Friday Night caught in a 3 car accident. Almost $10,000 in damage. Worse than that I won't have my car back for like 5 weeks.

 

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Are you ok? PICS PLEASE..

 

All involved are Ok. I was the 3rd car involved, so my front end is shot. Nothing mechanical except slight bend in radiator which will be replaced. Happened in evening Friday Rush Hour on the Long Island Expressway, 1st car stopped short, then second, then me. The sentra in the middle, totaled, got hit from both ends.

Have to say at first I thought I stopped in time and didn't hit anyone, then saw that the airbags deployed. No loud bang from the bags, no burns, not even any seatbelt pressure. The car handled great. Pics to come.

 

Who's at fault?

 

Well, 5 weeks sounds pretty quick, but if you don't have much crumple in the front then that's cool. I wouldn't trust timelines, I know I never will after my bout..... It's been 4 months now since someone ran a stop sign and smashed the TL to bits and I still don't have the car back.

 

VTEC ANIMAL - 4 months! That is incredible. What was the extent of your damage?

 

sorry to here that man. Pics?

 

DAMN 4 months. My rear end is about ready to be fixed.

 

Imagine them cutting everything off the car in front of the firewall, frame rails and all, then replacing it. Only thing on the front of that car that isn't new is the engine and tranny. I have no idea how much it's going to wind up being, but it's way up there. Initially it looked like about 10k so the insurance went ahead, my lawyer argued to total it when estimates were at almost 16k, then it went to Acura because the repair shop had some major issues and by my estimates I'm guessing it'll wind up somewhere around 20kish. Insurace should have totalled, it would have been a break even 17k so they didn't want to because I was 1k short. Oh well, accident wasn't my fault so it ultimately is someone else's problem. Honda will get the car in 24 months and lease conclusion, they're ultimately the one's that'll get short changed because there is no way that VIN check will be remotely acceptable. And you don't even want me to get started on the quality of work the shop is doing, they came highly recommended but have just totally dropped the ball. I'm guessing I've only got about 3 weeks to go.

 

I've got photos, lets just say it's sick, very sick..... When I went back to take the photos each time they kept saying "we need to warn you, it's going to look very bad and may be upsetting".

 

VTEC ANIMAL - That is a horrible story. At least you walked away from it. I think the body shop really under estimated the damage. I don't imagine that being the case on my side, at least I hope not.

 

I would hope not, it's been a real nightmare to say the least, but had we been 3 feet further into the intersection and my wife and I would have unfortunately found out what it like to be t-boned directly by a car going 45. Basically 3 more feet and there probably would have been fatalities, thankfully that wasn't the case. It'll all get sorted out in the end, we've got a lawyer so if the shop doesn't turn the car over to me in the same condition it was in when I bought it new then the lawyer will step back in..... The shop really pissed me off, they work on new Mercedes cars all the time, so they should know how to take care of a car. Anyhow in their labors of working on the car, they literally damaged components not involved in the accident during the repair process, how stupid is that. All I can say is take pictures the whole way, it's pretty damaging if they pull the stuff my place has pulled. I've got pictures of the car paritally disassembled and no damage to the parts, then further disassembled and now the damage is there, repaired damage still there... Hmmmm... I wonder how much the insurance would pay to see those photos since they're billing the insurance company for their screwups.