Series8217 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 3:24 am Damn dude. Seriously glad you are ok. I've had the "wake up to a turn" experience and it ended similarly. No more driving tired. Really glad you made it out of this one without serious injury to yourself or others.
The Dark Side of Will wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 8:22 am It's great to hear that you're ok. That could have gone really badly... like suddenly-and-permanently-stop-posting-no-one-knows-why badly.
Similar to my flipped Fiero... smashed it on the car's maiden voyage after auto-to-stick swap and engine replacement. It really sucks to put that much effort into it over time and then inadvertently destroy it yourself when you're the only one on the road. The impactful lessons are hard to deal with and I hope you can take some away from this... since you you already got away from it your life and all the pieces of your body.
eHoward wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 4:04 pm I'm glad you're OK. That looks like it could have been really bad. If you can, I would try to find work that isn't nightshift. And if you're not feeling up to the drive, it sucks but sometimes you just have to book the hotel. I would try to charge that back to your employer or client.
I worked wacky hours for many years of my life. I had a multi-year period where I was regularly getting up at 4:30AM and returning home around 9PM to commute between PA and NYC. It definitely takes a toll on you.
The good news is you now have a perfectly valid excuse to buy another car nowmaybe one with advanced safety systems.
yesterday when I got off my first nightshift for the week, I was probably a little more tired than I thought, and didn't quite make it all the way home before I woke up in a curve facing a jeep about a mile from home... I swerved, missed the jeep, but lost traction and hit an embankment and put the car on it's lid...
Thanks everyone, I'm quite glad I made it out the way I did, I'm even more thankful that the Jeep driver was totally unaffected other than missing an appointment, and an adrenaline rush.
I didn't realize I was as tired as I was until it was obviously way too late, I need to be more self aware of my limits and make sure I'm not exceeding them. I am glad it happened in this car though, and not my Suburban, my Fiero, or my truck, this was starting to become a nice car, but I had far less work in it than the Pig Rig or the Fiero, and I need my truck for truck stuff more often than not.
It sounds like USAA is going to take care of me, I'll probably put the settlement towards some repairs to my truck that I've been putting off, and to another project that's been patiently sitting in the wings awaiting some more creative modifications.
Edit to add:
I do plan on keeping the remains to try and salvage anything useful that I can out of it. the WBO2, the cam, the 5 speed parts, and maybe a few other odds and ends. I'll take a sawzall to it to get the parts, then send the rest on it's way ASAP.
