Bye Bye Sweet Liberty

chefdab · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:24 pm

The Liberty is gone. I was coming home from work yesterday, driving the LJ when about a block from my house I notice a Liberty laying on it's side in a neighbors yard. As I got closer, I realized it was mine! My wife had rushed out of the house to take one of our cats to the vet for respiratory distress, but lost control of the KJ as she turned the corner at the end of our street. She jumped the curb, clipped the corner of the neighbor's house and rolled the Jeep all the way over, landing on the driver's side. Here are a rew pics from my cell phone: (edit: I don't know why the picture links don't work, but if you copy paste it in you address bar it should come up)

As you can see, the lower a-arm on the front passenger side broke. The ball joint recall was done about three weeks ago, so that wasn't the cause. And my boulder bars started to buckle on the driver side. I think that the boulder bars and the skids helped to stiffen the frame so it wouldn't deform as much when it landed on the side.
I don't think we'll be buying another car for a while as my wife works from home anyway. She manged to come out of the ordeal with just some bad bruising and a few scratches. No one else was injured. The cat somehow managed to get out of the carrier during the accident and got his collar pulled off from a nearby bush. We have not been able to find him yet. He does have a microchip implant so if someone finds him he may still be able to be returned to us.

I'll still be on the boards, but I may not have much to say about the KJ now except that it performed like a champ on-road, offroad and even during it's demise. Thank you all for getting me lost in the Jeep thing. Happy trails.

tjkj2002 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:31 pm

Glad your wife was okay.Such a bad way for a KJ to go.

Talon 1 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:32 pm

Wow, glad Kimberly is ok! Send her our love and we miss you guys. Man, there were some good memories with the KJ. Hope you get the cat back quick!

Mike & Wendy

raceinfan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:34 pm

glad your wife is ok,sorry about the KJ

they say accidents always happen close to home

Jeepjeepster · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:03 pm

Thats awful.. Must of been a very scary feeling when you found out it was yours!

Ohh, the pics do not work..

Sorry about the cat.. Why was she rushing to the vet? Something wrong with it?

snowsport · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:52 pm **Posts:** 1211

Glad to hear she made it out OK, that must have shook her up some. Sorry to hear about your KJ, R.I.P. is right... :cry:

Jeepin Al · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:44 pm

Glad Kim is OK! And the family pets ok too?

See after all the fun the KJ had over the last couple of years with us out on the trails, it gave its life saving Kim.

Al

uvalax236 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:54 pm

Holy Crap David! Send Kimberly my regards. Try and pull off the salvagable accessories to sell on here before insurance takes it.

Eddo · **Joined:** Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:01 pm **Posts:** 1214

Click on the links for the pictures.

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priell3 · **Posted:** Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:30 pm

Glad your wife is okay. Sorry about the loss of your KJ.

hyedipin · **Joined:** Thu May 11, 2006 10:20 am **Posts:** 1667

Wow, sad story, at least your wife got out with minimal injuries. Hopefully she heals fast and recovers fully soon.
Were they able to find any fault with liberty or any part that might have caused the issue?

good luck.

FreedomKJ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:48 am

Aww man, that's horrible! I remember that KJ when it was stock, Back when we installed those CBs! (Whatever happened to our Dallas Cowboys loving buddy anyway?)

Glad to hear Kim is doing ok, score one more for the Liberty protecting our loved ones.

Was the cat the one we found at Rausch Creek?

MikeD0106 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:40 am

Man that looked like it could have been a lot worse. Glad your wife is still in one piece. Hopefully the cat will come home soon.

mjfoto · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:35 am

Glad everyone is ok the KJ is replaceable.

JJsTJ · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:16 am

Man thats terrible! Good thing nobody got hurt! We have plenty of Wrangler people around here you can still chat with so make sure you stick around.

auggy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:21 am

Glad your wife is okay!

desertkj · **Joined:** Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:24 pm **Posts:** 677

Glad to hear everyone is ok. It seems like the passenger compartment of the KJ holds up very well in wrecks.

chefdab · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:39 pm

FreedomKJ wrote:

Aww man, that's horrible! I remember that KJ when it was stock, Back when we installed those CBs! (Whatever happened to our Dallas Cowboys loving buddy anyway?)

Glad to hear Kim is doing ok, score one more for the Liberty protecting our loved ones.

Was the cat the one we found at Rausch Creek?

Nope, we still have that KJ. :wink:

The lost cat is a more recent addition that our neighbors found about 5 months ago. They couldn't keep him since they have two large boxers. They knew we had two cats already, so they offered him to us.

Thanks everyone for the kind words. My wife is feeling better, but still worried about finding the cat. We don't know if he was injured in the accident or just ran because he was scared.

05kjrenny · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:09 pm

glad to here that your wife is ok, sorry we never got a chance to meet her but im sure she just as cool as you. maybe next year at adams jeep jam we will meet, hope ya find the cat also!! i just lost my cat a few months ago so i know how you feel there. glad to see that the kj held up to that roll over the way it did.

pinecone · **Posted:** Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:57 pm

That Liberty gave it's life to save her's.

Vehicles can be replaced. Loved ones can't.

Glad everybody is OK.

Bye Bye Sweet Liberty

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