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Blaine Hanson
TryHard
WA
1993 GT, 1997 LTD
Posts: 490
Reg: 08-2005
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Our 1993 Soarer is jinxed.
Mid last year a Commodore attacked us => $6,300 damage (first picture). The car was fixed and a few days ago a Falcon attacked us, the quote for this repair is $8600(second picture).
Both times the other drivers were at fault and their cars were written off!
Considering that, the Soarer did ok both times.
I am sure there is an under ground movement happening in Perth to wipe out Soarers !
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Ali Yazici
TryHard
Victoria
Stock UZZ31 with Lexus Badges 
Posts: 227
Reg: 08-2006
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Hoooooooly shyt!!! I would say the Soarer did more than OK if the other two cars got written off!!!
As for that underground movement, I think that's to get rid of all Ford's and Commodores hahahah |
Blaine Hanson
TryHard
WA
1993 GT, 1997 LTD
Posts: 492
Reg: 08-2005
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I have to admit the other cars that were written off had a few years on them, but the Soarer isn't exactly a puppy either. |
Callum Finch
Goo Roo
WA
Soarer TT & Corolla
Posts: 2768
Reg: 09-2005
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Shiat Blaine.
I agree though, there is some evil organisation.
They must use ninjas on my car though, because all my internals keep breaking ='( |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 2339
Reg: 10-2005
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Soarers are tough - no doubt about it. |
Aaron Mead
Goo Roo
NT
TT
Posts: 1406
Reg: 03-2006
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You need to retrieve the bogan magnet and cast it into the lake of fire. |
Blaine Hanson
TryHard
WA
1993 GT, 1997 LTD
Posts: 493
Reg: 08-2005
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Callum Finch wrote on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 07:44 am:They must use ninjas on my car though, because all my internals keep breaking ='(
Callum, are you sure it doesn't have something to do with your driving style ???  |
Peter Burrett
TryHard
ACT
2.5 VVTi ST
Posts: 469
Reg: 07-2005
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Blaine, bad karma, but look on the bright side, if this keeps up in a couple of years you will have rebuilt the whole thing.... trouble is, there will be a fair weight of bog in there, but aesthetically, you'll be back to where you were before you visited Boganville...sorry to hear of the bingle(s) |
Geordie Smith
Tinkerer
NSW
Need White boot lid, White RH door trim, RH window reg, Green RH Door handle, boot struts. PM if you can help.
Posts: 33
Reg: 12-2005
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I worked for a panel shop for the past 3 years, and one day a supra rolled in.
During the repairs, the panelbeater commented quite often what a bastard of a car the big toyotas are because the metal they are made from is so thick and strong. I am not at all surprised that your small damage on the soarer lead to the demise of the lesser quality car.
Lean on a door of a hyundai, holden, nissan, ford, most other cars, and the panel pops in and back out.
Lean on a soarer panel and try to bend it.
It takes so much force.
My wife hit a concrete pylon head on in our first soarer. Wrote it off, but the damage looked similar to the first pic above.
These are very solid cars.
As a towie, I saw commodores ripped in half, hyundai's turn inside out, etc.. from minor impacts.
Your $10k-$20k soarer was worth approx $100k when new, thats what your driving. 3x the quality of a commodore.
Be happy and know that if you ding your soarer, your chances of survival are umpteen times better than they are in MOST other cars. |
Callum Finch
Goo Roo
WA
Soarer TT & Corolla
Posts: 2779
Reg: 09-2005
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Blaine Hanson wrote on Monday, March 19, 2007 - 05:23 pm:Callum, are you sure it doesn't have something to do with your driving style ???
Pfft, yes. >.>
<.<
Geordie Smith wrote on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 06:57 am:These are very solid cars.
Too right. Every accident a Soarer has been in that included pics that i have seen, the windshield has not even cracked! And some of the pictures indicate a very big accident.
Woot Toyota for building one helluva safe car =D |
Braden Murdoch
TryHard
NSW
Cressida 1JZ TT
Posts: 376
Reg: 04-2006
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The heaviest car usually wins. So the Soarer would usually come out on top  |
Callum Finch
Goo Roo
WA
Soarer TT & Corolla
Posts: 2787
Reg: 09-2005
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Not always Braden. I have heard stories of Soarers going toe-to-toe with larger 4wd's and coming out the victor.
And i dont mean other Toyota 4wd's =P |
Ben Daniel
Goo Roo
WA
Twin Turbo
Posts: 1092
Reg: 03-2006
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One time on the way to work early on a saturday morning I rear ended a Hyundai S-coupe (93 model I think). I was extremely tired and still half asleep crawling along behind her. The light was red but I hadn't seen it and all of a sudden *BANG* Luckilly I didn't hit her too hard otherwise it would of been pricey. The second I hit her the light went green and I was sitting there cursing in frustration at myself. The guy next to my left had got out of his car to act witness but the silly bitch in front of me just drove off exposing her semi crushed rear bumper. I pulled over and so did the guy and I was completely dumbfounded as to what had just happened. I inspected my front bar to find nothing but a tiny scuff to the left of the emblem and spent the next 2 minutes scratching my head in confusion as to why she just drove off. Was a weird moment in my motoring history The following weekend I was fined for speeding on the exact same road. |
Shane McInnes
DieHard
NSW
JZZ30 GT-TL Manual
Posts: 972
Reg: 07-2005
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Thats weird Ben.
I witnesed the same thing happen in traffic on the way to work a couple years ago.
It was bumper to bumper traffic i was in the far left lane on a 3 lane road and on the far right lane traffic was stoped and next thing i know this guy hit the brakes and wacked into the rear of another car. The guy who got hit didnt even realise he had been hit, and the guy who did hit the car didnt even get out his car. The next thing i know there was flow of traffic and away they went.
I thought to myself how the heck did he not know he had just been hit? I didnt see any major damage but even so.
Maybe the lady you hit had music up loud? or day dreaming? Thats the only thing i can think off. |
Daniel Trivuncevic
DieHard
NSW
TT
Posts: 638
Reg: 07-2005
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sucks to be you.. |
Joshua Rao
Tinkerer
WA
2JZ-Ge
Posts: 42
Reg: 09-2006
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I nudged a hyundai accent about 20km/h in the back. Cost me $800 for her car. Soarer was untouched! Plate a little bit bent |
Geordie Smith
Tinkerer
NSW
Need White boot lid, White RH door trim, RH window reg, Green RH Door handle, boot struts. PM if you can help.
Posts: 35
Reg: 12-2005
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Thats funny ben.
You'll never know, but she either didn't realise she'd been hit or she knew she'd been hit and had a boot full of drugs, was blind drunk or had no licence. You'd be surprised...
I was waiting in McDriveThru one day in a navara ute (tray back with towball..) and someone bumped into the back of me, My towball ripped a hole in the bumper and peeled the bonnet up a little bit.
The driver got out and told me to exchange details with him and I calmly asked him if my towball was damaged, which absolutely infuriated him, and I drove off. Hehehhe. |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 2353
Reg: 10-2005
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Actually quite common for someone to drive off, regardless of fault, and pretty understandable considering the number of road rage incidents these days. Maybe she felt intimidated? |
Callum Finch
Goo Roo
WA
Soarer TT & Corolla
Posts: 2792
Reg: 09-2005
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Ben Daniel wrote on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 05:45 pm:One time on the way to work early on a saturday morning ....
I have a similar story..
Driving along at ~8pm at night behind a Dominos pizza delivery car. Get to a T-junction and i was about 100m away rolling up, he was stopped.
Roads were quiet so he started to drive off, im getting closer all the time, then he stops and i didnt allow enough time to break.. small tap to the rear and we met on the side of the road a few meters up.. the guy reeked of marah-joo-wanah.
Anyway.. exchanged details.. he called the store manager out cos he was so baked.. khem i mean freaked out. Store manager went off his face at the Dominos guy because i had done less damage to the car than the previous driver did when they opened the door on a light pole.
All the while im sobbing over my hugely cracked to sh!thouse front bar (made out of tough as all f$ck marine fiber).
Never heard anything about a claim so i was bloody happy.
My fault though; ill accept that =P |
Leon Wright
DieHard
WA
V8 UZZ31
Posts: 573
Reg: 08-2006
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I nudged a 4x4 on the way to work in the celica one morning. Guy didn't even notice. Was half asleep, and was rolling to a stop and forgot to push the brake pedal to bring it to a complete stop.
Bent my number plate  |
Roger Costello
TryHard
WA
UZZ31 V8 Limited, UZZ32 no 867
Posts: 366
Reg: 07-2005
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I had a Camira skid into the back of me on a wet night. In the rear vision mirror I could see steam and heard glass hit the road. Got out of the car to inspect the carnage and saw the Camira first. Bumper half off, radiator fcuked and headlights smashed. looked at my car and all I could find were two scuff marks which actually did buff right out. I went to the Panel shop the next day and got the bumper taken off because I was sure there must be some damage but nothing, not even broken clips. The Camira was towed away. I cannot think of any current production car that is as strong as a Soarer. They are one of the safer places to be in a prang, except for the lack of modern side and head instant bouncy castle systems. |
Blaine Hanson
DieHard
WA
1993 GT, 1997 LTD
Posts: 507
Reg: 08-2005
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Daniel Trivuncevic wrote on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 07:51 pm:sucks to be you..
Bad Karma Daniel - I bet it sucks to be you too - now your defected!  But you still have a great car with no accidents, so life's really not that bad. |
Dan McColl
Goo Roo
Victoria
Active V8 and a Factory Manual XF.
Posts: 2044
Reg: 07-2005
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But he did have accidents. |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 160
Reg: 01-2006
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a hyundai exel rear ended my f100 at 60kph didnt even make a mark on the old effie, destroyed the exel but...
Blaine has asked me to fix this little dent... should be fixed in due time...  |
Dave Billings
Tinkerer
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 93
Reg: 06-2007
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Dang...AUSTRALIAN HIGHWAYS: TRAVEL AT YOUR OWN RISK!! |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 161
Reg: 01-2006
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im sure you have the same problems over there in the US dave...  |
Dave Billings
Tinkerer
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 94
Reg: 06-2007
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True.. But it usually ends up as a woman in a HUGE SUV plowing into someone while putting on lipstick or on the phone... Those kinda accidents where the other person doesn't walk away. |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 162
Reg: 01-2006
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yeah ive seen some of those police videos of those sorts of crashes.. pretty bad
does every 2nd person really drive a SUV or pickup truck? |
Dave Billings
Tinkerer
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 96
Reg: 06-2007
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YOU HAVE NO IDEA!! Over here they're considered tanks.(almost) Every husband buys one for his wife and family for protection so they dont end up on the bad end of the stick!!So now you have these huge tanks trolling the highways and bi-ways looking for victoms!! LOL |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 163
Reg: 01-2006
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hahaha yeah i can just imagine, an to be safe from them you would have to go out and buy a M1 abrams tank or at the very least an old M113 personel carrier hehehe |
Dave Billings
Tinkerer
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 100
Reg: 06-2007
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YAY!!! MY 100th POST!!!      |
Dave Billings
TryHard
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 101
Reg: 06-2007
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Watch out "try hard" status... I'm coming for you!! LOL |
Dave Billings
TryHard
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 102
Reg: 06-2007
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OK, That was cool.. |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 164
Reg: 01-2006
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hahha yeah i was like woo hoo im a try hard... an now iv slowed down on puting up so many posts... haha |
Dave Billings
TryHard
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 103
Reg: 06-2007
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I think making "Goo Roo" status is like becoming a Jedi Knight!!  |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 168
Reg: 01-2006
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yep for sure... will get there one day...
"may the force be with you" hehe |
Dave Billings
TryHard
Louisiana
SC 300, Manual Transmission
Posts: 105
Reg: 06-2007
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One day a Goo-Roo you will become, you will!! |
Rod Iseppi
TryHard
wa
uzz31 v8 limited x2
Posts: 170
Reg: 01-2006
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oooh i sense much anger in you, anger leads to fear and fear leads to the darkside... use the force and a great goo roo you will become.. mmmm yeas |
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