Check this out.....I got in an accident. - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

09-23-2007, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by cartagena

Does there not seem to be an unusually high number of accidents in this forum?

Cart, I don't think so. There are just over 10,500 forum members now. 1% would be over 100 accidents. I don't think were have read about that many the past couple years. Not even 1/2 that amount (<0.5%).

I did read about one recently about a guy who almost drove through his garage wall!

09-23-2007, 04:34 PM

blinkwatt,

Count your blessings. The rear quarter doesn't look like it was impacted, which is good. Every other part is replaceable easily.

PSM has saved me many times in the wet when I thought I was safe. Best of all, given enough room should I get out of shape, I can turn PSM off and probe deeper the car's limits and fine tune my driving. It's like a co-pilot. Though I don't trust it with high speed stuff yet, it's proven it's worth under ~60.

NickCats · 09-23-2007, 07:43 PM

OMG Robert, those pictures made me sick to my stomach ! So sorry to hear about your car, but glad you are ok...

Nick

blinkwatt · 09-23-2007, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by NickCats

OMG Robert, those pictures made me sick to my stomach ! So sorry to hear about your car, but glad you are ok...

Nick

I still don't like looking at the pics,I just think of how lucky I was not to get injured. I guess I was really out of it when I got out of the car. One of the people that pulled over to ask me if I was alright said I was pure white and I was taking some time to respond to questions. I was just frustrated from the accident,the fact that my car was facing the wrong direction on the freeway and knowing that I won't have the car to drive for a long time. The people of San Jose were really nice,at least 5 different people pulled over to see if I was o.k.

Hopefully some good can come from this.

I had a scratch on the rear driver quarter panel I was gonna get removed in the next month or two prior to this happening. The owner of one of the best body shop in San Jose was there when I limped to Santana Row(destination),he said he would take the scratch out for me when he does the rest of the work. He's a big P-car enthusiasts. I will also have the 03' rear end installed,which I was gonna do in time anyways. Might as well take advantage of occasion.

This is a BIG if,which I doubt will happen but you never know,if it's totaled I will just go get a 00-01' S.