Damnit

[CactusWill]

Was busting a U today, and just barely clipped a curb in the process, going MAYBE 2 miles an hour. Didn't think much of it until I saw plastic in the road as I glanced in my rearview mirror as I drove off.

Stopped on up the block to look underneath and the damage is absolutely ridiculous.

What appears happened, is the black plastic air dam shroud thing that goes under the wheel well all the way around to the front, got ripped out and took everything else out with it.

Fog light mount.

Cracked the fiberglass brace underneath the radiator.


Ripped the front bumper cover in 3 places on the top of the bumper cover, nowhere near to how low the curb is!!!


WTF!!!??? :angry:

[Vtolds]

sounds like bad driving, to bad.

[CactusWill]

sounds like bad driving, to bad.

Thanks. 15 years of accident free driving and I've never messed up anything from going over a curb at 1 or 2 miles an hour. Thanks again.

[[ion] C2]

that blows

damn air dam

[cherrington17]

i NAILED mine on a high spot on the curb at work, the other day. scared the bejesus outta me... but its still attached. thank god.

[negolien]

sorry to hear that sounds like just some bad luck. Maybe you can use this as an excuse to do some paint and mod work though :<)

[TheEdgeofSanity]

well, the fiberglass thing is like $40 from a GM dealership.

[jayson_waltz]

wow u must have hit that harder than u thought cause mines been hit so hard before even dropping off the top or curbs and smacking. it still hasn't even cracked.

[CactusWill]

wow u must have hit that harder than u thought cause mines been hit so hard before even dropping off the top or curbs and smacking. it still hasn't even cracked.

I'm actually thinking that it must have already been like that from before I got it.... There is no other explanation for how much damage there is.

[natedawg9640]

yeah... i went over the top of a deer doing 60, off a three foot ledge doing 40(dont ask), and ofer numberous raccons... and mine just broke away and didn't take anything with it...

[AJules]

wow u must have hit that harder than u thought cause mines been hit so hard before even dropping off the top or curbs and smacking. it still hasn't even cracked.

x2, I've hit mine really hard a couple times and it hasn't budged

[Oldsnut]

Get over it. It happens and won't cost much to replace. Sucks thhat it happened though.

[CactusWill]

Get over it. It happens and won't cost much to replace. Sucks thhat it happened though.

Yeah, well bought her one month ago today and already dropped $1,500 in routine maintenance alone. Now bodywork. On the skin of the car from being scraped from underneath the car. wtf wtf wtf wtf. wtf.

[Vtolds]

Body kit time, lol.

[CactusWill]

Body kit time, lol.

No way. Low ground clearance was the reason this happened to begin with. I don't want to make it worse :haha:

[Alerosaint]

oooh nooos....sorry man

[JOEY GLADSTONE]

Thanks. 15 years of accident free driving and I've never messed up anything from going over a curb at 1 or 2 miles an hour. Thanks again.

why are u driving over curbs is the question

[CactusWill]

why are u driving over curbs is the question

I didn't. The front corner of the air dam thing got snagged and ripped off. The wheel of the car never touched the curb.

[Oldsnut]

Yeah, well bought her one month ago today and already dropped $1,500 in routine maintenance alone. Now bodywork. On the skin of the car from being scraped from underneath the car. wtf wtf wtf wtf. wtf.
Crap happens when you drive a car. What you have already spent has nothing to do with it. Learn to drive safer and suck it up man. Like I said, Sorry it happened.

[JOEY GLADSTONE]

I didn't. The front corner of the air dam thing got snagged and ripped off. The wheel of the car never touched the curb.

how does the plastic piece thats inbetween the 2 wheels get caught if u dont go on the curb?

Was busting a U today, and just barely clipped a curb

and you said you clipped it so one could assume you went over a curb.

[CactusWill]

how does the plastic piece thats inbetween the 2 wheels get caught if u dont go on the curb?



and you said you clipped it so one could assume you went over a curb.

*Sigh*

Do you even have an alero? Go look underneath it.

[JOEY GLADSTONE]

yes and i know it inside and out

[CactusWill]

yes and i know it inside and out

Apparently not as well as I do ;)


Theres little black skirts that hang down in front of the corners of the bumpers. The plastic attached to these holds the entire car together.

[JOEY GLADSTONE]

lol thats why im riding without them and my car is fine?

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/alero88/IMG_0586.jpg


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/alero88/IMG_0597.jpg

[El Pablo]

i know the feeling. I illegally parked at the YMCA cuz i had to and some cock licker hit me and left. i shouldn't have parked illegally but it still pissed me off it wasn't necessary. so yeah i kno the feeling nice pics btw dood :P

[CactusWill]

lol thats why im riding without them and my car is fine?

http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/alero88/IMG_0586.jpg


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q67/alero88/IMG_0597.jpg

:eek:

Your car appears to have no bumper left :huh:

[02AleroEco]

acually tho, if i remeber correctly underneath, where the shield is, isnt there a piece that entends down? i thought there was, unless im wrong

maybe thats what got caught, and it must have gotten caught enough to tear everything else.

[CactusWill]

Welp, I figured out what happened. I was replacing the horn today, and while I had the headlight out, I could see the damaged areas of the bumper had been previously glassed from the inside. So it was past damage that reappeared from too much stress on the repair.

[bdyman]

to correct you in you incorrect statements you made, the re-bar is plastci, PP to be exact, and we dont fiberglass plastic bumper, especially tpo,tpe,teo, which gm used on our cars since 1999
a correctly repaired plastic will even hold up the the minumal impact so looks like the bumper was repaired the wrong way

this looks like it was last yr are you goin through insurance??? there is always more damage , so what are you goin to do ,, i suggest goin through insuracne, pay your dedutcable, you pay out of pocket this is goin to get real expensive

[CactusWill]

I have a new matching bumper cover waiting whenever I'm ready to install it. Thanks for your input.

[meadus101]

Someone from Canada, (Don't remember his name) made one of the shirts out of a peice of sheetmetal, It looked real good and I want one. It apparently was easy and cheap to make, but I have no access to the resources to make it.

Mine is tore to shit too.

[clutch1]

Lol, glassing to fix the plastic bumper? Someone was a real winner there.

[freakout]

A racoon wrecked my whole front nose cone. The whole pice is loose, the center piece at the bottom is completly gone. The plastic air dam was removed by my wife on a curb. Drive it everyday something is gonna happen. My alero is way overdue for bodywork.

[CactusWill]

Lol, glassing to fix the plastic bumper? Someone was a real winner there.


Yep.... Can you say 'homo of the year' award?