Wrecked the truck

Well I was driving down the road last night in my truck. I was in the left lane minding my own business and out of nowhere my budies wrx, who is in the right lane and also ahead of me, starts bouncing all over the road. Sparks are flying, then he loses control starts bouncing and sliding at the same time, S*** is flying everywhere. Im speechless at this point, Im sitting there like "WHAT THE F*** Is GOING ON!!!" When I say bouncing I mean coming off the ground 1-2 feet. It was dark, and i couldnt see S***. At the moment my buddy slides across the road in front of me, also facing me, and slides into the ditch, I found out what was going on. BAM!!!!!!!! I hit the 17 tons of rock and gravel that an 18 wheeler lost when his belly doors on his trailer opened up. 34,000 POUNDS OF ROCK AND GRAVEL!!!!! I was going aboud 55 and Im the lucky one.

Dayum! :eek:

holy ****. you got any pictures?

no i dont have any pictures. Didnt mess the body of the truck up. both front rims are bent front bumper on bottom is cracked and F***ed something up in the front. Steering is all messed up. let go of the wheel and it goes wherever it wants to and vibrates real bad. pulls all over the place. Like I said Im the lucky one. My friends wrx wasnt so lucky.

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Originally Posted by Brisket

Well I was driving down the road last night in my truck. I was in the left lane minding my own business and out of nowhere my budies wrx, who is in the right lane and also ahead of me, starts bouncing all over the road. Sparks are flying, then he loses control starts bouncing and sliding at the same time, S*** is flying everywhere. Im speechless at this point, Im sitting there like "WHAT THE F*** Is GOING ON!!!" When I say bouncing I mean coming off the ground 1-2 feet. It was dark, and i couldnt see S***. At the moment my buddy slides across the road in front of me, also facing me, and slides into the ditch, I found out what was going on. BAM!!!!!!!! I hit the 17 tons of rock and gravel that an 18 wheeler lost when his belly doors on his trailer opened up. 34,000 POUNDS OF ROCK AND GRAVEL!!!!! I was going aboud 55 and Im the lucky one.

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WHERE WAS THE DAMN TRUCK!!!!!

The 18 wheeler was up the road about a mile or so. No flares, no cones, no nothing.

Sounds like it shouldn't be horrible to repair. The main thing is, you're safe.

Yeah. My buddies car is in bad shape. Bent all the rims, blew out all the tires, put a big hole in the gastank, bent the control arms, the front left wheel is pretty much tacoed and is in the fender at a 45 degree angle, front left strut is bent in from where the wheel hit it, and the body looks tweeked.

Damn man, glad to hear you allright, thats the important thing.

glad you are ok but I WOULD HAVE TO BE BEATING THE HELL OUT OF A TRUCK DRIVER... sorry about the caps... i would assume that he will be paying for all the damages...

Sorry to hear that. I guess it could have been worse...he could have been carrying cows...Hope you get your truck back on the road soon!!!

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Originally Posted by rutroe

Sorry to hear that. I guess it could have been worse...he could have been carrying cows...Hope you get your truck back on the road soon!!!

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MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :LOL:

I saw a horse get hit once. It was NASTY.

Hope your ride is ok there could be damage that you have not seen yet.

dang man you better make sure that trucking company pays for everything

damn sucks to hear that man..

glad your ok brother.....

man, in my mind i was trying to explain to myself what was happening to your homie and had a beautiful picture in mind of the horror of seeing your buddy about to die as far as you know and then HOLY SH!T it's me in the horror story now.....

but rocks and an entire load from a rock hauler was NOT where i was expecting the story to go....

holy hell thank god you both made it out ok....

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Originally Posted by lamborado

dang man you better make sure that trucking company pays for everything

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+1

I thought my buddy was gonna roll. Freaked me out. OH YES THEY ARE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING!!!!! Taking it in to the dealership tommorrow to have everything, i mean everything looked at, and he is paying to have everything looked at and fixed. The wheels are trash and i cant get new ones. DISCONTINUED. Eagle Alloy 222 series 2 peice wheel. He is now going to have to buy all 4 new wheels. Im thinking BOSS 335 series.

Glad to hear no one was hurt. Keep us updated with info after the dealership looks at your truck.

sometimes when things like that happen its good, no one got hurt and now you get a whole bunch of new parts. as long as your not payin for new stuff, shweeet. sucks that it happens tho.
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Damn dude that sucks!!

That is horrible. Glad your ok tho brother. How can he just start driving with his doors not latched properly? I mean honestly

on the bright side you are both ok, and you get new parts!! :dancenana:

Holy pile of rocks Batman! That sucks to hear! I know it is easy to say that stuff like that can be fixed, but if that happened to my truck, i would have to get it fixed and then sell it. It would never be the same in my eyes...

The truck is now fixed. $2000 worth of front end damage all paid for. Also he got me some new wheels. My wheels werent made anymore so I settled for some 08 tahoe wheels. They are a S*** load heavier tho. Pitman Arm, tie rod ends, wheels, idler arm, realligned, some bolt that broke out. Tires were mounted and balanced also, but a s***ty job on the balancing. Now i have to find time to go get them rebalanced.

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Originally Posted by Brisket

The truck is now fixed. $2000 worth of front end damage all paid for. Also he got me some new wheels. My wheels werent made anymore so I settled for some 08 tahoe wheels. They are a S*** load heavier tho. Pitman Arm, tie rod ends, wheels, idler arm, realligned, some bolt that broke out. Tires were mounted and balanced also, but a s***ty job on the balancing. Now i have to find time to go get them rebalanced.

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Your tires might be shot. Are they the old ones?

Damn--you settled for that? It depends on the style of 08 wheels. Gm has several different types...did you get to pick them out from the dealer? How come the dealer couldn't get it aligned correctly? If no one can get it done right--there might be other stuff messed up that won't allow the alignment to be perfect...

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Originally Posted by txarkitekt

Damn--you settled for that? It depends on the style of 08 wheels. Gm has several different types...did you get to pick them out from the dealer? How come the dealer couldn't get it aligned correctly? If no one can get it done right--there might be other stuff messed up that won't allow the alignment to be perfect...

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Ding Ding Ding we have a winner.

I would have made certain before anything was signed.

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Ummm....I might have missed something but I didn't see where the dealer was involved in the repair or more specifically in the alignment. In fact, I didn't see where the alignment was in question at all. Sounds like it got fixed but the wheel balance was off and he got heavy GM stock wheels. What did I miss?

Thinking the same thing about the dealer. Where did he come from??

S**t that could have been a lot worse.. good thing it wasn't any worse though. So hows your bud that was in the wrx?

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Originally Posted by Brisket

OH YES THEY ARE PAYING FOR EVERYTHING!!!!! Taking it in to the dealership tommorrow to have everything, i mean everything looked at, and he is paying to have everything looked at and fixed.

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I think he picked that up right here.

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Originally Posted by CooperS7777

I think he picked that up right here.

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Oh oh.. I see now. Read to many post today. Dealer it was then with the alignment.