Wife's Mini Cooper crash

[LASERBLUE135]

Heading back from our Xmas in July in WI on Monday. Got distracted by a bee and went on the shoulder, overcorrected and spun and ended up meeting the guard rail in the center of the overpass. She is ok!!!! Car is not. She walked away. Pretty safe car!

 

[1Kris06]

Ouch,

and as everyone says, cars can be replaced, people can't.

 

[dmention7]

Wow, that's some carnage! Glad to hear she's aright.

 

[Workdawg]

Wow, glad she's okay.

 

[mndsm]

Jeez. Good to know it's that safe, cause with as hard as it looks like she hit, that coulda been bad.

 

[JohnnyT]

A bee?! Holy shit!

Did it look like this?

 

[MazdaMINI]

Poor MINI! Glad your wifey is ok. Good to hear since I am planning on putting a lil baby in my MINI.

 

[mndsm]

At least it's easy to get to the turbo now. The one question I have is exactly how bent did she get it to pile it into the median? I've TRIED shaking ours loose before and haven't gotten it that out of line.

In other news, planning on getting another? (I'll go ahead and guess that one is totalled)

 

[LASERBLUE135]

We will sadly not be getting another. The wife wants AWD for the winters, so we will be looking at a bunch of different cars to see if anything floats her boat. I would like an A3 for her but they are hard to find in our price range.

The turbo was actually snapped in two! Neato!

 

[AJ]

Wow, glad everyone is ok!

 

[mndsm]

Welp, if you ask nice, you can come drive ours sometime. I don't mind sharing . So...... another WRX? them'r AWD. You can get bugeyes in hatch form too!

 

[LASERBLUE135]

the new mini

 

[YSOSLO]

I can't quite make out an "S" on the grill, but it's a nice-looking ride nonetheless.

 

[mazdamn02]

A4? 2.0T? Solid choice. If you need any out of warranty work done I highly recommend SCI Performance in Minneapolis, they do good work. They do only VW/Audi work.

 

[LASERBLUE135]

A4? 2.0T? Solid choice. If you need any out of warranty work done I highly recommend SCI Performance in Minneapolis, they do good work. They do only VW/Audi work.

Thanks for the heads up. Yep 2.0 awd.

 

[LASERBLUE135]

Blew the engine. 42k miles. Thank God we bought the extended warranty!!!

 

[mndsm]

Holy crap, that sucks.

 

[Picklz]

That is why I'd never own an Audi out of warranty. Glad you guys had the extended.

 

[LASERBLUE135]

Dealership prices, this would have been about 9k repair job!

 

[YSOSLO]

The wife driving this thing on the autobahn or something?...redlining it hitting the drive through on the way to soccer with the kids? What the deuce? Glad you have it covered by the warranty.