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timbo
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I've accidentally had like one scrape or two, but it was all fixed with some cut & polish.
Surprisingly I've never had one, but I only drive like a maniac when no-one else is around, and pretty rarely too. Also I do it in an Astra, so it's pretty damn hard to fuck up in one of those. The brakes are awesome, the cornering is better.
Surprisingly I've never had one, but I only drive like a maniac when no-one else is around, and pretty rarely too. Also I do it in an Astra, so it's pretty damn hard to fuck up in one of those. The brakes are awesome, the cornering is better.
NorCalDiscoII said:Just saw tehamarx's pic of his rolled Disco... wondering how many of you have been in a wreck? It's two for me: t-boned Ford Truck (totaled) and rear-ended RX300. Both times I walked away... Come to think of it, had the RX not been hit, I wouldn't have bought the Disco
I rolled my 97 DI in 2001. I replaced it with a 2001 DII, and now I also have a 1988 Range Rover.
These photos were taken the day after the wreck, when the truck was in the impound yard. My wife, my 2 kids, and I were all in there. We came to rest upside down. The only 'injury' I got was a glass cut on my knee from crawling through glass it to get my kids out. My wife had glass in her hand from the passenger window shattering. Kids were 100% A-Ok.
These trucks are tough!! (Oh, and make sure you wear seatbelts and your kids are in properly installed carseats!!!)
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Only smacked rocks and trees in the Disco.
Shit Tommy, you're lucky no doubt. They are tough, but not indestructable and in that kind of accident a small fuel leak and spark would be the end of everyone inside. This is exactly what happened out here in CO in 2001. Horrible story of 2 surgeons and their sons. They drove up one of the cement barriers (designed to roll the vehicle back into its lane) between the directions on large highways. The fuel tank drug for a while and boom, roll, they could not get the kids out.
Shit Tommy, you're lucky no doubt. They are tough, but not indestructable and in that kind of accident a small fuel leak and spark would be the end of everyone inside. This is exactly what happened out here in CO in 2001. Horrible story of 2 surgeons and their sons. They drove up one of the cement barriers (designed to roll the vehicle back into its lane) between the directions on large highways. The fuel tank drug for a while and boom, roll, they could not get the kids out.
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southerncross01 said:
A wrangler caused me to wreck my 97!! I was on the interstate doing 55mph, merging to another lane, when this wrangler comes and decides he wants to be there first, and almost taps my rear bumper as I'm merging. It was clear when I signaled and started moving over! It just went downhill from there. It's not easy to steer out of a fishtail with a landrover at those speeds.
Look at the inside-2.jpg - see the rearview mirror level with the radio.... still can't beleive we walked away from it with barely a scratch!
Cops never did catch the wrangler.
-Tommy
hit a tree head-on going about 50mph, in a British Ford Transit van (bro-in-law driving). Interesting that how you can analyze things coming at you within a few milliseconds' time and decide whether it's going to be good or bad!
I've walked away with a big bruise from the seat belt - both B-pillars were twisted out in the places of belts' attachment. Others didn't fare so well...
The van was back on the road a year later. I even bought it from my relative and drove for a year or so.
I've walked away with a big bruise from the seat belt - both B-pillars were twisted out in the places of belts' attachment. Others didn't fare so well...
The van was back on the road a year later. I even bought it from my relative and drove for a year or so.
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You know unless I am going to rear end someone or vice versa, I would be tempted (with the current armor setup) to just hold the wheel. I know I'd roll if I steered hard at speed. As a result, you can usually tell I am the armored Disco, waaay over in the right lane.
I've been involved in several accidents but i always manage to be a passenger in them the worst one was when we got t-boned in a 1988 grand am by a honda civic going about 60 in a 45 on the shoulder.
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Worst accident I've had seems pale in comparison to these.
I was hit from the rear on I64 while traveling for work in Norfolk, Va. It was November 1, 2002. Car was totaled (rental) and I'm still waiting for all the bills to be paid by the guy's insurance company. I've got a ruined left shoulder because of it...and I watched it happen. He was in a 78 Chevy p/u and hit me, stopped, at 60mph. Traffic down there sux!! The paramedics said I would have been much better off in my Disco. But I'm glad she wasn't the one wrecked.
I was hit from the rear on I64 while traveling for work in Norfolk, Va. It was November 1, 2002. Car was totaled (rental) and I'm still waiting for all the bills to be paid by the guy's insurance company. I've got a ruined left shoulder because of it...and I watched it happen. He was in a 78 Chevy p/u and hit me, stopped, at 60mph. Traffic down there sux!! The paramedics said I would have been much better off in my Disco.
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I was with a friend in a Jeep XJ we got hit by a FJ-40 doing the better part of 55 I imagine based on the skid marks. Totalled the XJ, he hit so hard that we broke the seat backs it was quite shock at how fawked up the XJ was, it didnt even bust the radiator on the FJ, the guy coulda driven the FJ home but didnt. My head hurts thinking about that accident. I still see the bastard that rear ended us..
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AndyThoma
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We were headed to Bryce Canyon NP for some cross country skiing. 2am and a Doe headed out into the road. Probably 110 to 125 lbs deer and we hit it at 60 mph. Big bang and thump-thump, but the truck was easily under control. Lost the front bumper, grill, headlights,signals. Never touched either fender or the hood or radiators. We taped up the remaining lights and drove on and skiied the weekend. Lots of people saw it and said 'only a disco could have walked away with so little damage' Damn thing stunk for a year, no matter how many pressure washes I did. My wife and dogs hated climbing into it after that till that smell faded. The deer didn't make it, but when I got it repaired I had the shop replace the bumper with an ARB on my insurance policy.
Also had a jetta 3 rear end me at a stop light. It felt real bad, truck really jumped. I expected to come out and see a mess. Internia switch went off, but airbags didn't. My truck was not even scratched, the jetta was towed away in a mess. No one was hurt. I was hoping for a new rear bumper, TJM or something, but no damage. I wouldn't recogmend this method of 'mod' payment though.
Also had a jetta 3 rear end me at a stop light. It felt real bad, truck really jumped. I expected to come out and see a mess. Internia switch went off, but airbags didn't. My truck was not even scratched, the jetta was towed away in a mess. No one was hurt. I was hoping for a new rear bumper, TJM or something, but no damage. I wouldn't recogmend this method of 'mod' payment though.
i've had 2 different Honda Civics end their lives by throwing themselves into what i was driving. first was in high school. the guy behind me wasn't paying attention and rear ended me. barely hurt my Olds, but totally destroyed his Civic. second was only a few years ago. i was driving my friend's '87 Bronco and a woman in a CIvic ran a light and t-boned the truck so hard it got picked up and moved to the side. i drove away, her car was totalled. sucky thing was i had borrowed the truck to get to work because my Jeep was still getting vibe issues worked out after a lift. well, my friend was on his honeymoon and didn't know i'd borrowed it. the accident happened the day he got back into the states. and they were moving to Seattle in 3 days. that was an interesting phone call......... turned out the insurance money helped them out getting started in Seattle.
that was an interesting phone call......... turned out the insurance money helped them out getting started in Seattle.
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nickangus
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I have had three really bad accidents in 26 years of driving and while all three were determined to be the other guys fault it doesn't lessen the effect they have had on the way I drive.
The first occurred within 30 days of buying my first new car, a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit. Fresh out of college and working in NYC, I attended a gathering my company had hosted on the USS Intrepid. After the gala was over I was driving people back to their hotels when a guy ran a red light at 39th and 3rd Ave. He was driving a Chevy Caprice Classic and hit me so hard my car was catapulted across the avenue into a parked car which my little Rabbit totaled. Needless to say, my car was totaled as well and I spent a week in a coma at Belleview Medical Center. It took awhile to recover from that one. The others in the car had injuries ranging from a fractured skull to bumps and bruises. To this day, I have no recollection of the accident. The last thing I can recall was leaving the Intrepid.
The other two accidents are really freaky in that they both involve my SUV's, Harley Davidson motorcycles and the same stretch of road less than two miles from my home.
The first accident occurred back in 1989 when a 1979 Harley FLH driven by a guy with no license to operate a bike and a blood alcohol level of .262 failed to take a turn properly. He came across the double yellow and hit my brand new Nissan Pathfinder on the corner of the driver's side. While the cyclist survived, he was thrown from the bike and his head (no helmet) shattered my windshield (he also lost his left leg from below the knee...it was several feet from where he came to rest in the road). My truck, minus the left front wheel skidded across the road into the next oncoming car, a 1980's Ford sedan (carrying the motorcyclist's buddies and several cases of beer). My truck demolished every body panel on the driver's side of that Ford as I proceeded through a stockade fence finally coming to rest in someone's driveway.
The second happened less than half a mile from the first motorcycle accident! Traveling in the opposite direction in a three month old Range Rover LWB I had a 1978 Harley Low Rider driven by a guy with a blood alcohol level of .300 hit me in exactly the same way. As I was told, the guy leaned over to spit when he lost control of the bike, crossed over a double yellow and slammed into my new Rover. He was not thown from the bike but he did loose his leg. His femeral artery was damaged and had it not been for an EMT who lived in the house this accident happened in front of, he would have bled out. Miraculously, nothing happened to me besides some frayed nerves. The Rover sustained just of $20K in damages and was ultimately repaired.
So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that when I see bumper stickers warning drivers to take special care around motorcycles I take them to heart. Drinking and driving is dangerous enough without turning your motorcycle into a (un)guided missile.
The first occurred within 30 days of buying my first new car, a 1982 Volkswagen Rabbit. Fresh out of college and working in NYC, I attended a gathering my company had hosted on the USS Intrepid. After the gala was over I was driving people back to their hotels when a guy ran a red light at 39th and 3rd Ave. He was driving a Chevy Caprice Classic and hit me so hard my car was catapulted across the avenue into a parked car which my little Rabbit totaled. Needless to say, my car was totaled as well and I spent a week in a coma at Belleview Medical Center. It took awhile to recover from that one. The others in the car had injuries ranging from a fractured skull to bumps and bruises. To this day, I have no recollection of the accident. The last thing I can recall was leaving the Intrepid.
The other two accidents are really freaky in that they both involve my SUV's, Harley Davidson motorcycles and the same stretch of road less than two miles from my home.
The first accident occurred back in 1989 when a 1979 Harley FLH driven by a guy with no license to operate a bike and a blood alcohol level of .262 failed to take a turn properly. He came across the double yellow and hit my brand new Nissan Pathfinder on the corner of the driver's side. While the cyclist survived, he was thrown from the bike and his head (no helmet) shattered my windshield (he also lost his left leg from below the knee...it was several feet from where he came to rest in the road). My truck, minus the left front wheel skidded across the road into the next oncoming car, a 1980's Ford sedan (carrying the motorcyclist's buddies and several cases of beer). My truck demolished every body panel on the driver's side of that Ford as I proceeded through a stockade fence finally coming to rest in someone's driveway.
The second happened less than half a mile from the first motorcycle accident! Traveling in the opposite direction in a three month old Range Rover LWB I had a 1978 Harley Low Rider driven by a guy with a blood alcohol level of .300 hit me in exactly the same way. As I was told, the guy leaned over to spit when he lost control of the bike, crossed over a double yellow and slammed into my new Rover. He was not thown from the bike but he did loose his leg. His femeral artery was damaged and had it not been for an EMT who lived in the house this accident happened in front of, he would have bled out. Miraculously, nothing happened to me besides some frayed nerves. The Rover sustained just of $20K in damages and was ultimately repaired.
So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that when I see bumper stickers warning drivers to take special care around motorcycles I take them to heart. Drinking and driving is dangerous enough without turning your motorcycle into a (un)guided missile.
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at sixteen his first car was a 1996 disco sd, totaled it. replaced it witha 1997 se, totaled it. two disco's in two years. first one he rearended a chevy truck and an angle of his front driver tire, pushed into the firewall and pushed everthing else upfront, towards the passenger side, no injuries. number two, he rolled multiple times at high speed, landed about 80-100 yards from where he started rolling, he broke his neck, boke three ribs on the console, punctured right lung, had to were halo for 8 weeks, no one else with him, he is lucky to be alive, and scracthing his itches. he fell asleep. that was july 24, 2004, he is currently a freshman in college and is without a vehicle. if he were in someother vehicle he may not have been so lucky. my daughter turns 16 on november 1, and i have been looking for one for her. even with all there negatives they are still pretty cool, i just wish they got better gasoline mileage.
at sixteen his first car was a 1996 disco sd, totaled it. replaced it witha 1997 se, totaled it. two disco's in two years. first one he rearended a chevy truck and an angle of his front driver tire, pushed into the firewall and pushed everthing else upfront, towards the passenger side, no injuries. number two, he rolled multiple times at high speed, landed about 80-100 yards from where he started rolling, he broke his neck, boke three ribs on the console, punctured right lung, had to were halo for 8 weeks, no one else with him, he is lucky to be alive, and scracthing his itches. he fell asleep. that was july 24, 2004, he is currently a freshman in college and is without a vehicle. if he were in someother vehicle he may not have been so lucky. my daughter turns 16 on november 1, and i have been looking for one for her. even with all there negatives they are still pretty cool, i just wish they got better gasoline mileage.
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