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Old Apr 22, 2008 | 05:55 PM
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Goes to show you what a 5 star crash safety rating vehicle can do for you. Look how the entire car leans on the roof and it barely budged. Glad you're ok.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 03:29 AM
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new pics at the PD







the top really doesn't look bad
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 03:36 AM
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new pics at the PD







the top really doesn't look bad
wow, what is that red stuff? is it blood? do you get to keep the car or is insurance gonna take it? should part it out
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 04:58 PM
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Wow, the roof held up incredibly well for being a roadster. Mercedes-Benz safety engineering: Unlike Any Other.
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Old Apr 23, 2008 | 06:13 PM
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of coz insurance gonna take it for sure...

that's why there won't be any part out whatsoever

might be either gonna get another SLK, a CLS or the new S class depends what my parent thinks, my dad thinks that he want a bigger car cause he likes the W140 that we have in Hong Kong, my mom still miss the fun she had in the tiny SLK, and i told them CLS will solve the problem (coz i love that car!)

the wheels are badly damage.
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 12:24 AM
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some witness gave me a called today about what happened..

he said he was driving by and all of sudden he heard a LOUD BANG SOUND and look at his rearview mirror he saw a car flying, he was talking to my bro today and thought it was a toyota

and he thinks that for that kinda damage with driver running thru red light that driver must be going over 60MPH to send a car flipping.. anyone agree?
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 01:01 AM
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man, good thing the top was down!
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 03:06 AM
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man, good thing the top was down!
hmm isn't it up?

or is it down?

ahh is confusing..
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 10:14 AM
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hmm isn't it up?

or is it down?

ahh is confusing..
lol... i meant 'good thing top wasn't down...
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Old Apr 25, 2008 | 10:15 AM
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Originally Posted by KIRA
some witness gave me a called today about what happened..

he said he was driving by and all of sudden he heard a LOUD BANG SOUND and look at his rearview mirror he saw a car flying, he was talking to my bro today and thought it was a toyota

and he thinks that for that kinda damage with driver running thru red light that driver must be going over 60MPH to send a car flipping.. anyone agree?
To make a car flip . . . yeah that sounds about right or maybe even faster Damn that scares the heck outta me.
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Old May 2, 2008 | 04:20 PM
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update, the insurance gonna pay full cost of the loss (option, tax, extend warrenty) , so is like we didn't earn a penny or lost, so thats all good

btw guys, looking at the pics does my SLK actually look total to you?

my friend said it can be fix for a easy 20g, and the dealer told us don't bother repairing a convitible
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Old May 3, 2008 | 09:29 AM
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Glad you're coming out without a loss. And for the car being covered, too.

What you can see isn't the trouble- it's those things you can't. I wonder how many thousands of dollars just those airbags are. The shot that car took to the side has probably given the chassis a tweak it'd never recover from.
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Old May 18, 2008 | 04:21 AM
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i can't believe what we heard last week...

the CX7 guy's insurance company actually tried to accused my brother of running red light instead of him, they got no proof, and even the CX7 guy admitt at fault they would still tried to accused my brother running red light.. The lights was sure green, even the police report said that my bro has the green light

wow
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Old May 18, 2008 | 11:22 AM
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That's an opposing insurance agent for ya! They would love to be able to get out of paying $40k no doubt. That said, good lord son! Of course your car is totaled. Why on earth would you WANT to fix a new Benz that had rolled? You will never be able to sell the damn thing, and if you do, it will be worthless. Salvage titles don't fetch a lot of money on year-old benzes

The technical answer would be that the car is totalled if more than half the value of the car would be required to fix it, and $20k is most certainly that.
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