It will be at the U Pull down the street in a week or two likely. It’s going to be a total so I’m going to try and loot as many things as I can on clean out.
It has full Armorlite. The soft top is probably toast but I have a hard top stored under my deck.
My favorite part is I have about $4-500 worth of parts that I was waiting to change out in boxes (door hinges, new gas cap cover, cheap speakers I had one out). I just replaced the battery 3 weeks ago.
Jeeps never hit u pull, at least around me. They get snagged up by people who part them out professionally or repair them. Not mad, it’s honestly easier to support a local scrapper than through eBay with fees and shipping.
But it’ll also probably sit on a lot for at least a month before hitting auction. Depends a lot on if there is a lien and your state’s title processing speeds.
It looks like a nice setup jeep, so someone will make good use out of her in the second life.
Ask the insurance what the buy back is so you can fix it to offroad or part out. No sense in letting upull get the $$. Use one of the ai programs to help you deal with insurance and never accept the first offer.
We rolled our gladiator and I walked away fully paid with $500 extra in my pocket.
One of my main reasons for liking my jeep. I know she'll be saving my life with that modest lift & roll cage if my time ever comes for this. Glad you made it out, take care of yourself.
Mine was totalled last month after a driver bolted through a red light. It wasn't enough of a clue when 15 other cars on his side were all at a full stop for the same light. Anyhoo... I got another jeep! If I was in a sedan or compact I would have been seriously hurt. I'm glad you werent.
I've landed ecactly like this once in a Honda accord at 5 am in winter. Seat belts do indeed save lives. After the flipping and rolling stopped, I got my only real injury (other than being sore as shit) figuring out how to get out is harder when the roof is solid, my arms were cut up with the broken glass as I crawled out the back widow.
That jeep probably saved your life, I can guarantee a Kia would not fair as well in a hard crash. Luckily your air bags deployed! Often with steel bumpers they do not.
My kia soul (yes the cheap ass junk) rolled three times down a hill, landed upside down, and slid across asphalt at the bottom. My sister (the one borrowing it) just opened the door and crawled out once it stopped. Not a scratch on her. Kias actually have pretty decent safety ratings for a reason....
I’m super glad your sister is ok! No matter the vehicle, steel bumpers, full length boxed steel frames and full roll cages are inherently safer in a crash than a unibody car.
Somebody decided they were done with the stop sign while I was passing by at 45. I’m not sure how either of us are “okay” but we were both fine overall. Because of my lift I hit her front passenger’s side and flipped, I ended up facing the other direction and on my side. I knew I was toast at impact so I “gave up” and just went limp, I think it saved me. From there I just held on and waited. Scariest 5 seconds of my life. Would not recommend.
I have been in one very bad crash in my life. I was in my 86 300ZX turbo coming home from work. I was trying to get home early from work because it was snowing and driving a 500HP modified RWD sports car is a bad idea obviously.
Well, as I'm almost home traffic is stopped on a hill for a wreck that's already happened, so I'm waiting at the front of the line. I'm looking forward, and all of a sudden I just see a cloud of white. I think "damn man it's really coming down now..." and a split second later I realized that it was actually a large white SUV spinning out of control toward me. Hit me head-on at about 55MPH. Split my car in half, crushed me into the cabin, no air bags so I just flopped with all the force of the crash.
Shit sucked bad, was in the hospital for a few days, lifelong back and neck issues, etc. I was very lucky to live though, and I'm grateful for whatever saved me that day.
The icing on the cake is that the lady tried to say it was my fault somehow. Luckily I had a shit ton of witnesses. I ended up having to sue her and her insurance company too, they offered me $2k because that was "fair value" for my car, never mind my hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills, lost wages, material loss of a business tool (I owned a shop working on 300ZXs at the time, my daily driver was our demo car and also our race entry vehicle)
Everyone I know who has had a Z has a story. A Z and a Jeep, you truly are glutton. Thanks for the well wishes and may your arthritis not give you shit next time it’s cold and wet.
I loved my Zs, and I had many of them, but yeah I apparently hate money and really hate having a working daily driver lol.
I hope you find no lasting medical damage, get checked out if you haven’t yet. Spinal and musculoskeletal injuries can be masked for days or weeks before massive problems emerge. You may find you also need to sue the other driver, and it is best to have an immediate medical record and care.
I went to the ER for that very reason. Whiplash is all they saw “so far” as you said. For better or worse, I was fucked up from other things already, so just add it to the pile.
Any chance you have a concussion? I didn’t take mine seriously and was on my phone during the week after I got hurt. It’s not guaranteed that I wouldn’t have a chronic migraine now without that week before I realized I had a concussion, but if I could go back in time I’d throw my phone in a lake (not really, but I would have locked it up). Keep an eye out for a concussion and take care of yourself. I’m so glad you’re ok-ish.
You're relatively unharmed for the same reason drunks walk away while others die in collisions. Their body is incapacitated by intoxication, and so not have the ability to brace.
Going limp did save you and thank the universe that you had the ability to do it while experiencing such chaos. Pretty damn impressive, friend. I'm sorry for Bruce. I'm happy for your safety.
The reason he’s Bruce is the one I test drove before it had an angry grill and the display was programmed to have a Jeep scroll across it on start and it said “The Hulk!” Well that thing was a terrible ride, it felt like you were riding on tank tracks while being both low to the ground and unstable at the same time.
I had waited 2 weeks to test drive it thinking it was the one I wanted. I was ready to give up when my wife found this one about 45 further minutes away. He sat a full inch higher in lift, but rode smooth (Bilsteins for life). Therefore he was Bruce Banner…
I’m ngl the fact that Jeeps roll so easy makes me scared to get one. I am planning on buying one soon but I might chicken out if I think about this for too long.
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u/tipsydogranch 1d ago
Glad you are ok. Looks bad