*UPDATE w/new teaser pics * 07 Yaris vs. 05 4Runner

[Astroman]

Sorry all I haven't been visiting the forum, been SUPER busy with my on-site computer business just haven't had the time to check in.

Although today that all changed.

We got our first real snow storm last night, and it's been pretty much snowing here ever since. Put the stock siped tires on last night. I had just left home for lunch and was headed out for my next job and was headed down a narrow street next to the clinic going about 20 and a white 4 runner pulls out of a parking lot halfway into my lane. The city hasn't plowed this road yet, and there was no way I could stop in time.... I tried to brake and swerve but with so much compacted mushed up snow on the road I braced for impact and BAM! When I saw my hood I knew it was bad. He was cited by the police for failure to yield to right of way.

This happened just over 3 years after the first accident the car was in so I was pretty bummed. It was a older gentalman who had hit me, and just finished his morning and afternoon at the doctor and was headed to the hospital for x-rays. I hit right before his tire on the front side of his front bumper. Most of the damage to my car was from the bumper support beam. It ruined the front bumper, hood, passenger fender and possibly drivers, right headlight for sure and I'm not sure about the left side, it severed wires and crushed my washer fluid tank (which I had JUST filled minutes before ), and my drivers door has difficulty opening.

On a plus side I guess is that now all those rock chips on the hood and bumper from last winter will be gone, but yet again my baby is in the shop, going to the local dealer here in town for repairs.

Garm, I'm gonna contact you about a hood, front bumper, & headlights! Might as well take this opportunity to get what I want and have insurance cover part of it. I'm getting a rental tomorrow, until then I'm driving the girlfriends yaris. This whole thing just bums me out, this is the third major accident this car has been in. Well, one incident was vandalism with fireworks. Seems like this car has a target on it or something.