This happened two weekends ago, I would have posted sooner but I just got my cable modem yesterday.
I was one the 101 going north in Woodland Hills and there was the usual stop and go traffic. On one of the slow downs, a pretty quick one to a complete stop, I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw the car behind mine's front end dive. He stoped though, but then I noticed through his window a car coming up and then I saw their air bags go off with the crashing sound. As soon as I saw that I put my head on the head rest and bam, my car was hit. All that happened very quickly, like 1 or 2 seconds.
The car in the very back was a 94 Toyota Camry and the car in the middle was a 91 Toyota Tercel. The Camry of course had front end damage, and the Tercel was totaled. The guy in the Tercel hit my rear passenger side bumper area so damage to my car was the most minimal.
I was in my car with my grandmother and her friend, none of us had any injuries. The guy in the middle complained of back pain and the couple in the Camry had bruises from the airbags.
Here are some pictures of my car after the accident, took them with a cell phone camera, that explains the quality.
Too bad! But... crap like this happens and it's out of your control. Go to www.mercedess...
Too bad! But... crap like this happens and it's out of your control. Go to www.mercedesshop.com forums and ask for body shop recommendations in your area.
Same thing happened to me about a year ago in my 1992 300E, but got nailed a LOT harder. $...
Same thing happened to me about a year ago in my 1992 300E, but got nailed a LOT harder. $9K worth of damage. But I got nailed directly by some huge American piece of S*&# tank (like a 1980's Buick Regal or something like that). Tell you what, though, the Mercedes won that one - it totaled the Buick. These cars are tough!
Be careful where you get it fixed. I took mine to the Mercedes dealer (Fletcher Jones in Newport Beach) and they did a TERRIBLE job on mine - I have major sandpaper scratches in mine where they did a crappy job of prepping the metal before painting. My fault for not complaining about it, though. :(
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