wife's civic backed into the 300d. ugh!
 

pictures coming soon. the w123 was parked and she backed into it.

her fender got a nice dent in the corner where it hit the w123 driverside mirror. her plastic bumper is now loose and partly dangling due to scraping the w123's driver door. we have a $1000 deductible on her car. I think the total repair will exceed that.

the 300d's mirror just got popped out of place and I just popped the thing back. no damage. the part of the door that got scraped has a slight indentation. the paint isn't broken and I think i can just pretend to be the dent doctor and push the metal back. basically no damage to the mercedes. maybe because it was the stationary car? I absolutely hate the overused word 'amazing' but that is pretty much the word I would use in this case.

it's a bit disturbing that the metal in the civic fender would crumple so easily.

nobody was hurt. that's the important thing.

ha! Every time I shut the door on my wife's 2006 honda, I regret the sound like a chewing gum foil wrapper being crumpled compared to that vault-like sound of my old benz. Of course every time I find myself accidentally doing 80mph in the honda and its a smooth as glass ride, I don't feel bad at all.

I've only had one car accident with me as the driver. I was driving an early 70s GM wagon. Darn thing was like a tank (like the average old Mercedes), and two guys ahead of me on a snowy highway collided. I stopped just shy of the collision; we were probably doing 40mph. The honda behind me didn't stop in time. Slammed into the rear of the wagon and got totaled. Much to my annoyance, he bent my license plate.

-CTH

I will never drive a non-german car for that reason, you can feel the flimsiness on Hondas, Toyotas, domestics, etc....just not a reassuring feeling/sound. The doors on our VW are pretty heavy, the car weighs almost as much as a 300D, about 3,650 empty...and its not that big of a car, its just a golf with a bigger trunk....:eek: I can remember our Toyota Rav4 we had for a while, I think curb weight was about 2,500 at the most....and it felt like it. :eek:

I got rearended in my 300D by a 1/2 ton Chevy pickup. His bumper vs. my LR fender. His bumper got pushed back into his tire and the truck had to be towed. I drove my junk home.