Couple of weeks back, I am driving my daughter to school before going to work. Sitting at a red light, and a douche nozzle comes along at full speed and rearends my car. Smashes the body pretty good, but able to drive away. Neither my daughter or I is hurt. I yelled at the guy until he cried. His insurance company is an equal bunch of douches.
Take the car to the body shop last week. Guy there takes one look and says that it is not safe to drive. I get a rental and begin the process of dealing with his insurance.
Finally getting some money from them, hopefully by mid next week. Test drove some cars yesterday. I think that I am going to get a 2011 Honda Civic Si sedan. 8000 rpm redline. Peppy and corners like no ones business. Going to try to deal with the guy on it today. Wish me luck. It has 17,000 miles so I am going to try to get it for 18,000 bucks.
J
PS I had one payment left on the other car, and it would have been mine. Now I will have 4 more years.
Nice, Rfenst... Very nice!
Cars are material things - they can be replaced. People are priceless.
Good thing he actually had insurance. Many do not - I know first hand.
If you haven't settled yet and want advice PM or email me. I have been an auto accident lawyer for over 20 years and would be glad to assist for free.
rfenst wrote:
Awesome gesture, Robert. I'd take you up on that if I were him.
Glad you're both o.k. too.
Dude, that is very generous.
What I ended up doing was taking their offer. It was a 2007 Civic with 140,000 miles and they appraised it at 8300. After the 380 that I still owed on it goes to the bank, I will get 7900. They are sending 5000 with the total loss statement. Once they get the title, they send the other 2900. Since neither my daughter or I was hurt, I did not feel the need to get vengeful.
Do you think that sounds okay? If not, let me know by PM.
I am sad to lose my car and to have a car payment again, but on the flip side, I now have one of my cars that I always wanted. 2011 Civic Si. 2.0 liter engine, 6 speed manual transmission. 8800 rpm redline. It is one peppy sucker.
Did you have the tie rod guards installed? Make sure you save them.
JadeRose wrote:
If I would have had them installed, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
The other guys car would have vaporized upon impact, and I wouldn't even have noticed.
When he hit us, my daughter started crying and asked what happened. I asked if she was okay. When she said she was, I got out and tore the guy a new one. I was more angry than I ever had been before. I told him my daugher was in the car and then tore him up with some choice cusswords. He started crying.
Talk to Robert, it should not be a lottery win, no injuries is your lottery win, but they should make you whole again.
https://www.cigarbid.com/FORUM/c/posts/30801/Me-and-my-little-girl
..oh how the time does fly.
It was an accident..
Nobody was hurt,,
Tort Reform Now !!!
One day you're bringing her home from the hospital, and the next you're driving her to school....
daveincincy wrote:
Dang, man that is going way back! I don't even remember posting that one up.
Yes, my daughter is now 8 years old and is a second grader. Where does the time go?
Took the car to the Honda dealership today. They fixed an issue with hard starting under warranty. They replaced a strut under warranty. They fixed the tire pressure monitoring system under warranty.
They fixed an issue with a window that would not roll down- not under warranty because it was due to a piss poor audio job that someone had done. They left some wires hanging loose and they wrapped around the window and would not let it roll down. Cost me 100 bucks to fix. They fixed the factory subwoofer- also jacked up in the previous owners audio install. Cost me 50 bucks to fix.
Even with the 150 in repairs, I am still 2500 bucks under book value.
