Smashed it.

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Well here is another E-series to add to the accident list. The short version of what happened - The back end kicked out on me @ 100kph in the wet and I veered into a Kenworth truck that was beside me, ending up sideways on the Princess Fwy in a **** my pants situation.

Now the long version - Ok, by now everyone's probably thinking "yeah he must have been caning it", but that's what freaked me out, I wasn't. I was coming back from Geelong about 9pm just going past the Point Cook section of the Fwy, it was ****ing with rain but I was on a perfectly straight bit of the road cruising at 100 and for a few seconds it felt like the car lost drive. When I looked at the tacho it was around 3000rpm and literally half a second after that the back end swung out to the left and I started heading towards the Kenworth beside me.

It was a weird feeling cause I thought, "yeah no problem, a bit of over-steer - I can fix that" but then I hit the truck on his front left bumper bar and there was a lot of swearing and thinking "this could go bad real quick". All I could think of was that I was gonna fly back into the middle of the Fwy and get cleaned up by a ton of cars doing 100.

Anyway, after that I can't remember exactly what I did I was just trying to keep the car straight, luckily the truck kept in a straight line and I didn't hit his trailer, cause he went past and I ended up sideways across the two inside lanes. I was also lucky that the car was still running, otherwise I would have been a sitting duck. I got it to the center emergency lane and off the freeway.

Now I've been trying to figure out what happened with the car exactly. I don't know whether it aqua-planed (my rear tyres are shagged so it wouldn't be hard), or else something happened with the transmission. It's been playing up lately and doesn't have 3rd gear plus it does all kinds of other weird stuff.

Anyway here's a pic of the damage, I consider myself pretty lucky to get out of it so lightly! The car will need a new bonnet, guard, bar, rad support and lower sill. I'm getting a quote tonight and I'm in two minds wether to get it fixed or part it out. I put a lot of effort into re-spraying it and I don't know if I can be bothered spraying the front end again....I'm kind of over it at the moment.