you had to have your seatbelts on.....

 

You must have had some non-SRT-6 wheels on it.

 

Wow Punkin,

Glad to hear You and Your Mrs were Not injured.
It's also good to know the damage was minor & the XFire held up Well!

I feel safer in my Xfire all the time!

My best to you with your repairs & Semper Fi!
Bill

 

Glad you are OK Punkin and the damage looks minimal and easily repaired.

Appear to be Winter Tires...

 

Punkin,

You were only 'bumped' in my opinion... VERY lucky the damage is so minor. That quarter can probably be 'popped out' without much in the way of filler used to smooth it over. The bumper scuffing isn't too bad either.

It does look as if you have the regular Crossfire wheels on your SRT6, is that the case? or are you so distraught that you forgot which car was hit?

EDIT: Winter tires maybe?

All in all, it looks like you came out of the incident with minor damage. I am still impressed that the vehicle didn't loose control.

Cheers!

 

You can see the SRT wing in the pics.

You can also read 'Winter' on the side of his tires.

AND, his limited is SSB - not black

I will agree with everything else you said - minor damage and little filler will be required. You're lucky! At that speed, it could've been MUCH worse!

SQ

 

"Punkin - glad you are OK.
CrossfireLTD - you as well."

Ditto; glad the damage was minor and the important thing is that you are OK!!

Crossfire LTD - Someone up there must really like you...

 

ShawnQ,

I sit corrected...

Crossfire LTD... I agree with xfire2005 and others... You and your wife won the life lottery that day!

 

As has been discovered already "yes, this is my winter snow tire setup". The one indentation I agree can and should be able to be popped out but as to the bumber??? Well, can scuffs on a plastic bumper be buffed out or does it need to be replaced. I know the bumper is a pretty large piece and figured it will be expensive. I must say the kid "well, late 20's" was very apoligetic and wants to pay for the damage out of his pocket to save his insurance rates. That's ok with me just so it's all as it was.

As far as stability of this car, I swerved to the shoulder and probably saved a harder impact but the car stayed controlled and stable, no fishtail that I remember.

 

Be careful about letting a person pay out of their pocket. Make sure to get complete insurance information!!!

I've been 'stiffed' with a body shop bill before because of something like this. Was there a police report? Did you report the accident to your insurance? Is there any way to PROVE this young man hit your car (aside from the damage)? Witnesses?

Again, just concerned you are going to get stuck with the repair bill... Good luck!

 

Those are good questions. I called in the NJ State Troopers when it happened and he filled out a report. The Trooper said it was ok to not report it to the insurance companies and let this guy pay for it but anytime I was dissatisfied I could then report it. He also gave me his name in case I needed anything. It may have helped that I have my Eagle/Globe/Anchor emblem on the glove box. There is alot of the brotherhood out there.

 

I believe I've seen others say the SRT bumper is about $240 out-of-the-box.

 

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Someone asked if the car wrecked was his SRT or his Limited. I saw the wing, and noticed he said the limited was SSB and the SRT was black. Hence, the car wrecked was the SRT.

 

Just out of curiosity, I note in the first picture that there appears to be a
spoiler mount for an SRT-6 wing, but your wheels are definitely from a
base or limited. Why the change from the SRT-6 wheels to these?

Coyote

 

Coyote,

I got tired of mounting/unmounting my snow tires and since there were alot of regular crossfire wheels floating around, I just swap them each season.

 

Punkin,

Good plan!
I'm doing the Same with my New Kumho SPT's & my Stern ST1's, for my April to November driving & Stock SRT6 & Conti's for the "Winter Months".

Bill (SF)
Semper Fi !