Rolled and Totaled...drove away!

mainerova

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Hi everyone, Im in the market for another rover...last night I spun a 180 then rolled and landed on all 4's!

My 97 disco has been deemed totaled.

Such a great vehicle!


I am fine, got some aches. Actaully a lot of aches!

Im in the market for a comparable rover to abuse on my bumpy ride to work and a few weeks a year on northern Maine roads.

OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS!


sorry, no pics.

Mark
 

LuisC

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Take the money from the insurance. Buy back the vehicle at salvage price. Hack the roof off. Major suspension upgrades and make it a dedicated off roader.
Oh! Don't forget the roll cage.
 

BlackAndTan

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Glad to hear you're fine. Sorry the '97 is not!

I only have O.T. comments to offer, aside from encouraging what Luis and RoverRideAlong said above if it's practical at all and the thing is not bent ... I have a '96 and really isn't the repair cost for that vintage almost always going to be more than the dwindling book value? (In other words wouldn't "totaling" a new Escalade take one heck of a lot more damage than totaling a vehicle whose book trade-in value is rapidly approaching negative before the accident anyway?)

So anyway... curious what speed this was at and how the cab survived in terms of crumple. I live out in L.A. and over the past 10 years have seen a couple rollovers of big, expensive SUVs that weren't Rovers ... on Pacific Coast Highway... probably a 20-40 zone at the time considering traffic. And in both cases the things were upside down with NO cab left, flat down to the doors. Before I bought my old Disco I looked around at various offroading sites and saw plenty of Rovers dropped off small cliffs and turned over, etc., and saw none of that flat-cat business.

As an aside, I think it's really uncool that the U.S. safety administration has looked at propensity for rollover without ramping up actual rollover crash testing as much as it could've. There's a lot of 'interpretation' needed if anyone looks at crash test ratings on their face. So much unaccounted for.
 

mainerova

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Black and Tan, I was going about 35mph into a turn that requires no brakes and the speed limit in actually 45mph. The roads where sheet ice at the scene....It spun a quick maybe 160 degrees caught, flipped and came back on its wheels very fast, then hit snowbanks. Damage to roof, and drivers side...front to back. I got out, was so stunned that I put it in gear and drove back to where I came from, about a mile away.

Insurance is giving $3400-my deductible of $500.

I am looking at a 2004 disco hse in white from the LR dealer.

Nobody can believe that it rolled and im fine(minus post soncusion syndrome-no biggie) and that I drove it home.

Think the lack of roof collapse was from the flip being so fast that it could have sprung me UP and AROUND.
 

stu454

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Tell them to believe it because you're just next in a long line of people who have had bad accidents in Rovers and walked away.

Hell, you DROVE away.
 

LuisC

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And you might be able to buy your old one back for $500 from your insurance company and turn it into that dedicated trail rig project. Good garage hobby.