hey fellow rx-8 owners, i am so frustrated right nowi was looking out the window at the house i was at...and looked at my car and noticed something wasn't right, it was the front bumper, i was like "oh no!" "oh NO!!!" and everyone was looking at me like what is the matter, i went out side, and my front bumper........has a huge dent and is scratched and underneath the lip, above the front lisence plate is a huge crack and the lisence plate is dented and the lisence bracket is cracked (ill get pictures to post up soon) and there is a bunch of cracks in the paint.....i have no idea when this was done, i have not really driven it anywhere, and i know if i would have done it, i have figured out it was a front end of another vehicle cuz there is white scuffs(from another lisence plate) and outlines (from another plate) and heres the digger im currently without insurance yay fml, the thing is its a long story short, but i was in the process of getting new ins cuz my old ins dropped me, im just so upset for whoever hurt my baby 8......feel free to comment, and maybe tell about something like this that may have happened to yours

 

damn that sucks.. Did the jerk hit just your front bumper? Use this as an excuse to get yourself a nice front =] MS perhaps?? haha

 

oh yeah....just the front bumper, looks worse on a car you actually care for lol, and yeah i have to get one anyway (the old one has been fixed up.......horribly) you can see bondo bumps, and its been repainted and what not, i was thinking about gettting a c-spec body kit, with the c-spec fenders

 

I had a hit & run on my bumper while parked recently and it cost me $625 out of pocket to get a new bumper, have it painted, and also replace one exhaust surround. At least I was able to do the remove and replace mysef. It really sux that there are such low life scofflaws out there.

Try to stay positive and 'turn lemons into lemonade' as you already plan to do.

 

I'm going to go ahead and point out how incredibly irresponsible it is to drive an uninsured car.

That is all.

 

thanks for your story, good thing in my case is, i will only need to purchase a new bumper, i am a car painter so i know how to paint and remove and install so only expenses i have are the bumper and paint

 

yes yes, i know that part i cant help, only good thing is, its usually parked about 6 days of the week and not driven, and my guess was that the gas guy who came into the yard yesterday hit it(cuz the marks from the lisence plate is much to high for a regular sized car), but am not too sure cuz i wasnt watching him the whole time, thats the only thing i was thinking

 

Did you do the last repair yourself? You said it was done horribly.

 

lol no i didn't do the last repair i had bought it that way, and the fender looks bad too

 

So why did your old insurance drop you?

 

well my ins dropped me july 09 and they told me it was for the tickets i have recieved, i have recieved on in dec 06, crash(not my car) march 07, ticket in aug 07, and the last ticket march 08 but it took them for over a year to finally drop me??? i was angry.....its a long story as to why i have not gotten ins, but im on my way there, once they all turn 3 years old then my ins will be super cheap, but i have to wait a year and a half for them all to be 3 years old....the first one is 3 years old in dec

 

If you gave me a $ for every smiling face you have posted in this thread i would have $17...(yes i counted)

 

Damn. then I could buy some cheesecake

Make that 18$ smiley faces.

 

haha dam you now i want cheesecake... o well its an excuse to go drive somewhere.

 

p.s

 

same **** happend to me!! with my old toyota camary. except it was my rear bumper and the fukin naighboor did it. how can i tell? well he always parks so close that i cant get in from the driver side! and he had my paint on his car and i had his paint on my rear. i called the cops and they came over and were on my side. the jerk said he bought it old. he said he didnt do it. so the cops told me to take him to court. witch i could of but it wasnt worth it. the car was old but had clean body work. plus it had 270,000 miles on it. sucks!! ever since i got my 8, i park some ware else

 

That's like 4 tickets in less than 2.5 years. No wonder your insurance wanted to drop you. Too bad about the front end.

 

yeah i know about the smily faces, im a girl, and im a happy person yay me right? and i make some delicious cheesecake, i also LOVE the cheesecake they have from OCB...mmmm, anyways i know thats alot of things in like 3 years but i just wished they had dropped me after even one ticket happened, then i wouldnt have such an issue, and that sucks to hear about your story cidvicious831, i had a firebird prior to my 8 and let me tell you.....im lucky to have had it still in one gorgeous piece when i sold it hahaha

 

lol^ so what are you giong to do with out insurance?

 

well im in the process of getting ins. im just in a money tight situation, when i got dropped i was playing catch up on my bills, then i was w/o ins. well then i finally caught up on my bills and got fired, for the stupidest reason(not even my fault) so there i was jobless, and since i have to switch co. i will have to pay like a deposit and for the first month so it will run around $600-800 and that on a budget of $550/mo im stuck (in that budget im paying for a car, student loan, business fees, new rear tires(im driving on bald ones), irs, phone, back rent(moving out tho), and dish bill that im cancelling for shitty service,) and i dont have anywhere near that amount to pay even half that stuff, and thats why im stuck trying to get money for ins. asap!! ill figure it out tho

 

you should put that in a new thread! people should help, some cash is better then no cash!

 

damn you have more issues than I could imagine. Car, insurance, bills, job...jeez.

 

fixed

 

Just get one of those unknown insurance companies meanwhile you catch up on all your bills etc.. They should cost much less than well known insurance companies. G-luck

 

try progressive their one of the cheaper well known ins. companies. But to be honest i dont think your going to get any good premium with that record.