done and done man, didnt have my phone on me at the time the accident happened but went straight home right after the accident and called up my insurance company and got things rolling. Most likely going to get off work early tomorrow and take a trip up to cerritos nissan as another member here already suggested. i can already tell that the impact foam will most likely have to be replaced as the back fascia is a little loose fitting now towards the middle where it wasnt loose at all before.

This is why I call Westminster "The Gauntlet." Little Saigon and Korea Town are like THE WORST places to drive in Southern California. Hell, I'd rather take my chances in downtown L.A. than those places.

Haha, seriously, if an accident happened to me as well, I'd might as well get a full Amuse kit paid and sprayed. OEM bumpers are technically "very expensive."

Yours or their's? Who is the other insurance company? Because they should be paying whatever shop you choose. For all I know, their insurance company is just fucktarded and tried to cheapen **** out.

Maybe Im missing what servicing your brakes has to do with this story? Sounds like the person who hit you was simply a dumbass...

Damn, I would get the amuse kit haha

I rear ended a Honda one morning on my way to work.. heres the story. i was just following the traffic and kept a decent distance from the car in front of me.. That guy in Honda cut right in front of me. right after he did that, the whole traffic slowed down (rush hour) and he slammed on the brake. the second i saw his brake lights i was like "poop.." then "boom".. i rear ended him. surprisingly, there's only a very small crack underneath the left headlight on the bumper and cracked the emblem. other than that, there's not even a scratch.. his bumper was pretty messed up though. considering im getting a 'Z' emblem and possibly a new body kit someday, and the Honda driver didnt really speak English... I let him go. whats up with those Honda drivers?? lol

sorry to hear about your fender bender. same thing happened to me couple of
months ago but it was a cop who rear ended me. man was his face red when he got out of his car. it was about 800.00 in damages. i let the dealership fix it because i trust them. just make sure you get a life time warranty.

yeah i know now that westminster is a hell made for cars, nobody had told me about that before i posted about my little fender bender here lol. As for the names of the body shops that i provided, that was straight from the list my insurance company gave me, but they did say that i could choose whatever body shop i wanted, but that the work would only be guaranteed for the life of the car if i went through one of the shops on their list. as fas as the whole thing about me making a point to service your brakes is because i could see the other guys car visibly trying to stop and failing to do so due to what looked like his brakes giving out at one point when i was looking at his car coming up on me in my rearview, that or like one of my coworkers suggested he might have let up on his brakes for a second to try and slam on them harder. whatever it was i know my brakes saved me from lunging forward into the person in front of me, gotta thank the good old akebono for that :)

I posted this in a previous rear-ender thread:

Warning to anyone who gets rear ended like this...No matter how insignificant the damage looks don't just let them walk away! I swear this Z has a magic bumber that is fantastic for hiding damage.
I was rear ended back in December while stopped in traffic. Some lady smacked into the back of me hard enough to give me a good jerk and throw me against the seat belt. After we pull over to the side of the freeway and I get out to see how bad the damage was I was shocked that there really wasn't any. I found one small abrasion. She was like "well, it doesn't look bad at all" and I was like "well, lets see what the police think" and called 911 to get a cop and a report. Cop shows up and says "well I don't see any damage, do you? In cases like this we just exchange insurance info and don't file a report." I'm like ok, whatever lazy ***. Insurance adjuster comes out and takes some pics and writes an estimate of $450 to touch up the scuff. The scuff was so small I couldn't even get a good picture of it. And I nearly pocketed the $450 check the insurance company sent me. Well, glad I didn't. I take it into the Nissan Collision Center and when they get the bumper off they found the inner bumper was bent, the extension from the frame to the bumper was bent, and the floorboards were bent. New total came out to be $4,800.
So, moral of the story: no matter how minor rear end damage looks get it at least inspected.

amen to that man, i have been through this one time before when someone backed into me on my previous car and it ended up the whole driver side door needed to be replaced so i dont take chances with things that dont look that bad from the outside. i already know for a fact the impact foam will have to be replaced on the inside as i can push in on the outside fascia and it gives way only in the spot where the guy hit my back end and after further inspection today in some different lighting i can see a small crease on the rear fascia where it gave way and bent back outwards again. im going to be taking it into nissan of cerritos here in orange county to get them to inspect it and see what they come up with and have them check out the suspension and everything on the backend while they are at it once i get it in for repair.

Pics?!?

9 months later and all of the sudden, you want PICS?

:rofl2: Look at the So. Cal Cerritos meet pictures.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eXlE13Ezzl...0/IMG_3101.JPG
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z8aw_4dv2D...0/IMG_3065.JPG

:iagree: better safe than sorry-after all is settled is NOT the time to find out other things are damaged...happy you walked away from it.

Damn that really sucks mate. People just cannot flat out drive. People are either very distracted or just driving like a-holes and not paying attention.

Just an aside... most likely his brakes were fine... ABS often will keep tires from screeching (anyone that has engaged them knows what I mean)... the point is to keep the car out of a skid and under control. Plus side is better traction in the wet/snow conditions but there are arguments out there that locking up your wheels in a dry environment is probably better.

You shouldn't ever hear screeching/locking when a car has properly working antilock brakes.

Wow I fed into the necro-bump... I feel dirty :shakes head: