OT: My fun evening...

Dan C. · #1 December 15th, 2002, 09:45 AM

$600-700 for all that? That doesn't seem too bad at all, especially if the insurance pays you the full estimated repair value (not likely).
I am taking my car into the dealer for its 6 month service (tune-up) tomorrow, and it will probably be $500-$600...

Raging Deadstar · #2 December 15th, 2002, 11:56 AM

Congratulations on your 1000th post rags, only 3000 more and you can beat SJ, Thats if his posting hormones ever slow down???

Gryphin · #3 December 15th, 2002, 04:13 PM

About fun evenings:
At about 8pm on Wed, Dec.4th my sweetheart parks her car, (1998 vw beetle), on the street like she does every night.
Next morning she is waken by the cops knocking on the door. Someone had hit the right rear of her car, pushed it up and over the curb and into a car parked in a driveway. Driver kept on going. no note, nada. Ok, cool, upsetting but she has insurance. 500 dollar dectutable, 2 weeks of rental payments. Maybe 1000 dollars total. "Life Happens". At least she was not in the car at the moment and as such was not hurt.
Well, she works Retail, < read does not earn very much, Add it is Yule time, Subtract child support payments she makes etc.... >
But wait, there is more
The jerk finaly reports it to his insurance agency. He claims my sweetheart was in the car at the time. ???!. We get this information Last night. Well, I guess there is no way she can prove where she was. Ooops. At the time he claims the accident took place she was on our web cam chatting with at least 4 people.
< The Gryphin Gryns >
Gotta love computers.
I hope this goes to court.

[ December 15, 2002, 14:17: Message edited by: Gryphin ]

Raging Deadstar · #4 December 15th, 2002, 04:30 PM

Oooh sorry to hear that gryphin, hope you guys let justice prevail and win

Also there are a lot of interested patrons after the meaning of the gryphin position in the cantina, gonna put them outta there misery and tell em?

Atrocities · #5 December 15th, 2002, 04:41 PM

If your girl friend has Safeco, or State Farm insurance she is F*****. I was rear ended in at the post office by a drunk drive, and my insurance paid for his damages and medical. You see, he simply ran an add in the paper asking for witness, will pay, and guess what, he got them. My insurance company, Safeco, gave him the idea, despite his arrest for DUI, his third by the way, he altimately wins.

Now State Farm is just a fricking rip off, if they can find a way to weazle out, they will.

When the revolution comes, and it will, I can only hope that I am of able mind and body to seek retribution upon those who run insurance companies. If any one should be consider Axis of Evil, I sware to God that they should be Insurance Companies, The IRS, and Banks.

Sorry to hear about her problem, she'll prevail. Have her check into having him charged with hit and run, and see if her insurance company will agree that it was an uninsured accident, therefore her uninsured insurance should pick up the tab.

And if she was up with you at the time on the accident, why did she not hear it? (Lawyers will ask)

[ December 15, 2002, 14:42: Message edited by: Atrocities ]

Ragnarok · #6 December 15th, 2002, 09:22 PM

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Good job! Have any trouble with the inner tie rod? They can be fun sometimes.

Yeah it was tricky as first getting it out. I couldn't figure out how to get a tool in there to mess with it. But I happened to find a small pipe wrench that my dad has and used it. I was able to get under the wheel well and use the well as a brace as I loosened the tie rod. Getting it back on was easy. Hard part is trying to guess 70FT pounds of torque with a 8 inch pipe wrench.

So I applied about 100 pounds of pressure at 8 inches so it should be about right.

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The amount spent isn't at all bad either. How much did the insurance settle for? Ah, maybe you don't want to post that!

It's not going up any what so ever. We aren't having them pay for it. I could if we wanted to but we arn't. Reason being is because if I did have them pay for everything my rates would go sky high being a young male driver. So we will just pay for repairs out of our pockets and keep my rates the way they were. Which was around 250.00 for every 6 months of full coverage. But it works out basically just as good. If we had them pay for it we would've had to pay a 500.00 deductable on it anyways. So basically with the deductable we would've payed for the repairs that I have made.
But I agree with you all, 600.00 to 700.00 isn't bad at all. I'm quite pleased with it actually.

But I will be selling the car probably in a month or two. Its a good car but after this I'm sure it is bound to have some minor problems popping up more often. So it would be best to sell it now while it's low miles (80,000) and in good shape so I can get my money out of it.

Gryphin · #7 December 15th, 2002, 10:50 PM

Atrocities
Now that is, "Atrocious". She does not have that company.
We live 2 blocks from where it was parked. We are in an area of "Brown Stones". Picture a long street with 3 to 5 story appts. build from brick. A one way street wide enough to permit parking on either side and safely drive up the middle with 3 to 4 feet on either side of you.
Either this guy was DUI or he did it for kicks.