Accident!!!! - Page 2

mhadden · 04-05-08, 05:33

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Originally Posted by qballjr13

This is illegal in Massachusetts. Unless you know that for fact I would look into it in Chicago too.

Yes, in Indiana its the same way. But IL is either different, or they think they can get away with that. I def. plan on looking into it further on Monday. My work doesn't care as long as it gets fixed, but I care! I want it done right! Especially since my company keeps their co cars for 8-10 years!

jfelbab · 04-05-08, 05:58

Matt, you can contact your own insurance company and have the damage fixed under your comprehensive coverage they will get your vehicle fixed in a timely manner at a place of your choosing and subrogate the charges back to the woman's insurance company. You have to pay your deductible up front but you will get that back during the subrogation. No need to even put up with that other companies BS.

Call your agent and discuss this with him.

Chitown is a bad place for sure. Besides some of the worst roads in the country they are not built to handle the amount of traffic. Chicago drivers are by-in-large very uncourteous probably in large part because of the horrendous traffic problems they face daily. When the roads are not as congested, the drivers are more courteous, IMO.

I just drove from Cape Coral, FL to Milwaukee, WI and can say that I thought the most courteous drivers were in Georgia and Tennessee. Specifically, I found the drivers in and around Atlanta, Chattanooga and Nashville to be very courteous, FWIW.

ptaylor_9849 · 04-05-08, 07:06

I've spent my life growing up here in Taxachusetts. Not only are the drivers terrible but they also possess that yankee arrogance where they will cut you off and then flip you off to boot. However, there is one state that borders us that has always brought me a sense of calmness and serenity. I can't describe it in words but I feel it when I go there. My favorite New England state has always been New Hampshire. When I was married, I would vacation in the White Mountains every summer. On the highway on way home, do you know how I knew I was back in Mass? It wasn't the "Welcome to Massachusetts" sign. It was my blood pressure going back up from the a$$hole riding my a$$.

Patrick

SuperBee364 · 04-05-08, 09:09

Don't come to utah. Everyone drives SUV's while talking on cell phones, while trying to keep 6 kids under control, while trying to bottle feed the kid in the back seat, while trying to change lanes. Welcome to Utah, please get in the far right lane to pass.

My next bumper sticker: It's a *car* NOT a phone booth! Shut up, and DRIVE!

(Rhianna would be proud)

mhadden · 04-05-08, 11:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by jfelbab

Matt, you can contact your own insurance company and have the damage fixed under your comprehensive coverage they will get your vehicle fixed in a timely manner at a place of your choosing and subrogate the charges back to the woman's insurance company. You have to pay your deductible up front but you will get that back during the subrogation. No need to even put up with that other companies BS.

Call your agent and discuss this with him.

Thing is, its not my car, its not insured under my name (its under the company's). So unless my company wants to pay the $500 ded. and face an increase in rates (which they don't want), it won't go that route. It would only go that route if the lady didn't have insurance, but fortunately (or unfortunately) she does. Oh well, it'll get fixed...but if it was my personal car, I'd be going about all of this a completely different way!

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Originally Posted by SuperBee364

Don't come to utah. Everyone drives SUV's while talking on cell phones, while trying to keep 6 kids under control, while trying to bottle feed the kid in the back seat, while trying to change lanes. Welcome to Utah, please get in the far right lane to pass.

My next bumper sticker: It's a *car* NOT a phone booth! Shut up, and DRIVE!

(Rhianna would be proud)

Ha, Wisconsin is the same. You pass in the right lane. It's actually worse there than in IL...I've even seen some "brows" on cars that says "If you're reading this, move the F*** over!". Pretty funny, but the people probably won't even look back to see it!

bumoftheday · 04-05-08, 01:04

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Originally Posted by qballjr13

This is illegal in Massachusetts. Unless you know that for fact I would look into it in Chicago too.

It almost sounds like they want an approved shop to do the estimate and after that... I know every accident I got in, the insurance company came out to look at my car, wrote up the damages and gave me an estimate or totaled the car, but they may have a shop take this place on this crappy policy.

Hopefully you can have the approved shop give you the estimate, get the insurance company to cut you a check and then take it to a shop of your choosing.

mhadden · 04-05-08, 01:59

I'm going to call the Honda dealership down the road from my work and ask them who they outsource their body work too (most dealerships seem to do this now). Once they tell me, I will see if that shop is on the list...

mhadden · 04-14-08, 07:22

Well finally after a week of waiting, we got the insurance paperwork. It does state that I can go to one of their shops and get a qoute and call it good, or I have to go get 2 qoutes from others. So, hopefully this will go better than I expected. I'm out of town right now, but when I get back next week I'm going to get this done! Hopefully I can have this thing fixed in the next month!

It pains me to detail my car and have to see that. My neighbors think I'm crazy because I'm detailing my car (still) with it being damaged. I told them just because its messed up doesn't mean I should have to treat it any different! Maybe that's the "normal peoples" mentality, but not here on Autopia!

bwalker25 · 04-14-08, 07:36

I'm glad your alright, good thing she isn't in durham, she would've gotten sited with reckless endangerment (careless driving), if she was on a cell phone then thats a crime here too, and she would've gotten the lane change violation, and I got this one when I hit a car once (8 yrs ago) failure to yeild to another car.

so all in all she could've gotten 4 sitations and been faced with jail time on 2 of them.....move to durham nc, the crime rate kinda sucks but hey....good drivers are hard to find

eyesack · 04-21-08, 11:16

Thank god your pride and joy was the only thing hurt here. I hope you get your car fixed, but at the end of the day, don't let anyone give you the whole "it's only a car" thing. cuz it's not "a" car. It's Your Car!

anyway, Sorry guys, I take the cake. I live in Jersey. If you go north, you find NYC type drivers . South, you get Philly drivers. Central you get Trenton drivers. I live in Cherry Hill, where everyone drives their parent's BMW's or Benzes like they're entitled to drive like asses. Passing school busses on the right, pulling out in front of my box-truck only to slam on the brakes, stopping on off/on ramps, weaving, and the likes are local practices.
Did I mention I was run over in my parking lot of my apartment complex 3 weeks ago?
yaaaaaaaaaaay jerzeeee!

mhadden · 04-22-08, 05:12

Just got the estimates done yesterday since I was in Milwaukee on business last week. One came in a $1600, but didn't include 5 days of a rental car, the other $1800. The guy who quoted $1800 was really nice (and was the owner of the company) and I'd really like to give him my business, but it all depends on what her insurance company gives. They could really be peckers and give less than the $1600, but I hope it doesn't come to that.

David Fermani · 04-22-08, 06:16

Looks like they need to:

*Replace Fender & Hub Cap (and possibly the wheel)
*Repai/Refinish Front Bumper
*Blend Door & Hood
*Wet Sand/Buff Headlight
*4 Wheel Alignment
*Remove/Overhaul all trim on refinished surfaces

Am I close?