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A friend of mine has owned this car for 5 years. A couple weeks ago, she had an incident that ended up totalling out this car. Anyone wanna take a stab as to why?

I bought it from her just before her insurance was ready to pick it up. Paid $900 for it. It runs and drives great, has 150k. It's going to be the donor car for the majority of my L67 GXP parts.

All I notice is its missing the trim under the driver door. Other than that, gotta be a great deal for only $900.

I'm guessing Cancerus Automotus, AKA RUST.

I'm guessing she hit the rocker panel under the drivers door.

I am guessing something with the ABS and TC causing an accident. I noticed the TC button is pulled out of the console.

I am waiting to see picks of the underside...

Looks like the driver side rocker panel ground fx is half missing and the exposed rocket panel is hard to see in the pic, but looks messed up.

My guess, high miles, something damaged the underside of the driver side (around the rocker panel) that jeopardized the integrity of the body. Maybe a problem coupled with rust???

So what's the answer??

So the pinch weld under the drivers door is obviously been damaged. Also, I'm not sure if it is just dirt or not, but it appears that below both rear doors it almost looks like tire run marks on the bottom of the trim. Did she roll up over a curb or some other obstacle?

My guess is that you're going to tell us soon.

Is that a huge bump in the driver's floorpan?

Pretty good guesses.... yes, it's the rocker panel and floor that took the hit. The weirdest part is how it happened. She ran over an OPEN man hole, no cover. The city shows no record of there being any work done there, so it was probably taken by a scrapper or a dumb kid.

She explained it to me many times, but I still can't understand how it received the damage where it did. I would assume that if you run over an open hole like that, you would either bend the rim, or tear back the suspension. Anyone have some accident reconstruction software?

IMO, this is the best way to total out a car, as every part on the car is sellable, except for the $25 rocker molding.

I'll admit I've never seen a car go like that before! You're right about it being ideal though...lots of good parts there.

Based on the angles of the damage, I would almost guess that the cover was there, but not set properly. When she drove over the loose cover, it "Swiveled"up and caught the rocker area. Also consider the standard manhole is about 24" wide, and an SSEI tire is about 27" wide (based on google searches). I would expect more damage immediately next to the tire if the wheel went into the hole. That's just my online Monday morning QB take on this though

EDIT: Also curious as to how fast and what angles/turning were involved with it since the rear tire shows no sign of hitting the manhole at all.

It was teenage, mutant ninja turtles. Forgot to put the manhole cover back.

You know people would almost think you have a fedish for Bonnevilles

[quote= "harrofreak00'] She explained it to me many times, but I still can't understand how it received the damage where it did. I would assume that if you run over an open hole like that, you would either bend the rim, or tear back the suspension. [/quote]

We had a company truck have the same thing happen and it did "snatch" the suspension from under the truck, but the size of the manhole covers would be a big determination as well as tire size/wheel size. - BC

00Beast wrote:I'm guessing Cancerus Automotus, AKA RUST.

LOL, that gave me a good laugh.

But yeah, that seems kinda ridiculous to be totaled. Although I bet you are not complaining! Looks like a great car if you clean her up.

*EDIT* Also, is it just me, or does the passenger front seat look like the most immaculate thing you've ever seen?

nos4blood70 wrote:Looks like a great car if you clean her up.

*EDIT* Also, is it just me, or does the passenger front seat look like the most immaculate thing you've ever seen?

It's already half apart, not cleaning it up.

The seat isn't that great... the ones in the black one I am selling right now are way better.

I was going to guess something uni-body related. only reason is because it looked like a couple gaps weren't quite lined up...

harofreak00 wrote:The seat isn't that great... the ones in the black one I am selling right now are way better.

Looked pretty good in that picture is all I'm sayin'! Maybe it's the lighting.