Rear end love tap --- Towing Package results in No Damage
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Headed home from work tonight. Stopped for red light. Start to have a little rain shower.. oil films forming.. RED Car coming up fast behind me as I sit at the light.. Starts to slow.. not fast enough.. fishtails.. keeps coming.. I take my foot off the brake.. and try to pull forward a little just as he hits my rear ...CRUNCH.. [oops]! So I get out and it starts to rain harder(of course).. look at bumper.. nothing.. inspect panels.. underside.. nothing.. Look at mid-20's year old's car.. huge square hole in his bumper and it's bent in on the side that fishtailed.. he's very nice.. "Sir, I'm really sorry about your Porsche. It is clearly my fault.. I couldn't stop fast enough - do you want me to call the cops?" --- Well, son, I know that it will hurt your rates to have an at fault accident.. let me look at this again.. so in the now pouring rain.. I check my S out again.. nothing.. I can only see some red plastic flecks on my trailer hitch square!
IMHO.. ALWAYS BUY the towing package on a SUV!! even if you don't haul boats, motorcycles, 911's in trailers with screwed up lights (Lewis!!)
.. it saves and protects you in rear end nose dive collisions!
IMHO.. ALWAYS BUY the towing package on a SUV!! even if you don't haul boats, motorcycles, 911's in trailers with screwed up lights (Lewis!!)
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Originally Posted by mudman2
Sweet !
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Only way it could have been better would to have had the stinger in place in the hitch!
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Good for you, I'm really happy for your car, as I would imagine myself in that situations. Nevertheless, making the kid's day didn't sound too right to me IMO.
To be honest with you, I wish if he had gotten a slap on the wrist just to let him know that it is not OK for reckless driving. If he knows it is raining and he knows that his car isn't a formula 1 car that could stop in seconds, then he shouldn't have driven that fast.
To be honest with you, I wish if he had gotten a slap on the wrist just to let him know that it is not OK for reckless driving. If he knows it is raining and he knows that his car isn't a formula 1 car that could stop in seconds, then he shouldn't have driven that fast.
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Same thing happened to me. Also, no damage due to hitch, other than indentation of the rubber hitch cover. Of course the driver was uninsured, and quite frankly the woman was a real "B". BTW, the hitch really messed up her car.
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Originally Posted by alex911s
wow! cool guy in a cool car, that's nice of you. Hope he learns something from it.. ![thumbup](https://rennlist.com/forums/graemlins/thumbup.gif)
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That was a good and compassionate deed. Since there was no harm done to you, why do harm to someone else? Besides, like you said, he's going to have a heck of a time with the damage to his car.
Bravo.
Bravo.
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Originally Posted by stevertr
Same thing for me. Shredded the other guys bumper, hood and plate. Steve
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I had a lady bump into the hitch on the Cayenne, put a hole right through her M3! No damage to the Cayenne, almost started laughing at her as she was so upset that the "Pepper" had no damage yet her front end was toast, radator steaming, etc.
Then she makes the statement, "I shouldn't have braked at at all"... What was that supposed to mean?
Then she makes the statement, "I shouldn't have braked at at all"... What was that supposed to mean?
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It means she regrets not having a square hole in her engine block.
Seriously, I installed my own tow hitch. Anyone who has done so will testify that the tow hitch bumper is an impressive piece of metal. I'm sure the standard aluminum bumper is OK in an accident, but there is more steel in the tow hitch bumper than most cars have in their entire front end.
It's too bad people have to find out about it the hard way. But I have to laugh at that M3 lady's attitude.
Seriously, I installed my own tow hitch. Anyone who has done so will testify that the tow hitch bumper is an impressive piece of metal. I'm sure the standard aluminum bumper is OK in an accident, but there is more steel in the tow hitch bumper than most cars have in their entire front end.
It's too bad people have to find out about it the hard way. But I have to laugh at that M3 lady's attitude.
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Perhaps the idea of the claim was not worse than the suicide which would have resulted from not braking.
I agree the hitch is VERY substantial I would not want to drop it on my toe.
I agree the hitch is VERY substantial I would not want to drop it on my toe.
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I hvae used my hitch to ****** vehicles out of ditches and vehicles with boats attached up ramps where they could not get traction and the paint has not even chipped off the saftey chain hooks! IT IS A BEAST!