Got hit tonight while turning into a parking lot. Guy jumped a lane and this happened. Shattered the window. These panels are tin foil 😂 most important I’m OK. Never gonna be the same. But at least that door ding can be fixed now.

 

OUCH! Glad that you are OK. Did you have a front seat passenger? If so, hope they are also OK.

 

Sorry to see it happen to your new car, but guess the silver lining is that you've used up your bad luck for the time being. You can drive worry free now.

 

Sucks, but if you take it to good body shop it will come out like new. Make sure its a body shop that specializes in Honda/Acura

 

No passenger but the glass went everywhere even into my shoes.

if it wasn’t for bad luck, I wouldn’t have no luck at all.

taking to to a place I trust and did my wife’s pilot a few months ago. Not worried about the outcome or value as by the time I trade it, it’ll have 250k miles and be worth a beer and a shot if I’m lucky. Just annoyed at the inconvenience and the utter lack of awareness of the dude that hit me.

 

Sucks that it happened, but that's an energy absorbing structure and you should be glad.

I got a "door ding" just like that in a Jeep Grand Cherokee years ago, right after I got it out of the body shop for some other damage. I was fine, but insurance pulled the plug on the aging Jeep. I was just really happy my wife wasn't riding along that day. Glass everywhere.

I bet that can be fixed to "like new". But you might be finding little pieces of glass for a while.

Good luck. And glad you're OK.

 

Cars are things and can be fixed. You are OK, and that is what matters.

 

you have a fun disposition.
Glad you're fine...good attitude!

 

If this car wasnt so new then this would of been a write off. I see 15k in damages. Whole side needs to be painted and the hood as well so the color matches.

Glad your ok and count your blessings!

 

I think it will be less than that, 7-10k Please post back estimate.

 

Glad your ok. That’ll buff right out and you won’t even notice.

 

Frame is likely not bent, all the damaged panels will be replaced, it should be exactly like new as long as they assemble it properly. Make sure all doors align same as on other side when its done

 

Yeah, most important, you're okay.

Anybody remember when you could sit on the hood or trunk of a car? Even climb on the roof? It might pop in and out, but it would only pop in and out. Even the roof racks now aren't rated for Aunt Edna.

 

I think it will be more than the 7-10k. I just had the door panel on my sons 2015 CRV replaced that was just pushed in from an accident. For the door panel and paint it was 2300. There was no internal damage to the window assembly.
An Acura door is going to be more $$ than the Honda. Here you have a door with internal damage plus glass, another door panel and paint. Plus double check the seats for any scratches/rips from flying glass.

The accident sucks but you are OK which is most important thing.
The damage is really cosmetic and the engine compartment looks fine so no issues there.
Best of luck!

 

My condolences. I remember when I got my Honda it got hit in the first few months, and ever since I had problems that I couldn't diagnose but that I attributed to the accident. Lasted the rest of the life of the car.

No airbag deployment? I don't see any curtain bags, but what about the knee bags?

 

If he takes it to good bodyshop, it will be exactly like new.

 

no bags. I guess that it wasn’t a high rate of speed and the passenger srs was off since it was empty?

I want to check the pano roof though to make sure the roofline or body didn’t twist. The internal door components are ruined I had to open the door from the inside handle. The interior panel was pushed way in.

the glass shattering was the most surprising part I think. I was picking glass out of my shoes so I’m thankful I had no passengers because that would have cut them up for sure.

 

AFAIK automobile side glass is tempered glass, but usually it is not laminated unless it is acoustic glass, which is like the laminated safety glass of windshields. The Advance trim of 3rd-gen RDX has acoustic front door windows. Apparently A-Spec doesn't.

Tempering makes glass shatter into tiny pieces when it breaks, rather than big shards. Laminating two sheets of glass with a plastic film in between helps it stay intact and prevent ejection of vehicle occupants.

The plastic film in acoustic glass is a slightly different composition to help reduce sound transmission. But laminated safety glass also has this effect; acoustic glass just does it better within a certain range of frequencies.

All windshields are laminated safety glass, by law, and all trims of 3rd-gen RDX have acoustic glass windshields.

 

Oh man so sorry. Thank the Lord you're ok. Could have been worse had he been traveling faster.

 

the glass didn’t shard, wasn’t jagged so yes it did the job. However, there was plenty of fine little pieces small enough to fit in the perforations of the seats and certainly enough to cut up an eye had it gotten into it. Maybe if a passenger was there the bags deploy and the glass dust is kept to a minimal, but I was licking glass from my shoes, the rear, the cargo, everywhere. That’s not a knock on the rdx, I haven’t been in accident in 20+ years and even then didn’t have broken glass. So I’m not an expert, but was really surprised at how easily it turned to dust.

 

Ouch! Glad you are okay...!

 

That's true dedication to lick the glass from your cargo area.

But I spent an evening picking the glass from the carpet and elsewhere in my daughter's room after her tempered glass computer desk suddenly collapsed while she was sitting in front of it. ( We think an idiot HVAC guy had stepped on it and stressed it ). She was mostly unharmed, but talk about a blood curdling scream!

 

Dang! Bad luck. Glad you're ok. Hope the insurance won't give any hard time covering this repair.

 

Ok so here’s the initial report. 2 new doors, new glass, interior trim, exterior trim, wiring harnesses, paint and blend to fender and rear quarter panel. Will fix the door ding in the quarter panel as well (unrelated). Rocket panel and B pillar work is a little confusing. Ordering the entire door ding and b pillar piece but more likely cutting and splicing pieces in because replacing the entire piece would be more invasive (requires taking out the dash and more interior pieces). They want to do least invasive options. Factory has recommended sections to cut and weld the interior door frames (not sure of the technical term). Undetectable when painted.

total......





$8500 ish give or take.



ALL parts will be factory. Including glass which insurance tried to save a few bucks on but my guy will get factory for the same cost.

I’ll post the after pics in about 15-21 days

 

I was right with my 7-10k estimate

 

Take my thumbs up mother Russia.

OP check if they're painting the hood as well. The way the fender sits to the hood you'll wanna match the color. Make sure they also polish out the the imperfections in the paint job as well.

I usually judge a shop by the sort of cars they have in their shop.

 

Ouch. Sorry bruh....


She'll be whole again soon.

 

that’s a good question and I’ll ask - I know the shop well and he did great work on my wife’s pilot and another family members bmw. I trust him and I know he will do that if he needs to. Plenty of luxury suvs in his lot. He’s in a High end area. Shop doesn’t look like much but he’s been there for over 35 years. “Smaller” shops are generally better than the turn and burn types.

 

It still helps when shop has experience in Honda/Acura. Each manufacture has its quarks and specifics.

 

for sure! He knows what he’s doing. He had it all written up before the estimator got there. I know they are dropping bumpers and front grille etc so my only concern honestly is all the sensors and calibrations with those sorts of things. Recalibration is listed on there so I know they will do it.

 

Some body shops take cars to dealer for all the sensor calibration stuff as they do not want to mess with it. It all should be covered as part of the insurance repair. This is a good option if you want dealer to recalibrate everything back to original specs.

 

that's cheap!!!!

I incurred $15,000 in damages in my 2006 TL. of course, i went over a curb...
but, I say suck it to all the nay-sayers....your car will be good as new!

 

I agree, if you take it to good body shop and make sure they dont cut conners, it will be just like new. So if you want to sell it, they might ding you for carafe or what not, but if you plan to keep it, it really does not matter.
A good body shop will throw away anything that is damaged and replace with OEM parts, so its really identical to new.
The only trouble if they have to straighten frame, here things might not go ideal (depending on damage), but even with frames, they figured out how to do it without any issues

 

haven't seen any naysayers here. Everyone’s been positive about it.

no frame damage. The rocker panel was dented though so they are replacing that piece and oart of the b pillar.

by the time I’m done with this car it’ll have 250000 miles on it. I put about 30k a year on cars. Outside sales job.

 

Jeez... Didn't know it was that much, Jistin.

 

I had a 2003 Accord. When I sold it to a pro 12 years later, he asked if it had ever been in an accident. I said that nothing major, but if it was anything, I would have had it fixed at XYZ shop. He said, let me look. They do good work. He came back and said that there had been some repair, he could tell by painted over spots, but it was done perfectly, and no money off. He did not even test drive it. Said he saw it as it came in, saw how it was kept, a d wrote me a check.

I had, personally, depreciated that thing down to zero, so I just wanted it sold with no hassle. This used car dealer offered me more than the trade-in value. He was an exNYC cop, and said that an MT Accord with a perfect, no-rust body and no codes or engine issues, will fly off his lot. I hope he made 50% on it, since I did not want to deal with the local clientele that would be interested in that car. He was across the street from my mechanic who vouched for him as a square dealer. “He will give you wholesale market value with no games.” That was good enough for my needs, and he beat the trade-in numbers.

 

When you have 12yr old car with book value of around 2k, if they detect new paint it will not make much difference, maybe they knock it down by another 200-300$ If everything else is perfect