Nope. hood was never up.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meade Dillon via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 11:28 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] NC mini Q
Huh, guess I'm getting old and imagining things. I was sure Wilton posted
a picture that had the hood up immediately after the accident. That's why
I put a chain on the hood to keep it down, didn't want it to come open
while driving home.
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Max
Charleston SC
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I got to thinking that it was never opened given how the latch pin was
bent and the latch still intact, never could have got it together like
that
closing it. $20 HF recip saw cut right through it though, "soft" steel
which also deformed but stayed intact. Good German chinee steel and
engineering!
It is rather impressive, the hit was just in front of the left front
wheel
and pushed the left front fender/frame over maybe 6-8" while the RF is
pushed over maybe 3". The engine looks moved asunder laterally a coupla
inches too, will have to look to see if nothing is broken in there but
probably just the frame deformation. Looks like the LF strut top was
pushed off the upper fender mount, hence the LF wheel knocked over.
Wheel/tire is fine, just the strut mount, looks like Max has a good set
of
spares. The PS pump/reservoir was broken from the front sheet metal
hitting it but nothing else behind looks affected. The oil cooler is
broken off and one line sheared. We were hoping the engine is OK in that
it did not run long without oil as there is none on the dipstick.
probably
fine, Max is going to get some oil and bypass the cooler and get it going
to make sure.
Nothing behind the firewall is deformed, I guess that is the design for
the front to crush/deform leaving the passenger pod intact. In any case,
somewhat impressive. Maybe we can just cut off the front, find another
clip, and get the welder going...
I'll take some pics later and send them along.
Wilton if it is some consolation, even if you had been 0.1 second/4ft
earlier getting in front of the idiot blowing the red light, you would
have
been well-protected in that car. Maybe a bit banged up but it clearly
could have taken a more direct hit without compromising the pass
compartment too much. That is why we drive Benzes, it did its job.
--BB
On 5/17/16 9:52 AM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote:
Tow driver never touched the hood. It remained closed during the
accident. Now, I'm thinking that the evaluator/appraiser never even
looked
under the hood, other than peeking through cracks. I began to think
that
after I tried to open it yesterday.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Dillon via Mercedes" <
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Cc: "Max Dillon" <dillonm...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] NC mini Q
It was great to see you again Wilton, wish it could have been under
different circumstances. Really a shame that such a nice car was taken
out
by that distracted driver. Rich and I were looking under the hood,
briefly
considered trying to bring your sedan back to life, but the damage
really
is quite severe.
By the way, we had to cut the hood latch with a saw-z-all, I have no
idea how that tow truck driver got that hood closed. We both tried
with
pry bars, could not open that hood with brute force.
--
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300
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