It's been a long week Oppo...

"Once_upon_a_pvt" (eagleruwe07)
05/07/2015 at 08:50 • Filed to: bmw, audi, totaled, new car, 328i, q5, tdi, integra

Ready for a story?

I was completely ready to do a write up and pictures about the Audi Q5 TDI that we bought a few weeks ago, but Murphy absolutely loves enforcing his laws, especially in my case.

(Not my actual car, same one though)

So the day we signed the loan paperwork and made the down payment on the Audi, my wife was driving our e90 328i home from work when she caught the edge of the pavement on a local road. Thanks to the staggered wheel set up (I assume) the car pulled hard right, way harder than she expected, and she messed up the whole right side on a guardrail that was about 2 foot off the road.

Luckily she was going like 50 kph so nothing happened to her.

So the next day we took the car to the body shop to get appraised and repaired while we flew to Ohio for a two week stay. While there my grandparents in law let us drive their ‘99 integra, which I was also going to write about. it’s only got 95000 miles on it and I thought it was interesting enough to warrant a story.

Moving forward...

We got back to Germany this weekend, and took delivery of the Audi on Monday (spoiler alert: it’s friggin sweet) which has become the wife’s daily because she has a longer drive and diesel equals mpgs. We hadn’t heard anything about the 328i until today. I wasn’t really prepared for the news.

The insurance company valued the car at €11,700 which is slightly more than we still owed, with the added benefit that our loan is in US Dollars so the exchange rate helps. Then they told us the estimate for repair was 15k!

I almost shit my pants. They are completely totalling my car for what we thought was a glorified big ass scrape down the side.

On the bright side, I now get to go shopping! I jave found a few candidates within a decent price range, if i could just get anyone to answer a damn phone... Wish me luck! And I’ll try and get those write ups done when everything settles down.

DISCUSSION (8)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Once_upon_a_pvt
05/07/2015 at 08:56

ouch!

did you get a breakdown of what the quote was?

cazzyodo > Once_upon_a_pvt
05/07/2015 at 09:17

I believe it, to be honest. I’ve been getting quotes on this little thing and the average has been about $1,600. I figured it would be about that but it still blows me away.

Dsscats > Once_upon_a_pvt
05/07/2015 at 10:27

Not terribly surprised that it’s totaled. Just from that photo, I see...

1. New FR headlight

2. New FR fender

3. New front passenger door

4. New rear passenger door

5. Tricky quarter panel damage repair

6. Two new rims

7. New rear bumper

DrScientist > Once_upon_a_pvt
05/07/2015 at 10:42

those rear quarter panels always are an issue.

gabbo241 > Once_upon_a_pvt
05/07/2015 at 11:00

I have an ‘09 328 sport package and with the staggered summer RFTs on, I can’t believe how much it wants to follow grooves in the road, on some surfaces it really feels like its going to wrench the wheel out of your hand, especially more so at lower speeds. On the square setup winter tires (non RFTs) it doesn’t do this at all.

Did you fit those wheels after purchase? I don’t recall them being available on pre-LCI models.

Had a bad week myself. I just try to remind myself that nothing is as bad as, say, being in Nepal, and losing your home, and not having insurance, and now being homeless. Even when we’re unlucky, we’re still way big picture lucky.

Unrelated: can someone please ungrey me? Thanks much.

Once_upon_a_pvt > gabbo241
05/07/2015 at 11:08

I picked up a set of m190 (I think) wheels from a 2013 335i that an idiot totaled whist drunk. They were 255 rear and 225 front and yea they pulled like a mother. I was really surprised it was that pronounced.

Once_upon_a_pvt > pip bip - choose Corrour
05/07/2015 at 11:38

Yea but it’s all on German donuts hard to figure out. I gathered about 13k in repairs and the 20% VAT on top of that.

On the breakdown the listed every clip and bolt, it was almost silly.

philsphan09 > Once_upon_a_pvt
10/06/2015 at 07:58

WANT THAT TDI REVIEW! Contemplating getting one :).