Kubota vs Chevy

heehaw · Dec 18, 2006

did you ever have a day when you wish you had stayed in bed?? about 45 minutes ago, i went to back my RTV 900 out of the garage, and backed right into the front of my Chevy truck..put a dent/hole in the hood, on the drivers side and broke the headlight mounting stuff/plastic and bent the drivers side front fender. we had a lot of company yesterday..so i had parked my truck where i usually don't park it, but that's no excuse...new headlight and mount is $200..the fender i can straighten out enough to be ok..the hood i probably will for a while but i've gotta get the head light mounting parts pretty quick. sure makes a feller feel like a real dunce..
heehaw

Buckeye_Jim · Dec 18, 2006

Besides the awful knot in your stomach, I trust you were not injured? Or for that matter the Kubota.

Jim

ronjhall · Dec 18, 2006

Not good.

My son needed a head light assembly. Found one at a great price on EBAY.

Dusty · Dec 18, 2006

Must be the week for this type of accident. I was backing my old car off the lift, and came within millimeters of backing into my car. I stopped, got out to check out the damage, and realized that another 1/8" I would have wiped out the side of the car. I love my wifes new car, since it has the back up alarm that warns you when something is behind the car. Wonder if that technology can be adapted to tractors?

Dusty

thcri · Dec 18, 2006

I guess it's ***** happens. But don't feel bad, we all have done it once. A few years back I bought my wife a brand new Chevy Suburban. A month later I got a brand new Ford F150 pickem up truck. We were building a new house at the time and I had to meet my contractor and I drove across our acreage way into the back yard. My wife was already there talking to the contractor. I started talking to the contractor about the landscaping and my wife decides to take my new truck, yes my new truck and uses it to drive back up to the house. She parks behide her suburban instead of my parking space, goes into the house, gets her keys to the suburban, yep she backs right into my pickup. There is not 3,000 miles on these two vehicle combined. She felt pretty bad. I had to chew her out some, first she took my pickup to get back to the house, parks not in my spot. da da dah

But she reminded me of the time I backed the tractor into the garage door as it was coming down

Write it off as battle scars

murph

heehaw · Dec 18, 2006

Kubota came out on the best end of it all: no injuries for me, just that knot in the ole stomach: ordered a headlight an mounting bracket from a local auto salvage: its an aftermarket, only $14 cheaper than the one from the dealer, but they could get it here tomorrow and the dealer couldn't: messed up the wide crome looking strip thats in the middle of the grill: but i'll patch that back together, straighten the hood and the fender a little, so with the new light and mount, it'll be good enough for me, for a while anyway. i couldn't believe how easy the whole grill came out. there sure ain't a lot holdin em together.
heehaw

BTDT · Dec 19, 2006

I had a friend do that, hit one of his cars with another one of his cars. Insurance wouldn't pay. Said they have people do this on purpose to get/keep cars in good shape, runs up cost for everyone else. They said he couldn't prove it happened "accidentally", so no dice. Be careful how you report it to your ins. company.

Thomas · Dec 19, 2006

Ouch,we all have our days..."If it weren't for bad luck I wouldn't have no luck at all".

heehaw · Dec 19, 2006

insurance co won't ever know about this..i ordered the headlight assembly, will pull the front fender out with the tractor and later get the hood fixed. i keep a really high deductable on insurance, so it wouldn't save much money to report this.
heehaw

scott_vt · Dec 19, 2006

Afternoon Heehaw,
I feel your pain ! No sooner than I finished the rebuild/restore on my 49 Super A Farmall and I backed the tractor into the corner of the garage forgetting about beam hanging down in that corner

I bent my brandnew muffler over like a pretzle

I was so mad I even brought the wife out to show her what I had just done ! She must have felt bad for me, she offered to buy me a new muffler

escavader · Dec 19, 2006

scott_vt said:
Afternoon Heehaw,
I feel your pain ! No sooner than I finished the rebuild/restore on my 49 Super A Farmall and I backed the tractor into the corner of the garage forgetting about beam hanging down in that corner I bent my brandnew muffler over like a pretzle I was so mad I even brought the wife out to show her what I had just done ! She must have felt bad for me, she offered to buy me a new muffler

HI SCOTT,
WIFE offers to buy me things too,just to shut me up

Heck if it works complain more!!!!Just like when we were kids mom use to kiss it to make it feel better.Well your wife aint gonna kiss a farmall ,so SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

ALAN
TOO MUCH COFFEE,IM ACTING LIKE A CLOWN TONITE

heehaw · Dec 20, 2006

i got quotes to fix it yesterday, from @ $1700 to $2200: new hood and new fender: i guess it won't get fixed for a while..
heehaw

BTDT · Dec 20, 2006

Can you find one at a scrapyard/junkyard? Might be cheaper if you don't have some wild paintjob.

scott_vt · Dec 20, 2006

escavader said:
HI SCOTT,
WIFE offers to buy me things too,just to shut me up Heck if it works complain more!!!!Just like when we were kids mom use to kiss it to make it feel better.Well your wife aint gonna kiss a farmall ,so SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!
ALAN
TOO MUCH COFFEE,IM ACTING LIKE A CLOWN TONITE

Mornin Alan,
Usually I do the clown routine in the mornin with too much caffeine

Cant do it at night anymore, or Ill be up all night

Sure is amazing how she shut me up when she starts flashin those green backs around

Alas, no offer to kiss anything, that would include me

Merry Christmas to you and your family !

heehaw · Dec 21, 2006

BTDT said:
Can you find one at a scrapyard/junkyard? Might be cheaper if you don't have some wild paintjob.

checked several places, found a headlight for $125 instead of $200: but no front fenders or hoods: i'm going to just get it pulled back out straight, and put a bug shield across the hood: that will cover almost all the damage: its a truck..a nice truck, but still a truck..no telling what i will hit with it before i ever get rid of it. 2004 with 20,000 miles..
heehaw

texbaylea · Dec 22, 2006

heehaw
You might try LMC Truck Parts: Chevy Chevrolet Blazer S10 GMC Jimmy S15 Ford Bronco Ranger Pickup Pick Up Accessories/Catalogs for parts. I have used them and have been satisfied with the service and parts, prices are so-so but better than the dealers.

Vernon

jwstewar · Dec 22, 2006

heehaw said:
checked several places, found a headlight for $125 instead of $200: but no front fenders or hoods: i'm going to just get it pulled back out straight, and put a bug shield across the hood: that will cover almost all the damage: its a truck..a nice truck, but still a truck..no telling what i will hit with it before i ever get rid of it. 2004 with 20,000 miles..
heehaw

Boy, I would hate to think I was just half-a** a truck that new. I would consider doing something like that with our '97 Honda w/ 230k miles, I don't think I would do that to my '99 Silverado w/ 95k miles. There is now way I would do that to a truck that new w/ only that many miles. I guess each his own.

heehaw · Dec 22, 2006

jwstewar said:
Boy, I would hate to think I was just half-a** a truck that new. I would consider doing something like that with our '97 Honda w/ 230k miles, I don't think I would do that to my '99 Silverado w/ 95k miles. There is now way I would do that to a truck that new w/ only that many miles. I guess each his own.

like i said, theres no telling what i will hit between now and when i get rid of this truck: so i won't spend that kind of money to fix something so minor: plus the truck is bright red: i haven't seen one yet that the paint matched a couple years later, and i'd rather have a dent in the hood than one thats a different color.
heehaw

heehaw · Jan 11, 2007

got my truck back today: instead of replacing the hood and fender, they repaired both, so the total came to @ $1400..that includes fixing the drivers door where someone was mowing as i went by and the mower threw a rock and put a big ole ding almost dead center of the door. it looks like a new truck..
heehaw

rback33 · Jan 15, 2007

When I was in college I had a day just like that. Was a lousy day from the get-go for some reason. All remember was that I got in my old '70 Monte Carlo to go to my football workout right as my mom and sister were driving off to the store or something. I had a million things going through m head as I got just about to the end of the driveway and felt the bump and heard the crunch. My mom was still sitting at the end of the driveway. Traffic happened to be such that had not pulled out yet. I have backed my Monte into the back of her Grand Am. Was lucky that it only cracked the bumper cover and knocked out the lens for the break/taillight.... Cost me around 125 or 150 to get the lens and stuff fixed... crack is still there in the bumper cover I think that car has over 300,000 on it now and my Dad is still driving it. Monte is sitting there waiting for a generous person to donate time, materials and/or money to restore it. Needs the engine rebuilt first... tranny has already been done... I accept donations for the cause though

She is still my baby as far as I am concerned. Numbers still match on it and the body os pretty straight...