Today, I finished installing a brand new engine in my old car. It cost just over $6000. Later, I was waiting at a red light and an uninsured drunk driver smashed into it head on. It's completely totaled. I got to drive it 5 miles. The car is worth $1000, even with a new engine. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I paid $2300 to a mechanic for fixing my car. It's also the day I got into an accident and totalled said car. FML
Today, after my car got stolen and flipped on its roof three months ago, making it an insurance write-off, and getting a new car a week ago, a drunk driver crashed into my parked car, writing it off. In both instances the drivers were thankfully OK, it's just my insurance premiums skyrocketing, no biggie. FML
Today, I got the repair estimate for my car. It's going to cost me $3,000 to rebuild the front end. It was wrecked because a couple decided to have a lovers' spat in the middle of the freeway. I had that car for exactly four hours. FML
Today, my car was totaled. It was so new, I haven't even made the first payment on it yet. FML
Today, accustomed to dealing with my old car's faulty accelerator, I pressed the pedal way too hard in my new car and crashed into a pillar, totaling the engine, and giving myself a concussion. I could still see the dealership down the street. FML
Today, I bought my very first car that I spent years saving for. A few hours after I signed all the papers, I let my boyfriend go for a test drive. He totaled it. FML
Today, I had the lovely experience of witnessing a tow truck cause a couple thousand dollars' worth of damage to my broken-down car. FML
Today, I bought a new $10,000 car since my old one broke down. Today, I also found out the old one wasn’t starting because i never had it in park. FML
Today, I woke up to find the entire driver's side of my car wrecked. Front door, back door, front and rear bumper smashed to shit. A drunk driver had hit it the previous night and ran. Don't worry though, he stopped and left his insurance information. He keyed it into the undamaged side of my car. FML
Today, I hit a patch of black ice and totaled my car. The car is a month old. For the next 5 years I'll be paying for a car I can't drive. FML
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Amkii 0
:( Ugh. I'm sorry. Your insurance should cover most of it, right? This is why we need to have stricter rules in the US about drunk drivers... esp. uninsured ones!
spiderman0606 0
Dude, if he doesnt have insurance that automatically means it's his fault (although it is his fault) and he has to pay for everything. But fyl until everything is taken care of.
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Comments (91)
sportsnut 0
YDI.. TERRIBLE decision to put that engine in a shitty old car
geetface 0
shoulda put that $6k into a new car instead of some shit car worth only $1k...moron
ozymandias_fml 0
YDI for wasting 6x the value of the car replacing the engine. You *should* have just bought a new or used one in better shape -- that is worth $6000+
COBRAMORPH 0
Drunk drivers should be shot on site.
bubber 0
First off, you deserve it for blowing 6k on a new engine install on a car that is only worth 1k. Secondly I am not sure what you had, but 6k for an engine install? Me thinks you got screwed. I did an instal 2 months ago for $1000 and a case of beer. $1000 for a long block 302 and the case of beer for my time.
Hillbilly_Deluxe 3
the complete, 100% long block 460 with headers that i put in my 1993 F-350 only cost me $2000 as a NAPA crate motor you got ripped off, man
Emperor_of_pugs 0
i would sue
Igor_g5 0
I agree with YDI for putting a $6000 engine In a $1000 car. And again for paying $6000 for an engine.
werzal 5
Some of these posters are complete idiots... The car was probably worth MORE than $1000 BEFORE the drunk TOTALED it... Get it... The $1000 is probably all that is salvagable from the WRECK!!
haleycstar 0
an engine that costs more than the car itself? moron.