Transportation: Today, I finished installing a brand new engine in my old car....

By stupidoldcar - 16/11/2009 02:59 - United States

Today, I finished installing a brand new engine in my old car. It cost just over $6000. Later, I was waiting at a red light and an uninsured drunk driver smashed into it head on. It's completely totaled. I got to drive it 5 miles. The car is worth $1000, even with a new engine. FML

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By wtfman101 - 28/08/2009 14:56 - United States

Today, I woke up to find the entire driver's side of my car wrecked. Front door, back door, front and rear bumper smashed to shit. A drunk driver had hit it the previous night and ran. Don't worry though, he stopped and left his insurance information. He keyed it into the undamaged side of my car. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/12/2010 14:51 - Canada

Today, I hit a patch of black ice and totaled my car. The car is a month old. For the next 5 years I'll be paying for a car I can't drive. FML

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Amkii 0

Monday 16 November 2009 9:20

:( Ugh. I'm sorry. Your insurance should cover most of it, right? This is why we need to have stricter rules in the US about drunk drivers... esp. uninsured ones!

spiderman0606 0

Monday 16 November 2009 9:21

Dude, if he doesnt have insurance that automatically means it's his fault (although it is his fault) and he has to pay for everything. But fyl until everything is taken care of.

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sportsnut 0

Tuesday 17 November 2009 5:50

YDI.. TERRIBLE decision to put that engine in a shitty old car

geetface 0

Tuesday 17 November 2009 8:34

shoulda put that $6k into a new car instead of some shit car worth only $1k...moron

ozymandias_fml 0

Tuesday 17 November 2009 18:24

YDI for wasting 6x the value of the car replacing the engine. You *should* have just bought a new or used one in better shape -- that is worth $6000+

COBRAMORPH 0

Wednesday 18 November 2009 6:39

Drunk drivers should be shot on site.

bubber 0

Wednesday 18 November 2009 6:55

First off, you deserve it for blowing 6k on a new engine install on a car that is only worth 1k. Secondly I am not sure what you had, but 6k for an engine install? Me thinks you got screwed. I did an instal 2 months ago for $1000 and a case of beer. $1000 for a long block 302 and the case of beer for my time.

Hillbilly_Deluxe 3

Thursday 19 November 2009 8:19

the complete, 100% long block 460 with headers that i put in my 1993 F-350 only cost me $2000 as a NAPA crate motor you got ripped off, man

Emperor_of_pugs 0

Friday 20 November 2009 3:18

i would sue

Igor_g5 0

Sunday 22 November 2009 23:27

I agree with YDI for putting a $6000 engine In a $1000 car. And again for paying $6000 for an engine.

werzal 5

Tuesday 24 November 2009 1:34

Some of these posters are complete idiots... The car was probably worth MORE than $1000 BEFORE the drunk TOTALED it... Get it... The $1000 is probably all that is salvagable from the WRECK!!