Ouch, but if you are looking for any parts...

Robert_Alabama said:
Not sure I would want to buy the right front brake caliper from this car though...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-HONDA...ONT-BRAKE-CALIPER-18-OEM-H18L095/143055447920
Hope everyone was ok after this.
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Interesting post. For the fun of it, I ran a CarFax report on the car's VIN # shown in the eBay parts listing, which shows this car having just 81 mi. on the odometer, and it appears it may have never left dealer inventory from a small Honda dealership in Indiana (where PDI was performed in 12/17) before ending up in a scrap yard in Wisconsin in early 2019.
 
Wow. Guess it ever even made it out of the nest so to speak... Someone had a memorable test drive if this was the end result.
 
JustAnotherPoorDriver said:
Obviously "never used", as in the person doing the test drive didn't know where the brakes were...
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Yes it looks incriminating... like they were trying out the automatic "BRAKE" feature for crash mitigation.

On the other hand it may have just been sitting quietly in a parking lot and got taken out by someone who hopped a curb. In any event, I wonder if the brake caliper has any history of use at all. :)
 
Looks like it rear-ended a tractor-trailer. The impact missed the horizontal beams that are meant to absorb a lot of that energy. Luckily they weren't going too fast.
 
Man, that would bring me to tears:(

I asked my salesman during my test drive if anyone in his 20 years of test drives has ever had an accident .

He said "No, and let's not be the 1st."
 
Domenick speculated that this Clarity rear-ended a tractor-trailer. My own theory is that a tractor-trailer, probably delivering cars to the dealership, backed into the car. This could account for the severe front-end damage and the lighter rear end damage if the car was parked at the dealer's lot with another car behind it. But, of course, who really knows?
 
Texas22Step said:
Domenick speculated that this Clarity rear-ended a tractor-trailer. My own theory is that a tractor-trailer, probably delivering cars to the dealership, backed into the car. This could account for the severe front-end damage and the lighter rear end damage if the car was parked at the dealer's lot with another car behind it. But, of course, who really knows?
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I think yours is likely the better guess.
 
It looks like it still has the new car "goop" on it that the dealer washes off after it is delivered.
 
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