whise

Freezing rain Saturday night, Sunday morning thought it was safe to drive. As soon as I backed out of the driveway the car started to slid sideways down a hill then hit and hopped a curb. Side airbags deployed 2 lugs popped out, got an estimate from the shop for around 9K and said that they so backed up with other accidents that it’s going to take over 2 weeks to fix.

BinaryJay

Another thread for my winter tire evangelism this year.

TWong350

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Wow! Freezing rain is the worst! Glad you're ok

jadu

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glad your ok, but for $9K, did you catch what they were replacing?

whise

Thanks!!! They replacing the airbags front and rear rim, muffler, side molding and i think the hub is bad and he siad a rod or an arm is bent. Just waiting on the adjuster to get back to me but not til after the holiday.

greyhndfan

bummers.. ugly crack down the middle of the rim.. glad no one was hurt.

xmike714x

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ouch. hope the car gets out of the shop soon.

username32

Hope there isnt any frame damage. Hitting a curb that hard enough to pop lug nuts is pretty damn hard hit, especially if 1/4 of your rim is missing!

kabukd

That looks bad... glad that I live in non-snowing area. Hope you get your car back soon.

arnieosp

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Lexus cars have no frame. They use unibody construction. I think Ford Crown Victoria and its twins are the only framed cars left out there.

rominl

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ouch, really sorry to hear that hope the car will be fixed soon!

username32

I am aware they are unibody on virtually all cars and also many softroader SUVs. Frame, unibody, chassis whatever you want to call it, you know very well what I meant. If you want to get technical about it there is still a frame under there a SubFRAME.