Fender Bender

[anotherjeff]

I posted these pics a few weeks ago in the wrong forum and they were deleted, gotta read those forum rules kids. So here they are again...

I work 6pm-6am and I was coming home Monday morning and as I approached an intersection, less than a half mile from home, this guy in a 2WD 97 Nissan Frontier pulls right out in front of me.

Nobody's hurt and the cops arrive about 20 minutes later. Theyhave us back apart, and I hear all this popping and breaking plastic and I'm thinking my jeep is thrashed. The cop direct us to the Taco Bell parking lot and I hop out to check the damage and this is what I saw.


His...

Mine...

The cop couldn't believe it, hell neither could I. The guys insurance company settled with me $357 (to repaint the bumper and realignment). The last I heard from the other guy his inital estimate was $3500+.

 

[mcraindog]

you really do have to love it...not to highjack the thread but steel has saved your ass and mine...i collided with a kawasakii mule and this is what it did...the only reason it was as bad as it was is because it slide up....but if i would have had a stock bumper...i wouldn't have been able to drive it

 

[anotherjeff]

The other guy's truck never even touched my sheet metal. I'm running a used ARB I picked on here and I had just installed the week before. I gave $450 for it and I really thought I paid to much for it, until a few weeks ago.

 

[PacificEd]

That guys Frontier is an '07. Considering the damage he sustained, you came out very good. Good thing you installed the bumper when you did.

 

[Jeeepjeff]

just a little scratch haha

 

[UNCC_99XJ]

maybe that'll teach that guy to pull out infront of people...

 

[ZacSquatch]

Haha, damn..... Makes me glad that I have my $100 Pink ARB Bumper...

Even $357 may total my jeep tho.

 

[MELKORsXJ]

glad no one was hurt, and glad the jeep walked away with only a scratch, lol...

someone chime in here, but i heard awhile back that if you told your insurance company you have a "heavy duty steel offroad bumper" (or something like that) that they'll give you a discount because it'll help protect your vehicle, and as in this situation, they don't have to pay much at all for repairs if something happened...

 

[Jess]

I'm not sure on the insurance discount, but I know some states have laws against alot of our bumpers. In some places it is illegal to have any protrusions off your bumper such as a stinger bar or even clevis mounts. I would assume it would also consider front reciever mounts in with the previous mentioned. As far as my insurance knows, my vehicles are stock.