More Yaris Carnage

[HTM Yaris]

My son hit a huge tire on the way home last night . $ 1934.00 worth of damage . There is some damage to the rad fan and rocker panel that I did not see until after the pics .

[staticorex]

Ouch. A tire? It was in the road?

[Tamago]

Ouch. A tire? It was in the road?

hopefully lol

[staticorex]

:laugh: Well yeah. I'm just wondering how a big tire ends up in the road without someone moving it. :p

[HTM Yaris]

Yup . My son had presence of mind to look left and right . There were vehicles on both sides , so he ran the tire over instead of hitting another vehicle :bow:

Autox and track days pay off ........:headbang:

[cleong]

Too bad it was an '09 Yaris. If it was the older one, it would have been the perfect excuse to buy a genuine Vitz RS front bumper as a replacement.

[Tamago]

Too bad it was an '09 Yaris. If it was the older one, it would have been the perfect excuse to buy a genuine Vitz RS front bumper as a replacement.

he has to replace headlights and hood anyway, why NOT swap to RS front end?

[HTM Yaris]

Not many people will get out to move a tire on the interstate :frown:

[staticorex]

Not many people will get out to move a tire on the interstate :frown:

Oh. I assumed it was a smaller road.

[cleong]

he has to replace headlights and hood anyway, why NOT swap to RS front end?

I'm assuming the lights weren't broken and don't need replacement.

Otherwise its a fairly involving job, and the parts list for the full Vitz RS front conversion consists of the bumper itself, the plastic grilles, and the foglights. In his case he'd need pre-09 headlamps as well.

[detroiter]

Atleast your son ran into the tire and didn't run OVER the tire, like I unfortunately did not too long ago. Tore off the black bottom plastic engine protector cover, threw the alignment for a major loop, dented the auto trans pan to living hell and left a small chip out of the bottom of the front bumper. The only funny part was bracing for the impact and then watching in my rearview mirror only to see the tire literally shoot up into the air pretty high. That gave me a good chuckle for a few seconds until I came back to reality about what damage was done. Thank god that it was a rimless tire...

[HTM Yaris]

He did run over the tire . The tire exited just behind the driver's door causing a two fist size dent to the rocker panel :frown:

[1NZYaris1]

Ouch , that's gotta hurt :frown: , but as you said at least he didn't hit another car . :clap:

[detroiter]

Somehow the tire I ran over went all the way down the middle of the car and came out the rear end, shooting out up into the air lol. Didn't dent the exhaust pipes or anything, just the auto trans pan was caved in. So much so that it crushed the auto trans fluid filter.

[kngrsll]

i hit a deer and it nearly totaled the car... fragile front end. i hope i never hit anything much bigger than a deer :(

[HTM Yaris]

Rule of thumb (for me anyway ) , if its under 100 lbs and not a person RUN IT OVER . I've seen many peeps swerve for a squirrel or rabbit and end up with thousands of dollars of damage if not totaled .

I almost hit an ELK in Cherokee last year . Those things are MASSIVE

[JBougie]

There was at least a 12' ladder in the middle of 494 (one of biggest interstates here in the Twin Cities) and I almost hit it. It was the beginning of rush hour and people were darting left and right at the very last second and there were cars on both sides of me; I locked it up and luckily the car to my left was going fast enough that it was perfect timing, I jerked to the left as soon as I saw the bumper of the other car and just missed that damn ladder by feet.

I called the state patrol and let them know they needed to get that thing out of the road before someone got killed; that thing was no joke.

I am very glad your son was OK; and thank goodness he didn't just instinctively go to one side or the other and caused a really bad wreck with another vehicle.

A moment of silence is in order for your Yaris... lol :)

[The little red pill]

:laugh: Well yeah. I'm just wondering how a big tire ends up in the road without someone moving it. :p

Actually a few years ago I was driving a NEON (gasp) and a pickup truck a few vehicles in front of me had a load of tires in the back. It hit a pothole on the interstate (remember, this is Oklahoma) and out comes a tire hopping down the road like the Easter Bunny :eyebulge: . I swerve over 2 lanes to miss it and it hits the car behind me.

[The little red pill]

My son hit a huge tire on the way home last night . $ 1934.00 worth of damage . There is some damage to the rad fan and rocker panel that I did not see until after the pics .

Wow! Almost 2k in damages . . . . .yeaahhhhhh . . . I'm going to be keeping my collision insurance. lol Since I paid for my car in full, I'm not required to have full coverage, but it seems completely necessary for our cars!

[johnnypaseo]

Looks like an excuse to get a lip/body kit!! =)

[CtrlAltDefeat]

Actually a few years ago I was driving a NEON (gasp) and a pickup truck a few vehicles in front of me had a load of tires in the back. It hit a pothole on the interstate (remember, this is Oklahoma) and out comes a tire hopping down the road like the Easter Bunny :eyebulge: . I swerve over 2 lanes to miss it and it hits the car behind me.

Reminds me of the time I was driving a rented neon (rented because my car was in the shop) and suddenly there was pile of sand on my side of the street up to the hood and blocking most of my lane. I jerked the wheel to the left but sand all over the street made the car start to slide sideways to the right towards the sand. I whipped it back to the right, and kicked the tail out into the opposing lane and slid the car around the pile with the nose of the car facing the pile. By then I had slowed down enough to turn back to the left and straighten the car out in my lane. It was like some full on rally racing shit (at like 40mph tho :laugh:). I was like proud of myself for avoiding the accident, but freaked out too, because I wasn't quite sure how the hell I did it! lol

[hachi-roku_fan]

I ran over a fire hose once in my AE86. Interesting ride to say the least. I don't know how things work in SC, but in CA you can put a damages claim to CalTrans, if you feel that the damages occurred because they didn't keep the road clean. I've never heard of someone putting in a claim but the option is there.

[TheRealEnth]

am i wrong to think that 2000 is a little too much for just the front end?

[aucorium]

damn , thats hardcore hit , well done for making it out in 1 piece. ;-)