Another vehiculat incident.....

well, insurance said they COULD cover the damages, its all being assessed yet, so I don't know whats going to happen.

found a junkyard door though....$200.  

Reb Cpl wrote: Keying is not necessary. The front end of his car is already pretty screwed up. It wasn't intentional so I can't get too pissed, but the expense behind these accidents is what bothers me.

frankly, anytime someone is going over the speed limit and something like this happens, i consider it intentional. it is a blatant disregard for the laws that are posted there for a specific purpose.

bare in mind, i don't exclude myself from this. i understand that if i speed through a parking lot and hit a parked car with its door open, theres a good chance it was my fault. especially the second time around

Leave your old door in his parking space, if he has one.

Ouch. Replacing the fuel pump in a blazer is a pain. It's easy, if you have a floor jack you can do it yourself, it's just very time consuming.

Much easer to change one on an S10 since all you need to do is remove 6 or so bolts holding the truck bed on, get a couple of friends to lift it off the frame, and the fuel pump is right there.

Good luck with the jerk. I was in a fender bender once where even the police report blamed the other driver, but the insurance companies had a nice little war over it for something around a year.

GI JOES SON wrote: frankly, anytime someone is going over the speed limit and something like this happens, i consider it intentional. it is a blatant disregard for the laws that are posted there for a specific purpose.

This; which pretty much sums up my opinion on drinking and driving as well.

To add to what Enos said about doing the fuel pump yourself:  Don't do this without jackstands sufficient for the weight of the vehicle and whee chocks to prevent rolling.

And now a barely related story from the other day:

I was driving and got hit by a lady in a crosswalk.

Driving past a school during drop-off time and going well under the posted schools speed limit because those little elementary buggers just dart out of nowhere whenever they feel like it.  Turned out to be a good thing I was going slow because a dad dropping off (parked on the other side of the street from the school) decides to fling open his door forcing the car in front of me to slam on its brakes (probably not his fault-he seemed to be going under the speed limit as well) and unload several children on the road side of his vehicle.  I'm assuming that he did this because of the piled snow on the other side.  I had plenty of room to stop (the slow speed was a good thing) but the guy behind me didn't so I had to ease forward to almost on the bumper of the car in front of me while the guy behind me slid to a halt.  This left me in the middle of the crosswalk.  I'm setting there waiting for slow-dad to unload the kids when I hear "mommy, look out."  I look out the passenger side window just in time to see a woman holding a little girl's hand and walking with her head down walk into the side of the CRV.  When I put the window down to see if she was ok, she started berating me for blocking the crosswalk.  To her credit when I explained the situation and pointed out the vehicles to either side she did calm down and apologize.

DaveEllis wrote: Leave your old door in his parking space, if he has one.

brihard wrote: DaveEllis wrote: Leave your old door in his parking space, if he has one. I'll go one better. Get a small brass plaque made, mount it on your old door, and march into his office and present it to him publicly.

Ask him to autograph it for you.