Escape From the Prison Planet

[DRIVEN]

I don't doubt it one bit. All I have is a little $99 pressure washer. Not much more than a noisy low volume garden sprayer.
I wish I was in a position to give the garage a good coat of paint and maybe add a small workbench of some sort. Maybe next summer.

[DRIVEN]

It's fall.

[DRIVEN]

My brother was in town this weekend and brought some materials to help me out. This morning I yanked all the headlights out of the dailies.





I hauled them all over to my dad's shop and got to sanding. 600, 800, 1000 wet. Then he shot some cheap clear over everything. It was a balmy 55 degrees in there so I'm going to let them rest overnight and slap them all together in the morning.

[DRIVEN]

[DRIVEN]

Too cold to go ride? Probably, but I did it anyway.



We left from Initial Point and rode out along the bombing range then west over to the river, then came out above the Swan Falls dam.











We hit a a little leftover snow and ice in the shady spots but the bikes ran fine and nobody crashed so it was a pretty uneventful 75 ride.
Now, on the way out there the Smell Camino started starving for fuel. I could cruise for about a half mile and it would start to chug. I'd pull over and let it idle for a minute and repeat. I pedaled it about 20 miles to the meeting spot in the morning and expected it would be the same for the 30 miles home. I assume the filter inside the Quadrajet is plugging up but didn't have the tools to take it apart so I just limped, with it getting a little worse all the time. I was about half way home when I got a call from my daughter that my wife needed a ride. So I was greeted with this a mile and a half from home.


She was stopped to make a left turn and got smacked by an F450 auto transport with 3 cars on the gooseneck trailer. The Venza wadded up like it was supposed to but she's really, really stiff and sore.

Dammit.

[wayno]

That's too bad, does she have whiplash now?
I had whiplash once and it is terrible.

[DRIVEN]

Yeah. It was a hard enough impact to break the seat and bend the headrest back.

We spent a few hours in the empty ER last night so she'll have some follow-up visits. All in all, could have been way worse. The car did what it was supposed to do and can be replaced. It's just going to be a giant hassle and you never seem to come out even when you deal with this stuff.

[wayno]

I know my whiplash symptoms did not appear for 5 hours, then I started getting this heartburn feeling, by the time sleep time came it was awful, but when I laid down to go to sleep it got way better, next morning I felt great till I got up and took a shower, I almost puked in the shower.

[jtinluvr]

Good to hear the wife didn’t get seriously hurt. Dealing with insurance is rarely pleasant.

[Taterhead]

Man, I hate that for y’all. Glad Mrs. Driven is not as bad off as she could’ve been. Insurance companies suck. I can say that with assurance as my wife works for one.

[DRIVEN]

It's gonna suck for sure. I'm covered by my insurance but it appears that maybe that shady Russian bastard provided fraudulent insurance info. They're still working on figuring it out.

[Taterhead]

Good luck

[DRIVEN]

I'm seriously just looking to get right. If they cover all the medical and I can get another equivalent Venza in the garage without going out of pocket, I'm cool with that. But we all know that's not how it works.

[DRIVEN]

Replacement has landed. 1260 mile round trip to get it home. This one is a couple years newer, completely loaded, and has a few miles less than the wrecked one. One previous owner and in incredible shape for it's age.

[DRIVEN]

As promised in the shop thread, I'm closing this one down. Forward my mail here.
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