My Saab got hit.

"Nick- Professional Car Destroyer" (93aerojunk)
08/23/2018 at 13:20 • Filed to: None

My $700 Saab 9-3 Aero has been great for the 5 months I’ve owned it, minimal work and it’s running like an absolute top, quirks aside anyways.

Last Monday my girlfriend and I did a Wal-Mart run to get some stuff for my dog. I was getting ready to turn right into the parking lot and this Subaru comes barreling into my lane, no turn signal, and stops at the red light. Whatever no big deal, I’m in no rush. Light goes green he’s sitting there playing on his phone from what I could see inthe rear view. Gave him about 5 or so seconds and lightly tap my horn to let him know the light is green and he loses it. Lays on his horn and takes off flipping me off, again whatever. Ended up getting ahead of him because of how the lanes in the parking lot entrance work and came to a stop at the 4 way stop. Look up and he’s barreling down the road and ends up hitting the back of my car, not hard enough to hurt anyone, but hard enough that I felt it and there was definitely damage.

So I get out to see what happened and let him know he hit me, assuming he would do the normal thing, you know get out and have a conversation and sort things out like any sane person. Instead when I confront him he backs up and goes “I don’t see anything .” So again I confront him ask him to get out or I’m calling the cops and they’ll find him. All I wanted was a my bad, or a what can we do to make this right. But he escalated things.

As I assumed would happen he takes off passing my car on the right clipping my quarter panel on his way. So I call the state police with his plate number and other information I could get visually. Police show up and assume I’m just dicking around because its a 14 year old car, and is assumed to be in rough shape to begin with. After going back and forth with the cop and my girlfriend backing up my story he finally caves and fills out the police report and takes all my info and says he’s going to try and locate the kid and will call me if he manages to find him. I honest;y figured he wouldn’t find him because according to the cop the car was registered out of NYC, which is about 5 or so hours south. Not exactly a short trip.

A few days pass still nothing and basically got ready to get the stuff myself to fix the car and eat the cost of a rear bumper and paint and whatever else I needed to do. Finally though good news, a letter in the mail from state police with all the information I needed. Thank god, even though the damage was minimal I still would rather not eat the cost to repair the car myself.

Here’s to hoping insurance won’t be an absolute battle to go through the claim process with. No pictures of damage, its honestly minimal, and not the end of the world. But imagine the entire rear bumper paint loaded with cracks and scratches and a giant scratch over the rear wheel arch on the right side.

DISCUSSION (15)

The Dummy Gummy > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 13:48

Damn, fuck that dude. Glad you and your gf are safe. Car looks great.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > The Dummy Gummy
08/23/2018 at 13:51

Fortunately it was low enough speed that getting hurt would have been hard.

And thank you, hard to believe I bought it from a whole sale line for 700$ and has 216k miles on it haha

functionoverfashion > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 14:01

Ugh, I hate people sometimes. Glad he didn’t do anything worse, like get out and threaten you or your gf personally.

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > functionoverfashion
08/23/2018 at 14:04

Yeah, fortunately I would have an advantage anyways, he was much smaller than I was.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 14:13

My truck got the front quarter scuffed when someone hit it while it was parked at the airport. Great way to end a vacation. I feel your pain.

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 14:13

People are terrible.

Also I really don’t understand cops reluctance to write reports . I’ve called the cops over two hit and runs and in both cases they (essentially) refused to write a report because... reasons. One didn’t want to write a report so badly he actually tracked down the person who hit me, made her confess, and got her insurance info rather than write a report... I just... wut?

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
08/23/2018 at 14:17

Yeah this officer was convinced I was lying about it until my girlfriend came out from walmart and confirmed my story

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > Future next gen S2000 owner
08/23/2018 at 14:18

That’s slightly worse than my situation

I’m glad I was able to get his plate and everything.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 14:45

Get hit? Step one: make sure everyone is ok. Step two: get camera out and start taking pictures....

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > TheRealBicycleBuck
08/23/2018 at 14:50

I don’t carry a cell phone with me when I go out most of the time.

That was one of the times I didn’t have it, and my girlfriends was dead or nearly dead.

Future next gen S2000 owner > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 14:59

Its the bumper and the wheel flare. It sucks. I’m don’t think I’m going to get it fixed. It is such a pain.

LOREM IPSUM > TheRealBicycleBuck
08/23/2018 at 15:24

Step 3: chase them down and total both vehicles.

LOREM IPSUM > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
08/23/2018 at 15:27

Literacy is diffacalt. d iffuclit. d uffelcult.

Hard.

...but “green leafy substance” they practiced writing frequently enough to consistently spell correctly.

thejustache > Nick- Professional Car Destroyer
08/23/2018 at 16:18

Glad you were able to get the guy’s information finally. My friend has a 9-3 aero that looks similar and while he spent a little more on his 3 years ago, it wasn’t much more. He got his tuned and after replacing the clutch with one that could hold the power it’s honestly a pretty fast car, and comfortable too . Definitely not bad for $700!

Nick- Professional Car Destroyer > thejustache
08/27/2018 at 08:51

I bought this, threw a catless downpipe on it as the cat was plugged solid and all is well.

Needed new plugs too which I think caused the cat to plug up, but I’m around a grand into it.