (crank key broke and rounded out the pulley), dents from hood sliding, missing hella from friend hood sliding (that one has since been replaced), lost the muffler offroading....

i think that's about it. don't really have any pics of most of it...

subyluvr2212

11-10-2006, 10:28 PM

Posting in this thread should tell me how bad I need to control my temper :-(

I'd say my car's been through more hell than anyone else's.

So, a few years ago, I was REALLY pissed off about something, and I entered a 90º left-hand turn at a light, and stomped on the gas, in the rain. Learning very quickly that AWD does not prevent spinouts :roll:, I slid my front bumper across a parked car. About 6 months later, tired of seeing the big scratch across my front bumper, I bought a new one and had a body shop guy at the Toyota dealer I was working for at the time, paint my front bumper for $75 on the side. Of course, he didn't scuff the bumper before painting it... and all the paint chipped off, resulting in a black front bumper. :-(

Next, I also learned that taking corners at speed with a heavy object rolling around in your trunk is NEVER a good idea. I tried to get through a green left arrow, and dove into the corner, and when I heard a loud THUNK behind me, I knew exactly what happened. The remote battery starter I was carrying around flew into the side of the trunk, and put a nice reverse dent that cracked through the paint in my right rear quarter.

Then, after getting really pissed off at the car when I was doing the wheel bearings on it, I smashed that same rear quarter in with the handle from my floor jack. I tried painting over it later just to keep the bare metal from rusting, but it turns out there was also bare metal exposed right by the taillight that I didn't see, so now that it's fairly rusted, I'm just gonna replace that whole quarter when I get the car painted.

But... I'm not done yet. Just recently, when I went to change my steering rack and one of the bolts broke off in the crossmember, I smashed my front left fender in with my own bare fist.

You can see all this carnage in the recent pics taken of the car at the Subaru Challenge last month:
http://thawa.net/gallery2/d/2398-2/Patti+at+Challenge.JPG
http://thawa.net/gallery2/d/2404-2/Patti+at+Challenge+4.JPG

Wiscon_Mark

11-10-2006, 11:32 PM

that's uhhh...how's your hand doing?!

sheepdog

11-11-2006, 12:07 AM

So, this just happened. Don't worry the panda is fine.

I was coming out of a strip mall, at a light, and it was green. I wanted to make the left so I didnt have to wait, and was rolling up to it about 35-40. I didn't notice however, the HUGE dip, then large speed bump type asphalt raised portion with a manhole, then another dip, then the intersection.

Long story short, I ended up jumping my GC about 15 feet, over hte second dip, and screeching through the intersection haha. I also took the manhole off, I don't know how. Just jacked the car up, no damage underneath, only a small scratch on the subframe that I sprayed with some black rustoleum.

Who puts that there? What parking lot designer said "yea, that looks fine." and didnt paint it yellow, or put up a sign, or anything??

Nite_net

11-11-2006, 01:12 AM

Here's my car's little damage... still makes it look ugly

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/8044/bangedupbr2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

subyluvr2212

11-11-2006, 10:17 AM

that's uhhh...how's your hand doing?!

I didn't even hurt it, that's how pissed off I was.

Anger management classes are for married guys :lol:

OutbackGT

11-11-2006, 02:06 PM

This happened a while ago. Bad approach angle during some off-roading. Front fascia has since been replaced, but I recently did it again to a much lesser extent.

http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/2200/1000237jl1.jpg

strat81

11-12-2006, 06:22 PM

did a bit more today... but i'll let the vid do the explaining once i get it edited.

subba

11-20-2006, 09:06 PM

man that racoon got owned

)2edline

10-13-2009, 08:49 PM

Got into a little hairy fender bender today, and didn't know if starting a new thread would be best so I revived this fairly suitable one.

Got distracted and late braked into a older bmw today, no damage to his car naturally but my BD loves being tortured.

My radiator upper support bar is more toast than it was before, and got more twisted, the hood is a little tented, but i can flex that out for now.

Questions are, my bumper reinforcement bar took a bend near the middle so my right headlight is tucked inwards and got pushed a little more inwards so that a grille no longer fits inbetween. The bumper cover is fine, but I dont know if bending the reinforcement bar back into shape is possible. I still have my old bumper cover and bumper bar from my GT before i picked up Shane's old one, which was from an outback. CAN I take off the rear reinforcement bar section [where the fogs and stuff screw into] and attach that as well as my current bumper cover to my old GT one and be good? and is replacing the radiator upper support bar a direct bolt in type thing, cus there are sites selling new OE ones cheap,

i.e - http://www2.partstrain.com/store/?N=0&N ... d=nu173rj2 (http://www2.partstrain.com/store/?N=0&Nr=AND%28make:Subaru,model:Legacy,year:1999,brand:Replacement,part:Radiator+Support+Tie+Bar%29&ptc=S1171391678W45d204bec356b&ptid=pt5347791754ad1e16aad1a3&id=nu173rj2)

Can i also manipulate my fenders a bit if they got bended?

I'll try to get pics up tomorrow, I just don't have the patience for it right now.

j_saffron

10-13-2009, 09:21 PM

total loss

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green97gt

10-13-2009, 09:59 PM

no pics, but my dad ran was backing his 06 legacy out of the driveway and turned the wheel to much and ran it into the side of his 94 SVX...

now the legacy needs a repainted bumper, and the SVX has custom made "speed" dents...

mpthing major, just a couple scratches on the leggy and a 3"X 2" dent on the door of the SVX

slaytalera

10-13-2009, 11:33 PM

holy bump back from the dead lol.

eekay

10-14-2009, 12:08 AM

j_saffron

10-14-2009, 01:23 AM

I don't know whether to cry, throw up, or both. :( Disgusting sight! Poor Leggy!

truss me i did both, she was my first sewbee. in the above condition bent rims, flat tires and all, she still was up for chasing the guy who hit her in reverse for two streets away in the rain, to park and die infront of the truck so he couldnt get away.

horrid grinding noises, she went out like warrior. :smt054

eekay

10-14-2009, 11:23 AM

jey

10-14-2009, 11:26 AM

Guy pulled out of his street onto the road without looking Monday, right in front of me. Result:

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d1giPhux

10-14-2009, 11:49 AM

^ ouch.. that does not look like fun. His insurance gonna cover it?

time to upgrade to wrx steering wheel now i guess!

iampetro

10-14-2009, 11:54 AM

well lets see... to start lets show when my sister hit a parked city bus :smt021
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4443/picture009ebi.jpg (http://img525.imageshack.us/i/picture009ebi.jpg/)
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6314/picture007x.jpg (http://img525.imageshack.us/i/picture007x.jpg/)
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it wasn't tooooo bad but left a nice racing stripe down the side

and RIP my first car
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/663/wreckedcar003gi5.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/i/wreckedcar003gi5.jpg/)
http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/4929/wreckedcar002lj3.jpg (http://img355.imageshack.us/i/wreckedcar002lj3.jpg/)
of course this was less than 2 weeks after dropping $3000 for new HG's :roll:

iampetro

10-14-2009, 11:56 AM

opps sorry there so big, only ones i have

can you see the black holes above the fog light? i dont know what happended but to me it looks like something buned/exploded out my front bumper on impact :shock:

anothernord

10-14-2009, 05:56 PM

I don't know whether to cry, throw up, or both. :( Disgusting sight! Poor Leggy!

Nah, that'll buff right out.

95 legacy lsi

10-14-2009, 06:21 PM

ha! i got mine pretty banged up when i got it!

hrdrifter

10-14-2009, 10:35 PM

this is what happened to me last april
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jey

10-15-2009, 12:45 PM

^ ouch.. that does not look like fun. His insurance gonna cover it?

time to upgrade to wrx steering wheel now i guess!

Hopefully. Nobody in St. Louis ever admits it's their fault when they drive stupidly, but there was a witness and what happened was very clear. But the real question is how much is a 95 Legacy w/ 189k miles worth to the insurance company (even though it has an STi motor swap)? They will probably total it out.

WRX steering wheel sounds nice, but really after that experience I have no desire to have airbags in this car again. May just cut the airbags out and leave it. Or install a nav system in it's place :lol:

eekay

10-15-2009, 12:52 PM

Got rear-ended leaving the pub last night. Fortunately, it was very minimal damage (just a dent in my tail gate) and it was my friends who rear-ended me. So, it won't be hard to get the issue resolved. :grin:

d1giPhux

10-15-2009, 12:56 PM

^ thats what you would think at least.. haha.

jey: hopefully they wont total your car out.. that would suck. if they do.. you should def buy it back for the motor and such obviously... that would be a shame.

iRunChicago

10-15-2009, 11:29 PM

Hit n' Run by a drunk driver.....still runs niiice possibly going to sell this bad boy as is...idk yet well see..
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/245/suby4.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/i/suby4.jpg/)
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/9345/suby5.th.jpg (http://img80.imageshack.us/i/suby5.jpg/)
http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/3176/suby6.th.jpg (http://img158.imageshack.us/i/suby6.jpg/)
I cry every time i look at these......

chaksq

10-18-2009, 02:49 AM

I haven't had any accidents with the Subaru. But my radiator is leaking like mad and the car got stranded.

iampetro

10-18-2009, 11:38 AM

i have to say BD's hold up pretty damn well in accidents :grin:

Reason

10-18-2009, 11:58 AM

Guy pulled out of his street onto the road without looking Monday, right in front of me. Result:

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Oh crap Jey, is this the new wagon or the old one??

On a lighter note, I thought the title says "Banged in your Subie lately?" :grin:

Dead91silvia

10-21-2009, 03:06 AM

This happened 2 years ago next week...

Legacy Vs. Fusion... Subie for the WIN!!!!!

This guy decided to make an illegal U-turn, right as I left a stop light going 30MPH... I hit his RENTAL car hard! The funny part was that the guy asked who's fault it was definitely his...

He, with in 6 months has totaled his truck, wrecked his SUV and then this... Idiot!!! :smt021

Light Lightning got about 4K damage, but they knew I was gonna keep it and fix it she they cut me a check :smt023 Too bad I just found some more frame damage when I had my motor out a month a go... :-(

And to think he was trying to buy me off with $400 cash... HA!!!! I dont think so! I had a migraine for a week!!! :smt013

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Now his car did not fair so well... I believe his car was totaled...
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https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2009/10/IMG_4719-1.jpg

jey

10-22-2009, 12:13 PM

Oh crap Jey, is this the new wagon or the old one??

The new older wagon :lol: The 95 that I more recently acquired.

Fireman's Fund is the worst insurance company ever. Got back in town, had to call them cause it's been 9 days and I haven't heard a thing. I should charge them $30/day to store an undriveable car in my driveway like they do at the towing companies.

They did not seem to indicate that it is totalled, which I find shocking given that the radiator support is out of whack and the condensing unit is probably damaged. Of course they probably didn't even check for that cause they determined the damage without even asking me for the keys to get into the car. Then they would have discovered that it's not even possible to open the hood unless you have a tool. So I expect this to be a long stupid process. In the meantime I'll find some time over the weekend to extract the airbags, vaccuum out the car of all the glass, and get the windshield replaced so I can drive the car again.