So my wife was driving the Jeep when we were coming home from skiing yesterday. Basically we were going 65mph when two pileups happened (we were able to brake to about 20mph before actually hitting the car in front of us). It was a 5 car accident...and we were number 5 to the "get together." There was another accident behind us with injuries that ended up shutting down the entire Intersate...no idea how many more cars were involved back there.
We hit the driver's side rear quarter panel of an Xterra (which had already been hit by a Dodge Truck about 1.5 seconds before we got there) and had stopped dead in the left hand lane. The KJ was wedged between the Xterra and the center wall of I-70. The KJ held up really well considering...
There are some surface scrapes from the center wall on Driver's side mirror, flair, and front tire. Luckily I think the MTR took the brunt of the wall and was relatively unscathed. The passenger side didn't fair as well...we hit with the bumper first which pushed back into the flair and wheel liner (the flair and liner both got ripped off and popped in to traffic). Again, the MTR likely kept the Xterra from scraping down the entire passenger side of the KJ. The flair is completely toast, but the bumper cover is salvageable...just scraped up.
When you consider what could have been I think we made out pretty well! No airbags deployed and as far as I can tell we only hit plastic parts/tires. I need a new front turn signal, a limited flair, and probably a bunch of plastic rivets. Not bad!
Anybody have an idea where I can get an unpainted 2002-2004 passenger side front Limited flair?
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.... as far as denver to the springs, 79 and no more... I have supported both the state patrol and aurora cops way to much 