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Old 02-01-2010 | 11:17 AM
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Here's a question I've been interested in for awhile. Since getting my '96 Cherokee I've been rear ended 3 times. 2 by cars and once by a plumbers truck. In each case the front end of the vehicle doing the rearending has been absolutly destroyed, with "minor" damage to my cherokee. Is this common or have I been lucky.
Sometimes I feel like I'm driving a
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Old 02-01-2010 | 11:20 AM
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Do you have an aftermarket/homemade bumper? IMO is say you have been lucky.
Old 02-01-2010 | 12:03 PM
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If you got a nice hitch... it will help ALOT....
Old 02-01-2010 | 04:00 PM
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i crushed half a buick once

i drove home

buick couldnt move
Old 02-02-2010 | 07:33 AM
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Originally Posted by PolarXJ
Do you have an aftermarket/homemade bumper? IMO is say you have been lucky.
nope, stock bumper or stock replacement bumper.

Originally Posted by Hommersimpson
If you got a nice hitch... it will help ALOT....
I don't have a hitch either.

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i crushed half a buick once

i drove home

buick couldnt move
Yeah, by minor, I mean bent bumper/exhaust, broken exhaust hangers, dings and paint scrapes. Repairs much less than $1000. Driving away, while the other car is undrivable.
Old 02-02-2010 | 12:43 PM
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People run into my trailer hitch all the time lol
Old 02-02-2010 | 01:16 PM
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Are your brake lights working? 3 people, damn, remind me to not move where you live. LOL!
Old 02-02-2010 | 01:59 PM
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i thought a guy rear ended me in a parking lot the other week. he was in a little lower civic hatchback and he drove under the back, a little moer and he wouldve got the hitch in his hood. same thing happened to a friend of mine and he jumped outa his durango and was about to bust some guy.
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My lights work and everything... people hit my trailer hitch usually at stop lights... it's always old people running into it lol
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My lights work and everything... people hit my trailer hitch usually at stop lights... it's always old people running into it lol
old people should have to take a road test every 2 years because of how they are a road hazard due to their deteriorating reaction times.

my jeep took a full on hit to the rear bumper by a Lexus IS300. Lexus = screwed (punctured radiator, front bumper/clip ripped off, belt shredded after the fan bent and got into the track, busted trac-bar, etc, etc, etc), my XJ = replaced bumper from salvage yard and lost a plastic end cap.
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old people should have to take a road test every 2 years because of how they are a road hazard due to their deteriorating reaction times.

my jeep took a full on hit to the rear bumper by a Lexus IS300. Lexus = screwed (punctured radiator, front bumper/clip ripped off, belt shredded after the fan bent and got into the track, busted trac-bar, etc, etc, etc), my XJ = replaced bumper from salvage yard and lost a plastic end cap.
Totally agree
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You lost an end cap? That sucks! You should sue him. LOL.

Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
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Originally Posted by DJKnightmare
You lost an end cap? That sucks! You should sue him. LOL.

Its not an XJ story but when I was in my CJ7 I jot hit head on by a dude in a BRAND new lexus. No no I mean it still had the sticker in the window! I ended up on his hood. Crushed his window in and the entire front clip was GONE. I had a wooden bumper, broke that, home depot for $20 worth of a new bumper. blew out my front tire, junk yard $10. he tried to sue me a few months down the road, was his fault, but his insurance company totaled his car.
lol, actually, the guy tried to go through my insurance company to get my deductible to fix his car up. he lost as well. i ended up finding another plastic piece in my uncles barn. he works for chrysler, and is a bit of a kleptomaniac when it comes to grabbing used parts from their testing facilities they don't need anymore.

i think we should create a new name for this type of personality, and call it the Lexus-Complex. it's like the Napoleon Complex, but for Lexus owners.
Old 02-12-2010 | 07:41 AM
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my old XJ got rear ended by a brand new gto the kid bougth it that day destroyed his whole front end not a scratch on my xj but i still got $1100 out of it!
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Originally Posted by DagBMX
i ended up finding another plastic piece in my uncles barn. he works for chrysler, and is a bit of a kleptomaniac when it comes to grabbing used parts from their testing facilities they don't need anymore...
I need an uncle like yours. lol



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