Please don't be totaled...
12-16-2008, 02:09 PM
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Please don't be totaled...
4:12pm, Cherry Hill, NJ - Finish Christmas shopping for Mom. Pull out of Bed Bath and Beyond and onto Rt. 70 due west. The clouds have given us a wintry mix of rain, ice, and snow.
Still in the right lane going about 45, a Minivan pulls out of some back street and clips my front passenger side, impacting from front wheel to rear wheel. We both pull over...ask if eachother are OK. It takes the cops 25 mins to arrive.
This sucks.
Let me know what you guys think. I'm gonna go emo for the next few days until the adjuster comes.
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4374.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4377.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4378.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4381.JPG">
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<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4384.JPG">
Still in the right lane going about 45, a Minivan pulls out of some back street and clips my front passenger side, impacting from front wheel to rear wheel. We both pull over...ask if eachother are OK. It takes the cops 25 mins to arrive.
This sucks.
Let me know what you guys think. I'm gonna go emo for the next few days until the adjuster comes.
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4374.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4377.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4378.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4381.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4383.JPG">
<img src="http://clam.rutgers.edu/~bbrian/ouch/100_4384.JPG">
12-16-2008, 02:13 PM
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Looks fixable...
Figure about $2K in body work on the 4 panels...maybe a bit more. New wheel. It's possible the tie rod or control arms got a little bent. Add another $1K to cover those and I think you're capped at $3.5K at a body shop. Car's value is probably at least $10K depending on year, mileage and condition, so you're nowhere near the 75% of value threshold. Just get it fixed, should be good as new.
12-16-2008, 03:32 PM
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Wow glad you are okay! Causing trouble in my neck of the woods, eh?
Was the driver of the minivan cooperative? If not, I bet I know where they live... 
Don't want to jinx it, but it's definitely not totaled...
Don't want to jinx it, but it's definitely not totaled...
12-16-2008, 04:00 PM
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yup.... I think you might be a little low on the estimate, but def. a fixable situation...
key is gonna be the rear quarter. hard to see from your pics, but any compound bends that couldn't or shouldn't be pulled?
