Crunched...
...as in, my car.
Yesterday I was driving my car by the Walmart going about 25 mph and this girl wasn't paying any attention drove right into me. She was looking to her left and I was on her right in the lane. She pulled into the lane out from the parking lot right smack into my left rear wheel. Right into the damn rim! The impact wasn't that hard; it kind of just pushed my car closer to the curb and swung her car around behind mine. Nobody was hurt which was the most important thing (expect my car). I had my camera sitting in my lap and I grabbed it and started recording the damage to my car and to hers. Plus she admitted on camera that she hit me and it was her fault.
There wasn't much damage visible to my car. The rim was tore up and had white paint swirl all over it. The rear fender was bent up where her bumper caught the edge of the wheel well and there was white paint down the length of the rest of the fender. On her car her bumper just had black paint (from my car) and really no other visible damage I could see.
We traded information and drove off because both our cars were still driveable. I called her later that night and she asked if I could get an estimate of the damage to my car to see if it was under their deductible. Well, I know that Audi rims alone are like $450 so I'm assuming that if she has a $500 deductible then she is going to have to report it to her insurance company. So today I took my car into Abra for an estimate and to repair the fender, window (it's off the track), paint and labor it was roughly $1100. That isn't including what I want to do about the Audi rim. The estimator guy said that they could buff up the rim and make it look decent again but if there were any gouges or deep scratches they couldn't get out then it was totally up to me whether I wanted to get a new rim or not. Plus it would take about 5 days to fix my car which means I would need a rental car which wasn't in the estimate either. So with rim and rental it could be upwards of $1500 depending on what I want to do. Of course this was just one estimate place but I know for a fact if I took it to an Audi dealer it would be like $2500 so I think $1100-$1500 is pretty accurate and reasonable. I'm just waiting to hear back from the girl on how they want to procede. I'm sure the cost is going to be way over their deductible and that they will need to get their insurance company involved which means the insurance company will most likely send out their own claims adjustor which is fine. I also think they could find an Audi rim at a junkyard for half the cost of a new one but the $1100 quote was without a rim at all.
I'll post some pictures of the damage later.
-mbh signing off...
Yesterday I was driving my car by the Walmart going about 25 mph and this girl wasn't paying any attention drove right into me. She was looking to her left and I was on her right in the lane. She pulled into the lane out from the parking lot right smack into my left rear wheel. Right into the damn rim! The impact wasn't that hard; it kind of just pushed my car closer to the curb and swung her car around behind mine. Nobody was hurt which was the most important thing (expect my car). I had my camera sitting in my lap and I grabbed it and started recording the damage to my car and to hers. Plus she admitted on camera that she hit me and it was her fault.
There wasn't much damage visible to my car. The rim was tore up and had white paint swirl all over it. The rear fender was bent up where her bumper caught the edge of the wheel well and there was white paint down the length of the rest of the fender. On her car her bumper just had black paint (from my car) and really no other visible damage I could see.
We traded information and drove off because both our cars were still driveable. I called her later that night and she asked if I could get an estimate of the damage to my car to see if it was under their deductible. Well, I know that Audi rims alone are like $450 so I'm assuming that if she has a $500 deductible then she is going to have to report it to her insurance company. So today I took my car into Abra for an estimate and to repair the fender, window (it's off the track), paint and labor it was roughly $1100. That isn't including what I want to do about the Audi rim. The estimator guy said that they could buff up the rim and make it look decent again but if there were any gouges or deep scratches they couldn't get out then it was totally up to me whether I wanted to get a new rim or not. Plus it would take about 5 days to fix my car which means I would need a rental car which wasn't in the estimate either. So with rim and rental it could be upwards of $1500 depending on what I want to do. Of course this was just one estimate place but I know for a fact if I took it to an Audi dealer it would be like $2500 so I think $1100-$1500 is pretty accurate and reasonable. I'm just waiting to hear back from the girl on how they want to procede. I'm sure the cost is going to be way over their deductible and that they will need to get their insurance company involved which means the insurance company will most likely send out their own claims adjustor which is fine. I also think they could find an Audi rim at a junkyard for half the cost of a new one but the $1100 quote was without a rim at all.
I'll post some pictures of the damage later.
-mbh signing off...
posted by mbh at 4/19/2007 02:30:00 PM
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