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Absolutely, I just gave my girlfriend my 84 240 last month. Friday evening she was hit by a kid driving his mother's car, merging into traffic. She was in the left lane (coming up the hill from the MacKay bridge headed toward MicMac Mall, where Victoria Road merges, for anyone who knows Dartmouth, NS) and the kid merged into traffic but crossed two lanes ...right into the passenger front door of her car. The two passenger doors & the wheel arch were caved in, the impact was severe enough to knock the exhaust off the hangers, but the mass of the car (and her driving skill) kept her from being bumped over the curb into oncoming traffic. The worst of it? Not one damn person stopped except her, and the other driver, not even the police car a few cars behind the accident!Certainly shakes my confidence in the local law enforcement officials. Still waiting to hear from the kid's parents about how to proceed, I guess if they won't call it's going to be the full meal deal through their insurance - new paint will be nice. She's shaken up but fine, and the car will survive, just needs two doors and a wheel arch. I shudder to think what would have happened if she'd been driving a Geo... Her life is much more important to me than fuel economy. I can't wait to get rid of my Golf & back into a Volvo as a daily driver.
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Chris, Dartmouth NS Canada 70 M-B 280SE, 83 245DL, 84 244 turbo, 90 780 turbo, 92 VW Golf
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