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Be carefull out there, 3 weeks ago while driving my son to school it was a surreal experience.
Stopped about forth in line at a stop light, the SUV in front of me decided they needed to be in the turn lane, so ... they backed up to get the space. Evidentally when looking in the rear view mirror of a 1990 Montero one cannot see a Speedster. I on the other hand, had dropped my vigelance and was joking with my kiddo. The height of that un-godly bumper combined with a trailer hitch caused extreme distress to fibber glass. The impact of the hitch was about 4" below the hood, then the horizontal bumper tweeked the nose developing stress cracks under both head lights. This was a low impact collision that was billed out about $3000.00. Very glad the SUV had insurance so my rates don't have to go up.
It's all better now & I paid some extra to complete the front repainting, remove the chipped paint on the hood, the results look great. AND Its good to be out of that toffu bland rental car and back to driving something fun.
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Be carefull out there, 3 weeks ago while driving my son to school it was a surreal experience.
Stopped about forth in line at a stop light, the SUV in front of me decided they needed to be in the turn lane, so ... they backed up to get the space. Evidentally when looking in the rear view mirror of a 1990 Montero one cannot see a Speedster. I on the other hand, had dropped my vigelance and was joking with my kiddo. The height of that un-godly bumper combined with a trailer hitch caused extreme distress to fibber glass. The impact of the hitch was about 4" below the hood, then the horizontal bumper tweeked the nose developing stress cracks under both head lights. This was a low impact collision that was billed out about $3000.00. Very glad the SUV had insurance so my rates don't have to go up.
It's all better now & I paid some extra to complete the front repainting, remove the chipped paint on the hood, the results look great. AND Its good to be out of that toffu bland rental car and back to driving something fun.
Dang, that's scary! In any small car, you gotta keep back at least one SUV-length, keep one eye on the driver, one eye on their backup lights and your fist over the horn button!

I've been almost hit by so many stupid SUV drivers - usually lane changes - while driving a full size sedan!

I've gotten in the habbit of driving with my lights on all the time.

Glad you weren't hurt!
What are you guys wusses? I've been commuting to work on motorcycles since 1973, and in San Diego that means 12 months of the year (less maybe 5 rain days). You want stories, I got stories. Only visited the emergency room once because of "them". Ya got to have your head on right when you leave home. It 99% mental and 1% physical on bikes. Like my speedster, it all has to do with your level of enthusiasm. And like bikes, even when if you are in the right, you are still the one who is going to get hurt.
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