Here's a copy from another thread Gofast started when we had a real bad trip to a local spot in north Texas. I managed to lay my pretty new and pretty expensive Eddie Bauer all the way over on its right side. Ugh.
"It's a little hard to tell, but the gold trim on both fenderwells also got pretty screwed up. You can see where some of it got ripped out behind the front wheel; the rest got scraped up, but since it is pliable, the shape wasn't messed up too bad.
The side mirror luckily not only turns inward on impact; it also slides up! The mirror actually got pushed up several inches on its pivot mount and was hanging off of the top. All we had to do was fiddle with it awhile until it snapped back down into place. It is obvious that the front door bottom took most of the hit.
The picture doesn't capture the depth of the ding on the front door; it went all the way in to the interior door bar that strengthens the door in case of side impact. If you look closely at the rear of the front door you will see that when closed it still stuck out over an inch. The doorskin just folded in and pulled the edges out.
The white spot on the upper portion of the rear door marks where the back part of the vehicle laid down. I think I can get a paintless dent popper to fix that before getting it repainted again. Picture quality doesn't reveal all the damage and severe "Trail Pinstriping" surrounding that mark going right down to the metal.
The Herculiner did a good job of covering up all that stuff on the lower doors. It's hard to tell in the picture but the rear lower door was pretty messed up too."
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Here's another bonus. It's on my registry page. It is the first Whoops I got that really cost me some money. It happened in Clayton, OK.
The picture is somewhat of an optical illusion. If you look closely at the ground below my rear bumper you can tell the boulder is much bigger than it looks in the picture; my rear bumper is about five feet above the ground. My right rear tire was gripping and hugging the side of the other boulder about two and a half feet above ground. Had my KO's lost their grip and fallen down, I would have smashed my entire right side into it. That area was 4+ trail stuff and I really got in over my head there. But I made it and only got strapped once.
I've done lots of little other stuff too like ripped my foglamps out on the trail (twice, that's four fogs at $75/each; I remove them now before I do a run) but that just comes with the territory in this sport. The first whoops I had was stuffing my tailpipe into a creek bed and taking a core sample so solid we had to hacksaw off a foot of it before we could get to where there was no clay mud packed into it. Gemini Bridges Trail in Moab took the rest of the tailpipe off. It ends about six inches behind my muffler now, above my rear axle.
I have to get credit to the integrity of the drivetrain so far though; all my whoops have been cosmetic body damage and accessory type stuff. I've yet to have a major mechanical or systems failure and I've ridden it pretty hard for a grocery-getter.
[Edited by GJarrett on 12-09-2000 at 04:06 PM]
"It's a little hard to tell, but the gold trim on both fenderwells also got pretty screwed up. You can see where some of it got ripped out behind the front wheel; the rest got scraped up, but since it is pliable, the shape wasn't messed up too bad.
The side mirror luckily not only turns inward on impact; it also slides up! The mirror actually got pushed up several inches on its pivot mount and was hanging off of the top. All we had to do was fiddle with it awhile until it snapped back down into place. It is obvious that the front door bottom took most of the hit.
The picture doesn't capture the depth of the ding on the front door; it went all the way in to the interior door bar that strengthens the door in case of side impact. If you look closely at the rear of the front door you will see that when closed it still stuck out over an inch. The doorskin just folded in and pulled the edges out.
The white spot on the upper portion of the rear door marks where the back part of the vehicle laid down. I think I can get a paintless dent popper to fix that before getting it repainted again. Picture quality doesn't reveal all the damage and severe "Trail Pinstriping" surrounding that mark going right down to the metal.
The Herculiner did a good job of covering up all that stuff on the lower doors. It's hard to tell in the picture but the rear lower door was pretty messed up too."
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Here's another bonus. It's on my registry page. It is the first Whoops I got that really cost me some money. It happened in Clayton, OK.
The picture is somewhat of an optical illusion. If you look closely at the ground below my rear bumper you can tell the boulder is much bigger than it looks in the picture; my rear bumper is about five feet above the ground. My right rear tire was gripping and hugging the side of the other boulder about two and a half feet above ground. Had my KO's lost their grip and fallen down, I would have smashed my entire right side into it. That area was 4+ trail stuff and I really got in over my head there. But I made it and only got strapped once.
I've done lots of little other stuff too like ripped my foglamps out on the trail (twice, that's four fogs at $75/each; I remove them now before I do a run) but that just comes with the territory in this sport. The first whoops I had was stuffing my tailpipe into a creek bed and taking a core sample so solid we had to hacksaw off a foot of it before we could get to where there was no clay mud packed into it. Gemini Bridges Trail in Moab took the rest of the tailpipe off. It ends about six inches behind my muffler now, above my rear axle.
I have to get credit to the integrity of the drivetrain so far though; all my whoops have been cosmetic body damage and accessory type stuff. I've yet to have a major mechanical or systems failure and I've ridden it pretty hard for a grocery-getter.
[Edited by GJarrett on 12-09-2000 at 04:06 PM]
