Another Yaris bashing

[my2sense]

With all the "fallen Yaris" postings lately, I figured I might as well post mine too. BTW, my sympathies to all my fellow fallen Yarises... I understand your pain.

It occurred about a month ago and I'll just let the videos and photos do all the talking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A81TLnFGJw

BTW, I was in the house at the time enjoying dinner, good thing I got a dashcam.

Here's the aftermath:







Luckily, the frame was not touched and only the plastic body parts were hit. Since I wasn't going anywhere fast leaving the panels like that, I just popped out the bumper and what do you know:



it just pops back into shape. I couldn't believe it myself. Funny how the Maxima only has a few paint scratches.

$2k later and I'm back in business again.

Side rant: It turned out that my headlight lost a mounting clip in the melee so I had to redo my HID retrofit on it. The body shop gave me a TYC aftermarket headlight to play with and it uses some kind of white silicone like sealant to hold the assembly together. It was a pain to get the stuff out unlike the OEM black butyl sealant and I would not recommend doing a retrofit on them unless you like to cuss like a sailor!