That's not totaled by a long shot,I fix stuff like that all day every day,it a walk in park repair it just looks bad to the untrained eye.

Be a real shame if it got hit again while sitting there. Like by an old pickup or something. :stirthepot:

Unfortunately it will never be same and will have history of major accident

I can't wait to read the "Vette vs. BRZ STi" thread on the BRZ forum :p

New rims, compensation for the wrap, figure out if it was just the tire or something else that caused it to pull hard, etc. The whole interior shifted violently. I'm dumping it. I am pretty sure this is the kind of stuff that causes later issues with little wire connectors, grounds, tons of rattles, and just makes a car feel "loose". I've driven cars that have been tracked (1/4 mile) hard on slicks/DR's and the whole car just feels "floppy". That has to be less violent than being slammed into a guard-rail and pinned by an SUV. It's going to be the little things, with this car, and I'm not going to be stuck with it.

Let me know what. I'm all ears. I like the look of the BRZ, and at 220-230bhp, 2700#, 4-piston calipers, better rims, alcantara everything, NAV, etc. the STi should be pretty nice. But I'm not bent on it. Tell me, what would you recommend? I was looking to downsize into a $30-35K car in about 3 years before I built a house, but since...here we are, I'm taking the move a bit early.

Not another Nissan. Subaru is a totally different company and their cars are made with a different mindset. I calmed down since that thread and realized that if Ford and Chevy can be very different, so can Nissan and another company in the same country.

I agree. I am hoping the structure is tweaked, though. Will know something in a few days, maybe. $72/day rental car fees will make the insurance company hop up. That was literally the ONLY car they had on the lot, too, so I could not have chosen a cheaper one within their rental guidelines, so that's all on them, and I'm not paying a dime of it. Scorched earth all the way on this one. Give me what I deserve, or I'll give you a lawyer bill on top of it. Someone THEY insured caused depreciation, damage, and now I legitimately do have a killer headache. Going to Dr. tomorrow. I'm sure stuff is out of place.

I really do hope they play nice with this. I don't want a dime more than I deserve (repairs/total, depreciation if not totaled, and medical care for back/neck anything else, covered.). But I certainly won't take a dime less. Fair is fair, and their driver dicked up. Now they can do what their driver has been paying them to do.

Sorry about your luck and seeing your pictures makes me feel better about having my Z tucked away in my garage until winter is finished. Good luck with the repairs.

Indeed. I drove my 370Z every day and I still don't regret it. I used to do what you do, but I don't pay for it just to look at it, that was my C6 Z06, and when I sold it, I couldn't help but feel like I had cheated myself by putting it on a pedestal. You pay, you play---one way or another. Like you paying a note for something you don't use. That's what I did with the Z06. One year of ownership, 4K miles.

Ouch! Shedding a tear for you bro. That hurts to see to such a beautiful car.

Didn't you just get your Z not too long ago? You had issues getting the perfect Z and now it's messed up.


Sorry about the luck man. Hope it works out.

It took 3 months to find, I got it March, I believe it was. 17K miles on the odo. Yeah. Not happy.

oh okay, sounds good. cause your previous post was just talking hate and distaste about the entire japanese car manufacturer's mind set. aka, the whole car manufacturing industry of japan, you were basically saying, can go f- a horse and eat it.

im glad you changed your way of thinking cause that actually works more to your advantage.

Update: The shop I had the car towed to, I told the insurance company was NOT the place I wanted to do the work, it was only towed there because that was the shop that happened to send the wrecker when the police called.

I came to see why it had not been transferred to the chosen shop to be worked on, and saw my car in parts on their shop floor. They told me they were "working on it". That they had started repairs. WTF?! I did not authorize that, in fact, I said to the insurance agent that they were NOT! the shop. Further, I got an estimate from them that I had not been told about, and they are going to REPAIR my rear bumper!? WTF It's a 2012 with 17K miles and a bunch of F'ed up parts, and you're going to REPAIR and BUFF OUT and FIBERGLASS (or whatever) the bumper!?

F THAT!

I also have run into some medical problems because of this. It's been stressing me the F out, and for the first time in 27 years, never before happened, I had a legit panic attack and was taken to the ER (I work in a hospital, so basically I was taken to another floor where our ER is). My EKG showed ST wave depression, QT interval of mid 500ms, and my BP was 190/90's and "resting" HR was 130's. I had been stressing over this wreck, the car, and I guess there is a subconscious component of having been in the wreck, according to my MD, and had a bit of a stressful night at work, and it all piled up and got me taken to the ER. I've had bad nights before, easily worse, and it didn't result in this. It wasn't "getting worked up". It was a PHYSICAL type thing. I can't explain it, and I didn't even know it existed in the way it does. I legitimately thought I was having an MI, and I work critical care for a living. I'm not trying to milk this or anything. I have prescriptions for Valium and Xanax and have not filled them yet, even. I'm legitimately worried this might happen again.

On the bright side, my family MD did another EKG today (well, yesterday, technically) and it was completely normal, my QT interval was in the mid 300's, and no ST depression was shown. He is saying it was a stress reaction and that the wreck definitely contributed (Wreck was Jan 15, I had this episode around 7am Jan 18).

Anyway, all of this going on, I just turned it over to my lawyer and he is going to figure out WTF!? someone was thinking authorizing MY PROPERTY to be torn apart WITHOUT my knowledge or consent. Further, make sure I am properly reimbursed for all of this other mess.

Oh, Jan 16 was my birthday. F my life for the time being :(

I know it sucks, and its easy for me to say, but try not to stress it too much. Its just a car and it will all work out in the end. Just insist on it getting moved to the right shop and don't give up.

Hope it all works out for you.

holy crap. that sucks. hang in there. i cant remember if it was when i was 26 or 27, but i had like a whole f-king year of bad luck one after the other. i just sat low and hung tight until things turned my way.

I asked my MD WTF?! I told him I deal with people dying, stress, all that at work, and it has NEVER affected me this way. He says that it's a physical reaction to stress and cannot be controlled. It's not like "sit tight and chill out, think that it's going to be okay". This isn't caused so much by the conscious as it is a physiological reaction. Kindof like your pulse rising when you run, so to speak. I've never had this until now, a couple of days after the wreck. I'm really hoping it doesn't happen again. It was literally the scariest thing that has ever happened to me, bar none.

I have a good lawyer and the money will all work out, and the car will roll again, but the panic attack deal was just over the top. It wasn't emotional, I was being "calm" when it happened, I thought. I was sitting, wasn't running around, wasn't fidgeting hardcore, I was just physically degrading BADLY. The only sign I wasn't calm was that I was scared as **** and hyperventilating. I cannot describe it to you, because I couldn't understand it until it happened to me. I just glossed over that in clinicals and never encountered it in my practice, I just cannot describe the sensation of fear and "doom", but I will try.

Imagine someone has stuck your head through a sheet. A bad someone. Someone maybe who broke into your house and has first tied you in a chair. Now they lift the sheet, shove the barrel of a shotgun under there where you cant see, and pull the trigger while punching the barrel into your chest, except they are just messing with you. The shot purposefully goes wide, you feel no pain except them slamming the barrel into you and you're terrified you've been shot in the chest and have seconds/minutes at best to live, but they won't let you see under the sheet, so you're stuck imagining how back you are F'ed up. Then they laugh at you.

That's how I felt. Obviously totally different circumstances,and the people around me were being very helpful, taking my BP, glucose, O2 sat (I work in a hospital in critical and intermediate care.), etc. But those are the emotions and the level of fear I felt. Insane and off the charts. It even F'ed my EKG up to the point that the MD in the ER STRONGLY emphasized my need for a follow-up EKG. Depressed ST waves and a Q-T interval in the mid 500ms range. Luckily, my EKG is back to normal. Also as a reaction to that stress, by WBC count went to 17K, and my blood glucose went to the high 160's. I am fit, healthy, and not fighting infection. My BG normally is in the 100-113 range. That's how "real" the panic you feel during that is. It's not a "calm down, man, life will be okay" moment. I didn't even know I was freaking out until I saw my BP, and then got scared because of that, then my hands began going numb and that freaked me out more. I just thought my blood sugar was low at first.

Wow. This is awful. Treat yourself like an older patient, and take a baby asprin every day, till this passes. No strokes for you.

I know you carry a gun, so be careful that you are not quick to anger or scare.

I have found that excercise such as walking miles helps.

Lastly, I do not know your politics but since the election many folks are anxious, especially gun folk.

Relax somehow and this will pass.

Like I said, it's not an emotional thing. I'm calm emotionally, and was at the time until I freaked out about "something's SERIOUSLY (I thought) WRONG!"

I'm still calm, level, etc.

For the next 4 weeks or so, though, I am not drinking any caffeine. They gave me scripts for Valium and Xanax, and I have not even filled those yet. I honestly don't know when I would even take one, because I refuse to go to work, drive, or carry when I have had even 1 alcoholic drink. Same for stuff like that.

Personally, I hope this never happens again, but if it did, me carrying a weapon would not be a factor. It's like saying "someone in their 50's shouldn't carry because they could have a heart-attack". The experience is VERY similar, so I hear. You don't "freak out" and want to start shooting or punching or anything crazy. Certainly not a hazard to carry if you have a panic attack. Like I said, It's super hard to explain, but just think of how you feel after sprinting 100m. That's how I felt sitting stock still. It scared the hell out of me, and that led to it getting worse...Definitely not a risk for a CCW'er, just a helluva horrible experience.

My MD said that this may be the only time it ever happens. As far as it affecting my performance, I stabilized the patient I was working with at the time, called the MD about a change in their condition, and hung ABX on another patient, and then went and sat down, and that is when I started feeling really bad. I went and got OJ b/c I thought my glucose was low. I then got more. I then asked someone to check my sugar, etc. Total voluntary control of my actions, etc.

I dunno, I'm sorry to go on and on about it, I just didn't know wtf a "panic-attack" was, and I'm trying to help others understand now that I definitely do :(

The only time I was "goofy" was when I was in the ER and I was CONVINCED this was an MI, and they kept saying stuff like "Well, you're not having the Big One, buddy" and I was asking "Am I having ANY!? one?" and I started asking things like "Are you guys just trying to keep me calm by not telling me?" I wasn't angry or combative, I was just scared as hell and being untrusting. That is even in the MD's notes.

Anyway, just trying to educate people who have never experienced this, and I hope you never do, but that's the only way you will "get it", so I hope you don't ever really understand what I'm saying, but....


...Panic Attacks cannot kill you, do not make you unsafe carrying, driving, etc., are not emotional--they are physiological responses to things.

That's what I got from my MD on it in short.

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As to the 81mg ASA advise per day, for my situation, that would be wrong. Any time you have a patient that you are worried about high BP on, the method of CVA is likely to be a bleed. ASA would exacerbate this. You want a patient on ASA who: Has stents, AFIB or other dishythmia that could lead to clot formation, is not active, etc. Basically anyone who might throw a clot. High BP is more at risk for bleeds.

you're taking this waaaay to hard bruh. I been where you been with my 09. But that's why you have insurance. Insurance did something against your will? Well this may work out in your favor if you go see a lawyer. You been denied your legal rights by your insurance company. Considering you have all these doubts in your mind about the z. their violation may be your cash cow.

and if you're that depressed? Please leave your guns with a friend till you feel better? please... :ugh2:

Cars are just material possessions. Just be glad you weren't hurt or worse in that accident.

WOW rough time bud, my wife is a doc and she sees the stress people like you alot. I also had a few panic attacks and had to go to the ER, probs breathing though so it was legit! I say get the car fixed wherever, and immediately sell it for a 13 or find another 12. I just hope your not upside down on your loan. That way, its all good and you walk away with no more stress! Trust me, that **** will make your hairs go grey very early in life! I know, and im just 33.

Like I said, I'm not depressed or anything of the sort. You're going to miss the boat until you understand the physiological factors behind it. A lot was going on the night I had the panic attack, being in an auto accident just a couple of days before was the straw that broke the camel's back and caused the physical reaction.

I'm upside down, but I'm not upset or stressed over it. Money is just money and if I want out I'll put in a bit of OT and get out. My lawyer will fix the rest, and my EKG is back to normal which is a HUGE! stress-reliever to me. Tell your wife about depressed ST and Q-T interval in the mid 500ms range in a 27 year-old and she will quirk an eyebrow as well.

It's going to be okay, but maybe I should have just kept the panic attack to myself as a lot of people on here think it's an emotional thing. Before it happened to me and I was 100% calm during it until I saw my HR and BP, I would have agreed, as well, so I understand the misinformation/understanding.

glad to hear it hasn't reoccured. Hopefully it was a one time thing.

I hope so, too. It is literally the worst feeling I have ever had.

Hopefully it's not a problem spawning from submitting long posts in forums. :roflpuke2:

GL

Sorry to see this, convert.

You have to talk yourself down when you start to get upset...

Being the survivor of 2 strokes and seizures, I kinow what stress will do...

All my medical problems are stress related...5 relatives dying in just 2 years plus more..

So take it from me...Stress will kill you....

I didn't know what was happening. I felt calm. I was sitting at a desk with my head down just "resting" after drinking orange juice because I thought I felt bad due to low blood-sugar, maybe, was my guess. I then freaked out over the 190-200 systolic BP and the numbness in my extremities and the HR in the 130's. At that point, talking myself down was not on the table. I did not know what was happening and suspected MI, PE, something nasty.

Now that I know, I think I will manage, or I will throw my C02 out of bounds enough that I will lose consciousness and the problem will handle itself and normalize, although that's VERY! extreme and I doubt it will go that far, it's the ultimate "end" to one of these episodes, as I see it medically.

can you pull a fuse or cut brown wire to resolve for good? ;)

hang in there.

Ya Buddy....The Numbness, and Vision problems, and the "Aura" are all signs of bad news..

Just try to not get upset....I am crazy type A and it didn't bother me until I had tragedy strike several times and I must have internalized it...

So I know how it is...

Wow that is a major bummer, Just like everyone else said - take care of yourself first (which you did) then worry about the material things,

As far as the shop towing your car and begining unauthorized repairs?! wow I would be pissed, I am going to take a shot in the dark here - the shop most likely has a contract with your insurance company and does repairs on the cheap/bulk method, which I would be fuming about.... some cheap shop that is repairing your damaged parts... makes you wonder where else will they cut corners? I wouldn't be surprised if they throw in some cheap aftermarket replacements in the repair to keep the bill down.

Big props for getting a lawyer, I wish you best of luck and I completely understand where you are coming from; my s2000 with low mileage was clipped and I had an entire left side replaced, I sold the car 2 days after it got out of the shop, even though it looked and drove perfect it just wasn't the same for me, I just had this gloomy feeling knowing I am driving a flawed car. It is a brand new car and you shouldn't have to drive with a 'cloud' over your subconscious.

Keep us updated and hang in there bud.

I'm 45 and have had a pretty stressful career at times (20 years in the USMC as a helo pilot, airline captain now):hello:

Here is my advice. Separate the event from your feelings about your car. Nothing is perfect. The best car made will have rattles and quirks and swirls and flaws and no amount of buffing, tuning or buying new will ever fix that fact.

I have at times transferred my desire for perfection onto things and it only brought anxiety. I would stress about car covers and fuel quality and rock chips etc etc etc etc.... It will make you nuts. maybe contribute to anxiety attack I dunno. It gave me marital stress. The point is, it is just a pile of parts all strapped together to perform a function. The Z is meant to shake rattle and roll a bit. It is a sports car. It is all about power, noise, passion, and fun.

My clutch rattles at stop lights (its supposed to) my exhaust Hisses (many do). my steering pulls in random directions at random stops (wide tires) the road noise on my (soon to be replaced) Hankooks forces my to wear earplugs on certain drives with "textured" roads. Steering lock fix, hatch rattle fix, hatch spring replacement, I could go on and on.

The point is, a Z is a quirky, "hairy chested" rumbling beast. That is part of its charm. You can tune and align and DynaMat the crap out of it and it will still at its core be a rumbling beast. Its not a sissy BMW M3 or 135 or a $80k Porsche to be driven by some turtleneck wearing yuppie stock trader. Its a car for people who drive with passion.:driving:

I say get her fixed! Love her (flaws and all) upgrade her so she is unique and special and all yours and remember that it is her dented skin and stiff frame that kept that SUV from crushing you like a bug.

A car is a pile of parts that can all be repaired and replaced, and none of which are ever "perfect" (though a bent frame is probably a death sentence to a Z)

Save your ideas of perfection for your love of people, your relationship with whatever creator you are into and for things with mathematical certainty. Everything else is flawed, and mortal, and temporary. Your car will *eventually* just be another pile of dust somewhere. Ashes to ashes and all that.

Perfection is unattainable.:eek:

Good luck my friend. I hope you feel better, and I hope the lawyers and insurance and rental car crap does not give fuel to your anger. Maybe the universe is speaking to you through this experience. It sounds like this is sort of a straw that broke the camels back type of thing.

Hang tough and I feel certain you will be laughing about all this in no time.:tup:

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Thanks!

I'm honestly not sure where the panic attack came from regarding my feelings about things. I have kindof "written the car off" and am more into my Class III weapons hobby and getting a house. As long as the car isn't "junk" feeling and looks good, I'm cool. I think the stress of the accident itself, plus dealing with all of this BS, plus everything else I already had going in life, is what did it.

I know in 5 years my car will just be an aging "cool car". It's the headache of everything going on right now plus the wreck plus life in general, I guess. EIther way, this broke the camal's back the other day :(

turning into an old people and medical problems thread xD

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About 2 years ago I was involved in an accident, total cost of repairs was $9,000. After the repairs the car runs like new and it has been on the Tail of the Dragon twice.

Nobody believe thay my car was in an accident when I tell them.

Keep the faith!

Same here. It was about $8000 worth of damages, ran great, and no one could tell it was in an accident.........except when it came time to sell my car.

GET OFF OUR LAWN!


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