Accidents Sucks ...

nemo_wolf · #1 12-09-2002, 10:15 PM

Yea so i was driving away from the jiffy lube for my way past due oil change, aprox. 5.5k miles since the last change on regular. Im about three blocks away just needing to pass the light im at to get to the freeway entrance. I get the other side of the street and barely cross that crosswalk when every car infront of me stops, i brake hard and feel the back end start to slide. Thank god i managed to stop in time ... to have the bastard behind me smash into my rear pushing me into the car infront of me. Damage assesment is tomarrow but i know my front muber is fucked, ill throw up some pics once i get em developed and scanned but the top of my bumper caved in towards the radiator and the bottom buckled out. The sides buckled as well. Im guessing i got some damage inside to the radiator since my hood wont open anymore, but hey i wont know till they assess the damage tomarrow. I hope its totaled so i can buy me a prelude like i want.

Jmunk · #2 12-09-2002, 10:49 PM

If the hood, bumper (both), fenders, radiator support is messed up than i would bet that they total it out. I bet that the bumper supports are also gone and who knows what else till you pop the hood to see what all is damaged. For the cost of all those parts, labor and time in a paint booth is probally more than what the car is worth. You'll probally get about $2500-3200 out of it.

GTA · #3 12-09-2002, 10:50 PM

that sucks...how are you doing?

Melt · #4 12-09-2002, 11:31 PM

Hopefully the insurance classifies it the other guys fault. I slid off the onramp on the way to school this morning, clipped a plastic pole and off into a field. NO DAMAGE TO MY CAR!! WHOOO!!

God damn man, everyone be hitting shit though.

nemo_wolf · #5 12-10-2002, 12:05 AM

Yea so i was driving away from the jiffy lube for my way past due oil change, aprox. 5.5k miles since the last change on regular. Im about three blocks away just needing to pass the light im at to get to the freeway entrance. I get the other side of the street and barely cross that crosswalk when every car infront of me stops, i brake hard and feel the back end start to slide. Thank god i managed to stop in time ... to have the bastard behind me smash into my rear pushing me into the car infront of me. Damage assesment is tomarrow but i know my front muber is fucked, ill throw up some pics once i get em developed and scanned but the top of my bumper caved in towards the radiator and the bottom buckled out. The sides buckled as well. Im guessing i got some damage inside to the radiator since my hood wont open anymore, but hey i wont know till they assess the damage tomarrow. I hope its totaled so i can buy me a prelude like i want.

Killa_CRX · #6 12-10-2002, 01:29 AM

deja vue?

Damn... too many accidents lately... kind of makes me want to park my car, put a cover on it, and drive my moms truck around until cars stop getting wrecked!

GTA · #7 12-10-2002, 03:30 AM

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Originally posted by Killa_CRX
deja vue?

Damn... too many accidents lately... kind of makes me want to park my car, put a cover on it, and drive my moms truck around until cars stop getting wrecked!

i feel ya man

one of my other friends just totalled his 96 accord over the weekend..went into a guardrail on an offramp

nemo_wolf · #8 12-10-2002, 04:29 AM

i started looking into some classified ads for a new ride and damn ... i realized other then civics, MR2's, and ae86 corolla's ... i dont know many other cars that my friends dont already whore. Any sugjestions!?

amy@af · #9 12-10-2002, 11:09 AM

man, sorry about your ride...but not really

i know you wanted another car.

mine was a bumper, fender, light, corner light, and raditor. they called it $2200 in damage and totalled.

you know what my vote is for

nemo_wolf · #10 12-10-2002, 11:47 AM

yea when i asked the insurance adjustor this morning about it being totaled he asked me about the car and was like, "since it has over 200K miles its really going to reduce to the value of the car and make it more likely that its going to get totaled." ... i was secretly say "OMG THANK YOU LORD FOR RIDDING ME OF THIS POS CAR!" ... gotta wait like 6 hours for the assment though to find out for sure.

MyFirst4G · #11 12-10-2002, 09:55 PM

Lets say if someone hits me and the car is classified as TOTALED and i get like 3500 bucks out of insurance.... is the car still MINE? or do i have to take it to the junkyard and give it to them? what if i wanna keep my car? and fix it? can i keep the 3500 AND THE CAR? and fix it?

boingo82 · #12 12-10-2002, 10:28 PM

Basically what happens when you total your car, is the Insurance buys it from you, in the condition it was in immediately before the accident. They look at a number of factors, including mileage, equipment, condition, etc., to determine the car's value. Then they offer you that amount of money for the car. What YOU need to do is call around to local dealerships, bring in pics if necessary, describe the car and ask what price they would have asked for a car like that. Then get a bunch of these quotes on paper, (throw out the "bad" ones, of course) and take those to your claims adjuster to negotiate for more $$. For example on my 1991 Nissan Sentra, (186,000 miles) they initially offered me $1600. I told them that wasn't enough. They called back, 3 hrs later, and offered me $2300. I ended up turning a profit on that car, after 1.5 yrs and 24,000 miles I earned $300 over what I paid.

State Farm then offered me that I could have the car for an additional $50, because it wouldn't sell for much at auction with those miles and that age. So I took the deal. I sold it to some friends for the same $50, and $700 later it was fixed up back to brand new condition. (Lucky bastards had friends at a body shop.) Now my exSentra is happily putting on more miles.

So remember: negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. Ask how much for you to keep the car. Negotiate on that too. Keep your car clean - it'll total for more (they gave me like $150 bonus for excellent exterior condition for the age, it's black and I had waxed the day before).

Good luck with this, the total process is a miserable one, even with the end result it was not worth it for me.

And as for what car to get now...I say get an Infiniti G20. It's an uncommon car, you won't see 50 people daily with the same thing. It's reliable as all get out, classic looks, comfortable, and safe. But then again I guess I'm biased.

nemo_wolf · #13 12-11-2002, 12:11 AM

so the intial estimate for damage is 1700, which is amazing since thats less then the 80% mark they said i had before i totaled the car. but thats only fixing the front assembly and the head/corner lights. i now have to have the car taken in for a tear down/inspection for more damage since the hood wont open. thats this monday. i figure there gonna find more damage, so i should have the car totaled. Im gonna call around to my local honda dealerships an see what i can get for my car since im gonna be calling about some used deals i saw in the paper yesterday. ill see what they would qoute me for my car and take that in for the assosor to deal with when i get my check.

Melt · #14 12-11-2002, 11:15 AM

When you take pictures, get some of the corolla too, I wanna see it.

amy@af · #15 12-11-2002, 12:18 PM

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Originally posted by Melt
When you take pictures, get some of the corolla too, I wanna see it.

corolla is gone....sold

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