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Sprinter_Seth
14th January 2006, 05:14 AM
had a bit of an accident last night at about 2:30am. Was coming up behind my mate to pull up next to him and he starts to pull a u turn, i was goin a bit too quick and unfortunatly i hit him. He drives a nissan laurel, one of the hardest cars to find parts for. He suffered rear quarter pannel damage and also damage to his drivers side rear door.

My sprinter suffered mostly, i suffered the following damage:

smashed both headlights
twisted headlight hounts
passanger side indicator
twisted both front quarter pannels
i think i twister front rio's
buckeled bonnet
front grill seems to be on
buckeled, twisted and split front bar
twister top and bottom rediator supports

thankfull i didnt hit him that hard, i had locked the brakes and prob hit him doing about 20kmph. The danage is mostly cosmetic and hopefully i can source theparts fairly cheap. If anyone knows of anyone who has these parts that i can grab cheap i would love to grab them as i am strapped for cash at the moment.

any help would be greatly appreciated. i will post pics up as soon as i get them. http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/sad.gif

ae86 slide
14th January 2006, 07:08 AM
for laurel parts pm drift^laurel.

sic86
14th January 2006, 08:13 AM
Sorry to hear dude and parts for a Laurel will be fun. Are you going through insurance?

Cheers

selk
14th January 2006, 01:55 PM
sorry to hear, keep ya head up u & ur mate

OBE353
14th January 2006, 02:20 PM
bad news dude, any pics?

Sprinter_Seth
14th January 2006, 02:43 PM
ill post pics soon, i have just sourced everything i need for a trueno front end so it will come back a trueno since everything except the gearbox is jap anyway http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/biggrin.gif

dori_86
14th January 2006, 02:48 PM
was it cheaper to go trueno? or just easier to get all the parts?

mattysshop
14th January 2006, 04:29 PM
man thats shit.. sorry to hear.. be very very mindful of your chassis rails (where your bumper brackets bolt to).. they might not look it, but it you mesure it all up they could be slightly bent.. they are very fragile

Sprinter_Seth
15th January 2006, 02:47 AM
yeah they r a bit bent, well the passanger side one is anyway. its gonna cost me 500 bux to get it all straightened then about another 1000 to get all the gear for my conversion to trueno.

should be back on the road in about 6 weeks

slide86
15th January 2006, 11:29 AM
post the pics of the carnage chris

Sprinter_Seth
15th January 2006, 01:12 PM
Pics

http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/89331.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/89332.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/89333.jpg
http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/dcimages/4/8/4/3/89334.jpg

OBE353
15th January 2006, 01:23 PM
man your radiator looks like it took some damage i can see fresh coolant there, u might of cracked a tank or something? keep the indicators from your front bar man, if your gonna chuck em out ill take em http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/biggrin.gif mine is cracked

Sprinter_Seth
15th January 2006, 01:34 PM
nah that coolant is there from when i took my radiator overflow bottle out, it sits just in front of the radiator its a chrome aftermarket one. but the radiator is fine a few bent fins but nothing too severe. im still gonna get a new one anyway

sharpie_13
15th January 2006, 01:54 PM
shit.. and i thought my front end was bad when i crashed mine. (well i didnt my mate did but i told my dad i did http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/ph34r.gif ) no where near as bad as that
i had mine fixed after 3 hours (with some well sourced parts) and dad didnt notice untill he drove it one night and id forgotten to fix the headlight direction. then he noticed that the bonnet had been all dinged up. did i get in the shit. but i just told him to get over it cause he crashed 3 cars in a week when he was young http://www.ae86drivingclub.com.au/forums/emoticons/laugh.gif none of them were his

poh_86
15th January 2006, 02:02 PM
ouch

Sprinter_Seth
15th January 2006, 06:20 PM
im not overly fussed i have a car to drive around untill i get it sorted. the trueno conversion is something im really looking fwd to. not sure if im gonna re-spray it yet might go panda but red and black. see how im going for money and see what happens.

Sprinter_Seth
16th February 2006, 10:01 PM
update, nothing new to report, except that my trueno pannels are almost ready for me to put on. car is still mangled as i have been in adelaide for a holiday away with my gf.