been lurking for a while now so guess its build thread time.
we bought a 1 owner protege with 100000km and full service history in late july 2009.
we fitted bravo clear side indicators on the delivery day as they didn't fit our ford(original plan)
all went smoothly until 23/12/2009 protege + tree on tight left hand bend with pea gravel = FAIL
after a 6 hour walk(no reception) we got help and with their cruiser the corner was pulled out enough to get the subframe off the harmonic balancer.
this allowed us to start the car and drive out on park lights at 1.00am, once we got back to the main road our savior went back home and we slept in the car.
at dawn we drove home to survey the damage
the radiator was bent like a banana but didn't leak, condenser and aircon compressor was also killed