Hit a dear :(
 

Two weeks ago heading back to Sarnia, a small deer bolted out on the highway and clipped my passenger side front end... Luckily my fiancé and I are ok and the damage appears minimal... She drove perfectly for about 30-40km before dying... No idea why it cut off, but in leaning towards the external crank sensor because it's on that side and I can still smell fuel when it's cranking. Gonna do an actual fuel pressure check at the rail to verify its holding good pressure.

Here's some pics:
http://imgur.com/a/giEsE

Looks like I won't be seeing the track this year :(

Ouch!!! Glad everyone is OK

Damn thats a heavy hit!

Ouch man! Glad you two are ok.... you going through insurance or just going to source replacement parts? Up til a couple weeks ago i could have sold you a parts car!

Are you going to rip it apart and do that 5 speed swap at this point?

Gonna rebuild for sure. 5 speed is still on the table, but it might have to be pushed back until the ho runs again and is all fixed up. A parts car definitely would have been awesome lol.

I have no idea what caused the car to cut off that night... Just tried starting her up and it backfired though the intake(I think). Had some smoke coming out of the intake.. Im guessing it's flooded with gas. Fuel pressure is reading a steady 50 PSI and coil packs seem to be arcing.

I just pulled the spark plugs(little more smoke coming out) and cranked it for a 10 seconds to try to get the gasoline out. Gonna leave it over night and hope most of the fuel evaporates. I tried scanning for codes and I have nothing to go on at this point unfortunately.

Atleast you arent like most people who give up on the car at this point...

Glad you are OK and that the car will live again :coolio:

bummer on the car but you're ok so that's always a +; looks like my grand am now.

Definitely not. Too much time and effort put into making her quick and I didn't even get to do one 1/4 mile pass.


For sure. You can rebuild a car, the human body not so much :lol:


What happened to your GA?

Totaled
Part it out sell what you can
You have about 2-3,000 in damage
I won't go into detail
So my professional advice

Good luck with rebuild......however if you claim on insurance and you have 2-3K worth of damage the insurance will total it. This what bdyman was trying say.

Sorry bout the car, but I've seen worse for sure. Glad to hear that you're all okay. At least you didn't go all out on a telephone pole like papa did. ;)

Anyways, thanks for the opinion bdyman. It's just an Alero to everyone else, but to me it's my Alero. My Alero that I put in a lot of time and effort into.. I know the price to continue to play, I'm still gonna fix it. It's not gonna happen over night and it may take a year or two, but it will see the road again. I've seen worse put back onto the road.

Thats the spirit!

Haha if anyone understands, it's you. I know how much you love your Ho.

Put the engine in a good shell until you get the other one fixed up :p lol

Damn right. Lol

I sent you these in a text but not sure if it went through....

http://m.kijiji.ca/cars-trucks/winds...4364634823 93

http://m.kijiji.ca/cars-trucks/oshaw...4364632961 86

http://m.kijiji.ca/cars-trucks/oshaw...4364632961 86

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Unfortunately I have the older silvermist 99-00 color.. 2001+ is galaxy silver.:(

Also thanks Redog!

Damn dude.... the one i sold was a 2000 :(

Awww, but Kenny I didn't even get to reply back to what he said first lol. Oh well I said what I needed to say and he said what he needed to say. The rest is interweb history as it probably should be. My apologies to Shiwnath for contributing to getting off-topic in his thread prior to it being cleaned. I just got sick and tired of a certain member of this forum constantly disrespecting and making negative comments towards other fellow aleromodders. Enough is enough and whatever his reasoning may be for acting like that, it still doesn't make it necessary post after post...

Kenny just had to go and ruin our fun! Maybe we should start a new topic. Just call it "bitch bitch bitch" so we can have people go at it there and just bring the popcorn.

No problem, it's a good thread and I wanted to clean it and leave it open so we can see your progress


The guy knows his stuff. He is an asset to the board IMHO. It's understandable that since he's so experienced in that line of work that when people want to go a different way or "the wrong way" it's like taking his advice and saying "eff you" but when your on the interent, you have to be ready for other ideas, if they are right, wrong, or different


Go ahead, I'll abuse my power and ban you for a month. Then you'll have to go out and actually talk to girls :eek:

Lol a month? You might want to make that 3-6 if you want me to notice.

Not my fault dude had an Alero that he loved once too. Just sayin.

Sorry for the late reply, after I finish rebuilding the GA - and in particular a nearly entirely new ac system (and radiator), wife got rear ended, sandwiched, and totaled the car. Damage looked nearly identical but a little worse on the crumple zone.

I too liked that car and didn't have the heart to simply junk it so I'll look for a shell one day. Found another green coupe gt1 with sunroof but it was far away.

I know right lol and maybe we should. I don't see how anything could go wrong by doing so. :lol:


Never said he didn't know his stuff, but just cause he knows what he's doing and has been doing it for 20+ years doesn't mean he has to be negative and disrespectful to other members about what they're doing with their own cars all the time. Back when I first joined this site at least from what I remember he was a decent dude willing to help and give actual good advice to other members when they had bodywork questions.

Maybe I'm remembering it wrong or thinking of someone else though and he's just always been like that, but now he's resorted to charging other members of this site via Paypal for his "professional advice." Seriously? If another member is going to charge me for advice on something then I'm not going to ask that member. I'll ask other members or someone else who knows the line of work and can answer my questions if I have any. It's not like he's the only guy in bodywork that knows how to do the job. Heck the majority of body shops that I know of give you a FREE estimate when you need work done. I mean there are plenty of other people willing to help and give advice if he doesn't want to anymore and that's fine cause he doesn't have to.

It's like you said though it's the internet so you have to be ready for the ideas, work, and questions of other people. He just needs to seriously consider the way he approaches other members on the forum with his responses. I get that he's used to the way he does things at work, but he's not at work when he's posting on here so he needs to be able to differentiate that or just not say anything at all if he can't do so.

im back bitches!!!
apprently no one knows my humor i dont charge anyone for anything so your wrong way wrong
now i hope that ion and jd1 was also banned for starting shit first and i was defending my self
but i heard that they werent delt with at all
which is completely goin against the rules on this forum

i get allot of pms about questions and help and i help everyone i can for FREE
ive been to peoples houses for FREE using my own time and my gas for FREE
so your info is incorrect

red dog ill pm you in a few to get ion and,jd1 delt with as well

Chill!

iam fine lol
i was joking around
good god man
chill out

What is it about CHILLIN does nobody understand? Back on topic for all, Final Warning.

Anyways.... Went to see the Alero yesterday... Swapped out the crank sensor thinking it was bad because I was getting some bad intake backfiring and good fuel pressure. Primed the fuel pump and then I started to smell fuel... After looking around, my fpr was drenched in fuel.. Man if this is the reason for all my problems, I'm gonna be pissed! Of all things to happen after hitting a deer..

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The next person to throw the shit, gets a suspension.

We are not going to close this thread, we are just going to suspend the keyboard commandos, and it won't be a short suspension

Read you loud and clear. Over.

Looks like I missed all the fun here 😢

if i were you, the first thing i would replace is the fuel line, it sounds like you may have a pressure issue caused by the severity of the crash. it may have broke where you cant see it(the connector piece to the engine)
also if you drove it after the crash, remember bumps are in the road, LOOK FOR ANYTHING THATS MOVING THAT SHOULDN'T!!!!!

ps, i have a friend who hit a deer with a dodge ram 2500, he has a similar issue. he was able to get it running again. the fuel line had to be replaced, he was leaking gas on the ground(small drip) and then M.M.O.(oil change & in the gastank). took 30 seconds to get it fired and then rough idle for 30 seconds until it calmed down. then he obviously had to replace the damage sheet metal and lights. its still running today