Hi, I'm new to the forum but I managed to crash my jeep and roll it into a ditch jeep driving in a freak hailstorm and thought I would start a post on it and show you guys. I spun out did a 180 and slammed into the curb with my back drivers side wheel and just got sent over doing a roll and landing on my passenger side. Landed in a little stream that was pretty much running through my car, but luckily I got it towed out within like 20 minutes. I'm still letting it dry after the crash but I will be taking some more picture to show the damage and hopefully get it all repaired and upgraded while I'm at it and running better than ever. Also I thought I would update you guys on any problems I run into. So far I've had interesting things happen like when I open a door the car horn would just go off. Pulled my horn fuse and relay just to be safe. Luckily the engine still starts but probably needs some tuning and new plugs. My major concern is when I did have to turn it on to move it to the curb I wasn't able to get it to drive when I shifted the gears so somethings off with the transmission but the engines sounding good. Its a 99 Jeep Cherokee SE, 4.0L, bought it from a fire department a couple years ago with only 83k miles, only got like 92k so far. Vehicle is pretty much stock as of right now but I have a garage I can use to fix her up. I know nothing about working on cars but I can learn and I have most tools I would need, first thing I'm trying to do is get it rope towed into my garage or into a mechanics for a diagnostic if I can. I had a few questions off the bat because I'm noticing the worst of the body damage is the rails that were holding the rack and rooftop tent were pretty much ripped 2/3'rds of the way off so how possible is it to totally fix the rails after something like that? Also what would you guys recommend be my starting steps? As of right now its parked on the street, I removed my busted wheel and threw a spare on and I will need to get it into the shop or up a steep hill into my garage before to long but shes not moving so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'll take some more pictures tomorrow and get them posted of the damage. **** happens, we live and learn, guess my rally race career ended earlier than I was expecting XD I was totally unscratched though and no airbags deployed so it could have been worse.

 

Damn, glad you're ok

 

At least you didn't end up like those people in Michigan who got $9000 tow charges.

 

Glad your ok , How bad is your xj , some pictures of the damage .