Big Mouth Bumper smashed but survival story! - Honda Prelude Forum

Z · 07-06-2002, 07:31 PM

Bad nite for me on july 4th... or maybe it was already the 5th...

Few more pics can be found here...
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=4291653301

Story: i was taking my gf home from fireworks on i-15 freeway... there's a very dark area and a truck was ahead of me, i saw him changed lines (but very slowly like a normal routine) by the time i knew it, there was a stray bumper on the ground... wham... 80 mph directly on to it. Thank to WW for making this a urethane bumper, bumper is still straight... just the grilles are all bent out of shape. For the passanger headlamp, the bumper actually pop out and got stuck, had to rip off the entire bumper and put it back on. As you can see all the brackets broke off too. We fixed it the best we can, but the bumper doesn't sit straight up and more and i have a good 1/4 inch gap between the bumper and hood now. The bottom radiator support is also bent up a bit. But everything else is okay. My passanger side skirt is also cracked towards the middle...

Paint is scrubed up and breaking as well....

Poor nite for me...

SiR-P12eLude · 07-06-2002, 08:31 PM

ouch!! i feel you man.....

brendon2k · 07-06-2002, 08:59 PM

Ouch, so are you just going to repaint it then?

Si4WS · 07-06-2002, 09:31 PM

ouch, I'm sorry, that looks tough.

Brian2004 · 07-07-2002, 04:54 AM

i was wondering do the grilles come with the kit are did you buy them separete? And if you did where did you buy them at? Thanks and i am sorry for what happened

Z · 07-07-2002, 11:14 AM

The grilles come with the kit as for fixing it, i probably could easily just need to repaint it and have some stuff straighten out...

H22aPoweredBatMobile · 07-07-2002, 01:33 PM

sorry to here that JEff....hope things get taking care of...Eric also got into some trouble onthe freeway on july 4th...

cantdrive55 · 07-07-2002, 01:38 PM

Bummer, at least nothing serious broke right?

Z · 07-07-2002, 05:18 PM

Bottom of the radiator support is badly bent up (luckily the ac condensor and radiator are okay and i think the reinforcement bar now sits a bit lower or something cause i got some nice gaps everywhere...

but everything is okay, and everyone is okay...

thanks everyone!