Moosestang Tapped a Honda

[Worstenemy453]

MA. has a lot of rotaries or traffic circles. I always found them easy to navigate. Simply, yield to the traffic in the circle. No traffic, keep going.

Well depending on the exits and such out of them they can be kinda confusing here. I havnt been up there in a few years so i cant comment on the difficulty of navigation of them for out of towners.

 

[fields_mj]

People who park at an angle usually cant park or dont care, sometimes depending on the lot, i can park so ill take up 2 spots just so no one has to try to pull next to me

Now see, I love it when people do that. I'll pull an old beater up so close to their driver side door that a cat couldn't weasel it's worthless hide through there and make them get in the drivers side door. I figure if they are just too good to park between the lines, then so am I Go a head and key it. It will just blend in with the rest of the rust

My wife had a similar accident just before our wedding. She rear ended a durango in her 2000 Bonneville. No damage to the durango, but did 5K to the car. She wanted to get mad at the Mexican in the durango because he slammed on his brakes trying to figure out which turn to make. I told her straight out that she should have left her burrito supreme in the darn bag and paid attention to the road. That was the last time she tried to eat and drive.

 

[HammerDown]

My neck hurts just reading this one cha-ching

 

[88beast]

watch it mel i had a mini van go around a curve too fast and hit my front end thats why i swapped the clip before nationals
but it nearly totaled an 06 mazda mpv the whole passenger side needed replaced
my trucks had a nicked bumper twisted brush gaurd and dented hood and grill
and all that was because the brush gaurd was ment for head on force not side force and twisted thats why im making the new bumper

 

[LCAM-01XA]

Tom, and the moment you have a nice and stout brush guard it's the frame rails that give - believe me I know, my passenger side frame horn is like 2" further to the left than it should be, actually my entire rad support is shifted about an inch to the left. Looking at the truck you can't really tell it is so, cause I replaced all the damaged parts (bumper, fender, headlight, grille) and did a decent job at redrilling some brackets and stuff so the fenders and grille and hood all sit square for the most part, but the damage is still there. This is a result of a hit-and-run while my truck was parked at my friend's place and we were out having dinner. The way the bumper and brush guard are built now I can hit construction barrels at speed and it don't hurt me one bit (done it, not intentionally) but I'm still afraid of side impacts cause I know the frame just ain't as stiff as I'd like it to be...

 

[6.9poweredscout]

PA and bad roads? haha is that why our state flower is an orange road cone? i think there's more construction on the PA stretch of 81 than all the other highways in the US combined!! also, is that why there's several roads in Scranton that are STILL BRICK?!!!!

-Jon

 

[Brianedwardss]

A month ago I was following an '03 Buick goin 55 mph on the expressway. The traffic light turned yellow, and the second it did the young squirt driving slammed on his brakes. Well I made some nice 60+ ft skid marks and put his trunk in the back seat. Didn't even scratch my truck. Turns out he was 15 with only a permit driving alone in his grandpas car... Cops took him away and I was told I could go after they took some notes.

 

[Dieselcrawler]

yea, 81 SUCKS!!! cant even use the ramp from 80w to 81S. have to go up to the next exit, turn around and come back. really sucks when i have jobs north of 80 and down towards harrisburg.

long drive between them.

 

[Agnem]

Tom, and the moment you have a nice and stout brush guard it's the frame rails that give - believe me I know, my passenger side frame horn is like 2" further to the left than it should be, actually my entire rad support is shifted about an inch to the left. Looking at the truck you can't really tell it is so, cause I replaced all the damaged parts (bumper, fender, headlight, grille) and did a decent job at redrilling some brackets and stuff so the fenders and grille and hood all sit square for the most part, but the damage is still there. This is a result of a hit-and-run while my truck was parked at my friend's place and we were out having dinner. The way the bumper and brush guard are built now I can hit construction barrels at speed and it don't hurt me one bit (done it, not intentionally) but I'm still afraid of side impacts cause I know the frame just ain't as stiff as I'd like it to be...

You lack a sig, so I'm not sure what year you have, but I did notice that the 92 and up trucks have a crumble zone in the frame horn. I bet yours accordioned some.

 

[OLDBULL8]

What's going on this Month, must be the Planets alignment? Yesterday at a tee street, this Excursion stopped at the sign ahead of me, then pulled ahead and stopped again, I pulled up to the stop looked left then started and here that SOB in front of me is still stopped. My dog didn't like it at all when he hit the dash. Thank God for good brakes on the PSD, about one inch left between us. Then the idiot stayed stopped until I opened my door. Why the hell they have a stop at a tee street is beyond me.

 

[Worstenemy453]

A month ago I was following an '03 Buick goin 55 mph on the expressway. The traffic light turned yellow, and the second it did the young squirt driving slammed on his brakes. Well I made some nice 60+ ft skid marks and put his trunk in the back seat. Didn't even scratch my truck. Turns out he was 15 with only a permit driving alone in his grandpas car... Cops took him away and I was told I could go after they took some notes.

Thats common with younger drivers, if he was driving the grand pa's car then that means he proly rides with his grand pa a lot and i doubt grand pa was one to floor it at a yellow. Luckily i was raised where you floor it so i get out of the way

 

[LCAM-01XA]

You lack a sig, so I'm not sure what year you have, but I did notice that the 92 and up trucks have a crumble zone in the frame horn. I bet yours accordioned some.

I got a bricknose '90, so same frame as Tom's 88 - no crumble zones on those. Besides the crumble zones only work in a head-on impact, mine was hit from the side in the very corner of the truck - I'm thinking someone was pulling out a driveway while intoxicated and either stepped on the wrong pedal or just didn't realize how fast they're moving. None of the neighbors in the vicinity had a blue truck tho, so it must have been a visitor they got, of course no one saw nothing. And I think the '92-'96 crumble zone thing was only on the F150s, don't seem to recall an F250 or 350 with the accordion-shaped frame (like the halftons are from the factory), besides those frames a fully boxed forward of the engine crossmember so I'm thinking they may have actually held up better in a side impact like mine suffered...

 

[Dieselcrawler]

150 only had them crumple zones. cant to it to a f250 or 350 due to the front spring hangers./

 

[BioFarmer93]

What's going on this Month, must be the Planets alignment? Yesterday at a tee street, this Excursion stopped at the sign ahead of me, then pulled ahead and stopped again, I pulled up to the stop looked left then started and here that SOB in front of me is still stopped. My dog didn't like it at all when he hit the dash. Thank God for good brakes on the PSD, about one inch left between us. Then the idiot stayed stopped until I opened my door. ;Really Why the hell they have a stop at a tee street is beyond me.[/QUOTE]

Well, so that everyone has to stop for a second and evaluate the situation, and not get killed on their motorcycle like my son was, at a T intersection with only one stop sign... There are two more signs up at that intersection now.

 

[Agnem]

150 only had them crumple zones. cant to it to a f250 or 350 due to the front spring hangers./

This may be true, but I'll have to look under the Lady Moose to confirm. She's 2WD, so it could have been possible to put them in. But my memory does come from converting the Night Moose, so you guys are probably right.