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[entelein]

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[pencat.livejournal.com]

yeowch :(
*hugs*

[eeyorerin]

*pours motor oil on ground for her homie, Blue M&M*

[entelein.livejournal.com]

This just made me laugh and sob at the same time.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I'm not saying this is a good idea, but that IS probably repairable.

Oh, I dunno. It's a sad old car and I'm sure your decision is right. I'm just saying that some work on pulling the fender out of the way, a new hood, some bending on the hood latch, and you could get it to the point where you could sell it for $600.

[entelein.livejournal.com]

And headlight. And wiring. And whatever inside that side of the engine block that might've gotten knocked out of whack.

Sigh.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

You could probably sell it sans headlight to someone desperate. The engine stuff would be more difficult: I can't tell from the picture what's missing/injured.

[greydruid.livejournal.com]

You're right, it doesn't look all that bad. Which makes it suck more. :(

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Don't underestimate the power of used parts. Somewhere out there is a little Geo that got rear-ended and has irreparable frame damage, but has a nicely intact hood. Has a professional looked at the car yet? Obviously, it was drivable enough to get home and has nasty damage to the hood, quarter panel, and headlight, but did the engine survive without a lot of trauma?

[entelein.livejournal.com]

I was able to drive it home OK, as scary as it was. I could feel there was structural shakiness, but the engine, for the 5 minutes it took me, seemed OK.

[phaedra-amunet.livejournal.com]

:-(

You're right -- it doesn't look that bad. But then again, neither did mine (thing was built like a tank) but they still said the structural damage wasn't repairable.

Poor car. :-(

[gupfee.livejournal.com]

Aw, what a pretty shade of blue.

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

Sad clown car! I send in an entire team of clown doctors to diagnose and fix (with much noisy slapstick and hijinks) any imperfections under the hood.

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

Poor little blue car threw its crumple zones in harm's way to protect you. What do you say? Do you love this car enough to repair it? It's bound to be cheaper than a car payment or insurance on a newer car. Still, you'd look so sexy in a new Beetle of the same shade.

[dorkmaster-san.livejournal.com]

K, I'm just glad you're ok.

Here's the deal though, with all this debate over whether you should repair or not.

1) Not our business.

2) Looks mean nothing. The frame is the thing, and if the frame's screwy, then you will never really feel safe if repaired. If you "cut and replace" parts of it (which I don't even know if they do) that's gonna be too costly.

So, I just gotta say, I'm so sorry that happened. And whoever did it deserves something bad. But I too will pour a fotie out for the M&M...


I remember I had a maroon Oldsmobile Cutless Sierra, that I LOVED. I bought the car for one dollar (really). It ran great (well, ok) for about a year. Then it blew a rod, and shot it through the hood. In the middle of traveling downstate to Millikin University in Decatur, where I went to school. So essentially, I'm on a highway, but in a cornfield. (Oh, did I mention, it's January?)

So I don't know exactly why I mention all that, except that seeing your car's sad end reminds me of mine, and that I feel for you, although yours was more of a homicide than mine which was some sort of odd sort of suicide. So that's horrible. And I'm rambling again....

[scarr119.livejournal.com]

Tears also come to my eyes and ..i know none of our business but i agree with his diagnoses

[clayfoot.livejournal.com]

I disagree about the frame. Body shops now have large machines that can twist and reshape the frame back into precisely the proper alignment and shape. It will never be exactly the same as before, of course, but it will be safe again. And depending on how many potholes you've hit over time, it might actually be better than before.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Well, and a Metro doesn't really have much of a frame. There's a crossmember that attaches to the engine, the lower attach points for the radiator, and the firewall/lower body compartment. I've seen people take Metros and sabersaws and cut away basically everything else and end up with a power unit, consisting of the engine, enough of the fenders to hold the macpherson strut top ends, and not much else.

It would be possible to cut off an existing upper fender and weld it onto the existing car, replace the hood (they're never really repairable once they've been crumpled) and do some work on the latch and headlight socket. That would also cost about twelve times what an older Metro is worth, literally. If entelein had a MIG welder and a garage, (and a lot of skill and time) I'd say go for it, coz it'd be less than $200 in parts from a junkyard. But as it is, getting someone who can do the work is worth more than the car, so.

[tuliphead.livejournal.com]

so sorry for little m&m. :( i'm glad you're ok, and wish you all the best whatever you decide to do..