Crashed it!

[Jakw]

I was driving in the rain and the guy in front of me hit the brakes pretty hard while I was checking my shoulder to merge. I decided it wasn't worth the ~3 hour tow home, so she's gone.I wasn't able to grab much, but if anyone needs the center bezel/ashtray thing, or a tan shifter surround thing with all the tabs intact, let me know. I also have the factory manual and its case for the little trunk slot. Email [email protected] if you want any of 'em.

[driverdriver]

Sorry to hear about the J, good to see you made it out okay.

[Jakw]

Oh yeah, thanks. It was pretty low-speed by the time I actually hit him. The airbags didn't deploy. It was enough to mess up the radiator and make it undriveable, and that was pretty much enough for me to leave it in Chicago.

[yodawill2000]

Ah man ... So sorry dood.Glad your OK.

[Jakw]

Yeah, losing a car sucks. That car got me out to CO, down to the mountains, down to Denver, everywhere I needed to be, and back to WI with just an injector going bad. After I cleaned the engine up (seafoam, throttle bodies, MAF, whatever other sensors, etc.), it ran like a champ and got like 24mpg if it was mostly highway. It was around 240,000 miles on the body when I crashed it, with 80,000-100,000 on the engine.It was a decent 40,000 miles. I learned to control RWD in the snow with her, found out that I can do budget mechanical work when I'm dirt poor and need to get around, and actually enjoyed taking care of it.

By the way, I am back to being dirt poor. I paid my uncle $500 for a rusty 91 Jeep Wrangler that needs some TLC. I already did plug/rotor/cap/wires/air filter, 4 new shocks are going on next weekend, and tonight I get to hunt for vac leaks!!