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[eclypsed]

I've been reading the forums for some time now, since I purchased my new car. (Happens to be my first car)

been wanting to reg up and post forever but until recent events I have just never got around to it

more to come. this is my first car and im proud of her :-D
about me: I go by the name T.R. and im a senior in high school, live in LI, NY

i bought a
01 Mazda Protege LX? 2.0L (manual)

only had 18k when purchased, got it for a steal @ $4,000

love the car, learning to drive it better day by day.




the sad news and kinda the jump start to me posting is that the other day my baby and I were coming home from work 07/06/07 aprrox: 9:30pm. and going the speed limit of course in the right hand lane of a 4 lane road, a poorly parked SUV with two people inside, happen to open the door the same time my car was coming by. the damage is not severe the car is drivable, but it makes me cringe thinking my beautiful car now needs a heck of alot of make up :-(

so, alot of pictures and what not to come, dont have alot of before shots, since i never registerd here and made a cool entrance, but i love the car and these forums and ill be around here a bunch. i have some crappy photo's on me now, but ill wait for my boy's digi cam with 10.1 MP to post them, the damage is as follows: need a new hood, new light, front bumper. the right side doors are banged up but fine, and the back bumper has some scratches but is also fine. so HELLO mazdaforums, this is my entrance :-D

 

[mickeyreategui]

welcome to the familia!!! she should come out just fine.

 

[eclypsed]

alright, cars off to the shop, cant get the nice pics from my friends camera yet so i'll post some of the poorer quality pictures.

day after the crash, in the driveway:


another driveway shot:


front right side hood/light/bumper:


left side, bent due to hood being crushed:


right side doors (night):


right side doors (day):




the back right bumper is scratched up a bit but nothing worth posting.
car will be back in 10 days and will be good as new. hopefully if my liscense inst suspended (driving out of class) I can get started on a few things I want to do for the car.

list of what i'd evetually like to do with car

aesthetics,
-tints
-spolier
-vent shades
-rims
-side skirts
-front bumper
-back bumper

performance:
-air intake
-exhaust
-tires
-sound system


for now I wait till car comes back, I figure July 24th, and then court date on August 20th, since it was 9:30 at night and class DJ only allows driving up until 9AM, preyin' i don't get license suspended/taken away from me


edit:

here is a crappy quality pic of the door i hit, and you can sort of see how poorly parked this women was (had to add that )

 

[red95_240sx]

That sux...

 

[eclypsed]

oh man, drama over here and it sucks (fight)

so the insurance company orginally estimated the repair at around 5k. the lineup looked somewhat like this: all new parts, new doors, new hood, new bumper. new lights and electronics and a total repaint. and labor costs, totalling 5k

they called and said they looked under the hood and there was alot of engine damage, broken radioator and it isnt worth it to fix, they want to total the car.


I was jsut expecting to pay a few G's for the repair, i mean, if i fixed it not the insurance companies coverd place it would look like this: CF hood, new lights, new front bumper. i would have friends and so forth popadent and bondo the side door and bumper, labor would be alot less since I can get a discount from knowing the shop owner etc etc. total = 1.5k, then if you add the engine damage maybe at most we looking at 2.5k


edit: hopefully i'll be able to get the reimbursment for the car's value and then have it towed back to my place for a few hundred dollars so it's not trashed.

 

[NoVa 2.0]

Man that sucks, sorry to hear about your ride.

You got a good deal on the car though if you paid $4000 with only 18K on it. Did u mean 180K?

Nice year and color BTW.

 

[eclypsed]

thx, and yea 18k miles, was a deal that prob wont ever come buy again. women just wanted to get rid of the car within days (lived in the city, didnt want to have to pay another months of garage fees) and at that price, I was glad to take it

 

[Alejo_NIN]

how much horse power are you expecting with the perfomance sound system?

lol

good find mang!
18K, unbelieveable....just 4k?

nice

congrats

 

[red95_240sx]

Thats a huge setback. Towards the fact that it has 18k, that really lix balls. Insurance companies really dont giva shi about cars when it comes to the decision of totaling them, especially such a car as the protege.

Junk yards are your friends. Good luck.

 

[eclypsed]

hehe sound system is crucial to the performance of the car! -Alejo

yeah, junkyards are gonna be a haven eventually. hopefully since the hood is smashed i can use this oppurtunity to get a nice CF hood and just use that, that also solves the problem of getting lets say a silver hood from the junkyard and having my car look like, well, like crap

edit: also nice oppurtunity to get a nicer bumper since mine f'ed up. i may make out with somthing ncier then i started (dreaming big here, :-D )


edit: I was also wondering, my friend has a 2004 Corolla S, and I know that my car is so much better then his. since im not that savvy in cars (yet) Can someone be kind enough to explain to me how my car is alot better then his I have 6 more HP stock, and a 2.0L engine compared ot his 1.8

 

[Alejo_NIN]

edit: I was also wondering, my friend has a 2004 Corolla S, and I know that my car is so much better then his. since im not that savvy in cars (yet) Can someone be kind enough to explain to me how my car is alot better then his

IS A MAZDA
enough said

 

[NoVa 2.0]

Well the car def looks better than a Corrolla in my opinion, and I really haven't seen many stock Corrolla's fixed up?

 

[red95_240sx]

The corolla is madeeeeeee to be an econo car. Mazda is more sporty???(dunno)

But its a toyota, and it can still be done up.

 

[CantCMe]

That's messed up...hope everything is taken care of for you!

 

[eclypsed]

alright, got the bad news. car is gonna get scraped. why i can't get it from the shop instead it getting trashed, i am not sure. that's what the "transaction" was between the insurance company and me.

sad sad sad day, gonna get a new car now. hoping its a mazda :-D. (no more nice first car though :-'( )

thanks for staying in tuned :-D more to come. next car may be this 01 protege lx 2.0 auto with 65k on it. spoiler and sunroof

peace