Well, with all the miles that I drive in a year (75,000+) it was bound to happen. I was driving down a local two lane highway and came over a hill to see a Cattle trailer stopped in the middle of the road. There was a little saturn four door that was going around it on the sholder but decided to slam on the brakes. Even with two feet on the brakes, the X with the trailer did not make it to a complete stop before relocating the trunk of the saturn. The amazing thing is that my 2 year old did not even wake up and the x only needs a grill guard, fog light, and possibly a new bumper. The bumper where the license plate attaches is pushed in, I think I can pull it out but we will see. If anyone has a drvers side fog lamp laying around that they want to get rid of please contact me. I would also be intrested in a bumper that is laying around too (tan).

Thanks, Bryan

 

Bigger is better

 

Always sad to hear of accidents, but glad nobody was hurt. Check eBay for miscellaneous parts.

 

I checked for bumpers on ebay and only found chrome ones. I need the tan one. I was hopeing that someone put a replacment bumper on and had the OEM one laying around. I will check for the fog lamps later. Thanks, again.

Bryan

 

If all else fails, check out Discount Ford Parts, one of the FTE sponsors. I had to order a TPS for my X and it would have cost me between $125 and $150. But it only cost me $83 shipped to my door.

 

I saw a couple of front bumpers on eBay. I have a pair of take-off fogs from my 05, but they're expensive (just because I saw how expensive they'd be to replace if I want to put them back on ...)

 

This thread is worthless without pics. Sorry to hear about it though.

 

true, very true

 

So what happened to the Saturn?

 

My wife rear ended a Honda CRV within the week we bought the X.. Lets just say it was not pretty!! CRV=totaled X=small ding in bumper.
That why I bought it to keep my familiy safe.. The lady bitched that our truck was to big and dangerous.. All I could think is it is not my fault you dont care enough about your familiy to buy the largest, safest SUV on the market..
I love how they feel like victims!

 

I'd like to think you don't "love" how people feel when they're suffering, but I agree with the idea that people have a way of blaming others for the consequences of their choices. Perhaps this is something more common in California (where I live) than other parts of the US and it's certainly a foreign concept to Australians (me, at least) but I just don't understand how seemingly intelligent, caring parents can decide that they're doing the right thing by toting their kids around in a compact or even a medium sized sedan with inadequate secondary (passive) safety features.

 

Your wife rear ended the CRV. This person was in fact a victim of your wife's failure to maintain an assured clear distance.

 

You could well be right, but I don't know the details of the incident. Perhaps you do. Did the brakes lights work on the car in front? Was there another car involved? Did the driver of the car in front do something dangerous -- such as diving in front of the Excursion?

I try to respect the long braking distances of the X, but other drivers seem to think it will stop on a dime. When I'm in slow-n-go traffic, I accept the fact that every now and then someone will decide the extra space between my car and the car in front is a sign of weakness and they'll dive in there. So I have to ease back another few car lengths to avoid risking a pile-up. Usually, those idiots are in such a hurry to get to their next accident they're already making their next lane change and they're gone.



Cheers,

 

Actually this was an asian lady that had a very spastic way of stopping 50' in front of a red light! She would slow down then spped up stop then go very strange..
My wife did not receive a ticket but from what I understand the asian lady did for what I am not sure.. And yes I agree it was my wifes fault..
What I meant by "victims" people seem to get angry when hammered with a much larger vehicle.. I bought the truck to keep my familiy out of danger.. If they are not smart enough to buy a safe vehicle thats there problem...
And no I do not want to see anyone hurt by any means but the way I look at it as long as my familiy is safe it is your own problem if you cant do the same!

 

You know, very few people can afford to own or operate a vehicle like the Excursion. That doesn't excuse someone in a CRV (not cheap, but small and vulnerable) but the Excursion is no town car, so it really has to be considered as at least a second vehicle.
Anyway, if we really wanted to be safe on the road, would our primary mechanism for avoiding collisions be paint on the road?
Imagine trying to explain that to an alien ... "yes, we fly along these narrow, bumpy corridors as if jousting each other, always at the risk of a head-on collision, but we're safe because we paint lines down the middle ..."
When the automobile became popular and yet used the same road system as the horse and buggy, some bright person in the day said "let's make all roads one-way and all turns only to the right, thus avoiding any potential for head-on collision and making all road rules as simple as 'yield to the left, turn to the right' only." And you would only have to understand a stop sign.
This basic concept (including traffic light signals, but with no turn cycles, no left turns at all) was put into a computer model using existing roads for central London and resulted in pretty accurate depiction of existing traffic load (using the fee-based restriction system) and while it was still possible to get grid lock, congestion results in slow traffic, not stopped traffic because it creates a sort of conga-line from the center of the city to the point of decongestion.
Of course, the real problem is the transition (and the consequences of how to fully redesign a whole country, every parking spot etc. etc.) but it could be done and the savings in fuel consumption alone could be the motivator this country needs to go through the process.