hey guys today some jerk off on a clk 430 amg made a u turn a cut me off causeing me to rear end him.. im payin oujt of poclket to fix. it was a light hit his bumper got a small crack but my car is wrecked


i need a new head lamp assembly xenons work. bumper need paint and i may need to replace my fender.

***i didnt see no frame damage just sum plastic in the under carriage. anyone know if the fender could be bent back to shape or i need a new one. and anyone selling parts or knows where i can get a good deal please tell.

what else may i need

 

damn this pics is painful to look at. good luck, glad your ok.

 

b/c its a unibody frame take it to a frame shop and have measure your frame. I hit a curb on that exact same corner and did $6500 worth of damage. IMO you're gonna need a new fender and headlight obviously. The bumper cover could be fixed, but i cant tell based on the picutres.

My advice is to take it to a body shop and have them look at it. Get a quote from 3-4 body shops and price shop the companies. Could be in upwards of $3000. B/c its a pearl paint everything has to be blended. From the door to the hood and the bumper. Btw your paint will never look the same again.

 

if he cut you off, he should be paying out of pocket, not you. what's the deal here? no insurance? this is a few grand worth of repairs.

 

If he hit him in the rear, he may be the one getting the ticket - for failure to maintain a safe following distance.

We don't know all the facts, but if this guy is paying out of his own pocket, that implies (to me) that he doesn't want to go on record with the accident. If it was the other guy's fault, I can't imagine why he would want to suck up the cost himself unless he was (possibly) at fault. On the other hand, if he was at fault, the guy in the Merc would likely be putting a hit on his insurance anyway..

Interesting.

Echo the guys responding who say to take the car in and have a professional look at it. Looking at the damage leads me to believe there could be more than cosmetic work required. You never know.

 

It's a rearender. In that type of an accident, it's always considered the fault of the vehicle behind. Reasoning is that the driver always should be in control of his vehicle, and can stop in time to avoid a collision.

Lou

 

hey guys as you have read in my posts i crashed

i went to my mechanic today:

i gotta repaint my front end and i need a new fender headlight assembly and radiator suppor anybody selling these parts for an 04 coupe halla at me

danny929@gmail.com

 

If this guy made a U-Turn, was it legal? If not, were you able to get a witness who saw the guy make the U-Turn.

I don't think you would be charged if it was an illegal manuever............

I bet thats close to $4,500 in damage to your car....if he's at fault let him pay.....and then go for an aftermarket bumper..

P.S. I'd have them write in a new front rim as well....it looks like it has some rash on the lip

 

for parts such as these, you might want to check out www.car-part.com. I picked up a headlight from them at half price.

 

there's a thread in here where a member is selling his coupe lights.
you can probably get a white hood from someone pretty easily too.
you caould probly gets the parts used pretty cheap... just takes a bit of looking & patients

 

ya im tring lol thanx man

 

Really? Not true in my world. If I get cut off and thus hit that person on the corner then it is their fault because they did not maintain their "present" lane. I have right away in my lane; any swooping down on my space is the swooper's fault. And if someone manages to cut me off in such a way as to present certain ambiguities to the cops...I would give him such an evil eye as to let him know to step up, tell the truth, pay the bill or have terror reign down upon you for the rest of your natural life which is on the way to being "cut off" as well. I can convey all of that with one "eye".

This story sounds like there was more to the story...maybe living in FLA where there is no personal liability law or something?

 

Ha...I had this exact same accident a few months after I first got my G. You would not be at fault if the person made a U-turn in front of you. The other driver's insurance paid for my headlight and bumper cover. That's at least $3K worth of damage.

 

I can tell you that is not always the case. I had someone cut me off on a fwy exit ramp--they then slammed on the brakes to attempt to turn into a sidestreet that is not really accessible from the exit. I hit the car and they fled the scene--I caught up to them and got the plate. My quoting the above, plus the fact that he fled--he was ticketed and his ins. company paid to fix my maxima.

 

Your insurance paid for your repairs because it was a hit and run basically. But it was still your fault.

Texas law states rear end collision is always the person that is behind you that caused the rear ends fault. Not the other way around.