Ice in Washington

[Allen Smith]

Some of you might know we have had a little snow with ice in Washington. Tonight while my father and I were going out to check out an RV site, I hit a patch of ice, slid across the road, hit a ditch and flipped my Trac onto the drivers side.



After 3 hours I got it towed out and home. It won't start - I think I killed the battery leaving the lights on and it won't take a charge.

 

[Tommy VanNess]

Sorry to hear the news. I hope you and your father are ok and not hurt. Sucks about the Trac though, good luck getting it fixed. I live in Tukwila and what didn't dry up just turned to ice.



Tommy

 

[jason nguyen]

Allen,



sorry to hear about your accident. You should take a look at the emergency fuel cutoff in the passenger kick panel. That may have been activated when you flipped the trac.



Jason

 

[Todd Z]

That sucks, Glad your ok........



The battery may have internally shorted out when it rolled....



Todd Z

 

[Ron N]

I hope that there wasn't alot of damage.I hope it starts up good after the battery change._Ron

 

[WXMotorSports DecalsPartsAccs]

Wow! Glad everyone is okay.

 

[Dreman]

We were recently rear-ended, and the damage didn't look that bad, so my wife was surprised when it wouldn't start afterward. The insurance company paid for a "deep battery charge" or something like that, and since it was about the same as a new battery, the body shop just put a new battery in there. The impact of the crash apparently did something internal in the battery, because it worked fine with a new one.

 

[A1cntrler]

Did you try hitting the fuel pump reset switch?? Does that disable the starter as well??

 

[biznaga]

My daughter-in-law hit black ice in Bremerton area...totoaled their Pathfinder. She is ok, but Pathfinder is total write off. It rolled a time or two from looks of pics.

 

[Allen Smith]

Well, left the batt on the charger all night - just a little red circle looking up from the batt in the am. I took my batt from the RV and put it in and it tried to turn over but not much. We pulled the plugs and there was oil on a couple - so we cleaned them off, replaced them and put them back. Fired right up. A little smoke then smooth running.



The left fender is crunched. The drivers door is dented a little where the mirror hit it. The mirror shattered and snapped off. The passenger door has a couple scratches. The box had ONE little tiny scratch and the fuel door will not close flush. The rear tail light has a small hole in it. Other than that - nothing! I took it into the body shop I've used in the past - they already had the info from my insurance and took some pics. They can't get it in until the 29th, so I went out and bought a clamp on trailer towing mirror so I can drive it until then.



They said they need it at least a week.

 

[Allen Smith]

Biznaga - I'm glad your daughter-in-law is ok! I can only imaging a full roll. We were almost stopped when it went into the ditch and it decided to lay on its side - so we were lucky!

 

[Johnny O]

Glad you're okay. On mine the fuel pump shut-off is not behind the kick panel, it is around the corner on the firewall...where my son's size 13's can bump it and kill the motor while I'm driving.

I already have another thread on that.