dziukap
08-26-2005, 02:26 PM
Well, I was on my way to move to Indiana from Minnesota when a young idiotic girl came into my lane without looking or signalling in Madison, Wisconsin. I had to pull hard to get out of the way, and I realized it right away that it was gonna be that or crash, but I lost control and went into a concrete barrier at 70 mph.
The chick didn't even stop, and my insurance company said from an argument standpoint, I should have let her hit me to prove she did anything anyways. I also realize that I over corrected but I don't think anthing short of that would have moved me in time, she was coming over really fast.
I escaped totally unharmed, but my car is totally toast. I will probably be walking for a while because my insurance will be ridiculous for a couple months until I turn 25 here coming up in December.
I don't know if I will get another GA. I loved it when it was running, but for a car with only 40,000 something miles on it, it sure had a lot go wrong. I sunk $800 into a fuel pump, nearly $1000 into miscellaneous electrical glitches, it was already starting very hard, and had more little glitches that would have been more $$ in the near future to fix. I did not beat that car up either, it was babied like a child. Regular synth. oil changes, never pushed my luck with regular maint. or anything.
I'll let you know what I get, but I'll be shopping around. On the plus side, I only paid $7500 bucks for my GT with 40K on it, and I'm getting almost 12,000 back from the ins. company, so I will come out ahead.
I know you are all GA loyalists, but if you had to buy something else that was sporty and had at least a V6 in it slightly used, what are some other vehicles you would look at. I was checkin out Eclipse GT's and maybe even a GP GTP?
The chick didn't even stop, and my insurance company said from an argument standpoint, I should have let her hit me to prove she did anything anyways. I also realize that I over corrected but I don't think anthing short of that would have moved me in time, she was coming over really fast.
I escaped totally unharmed, but my car is totally toast. I will probably be walking for a while because my insurance will be ridiculous for a couple months until I turn 25 here coming up in December.
I don't know if I will get another GA. I loved it when it was running, but for a car with only 40,000 something miles on it, it sure had a lot go wrong. I sunk $800 into a fuel pump, nearly $1000 into miscellaneous electrical glitches, it was already starting very hard, and had more little glitches that would have been more $$ in the near future to fix. I did not beat that car up either, it was babied like a child. Regular synth. oil changes, never pushed my luck with regular maint. or anything.
I'll let you know what I get, but I'll be shopping around. On the plus side, I only paid $7500 bucks for my GT with 40K on it, and I'm getting almost 12,000 back from the ins. company, so I will come out ahead.
I know you are all GA loyalists, but if you had to buy something else that was sporty and had at least a V6 in it slightly used, what are some other vehicles you would look at. I was checkin out Eclipse GT's and maybe even a GP GTP?