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So which vehicle were you driving?
 
Oh man. Is the quarter panel damage from so much force that the side buckled?
That's gonna be hard to fix.

Good thing the window wasn't down... but getting that thing off etc will be interesting now w/o being able to slide it down in there
 
Society as a whole doesn't pay attention any more since smart phones. Got a red light that bleeds to death on my commute to work and only has seconds of green and I find myself behind a texter sleeping into it almost daily. My horn sees a lot of action there.

And what sucks here is that the only way to get descent money is to deem the waggy as "totaled". Insurance companies do that often for older cars that you can't find parts to. I side swiped a $500 80's model 4 door Chevy Citation at the gas station not long ago and they totaled it just for the rear door. Dude told me he paid $500 for it months earlier. He got $2,700 out of it. Thankfully it was my first and only and my insurance company ate it for me.
 
On the way to work this morning I had a texter in front of me. A dog was crossing the road and they swerved at the last minute and missed it. If the dog had of been taller it would have been clipped by the side mirror it was so close. They pulled off the road shortly thereafter. Probably to text about it or put it on facey space.
 
i was in the wag he hit me going about 40 and didnot slow down the fram is bent up from the force
 
madJeepJ10 said:
i was in the wag he hit me going about 40 and didnot slow down the fram is bent up from the force
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Cut the body off and build a firewall truggy out of it.
 
lol nope i am going to total it then put every thing in one that looks just like it i live at a full size jeep yard
 
madJeepJ10 said:
i was in the wag he hit me going about 40 and didnot slow down the fram is bent up from the force
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Did you fall out of the jeep and flop around like a fish? Do you have a burning sensation in your neck or spiking back pain? Constant headache?
 
Glad you're ok. Looks like a good hit.
 
lol i was sore this mornig but thats expected. the guy that hit me is older and he hobeld up to the truck wile i was trying to get out (the driver door is jamed shut) he looks at me and said sorry i was not looking where i was going.
 
Do not sign off with the other guy's insurance company for at least three months. You may end up in pain several weeks from now.
 
And the other guy's insurance will try to lowball you. Dont accept their first offer or 2. After all, this vehicle is a classic and is not easily replacable. They dont have to know that you have a yard full.
 
madJeepJ10 said:
lol i was sore this mornig but thats expected. the guy that hit me is older and he hobeld up to the truck wile i was trying to get out (the driver door is jamed shut) he looks at me and said sorry i was not looking where i was going.
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At least he was honest about it instead of trying to weasel out and blame you!
 
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sgtbriangreen said:
And the other guy's insurance will try to lowball you. Dont accept their first offer or 2. After all, this vehicle is a classic and is not easily replacable. They dont have to know that you have a yard full.
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Also, demand they provide you wit ha rental car. Even if you don't need it. They have to.
That will put them on the hook for a cost accrued for every day that this linger, motivating them to close it quickly. You have every right to to argue their offer and provide evidence in your favor.
 
i did not think about a rentel car wow so do i call them or do i wait for them to call me
 
madJeepJ10 said:
i did not think about a rentel car wow so do i call them or do i wait for them to call me
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Call them. Immediately. Tell them you can't get to work w/o a car.
also they have to give you a "comparable" car so be sure to tell them you need a big car for your 3 kids to fit in...
 
Unfortunately it's a dog eat dog world and I couldn't express how much I agree with everybody. Take all you can get for just imagine if the other way around. There's no more nice guys in the world when it comes to auto accidents with someone you don't know.

Look at every expenditure that you have receipts on (and can get) that could have been needed for not having a vehicle. Their insurance has no choice. And this is the main reason every single one of us driving legal on the road is forced to pay for and keep an insurance policy to protect everybody else in case we ever hit somebody.

It's even a good time to hit up one of the vendors to have some tires mounted. :)
 
6BangBronk said:
Unfortunately it's a dog eat dog world and I couldn't express how much I agree with everybody. Take all you can get for just imagine if the other way around. There's no more nice guys in the world when it comes to auto accidents with someone you don't know.

Look at every expenditure that you have receipts on (and can get) that could have been needed for not having a vehicle. Their insurance has no choice. And this is the main reason every single one of us driving legal on the road is forced to pay for and keep an insurance policy to protect everybody else in case we ever hit somebody.

It's even a good time to hit up one of the vendors to have some tires mounted. :)
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bingo
You may feel like an asshole trying to jack up what you get out of them, but the truth is when you add up all teh time and inconvenience of it, it's generally pretty significant. And they aren't going to ocmpensate you for your lost time and effort, so you have to at least make the rest worth it.

BTW, in NC you also can make a deal w/ the ins. co., if you don't want *their* rental car they provide, or you can borrow one from a friend, they can (have to) compensate you in cash for each day instead. E.g. they give YOU their cost on the car. Note it isn't NEARLY what it would cost you to rent a car, often only like $20-30 per day, but it can add up if it take say 2 weeks to get resolved.
 
ok i will call them tomaro moring i got to get ready for school thanks for all the help
 
sgtbriangreen said:
And the other guy's insurance will try to lowball you. Dont accept their first offer or 2. After all, this vehicle is a classic and is not easily replacable. They dont have to know that you have a yard full.
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Back when I had my 'gooner (damn I miss that thing) I got clobbered by a piece of furniture that fell off an oncoming truck. Luckily, he stopped, so it was his insurance. I was having trouble with the adjuster on a couple of things...wanting to leave a couple of dents since they were "minor", etc. One fender was trashed and had to be replaced....when he started balking at stuff, I pointed out to him that the woodgrain paneling is continous from one panel to another....the pattern grain matches, and I wanted to me made "whole" since I was a Jeep collector of sorts and it was important to me to be fixed right. . He looked up what it would cost to do the whole side of the 'gooner in new vinyl....materials from Chryco was like 3k...labor and all total it was about 10k....after that, he agreed to everything I wanted (as long as I let the woodgrain slide).

madJeepJ10 said:
i did not think about a rentel car wow so do i call them or do i wait for them to call me
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I got into a fender bender a few months ago. Messican backed across 4-lane US-1 in Sanford and pegged my front fender. I called his insurance company with the claim info the next morning...didn't even think about a rental, as I had other stuff to drive...rep from Enterprise called me about an hour later...Allstate had sent in my info, they were calling up to arrange the car.

RatLabGuy said:
Call them. Immediately. Tell them you can't get to work w/o a car.
also they have to give you a "comparable" car so be sure to tell them you need a big car for your 3 kids to fit in...
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When my 'gooner got wrecked, the comparable car was a Chevy Suburban. (told them I needed it for work, to haul employee, plus had to have tools, equipment, step ladder to fit in back). Funny thing...this was around '99, when the US Open was in Pinehurst. I ended up in that rental Suburban for almost 2 months because the insurance company had a "parts hunter" that kept sending bad fenders from the Atlanta area (sent 5 total, about a week apart....came in rusted out, dented worse than mine was, deteriorated woodgrain, etc -- I finally went up to Marsh and bought one on the first try...they reimbursed me, plus time and effort). Anyway...Enterprise was desperate to have that Suburban back for the US Open rentals....told them I'd take a Tahoe (whatever the 2-door was), no less. They finally found one, called back, asked me how soon I could get up to Durham to swap them out. I said WTF, I'm doing you a favor by swapping, how soon can you drive to Sanford?

The rental bill was more than the repairs...IIRC, the repairs were about 2800, insurance paid about 3k for the rental....all over trying to save a few bucks on crappy takeoff fenders.

BTW, if they total it....rental is out they day they make that determination....they'll probably try and back out of that....so don't run up a big rental bill if you don't need too and you think it'll be a total loss.
 
Yup!
Back when I was in college at App State, a girl rear ended me on 421 outside Yadkinville. '90 XJ, she was in an F150 or something. Slammed it good. Awkward part was her radiator was toast, she was a student and needed a ride up the mountain, the XJ still ran ok (minus the rear window glass) so she had to ride up w/ us... haha. I could hear her mom screaming at her through the phone, took pity.
Well our ins. agent was a buddy of Dad's, he agreed to have the XJ towed back to Raleigh just so they could work on it at the company's shop instead of in Boone. That alone prob cost $500 or more. Then, the only Enterprise was in Elizabethton TN - back then, they would rent to 19 y/o drivers. They drove me a 4dr Sidekick all the way out and dropped it off.
As they were working, they kept finding more damage, and similar to above, it took forever. They also tried to do a cheap paint job, Dad bitched and made them re-do it right. I didn't care b/c I had a newer car to drive anyway. Even once it was done, it took several days for them to arrange being able to send a driver team around the mountain to fetch my car. I had that thing almost 3 months. I'm sure it cost more than the repairs, the total should have just totalled out the XJ.
 
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