Evening Y'all
Sorry to hear your news Tweeze.
Remember tomorrow is election day..........vote early vote often

The steering wheel is on the correct side on my Landy as well :)

Ah, yes. Not easily visible in the 2nd shot - had to have another look just now.

Must be fun making a U (or ewe for the Kiwis) turn :D

Hmm, time for some smoko

Sorry to hear about the job, Tweeze.

Well, off to other opportunities.

Another important day on the world calendar...Melbourne Cup day. 2pm Melbourne time is a good time to invade - It's the race that stops a nation.

Young Vas will be enjoying himself a holiday today as it's a local public holiday down there. The rest of the country is supposed to work.

I'll be having a late lunch to watch it - not much will get done after lunch though.

tweeze, sorry about the job. that is never good news.

It's all good, people usually stay the hell out of my way. Though one jackass managed to rear end me the day before the show. Destroyed the front of his jeep.......left a little paint on my hitch

Grrr. OK, my turn to *****.

I was driving through a residential neighborhood at 7 am this morning when a German Shepherd ran out from a driveway and T-boned the 911 in the driver's door. I didn't even realize what I had hit; just that there was a loud "boom" from the left side of the car. I looked in the rear view mirror on the driver's door to see something brown tumbling. Huh? WTF? How did I miss something like a tree trunk or brown box in the middle of the road? And was that my jackpad cover bouncing down the street? I glanced in my windshield mounted mirror and noted a dog scampering off to the side of the road.

So I stopped to check on the dog. Some guy is in his driveway right where this all happened. Said there was no way I could have seen the dog, as it came running out of a long hedge-lined driveway. It wasn't his dog, but a stray.

So now there's a conglomeration of shallow dents in the driver's door. Not so much that you can look at the door and see them, but shallow like door dings that take just the right sight angle to visualize. There are two baseball-sized ones just under and aft of the rear view mirror, and another larger one (6-8") just above the jackpad receptacle. And there's a little downward bend to the piece of sheetmetal just below the jackpad hole.

Grrr. I'm thinking PDR. Apparently my insurance has no deductible, but there's a $1000 limit whereby if I go over $1000 in repairs it gets noted on my file, even if I'm not at fault. What a PITA.

Bummer Noah... :( I had something similar happen to my 944 with a raccoon... Except the dent is in the rocker where I'm not sure we can get behind it for PDR... :(

dogs.... nature's dingers.... bummer, noah.

Thank goodness I wasn't on one of the Ducs this morning. Had the car door not been there, he would have hit me square on. In motorcycle terms, he would have centerpunched the fairing right by my left knee.

Great Dane vs brand new Toyota Corolla = totalled Toyota.

Sad, but absolutely hilarious to actually watch it happen.

In other words, you would have done a nostatic?

i've had a couple of dogs come at me while i was on my motorcycle. while their owners watched. my foot. connect. and i accelerated away. i don't have sympathy for dog owners that allow their dogs off leash, by the road, chasing vehicles. the dogs learn a valuable lesson.

Yeah, the thought crossed my mind.

This wasn't a dog that was running at the car to chase it or nip at me. It was a dog that apparently was running full speed and didn't see me any more than I didn't see him. We came together at a 90 degree angle. So he ran full-speed into the side of my 20 mph car.

At least it wasn't highway speed was it?

The important thing is you are not hurt. The car can be fixed.

They look polished (and they look good). Chroming is bad for wheels, especially aluminum ones. The chroming (and de-chroming) process causes hydrogen embrittlement and makes the metal more brittle. The chroming needs to be done by someone who really knows what they are doing (like a materials scientist) to retain strength.

Bugger :(

I've had a roo do something similar - fortunately for me it was into a work car. Scares the crap out of you.

I bet a Roo does more damage than a german shepherd....