Ouch...

[Suburbazine]

Hit a cinder block on the interstate yesterday. Went through the bumper, lower covers, left wheel well and exited somewhere mid underside. The pic doesn't do the underbody carnage justice. The lower half of the whole front bumper is busted apart all the way across. About $2k worth of damage to a never wrecked car...

 

[carguy75]

Damn man. Hopefully the power steering rack did not get damaged or any other lower body component.

 

[Suburbazine]

Damn man. Hopefully the power steering rack did not get damaged or any other lower body component.

Steering has been a little out of alignment since.

 

[carguy75]

Steering has been a little out of alignment since.

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No surprise, the electric steering rack and control box sit pretty low and is only protected by the lower body cover.

I was going to remove my lower body cover permanently at one time, until I noticed that the electronic steering system would be too exposed(water,impacts,etc) without the under body cover.

 

[glennk]

Did you file a claim yet?

 

[Suburbazine]

Did you file a claim yet?

No. Will probably pay cash since I'd rather get a premium increase for something more expensive.

 

[Andyj]

If you have to replace the two under cover panels consider buying the 2018 versions which have removable access panels for the oil filter and drain plug. Someone did this suvcessfully and posted results in a thread here.

 

[glennk]

No. Will probably pay cash since I'd rather get a premium increase for something more expensive.

Only concern is the steering module. If it fails due to the accident, would you still have grounds to file a claim after fixing everything else out of pocket?

 

[Suburbazine]

Only concern is the steering module. If it fails due to the accident, would you still have grounds to file a claim after fixing everything else out of pocket?

Complete coverage on the car, I can claim anything regardless of what happened. Deductible is the same