SlowSonoma
04-04-07, 02:21 AM
Lol well you guys will all laugh but when I was 16 I took my dad's
**Brand New**
GMC Yukon XL Denali off roading into a retention pond, I did one trip through it turned around and took another trip back the other way. and when I was 15 feet from shore the truck's front end lifted up and little and stops. I try rocking it out of being stuck and im thinking "S***, I just wanted to get the thing muddy so I can call ita real truck..." The rocking doesn't work. I am sitting there stuck on a sand ledge, my exhaust pipe is under water and its gurgling. My two friends at the time who were in the back, get out and run to their eagle talon at a parking lot a couple miles away. Im sitting in the truck with my friend "s10truckguy(member here)" and I am just keeping my foot on the gas pedal. Im now tweaking balls and my dad calls and I tell him in in a movie and I'll call him back later. S***, too close! about 4 hours later the kids who were in the back of the Denali arive in their big red f-250 and they try 6 times to get me out. On the sixth try, they hook up to the front tow hook and start pulling when I hear this loud crack to see the tow hook fly off into the brush and the tow strap to catch the front bumper and rip it half way off. "Well, S*** its now a truck." Finally we call reinforcements! OnStar "how may we help you?!" JK guys. No instead we called a guy with a dodge duallie. He shows up and winches me out on the last remaining tow hook but the damage was severe not only to the truck but to me too.
Damage in the end:
Broken front bumper $1,000.00 (paint too)
broken tow hook $12.50
one bent rim $380.00
One shattered rim (hit a rock under water) $380.00
Bent running board $225.00
Bent rear axle: 400.00+
countless electrical shorts since 500.00+
_______________________________________
$2897.50
Severe scream session with father...Psych bills over $3,000.00 grand...lol
Best story to tell my grand children and a good reason not to let my son drive my toy: All worth it.
**Brand New**
GMC Yukon XL Denali off roading into a retention pond, I did one trip through it turned around and took another trip back the other way. and when I was 15 feet from shore the truck's front end lifted up and little and stops. I try rocking it out of being stuck and im thinking "S***, I just wanted to get the thing muddy so I can call ita real truck..." The rocking doesn't work. I am sitting there stuck on a sand ledge, my exhaust pipe is under water and its gurgling. My two friends at the time who were in the back, get out and run to their eagle talon at a parking lot a couple miles away. Im sitting in the truck with my friend "s10truckguy(member here)" and I am just keeping my foot on the gas pedal. Im now tweaking balls and my dad calls and I tell him in in a movie and I'll call him back later. S***, too close! about 4 hours later the kids who were in the back of the Denali arive in their big red f-250 and they try 6 times to get me out. On the sixth try, they hook up to the front tow hook and start pulling when I hear this loud crack to see the tow hook fly off into the brush and the tow strap to catch the front bumper and rip it half way off. "Well, S*** its now a truck." Finally we call reinforcements! OnStar "how may we help you?!" JK guys. No instead we called a guy with a dodge duallie. He shows up and winches me out on the last remaining tow hook but the damage was severe not only to the truck but to me too.
Damage in the end:
Broken front bumper $1,000.00 (paint too)
broken tow hook $12.50
one bent rim $380.00
One shattered rim (hit a rock under water) $380.00
Bent running board $225.00
Bent rear axle: 400.00+
countless electrical shorts since 500.00+
_______________________________________
$2897.50
Severe scream session with father...Psych bills over $3,000.00 grand...lol
Best story to tell my grand children and a good reason not to let my son drive my toy: All worth it.