Well Damn, FD3S Death.

[RedR1]

A) If you are older than 25, you shouldn't be hanging around drunks/alcoholics when owning a sports car. Very few people I know (zero personally) have had a successful sports car owning experience while being in/around that crowd.

B) Allow the insurance company to "write off" the car, and then buy it back if it comes down to that. That's just slight front end damage, i've seen cars come back from WAY worse wrecks, one of my FD included. go buy a new front reinforcement bar, new front end, and new hood at the dude's expense since he did the damage. You may need a new intercooler, maybe a new air box, but other than that. . .

C) you may want to change the company you are with. Especially if you know he's done all of that, and know he will continue to endanger people's lives. I'm not sure how America's hat does it, but down here in Northern Mexico, if someone is known as a dirtbag, you sort of distance yourself from them.

Life is too short for drama. You have to work to make money, why waste hard earned money fixing stupid mistakes made by stupid people?

[Pete_89T2]

Originally Posted by RedR1

A) If you are older than 25, you shouldn't be hanging around drunks/alcoholics when owning a sports car. Very few people I know (zero personally) have had a successful sports car owning experience while being in/around that crowd.

Very good advice, and I would add it also applies if you're UNDER 25, regardless of what kind of car you drive. Lack of life experience is one thing, but youth is no excuse for ignorance or stupidity when you can learn from those older/more experienced.

Originally Posted by RedR1

B) Allow the insurance company to "write off" the car, and then buy it back if it comes down to that. That's just slight front end damage, i've seen cars come back from WAY worse wrecks, one of my FD included. go buy a new front reinforcement bar, new front end, and new hood at the dude's expense since he did the damage. You may need a new intercooler, maybe a new air box, but other than that. . .

Not sure how things work in Canada, but if reporting a wreck to insurance to make a claim causes Big Brother to get involved and prevents you from legally driving it, you might want keep this one off the books... Have the police been involved/filed a report yet? If not, perhaps you can recover damages privately from your "friend", fix the car yourself, drive on and learn from the experience. Your "friend" should be motivated to keep quiet and pay up, especially if drunk driving laws are as tough in Canada as they are in the US.

Originally Posted by RedR1

C) you may want to change the company you are with. Especially if you know he's done all of that, and know he will continue to endanger people's lives. I'm not sure how America's hat does it, but down here in Northern Mexico, if someone is known as a dirtbag, you sort of distance yourself from them.

Life is too short for drama. You have to work to make money, why waste hard earned money fixing stupid mistakes made by stupid people?

^More good advice.

[RedR1]

Originally Posted by Pete_89T2

Very good advice, and I would add it also applies if you're UNDER 25, regardless of what kind of car you drive. Lack of life experience is one thing, but youth is no excuse for ignorance or stupidity when you can learn from those older/more experienced.

definitely 100 percent true. lol, my experience with youth when trying to advise, is that they already know everything. . . . . More so than those that have lived it, and only tend to take to advice either later in life (or after the fact)

Originally Posted by Pete

Not sure how things work in Canada, but if reporting a wreck to insurance to make a claim causes Big Brother to get involved and prevents you from legally driving it, you might want keep this one off the books...

Have the police been involved/filed a report yet? If not, perhaps you can recover damages privately from your "friend", fix the car yourself, drive on and learn from the experience.

I didn't even think of that. Very, very good point. I whole heartedly agree, and would keep the bumper buster off of the books and go that route. If it prevents the car from being forcefully taken from you, and you can continue to enjoy the car. . . well. .. that's a no brainer

Originally Posted by Pete

^More good advice.

thank you, good sir! I learned from life, and just trying to pay the lessons forward

[Pete_89T2]

Originally Posted by RedR1

definitely 100 percent true. lol, my experience with youth when trying to advise, is that they already know everything. . . . . More so than those that have lived it, and only tend to take to advice either later in life (or after the fact)

So true, I'm living this with my 3 teenage know-it-all sons - 19, 17 & 15 YO. They are good kids, and I'm fortunate that they have been making consistently smart decisions regarding all the important stuff (i.e., not doing drugs, drinking, other bad shit), but jeez the know-it-all attitude is driving me frickin crazy and I've got the gray hair to prove it!

[RETed]

"It's a sign..."
"It wasn't meant to be..."
"I don't know why you're still alive."


-Ted