Tough XJ!

[Mikel]

Aren't XJ's tough little buggers... Look at these pictures, the damage that Cherokee caused, and how relatively intact it ended up.


http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=475377

 

[93XJMan]

Thats pretty crazy

 

[imma honky]

Yeah. I will vouch for their rigidity. I hit an 02 crown vic doing 45 (see no braking time). My jeep was still drivable, limping, but still driveable. The vic....
well, the engine was pushed over the passenger side wheel well, the right front tire was OFF the rim, radiator was in the road. The vic turned about 110 degrees sideways (i kept straight).

 

[dizzymac]

I hit a ( another one) deer right in the rump, I was doing about 35mph, knocked him down, slid across the road, but he managed to get back up and limp off in to the woods. I'll say he was about 150-175 lbs.
I checked out the XJ and couldn't find any noticable damage, a little fur in my grille and light assembly's, but other than that I couldn't find anything.

Now on the other hand my son hit a turkey( a small one at that) and took out his grille, headlight, parking light and small dent on the front of his hood, he drives a Chevy C1500 p/u.......oh yeah....him and his buddy bbq'd the turkey.....yuk. P.E.T.A....people eating tasty animals....I saw it on a bumper sticker b-4 anyone has a hissy fit.

 

[Matthew Currie]

The F150 that did this to my shop a couple of years ago backed out and drove away!

 

[imma honky]

The F150 that did this to my shop a couple of years ago backed out and drove away!

Is it you that lives on the corner of two streets or something, and it hapened at night? busted up a bunch of "antique" tools?

 

[Matthew Currie]

Is it you that lives on the corner of two streets or something, and it hapened at night? busted up a bunch of "antique" tools?

Yup, that's the one. It's hard to see in the picture, which was taken with a cheap APS camera a few minutes after the event, which happened before dawn, but among other things, my once-mint 1954 DeWalt radial arm saw is resting upside down about 14 feet into the building, after having been vaulted from the front wall, hitting the table saw (which is now on its side), and landing on the (blue) Walker-Turner jointer on the way down. Arrgh! Jointer was damaged and has to be reground to level. I still haven't got the R.A.S. back together, after finding damage to the arm track and bearings. A kiln and an arc welder were also at the front end of the building, and in the picture you can see the top of the kiln on the right, where it was crushed into a post by the arc welder. Both now defunct. And on and on.

I hear that the culprit (whom we caught using bits of the wreckage to identify the truck) is now working locally as a backhoe operator. I wonder if he's managed to get a driver's license.

 

[RenegadeStang]

No evidence with the XJ yet, but I can vouch for my '81 CJ-7. Running about 65 mph down a 3-lane highway at around 11:30 at night, big ol' doe walks out in front of me from the right side of the road. No braking time whatsoever. I plow right into her and send her in the air off the left side of the road. 3 lanes! Didn't have any rope or straps with me (otherwise I would've carried her home :doh: ). Get back to the house, the front bumper is barely bent and the driver fender is bent under where her head hit. Nothing more.

 

[black93xj]

I hit a doe on the pass front of my xj no braking time at about 45 mph, I hit her in the hind quarter and the deer ran away. My jeep was fine other than a busted headlight bezel, turnsignal lense and cracked fiberglass header pannel. I was impressed.

 

[Only In A Jeep XJ]

I was t boned buy a lady who ran a red light and this is all i had and she was doing around thirty totaly smashed her honda all up.

 

[Bent]

Hmmmmm, rocks seem to leave bigger bite marks than cars do.

 

[xj_mike]

Yeah, because rocks don't give...

 

[Dr. Dyno]

I was t boned buy a lady who ran a red light and this is all i had and she was doing around thirty totaly smashed her honda all up.

I had a similar thing happen to me about 3 months ago. I was just exiting a roundabout and a taxi driver decided to enter before I'd finished exiting, clipping the corner behind the passenger side rear wheel. All I had was a slight dent at the very bottom of the quarter panel in front of the bumper end cap with some paint scuffed off. The taxi driver's Toyota Corolla had a smashed front headlight, dented front fender, dented hood, and a dented front bumper which had come adrift and was lying on the ground. The Corolla was only a week old!
In this case, it was definitely Jeep 1 Corolla 0. Within a week, I had my Jeep fixed and paid for by his insurance so it was a happy ending.

 

[XgeekstarX]

my buddy rearended a tundra at 45mph and all it did was make the grille fall out of the front and pushed the bumper in

 

[RichP]

Jeeps in general are tough, my son was hit headon in his YJ while at a stop sign by a woman doing 50+ in an infinity. Pushed my sons jeep back 25ft, took two flat beds to get the infinity which broke into two pieces off the road, he drove his home, minimal damage, bent grill, dinged hood, bent bumper, broken headlight trim ring.
Daughter hit a Saturn in her TJ who made a left turn [oncoming] in front of her, doing 45, broke the saturn in half, literally a huge crack ran from saturns b piller all the way across to the other b pillar and pushed the saturn sideways into a telephone pole. Damage to the TJ was bent warn front bumper, dented fender chin/broken turn signal and a nick in the hood where it broke the passenger side window.
I don't think I would put my kids in anything BUT a jeep...well, maybe an H1...

 

[FLAWLESS]

Here's the reason I am a ZJ guy now..........

It was a mid 90's civic that did this..........and it left the scene under it's own power. I found my XJ the next morning with a note on the windshield

 

[JMac202]

Ouch!!!!