Well looks like we need a thread for this kind of thing. Seems as if things are happening to he Tegs every day. So post what happened to your teg weather good or bad. This would be something that you DID NOT DO but someone else did.
Well this wasn’t ‘today’ it was 4 days ago, but some douche rear ended me. Insurance adjuster came out to look at the car, they’re gonna have to total it and are offering me $2800 and I would keep the car. So not a bad deal. I’ll add another thousand to that, have my body shop fix it and do a complete repaint (which it needed anyway) and I’m happy.
So I guess it’s a good thing I got hit…
Coz
well im doing my body work right now due to rust and i took my rear bumper off today to find my rear bumper reinforcement is rotted to hell :bang: I LOVE MY DB1 THO
[QUOTE=IntegraC;2152407]Well this wasn’t ‘today’ it was 4 days ago, but some douche rear ended me. Insurance adjuster came out to look at the car, they’re gonna have to total it and are offering me $2800 and I would keep the car. So not a bad deal. I’ll add another thousand to that, have my body shop fix it and do a complete repaint (which it needed anyway) and I’m happy.
So I guess it’s a good thing I got hit…
Coz[/QUOTE]
You know you can refuse the offer. The longer they have the case open the more they are going to settle for. Pick a number you wont settle for less and stick to it. They will give in the longer the case is open because it looks really bad on them when they have long term open cases. Remember its their job to fuck you over.
Good looks, I’ll play hardball when I call em back Tuesday.
Thanks.
NP… A friend had her TL hit by some old bag. The insurance company was going to settle it for like 2500. They just had a new oem tranny dropped in 2 months before. She was like I wont settle for less then the cost of the tranny. They didn’t wanna do that she was like okoy that’s fine but I wont take 2500. They called her back saying that they needed to close the case would she take something like 3000 she said no and they were like we really need to close the case and she was like I don’t. They called back a month later or so and offered her 5500. Took like 2 month but they had to close it so they gave her what she wanted in the end. Of course this was a newer car and a more expensive one but you can still milk them for more or make them leave the case open. So don’t take what other insurance companies offer you. Play the system like they try to play you.
i too, was lowballed recently with insurance adjusters.
imagine how much i laughed when they told me they were going to give me less than what i had left on the loan (which i had been paying between 50 and 100 dollars more per month than my required payments, so i wasnt upside down on the cars value vs what i owed)
i told him that there is no way in hell im going to take 3000 dollars for a 2002 jaguar with less than 60k miles on it. meanwhile, with the case sitting stagnant and we hassled each other for two months on what i felt was fair and what his boss wanted to pay me…the car sat at the repair shop in the ghetto and had its wheels, leather seats, and the stereo we hadnt removed yet stolen off of it while it was in the yard (the stereo was insured too, luckily).
3 months after my accident two checks totalling 10,300 dollars arrived at my house. 2100 for the stereo stuff, 8200 for the car AND i got to keep it (since the only shit they really had that wasnt ruined was the interior and wheels.
i parted it for another 2200 and sent the scrap shell and panels off for another 190 bucks.
fight your insurer, if you hold your ground long enough they will give in eventually, they make billions of dollars a year. they probably spend $4k a month in water for just flushing toilets.
this accident is why im in an integra now