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02/21/2019 at 10:07 • Filed to: None
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It’s now been exactly eight (8) weeks since !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Just about every week since the end of January I will get an email from the shop that reads
extending the repairs until the following week due to a delay in getting some part or another. I just called insurance to extend my rental i30 yet again. I’ve called so many times that one of the phone reps recognised me from the last time. My inbox looks like this
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m I bothered? Not particularly. No part of this exercise is costing me anything out of pocket. So we’ll wait :). I’d say that between the repair cost and the amount of time for the rental they’ve paid over the insured value of the car.
It’s become a running joke among my friends that I’m never going to see it again. We’ll see what “tuesday afternoon” brings.
I do miss it though.
themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles
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02/21/2019 at 10:11 |
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Ouch. Been there, was not fun. Getting the extra calls for delays due to “Supplemental damages” or whatever. 3 day repair became close to 10. AND the rental I was in got hit by someone else too.
Hope you get yours back soon
Arrivederci
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02/21/2019 at 10:19 |
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Always prefer it to be done properly instead of bodged together quickly. My poor old NC Miata got t-boned by a rogue deer and that bodyshop was the absolute worst. Half-assed fix, overspray everywhere... took them two tries to get it “right” and that still wasn’t very good. I ended up doing the last bit to make it good myself.
KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
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02/21/2019 at 10:22 |
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2 months! That sucks man, I had mine in the shop for 6 weeks before after an accident and I was going mad driving a rental car everyday.
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> Arrivederci
02/21/2019 at 10:39 |
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Oh absolutely. I trust this shop’s work. They’ve done my dad’s 5 series twice and the repairs have been immaculate. It’s only taking so long because there just aren’t many new E46 parts around. Most of these cars would probably be getting scrapped now after damage this serious. And they insist on brand new parts. Everything so far has been freighted from Sydney.
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> KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
02/21/2019 at 10:41 |
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I really hope I don’t stall it coming out of the shop.
Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
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02/21/2019 at 10:43 |
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My boss had this when he lived in Houston . Entertaining story actually, I will attempt to butcher it here: IIRC he was sideswiped in his 3 to 6 month old WRX. No big deal, everyone was OK, and he was not at fault . Unfortunately the tow company decided to do a 2 wheel tow on this, an AWD vehicle. This, of course, destroyed the diffs , transmission, and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t remember in addition to needed a new side of the car thanks to the accident . The insurance company decided to fix it anyway, and it took something like 10-12 weeks, partly because the car was new enough parts were hard to find, but also because of how much work there was to do. F or all of that time he had a pretty nice rental and all said it cost the insurance company well over what the cost of buying a brand new car would have been.
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> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
02/21/2019 at 11:00 |
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That’s hilarious! And s urely he didn’t watch that towing happen....
I would have tried to take the payout in his position. I’d hate to be stuck selling a car with such an extensive damage history down the track.
Kiltedpadre
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02/21/2019 at 11:09 |
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My wife once made the mistake of telling a local body shop she was in no rush and didn’t need a rental because she was going to borrow her dad’s truck. It took 12 weeks to get the car back.
They did excellent work though and even did more than expected.
Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner
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02/21/2019 at 11:22 |
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/ Your * Car* Is Currently Being Assessed
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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
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02/21/2019 at 11:46 |
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Thankfully it is a lease so... not his problem starting this Monday haha. Too bad too, I think he would have bought it if it weren’t for the accident damage.
Monkey B
> Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
02/21/2019 at 20:20 |
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I wouldn’t want that car at all. Too much room for human error in all that work. I worked in the industry, it’s worse now.
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Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> Monkey B
02/21/2019 at 20:26 |
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It has been shockingly reliable, but I agree.
pip bip - choose Corrour
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02/22/2019 at 04:42 |
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you know they’ve already fixed it and given it out as a loaner to someone else
;)
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> pip bip - choose Corrour
02/22/2019 at 07:18 |
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if they did that there would be blood :)
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pip bip - choose Corrour
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02/22/2019 at 07:19 |
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don’t panic or take this the wrong way, but i have heard of that sort of thing happening in the past
owner only discovered when they got a fine in the mail
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> pip bip - choose Corrour
02/22/2019 at 07:23 |
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90% of what they service is near new BMWs and JLRs. I don’t think most of that demographic would even be able to get my car out of the driveway