Thanks. I have no one to blame but myself. Worst case is I'll become a lurker again for a few years.You need new rims but oh man, air bags. Air bags.I'm so sorry to see that happen to you. You'll have to talk to insurance about it but air bags is a bad sign.
It'll cost $5-7k, sure - nowhere near enough to total the car.
Thanks man, I needed that reassurance 😂
It's a bummer but on the bright side - you know the airbags work. If you drive enough you have accidents. It'll be good as new after it's fixed.
Yeah. I am mostly ashamed. My parents were always giving me crap that I was gonna wreck my car and such, and I promised myself that I would be responsible.
It's okay, we all make mistakes along the way. You'll remember this and be really careful for the rest of your life I'm sure. It's good you learned it early, and it sounds like you might even be able to get the car repaired if you have good coverage. Just have to see. Either way, let this be a lesson you hold onto. At least it was in a parking lot, and not on the open road or something. In the big picture this is pretty minor compared to what some people deal with, so just take a breath, and move on. I hope either way that you continue to hang around, and I hope for your sake that regardless of this car that you still end up with an FFS one way or another. This one or another one. It's great having you on here!
Many thanks. For sure another FuSpo if this one doesn't survive. Gonna be a sec til I have saved up again if so but hey 🤷It's okay, we all make mistakes along the way. You'll remember this and be really careful for the rest of your life I'm sure. It's good you learned it early, and it sounds like you might even be able to get the car repaired if you have good coverage. Just have to see. Either way, let this be a lesson you hold onto. At least it was in a parking lot, and not on the open road or something. In the big picture this is pretty minor compared to what some people deal with, so just take a breath, and move on. I hope either way that you continue to hang around, and I hope for your sake that regardless of this car that you still end up with an FFS one way or another. This one or another one. It's great having you on here!
My first accident was backing my car into my best friends car in a driveway. Opps!
Yeah, I was very surprised at the airbag deployment. The impact wasn't more than 15-20mph. My only wear and tear is a small bruise on my hip.
I'm feeling like I can never play again after this. 😂 Time to get my grandma pants on from now on.
Does it hurt when they go off? I've always wondered what that's like. I've been told they can really tear you up but I think that's more true of the older ones than more modern ones like our cars. I think our cars will evaluate a bunch of things including velocity, driver and passenger weights, how close your seat is to the dash, all kinds of stuff then set off a detonation of the appropriate power level to inflate the bags. So theoretically it shouldn't use any more force than absolutely needed. I do remember being told by an engineering lead of a prototype team that the original air bags went off with the same force as a shotgun blast, so they were pretty rough at first, and didn't have all the computer stuff ours do.
