Another one bites the dust

Purple Derple wrote

I haven't been on the board since friday night. You guys so badly wish this happend on a race track so you can ridicule me. Too bad. My reputation as a fast driver is intact. This was a mechanical failure. Not me.

did you happen to bleed your own brakes?

Purple Derple wrote

Yes friday night. The dealer wasn't able to do it, but I've done it before with my friend on his car so I knew what to do. It's really easy actually.

i guess your missing my point. if you bled your brakes you either a-did it wrong and caused your brake failure or b- did it correct and there was no brake failure just driver error. complete brake failure is not a common occurance even on the track. you get fade and warning before something like this. if your foot went to the floor and before you bled your brakes they worked what do you suppose happened to your brakes to make them not work?

Purple Derple wrote

Any opinions on whether the car is totaled or not? 2008 with 50k miles.

depends if the frame rail is okay or not and all the front suspension components.

1MOREMOD wrote

i guess your missing my point. if you bled your brakes you either a-did it wrong and caused your brake failure or b- did it correct and there was no brake failure just driver error. complete brake failure is not a common occurance even on the track. you get fade and warning before something like this. if your foot went to the floor and before you bled your brakes they worked what do you suppose happened to your brakes to make them not work?

yeah - I'm trying to read through all the bantering to figure out what the hell happened. I've had brakes start to go on my old Subaru WRX and they did not just go (IE: pedal to the floor). I could def tell there was some air in there, but I've never had complete failure.

1) Did you not bleed your brakes at all? Or not enough - there must have been an enormous air bubble somewhere.

2) Did you forget to put the brake fluid cap back on?

3) Did you rupture some other part of the braking system?

I would have to believe this has SOMETHING to do with the self-service that you performed on the car. While you say you knew what you were doing...something doesn't seem quite right...

this is not looking good for OP..

Purple Derple wrote

Any opinions on whether the car is totaled or not? 2008 with 50k miles.

I'm gonna say that does not look like a hard enough impact or at the right angle to bend the frame. That looks like about 15,000 - 20,000 dollars in damage at a good shop. Not enough to total it. I think you will be good dude.

Nautik wrote

I'm gonna say that does not look like a hard enough impact or at the right angle to bend the frame. That looks like about 15,000 - 20,000 dollars in damage at a good shop. Not enough to total it. I think you will be good dude.

if its 20k the insurance will often want to total because it saves them money when they resell the salvage title.

lets approach this from a different angle. if you had instead went to the dealer to do your brakes on friday and they failed on saturday who would you blame?

1MOREMOD wrote

if its 20k the insurance will often want to total because it saves them money when they resell the salvage title.

yep, the car is worth no more tha $42k as an 08. (pre crash value) This is a $15k-$20k repair.

1MOREMOD wrote

i guess your missing my point. if you bled your brakes you either a-did it wrong and caused your brake failure or b- did it correct and there was no brake failure just driver error. complete brake failure is not a common occurance even on the track. you get fade and warning before something like this. if your foot went to the floor and before you bled your brakes they worked what do you suppose happened to your brakes to make them not work?

I would think if the brakes were bled incorrectly, he should have noticed a big problem almost immediately the first few times he got on the brakes. Sounds like he was well into his drive before the brakes failed...