(sad1) I wrecked my baby this morning! (sad1)
I was driving to work, slowly inching along in the right-most lane of the Expressway to get on the freeway, when the worst day in my entire P5 experience started. Let me preface this by saying that this stretch of Capitol Expwy(Nbound right before the 680N onramp, if you are from SJ) is notorious for people cutting you off just so their wait to get on the 680 is about 10 seconds shorter.
So there I am inching along when some @$$hole in a booty-@$$ Nissan Punkfinder cutoff a van in front of me, which caused the van to lock up it's brakes while trying to swerve around it. The van hits the Pathfinder and stops. I swerve right to avoid both of them, but either not quick enough or too close, but I introduced my left headlight(and everything behind it, up to the front tire) to the van's right rear bumper! :mad:
Immediately my blood starts boiling and swear I heard my car start to cry. All because of the punk-@$$ Punkfinder.
All 3 of us pull to the side of the road, and I immediately jump out of the P5 and run up to the driver of said Punkfinder, who is getting out, and yell, "Thanks a-F*CKING-lot for ruining my brand new car. I really F*CKING appreciate it!" He's looking at me like :wtf:?
He says, "I had a space. I took it. I didn't cut anyone off!" to which I reply :bs:!!!!!
I look at the guy in the van, and he says to the Nissan, "You didn't have a space! You didn't even have a corner! You had an inch! You totally cut me off!"
I am (pissed) at this point, and had to walk away because 1) my point had been made & 2) I didn't want to do anything that i would regret when the cops showed up. I turned around and finally took a look at the (yellowp5). I wish I hadn't.
The front left side looked like a bad twisted sheet metal and broken plastic art exhibit! There were pieces off my headlight all over the right hand lane. I wanted to cry.
Long story short, the cops show up, get all the info, etc. Turns out Nissan guy didn't even have insurance, so the cops gave him a $300 ticket. I took what little solace I could in that. My baby was taken away on the back of a tow truck and I haven't seen her since.
I guess I shold be glad that no one was hurt, but honestly it's hard. I love my P5, and to see her like that broke my heart. The body shop says that I can come visit her if I want and check on the progress, but I think I will wait the 3 weeks it will take to fix her up, and finally see her the way I remeber her.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it off my chest.
I was driving to work, slowly inching along in the right-most lane of the Expressway to get on the freeway, when the worst day in my entire P5 experience started. Let me preface this by saying that this stretch of Capitol Expwy(Nbound right before the 680N onramp, if you are from SJ) is notorious for people cutting you off just so their wait to get on the 680 is about 10 seconds shorter.
So there I am inching along when some @$$hole in a booty-@$$ Nissan Punkfinder cutoff a van in front of me, which caused the van to lock up it's brakes while trying to swerve around it. The van hits the Pathfinder and stops. I swerve right to avoid both of them, but either not quick enough or too close, but I introduced my left headlight(and everything behind it, up to the front tire) to the van's right rear bumper! :mad:
Immediately my blood starts boiling and swear I heard my car start to cry. All because of the punk-@$$ Punkfinder.
All 3 of us pull to the side of the road, and I immediately jump out of the P5 and run up to the driver of said Punkfinder, who is getting out, and yell, "Thanks a-F*CKING-lot for ruining my brand new car. I really F*CKING appreciate it!" He's looking at me like :wtf:?
He says, "I had a space. I took it. I didn't cut anyone off!" to which I reply :bs:!!!!!
I look at the guy in the van, and he says to the Nissan, "You didn't have a space! You didn't even have a corner! You had an inch! You totally cut me off!"
I am (pissed) at this point, and had to walk away because 1) my point had been made & 2) I didn't want to do anything that i would regret when the cops showed up. I turned around and finally took a look at the (yellowp5). I wish I hadn't.
The front left side looked like a bad twisted sheet metal and broken plastic art exhibit! There were pieces off my headlight all over the right hand lane. I wanted to cry.
Long story short, the cops show up, get all the info, etc. Turns out Nissan guy didn't even have insurance, so the cops gave him a $300 ticket. I took what little solace I could in that. My baby was taken away on the back of a tow truck and I haven't seen her since.
I guess I shold be glad that no one was hurt, but honestly it's hard. I love my P5, and to see her like that broke my heart. The body shop says that I can come visit her if I want and check on the progress, but I think I will wait the 3 weeks it will take to fix her up, and finally see her the way I remeber her.
Sorry for the rant, but I had to get it off my chest.
Mine was going to be repaired until three weeks in when the repair bill was bumping the insured value and the insurer advised to write it off. Thats a heartbreaker. btw if you're gonna have a teary make sure there's noone else around. 
:bs: s****, for less than three times that I bought the whole car, not just the front facia and a radiator...Thank god for ins!