I know a guy in NorCal who parts these, his price is $650 for both air bags, the SRS unit, and both seat belts. Dont know if thats high or not. And jsenclosures parts these in upstate New York. Since i dont know where the OP is from, i figured id cover the coasts. Both guys do Paypal and ship.

 

You can get the 3 tickets tossed. If you were accurate in the details, it would be easy to contest them as long as its done properly. You can get an attorney or bone up if you think you can, and represent yourself. Don't worry about what cops do, that comes out in the wash. He was probably filling his quota or making himself feel good.
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How would you get the Careless Driving charge thrown out?
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First step is to look up the offense and how it is defined. Using that criteria, craft a defense accordingly using all the facts: any statements made, hard evidence police have etc. W/O knowing those I would shoot for the "still driving well under speed limit despite inclement conditions, lack of VSA, known, documented S stability problems, bad weather, glare, pothole, etc".

You want to show you were NOT under the influence and despite your best efforts at being cautious, (not speeding-driving like an old man-if you have had a clean record up to that point you can use that to bolster your case) external events beyond your control conspired to cause the car to loose control.
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Also the cop didn't witness the accident so he can't testify in court about what happened to cause the accident. Unless he has statements from witnesses or a forensic accident report, he can't prove anything about how the OP was driving before the accident. It will be up to the OP to present his case well, but this seems winnable.



disclaimer I'm not a lawyer, as mentioned above look up the offense and see how it is defined in your state.

 

How much of the work can you do yourself? Hopefully they itemize the estimate so you can see what you are paying for each item. Also, if they need to buy parts, see how much they say the parts cost, my guess is you can get them for a lot less. And if you can find silverstone parts that will save on paint, unless you really need all your body panel vins to match. Id say you should be able to do everything except the rear quarter since depending on damage that will need to be either pounded out or reskinned. A body shop in CA quoted $2500 for a reskin and respray of mine, but that included $500 in parts, and you can get a used one for half that.

 

Thanks for the offer, even though I'm in NJ I'll keep it in mind, depending on the outcome of the estimate.
I just came back from the bodyshop and I was told there is extensive frame damage...
I asked the owner how much it would cost to fix just the frame and he couldn't give me a actual estimate without 'peeling away' the damaged parts.
Hopefully by the end of the week I'll know how much it'll cost to fix everything there or just fix what I can't.
I'm hoping the suspension is ok but can't tell yet..

Took some more pics today...it's worse than I remembered...

 

From the sound of it, our collisions are similar except mine is worse, especially since the rear is damaged as well.
I probably hit the wall anywhere from 20-30 mph.
Do you know if I'm 'required' to replace my airbags?
I was thinking if it came down to it, I would just replace my steering wheel without an airbag as well as the passenger side dash. Is that illegal??

 

I didn't consider this as an option. Thanks for suggesting it, I'll see if there's anything around me in NJ.

 

You can get the 3 tickets tossed. If you were accurate in the details, it would be easy to contest them as long as its done properly. You can get an attorney or bone up if you think you can, and represent yourself. Don't worry about what cops do, that comes out in the wash. He was probably filling his quota or making himself feel good.
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How would you get the Careless Driving charge thrown out?
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First step is to look up the offense and how it is defined. Using that criteria, craft a defense accordingly using all the facts: any statements made, hard evidence police have etc. W/O knowing those I would shoot for the "still driving well under speed limit despite inclement conditions, lack of VSA, known, documented S stability problems, bad weather, glare, pothole, etc".

You want to show you were NOT under the influence and despite your best efforts at being cautious, (not speeding-driving like an old man-if you have had a clean record up to that point you can use that to bolster your case) external events beyond your control conspired to cause the car to loose control.
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Also the cop didn't witness the accident so he can't testify in court about what happened to cause the accident. Unless he has statements from witnesses or a forensic accident report, he can't prove anything about how the OP was driving before the accident. It will be up to the OP to present his case well, but this seems winnable.



disclaimer I'm not a lawyer, as mentioned above look up the offense and see how it is defined in your state.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence. I do intend to dispute all 3 tickets...just not sure whether I should go with an attorney.

 

Your kidding right ...no ins is crazy but going to court without a lawyer is just plain DUMB !!!!! wake up and join the rest of the world , half measures = 100% crap ....learn from your mistakes don't make more of them ....NO INS ...s2k ...yeh that was smart ....now you consider no lawyer going to court to fight three tickets ...wtf dude ...sell your S and go back to school, you have a lot to learn before you should even drive again let alone drive an S2k ....wow how dumb can one person be all at once ...

 

Lack of sentence structure, lack of punctuation, lack of capitalization, etc.

Who should be going back to school again? No need to knock on the kid unnecessarily.

 

Traffic court is different than a criminal court.

As long as you present yourself in polite way and be honest, I don't see any harm going to the traffic court contesting those 3 tickets.