So back around the middle of december the wife was driving the Evo in the snow, which is good because its a lot better in the snow than the BMWobbly. She drives around allll day with no issues shopping with her friends, and ends up out in Castlerock. On her way home, however, its really snowing and shes a bit nervous, but shes doing just fine until the car in front of her stops, causing her to hit the brakes and ooops! She starts sliding. Now, she does have the presence of mind enough to turn the wheel and almost stop the slide, but.... she ends up managing to slide the nose of the Evo down the concrete divider wall. OUCHHHH!!! Scraped the nose pretty good, and eventually we founf the headlight mounting tab was broken along with some of the plastic bits behind the bumper. The front fender also had a very minor bit of damage needing a small amount of massaging back into place. fortunately there was absolutely no serious damage, pretty much all cosmetic, and my wife and her friend were completely unhurt
which is the most important thing of all!
So the insurance company comes out and looks at it, writes me up a quote, and we throw it in the paint shop to get'er done. The estimate came out to about 2600 bucks, including a new headlight housing and some plastic bits that were broken.
Fast forward to today:
Car is almost done, and it would have been done a cpl weeks ago had I not been in China when some important decisions needed to be made
Rather than go back to an E8 front bumper I went with the E9 fascia and APR lip/splitter painted body colour. Since we had the car in the booth, I also had the guys go ahead and fix any scratches, dents or dings they found, which turns out to be everything except the passengers door and the side skirts! I also had the rear wing re-cleared with one of the best clears on the market, even thought I could have had it replaced under warranty. Most people who saw my car thought is was really pretty clean because it had no major dents etc, but literally every other panel had a scratch, small ding, etc on it, and my car only has 38k miles, and all of the dings were on it when I bought it with 15k miles! We think the original owner must have left the car in an airports long-term parking or something to get the scratches and tiny little dings in it.
All thats left is a minor repair to a crash bar brace and to remount the nose and its all set! Wouldnt even be waiting but I had to fax the insurance company a supplemental invoice since thier original estimate was about $800 short, and I am sure not paying it out of my pocket!
I will post pics when its done, huge thanks go to Chance, my painter guy who found every single dent, ding, low spot, etc and had turned out a car that is better now than the day I bought it!
