1986 Grand Marquis

[friskyfrankie]

Most areas have a legal requirement that drivers involved in accidents MUST trade insurance and contact info. Not sure if you did but if not, in the future, call the police and get a preliminary report ON THE SPOT!

[1985crownvicltd85]

Most areas have a legal requirement that drivers involved in accidents MUST trade insurance and contact info. Not sure if you did but if not, in the future, call the police and get a preliminary report ON THE SPOT!

A cop was there (by chance) and told us to go to the collision centre. She just didnt want to.

[kishy]

July 19: I was coming home from work sitting at a red light. I was side swiped by this Hyundai. She was trying to get into the left turn lane and I guess she thought she could squeeze herself in. I reported it to the collision centre and my insurance. (We'll see what happens with that)

The damage to my car is just the rubber guard on the bumper (see photo) and minor paint transfer to the chrome on the bumper.

Photos:

You definitely won that battle. Hopefully the insurance fault determination goes in your favour. If there's no good way to substantiate which one of you left your lane, you may end up fighting over it.

At least your car is so minimally damaged that there's no chance of it being written off. The same damage done to the other car, but to yours, very well may have resulted in that with a standard auto policy.

Most areas have a legal requirement that drivers involved in accidents MUST trade insurance and contact info. Not sure if you did but if not, in the future, call the police and get a preliminary report ON THE SPOT!

Ontario has this idiotic system where police rarely attend for a collision and basically don't even do anything if they do attend unless there was a really obvious, undeniable reason to lay a charge on someone. All matters relating to the collision - making a statement, creating the report - are done at a third-party Collision Reporting Centre, which works closely with police but is a private company. You are supposed to exchange info at the scene but it's not unusual for people to say that they don't want the other party to know who they are, so the cop sometimes referees and takes the info, then hands it directly to the other person.

Fault determination in any sense that matters is done by the insurance companies, and really only matters for the purpose of affecting your driving record and whether or not you pay a deductible. In Ontario, regardless of who is at fault, every person goes through their own insurance company and is compensated by their own company. As I understand it, this is a version of what is sometimes called "no fault" insurance.

[sly]

Advantage of the old knee knocker bumpers that extend beyond the edge of the vehicle and actually protect it.

[DerekTheGreat]

Yeah, wow, you got away Scott-free with that! What scuff on your rub strip? I wouldn't even bother replacing it. You should see all the scuffs on my truck's rub strip from the idiots over the years.

[1985crownvicltd85]

.... Forgot to update: July 26. She was found to be 100% at fault.

Apparently they (Insurance/Body shop of my choosing) searched all over North America to find me a rear bumper. They couldnt find one. So, instead I received a payout.

I've been meaning to find an extra set of front and rear bumpers for this car anyways.

So. I'll be on the lookout for those.

[1985crownvicltd85]

No luck with any front or rear gmq bumpers, although I haven’t been looking very hard. I did pickup a header panel for the car (just in case)

It got a new muffler and will need a new y pipe or h pipe really soon.(not sure which route I want to go yet)
I did all 4 ball joints, control arm bushings, front shocks, rotors, bearings, pads, oil change, greased the front end.

Also bought some snow tires and mounted them at work. The car looks really odd to me without the white walls or white line tires (whatever you want to call them)

[kishy]

Not sure how far you may be willing to go, but slexwild has a 1982 part-out near Chicago: https://www.grandmarq.net/vb/forum/s...ia#post1401724

It's a Ford and I don't know if the bumpers are still there.

Let me check on my stash of bumpers, I might have something for you. I'm pretty sure I was running a mid-80s Mercury bumper on the wagon before it got the early year bumper, and I do have one "emergency spare" rear bumper for an 87- sedan but those are so hard to find that I wasn't really intending to let go of it.

edit: reviewing the photos from earlier in the thread, it's not even clear to me that you need a whole bumper, maybe just the plastic strip if you really feel like fixing it.

[1985crownvicltd85]

Not sure how far you may be willing to go, but slexwild has a 1982 part-out near Chicago: https://www.grandmarq.net/vb/forum/s...ia#post1401724

It's a Ford and I don't know if the bumpers are still there.

Let me check on my stash of bumpers, I might have something for you. I'm pretty sure I was running a mid-80s Mercury bumper on the wagon before it got the early year bumper, and I do have one "emergency spare" rear bumper for an 87- sedan but those are so hard to find that I wasn't really intending to let go of it.

edit: reviewing the photos from earlier in the thread, it's not even clear to me that you need a whole bumper, maybe just the plastic strip if you really feel like fixing it.

Honestly, after going outside and really looking at the bumpers I’m perfectly happy with the way the back bumper looks, Its mainly the front that I’m hoping to find. But at this point it’s only for cosmetic reasons.

[Tynnerstroem]

Nice Grand Marquis man. It does get a whole other look with just regular blackwall tires, more of a "regular used car" look to it, if that makes any sense.

[1985crownvicltd85]

Nice Grand Marquis man. It does get a whole other look with just regular blackwall tires, more of a "regular used car" look to it, if that makes any sense.

It does make sense!

can’t wait to put them back on