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dude, you have to pull the engine to even add wiper fluid. No biggy, swap the timing chain then.
luckily I had someone work for Audi Silver Spring MD gave me the inside scoop of how much labor involved lol, it does seem like Audi love to design to drop their engine even for injector replacement.
So this has been a hard week for me, as we just lost (laid off) 90% of people in my department. I was fortunate to stay and work this weekend, however on the way home I was humble at a red light along with everyone else. A Nissan decided to ran 2 red lights hit the pick up truck and flew into the TL, I tried to back up but there are no where to go as the intersection was packed. I am ok tho.
Well I guess we can't have something nice since other people decide to fuck it up. BTW the deputy found several alcohol bottles open inside the vehicle and the EMS was able to smell from her breath, GOD DAM it!!!!! its happened to me TWICE already.... The last one got totaled hopefully this one is fixable, no air bags deployed.
I bet it won't total...it'll be close but you can probably fight to not total.
bumper, bumper support, fender is salvageable, hood
bodywork and paint...my guess is $3500...if you convince worth 9K
you aren't at 40% or whatever teh cutoff is.
Again, glad you are okay, that's all that matters
Holy shit brotha.. I'm sorry to see what happened but i'm glad you're Okay! Good news, the TL doesn't look that bad but i'm sure insurance will try to write it off but I would fight them hard on it. If you have a body shop that you have a good relationship with, send it there. You could offer a payment towards the repairs so it helps from insurance writing it off. A few years ago, I was in a minor accident with the Mercedes I had at the time. The driver in front of me was cut off and he locked his brakes, so did I. I ended up hitting him around 10 mph but ended up missing the frame, so the grill area took the hit. It needed one headlight, bumper cover, inner bumper support cover, hood (because I didn't want them to fix the small crease), grill assembly and radiator support. Everything was OEM and a few items were ordered from Mercedes (new) one of which was the hood which was an absurd $1,800. They had sourced a mint complete radiator support that had a new radiator and condenser. Once all said and done, it was about $1500 on my end to pay them. I made this deal with them so they didn't tell insurance it was a total loss. The vehicle was in mint condition and had a heft amount of repairs done. The body work came out 100%. I sold the ML last year for more than what insurance was going to give me. A retired guy in his 70's bought it. He was beyond happy with the condition of the vehicle. I told him about the accident and showed him the pictures. He said it was one of the best body work he's seen because he couldn't tell and he was thrilled all OEM parts were used. My ML had roughly the same damage as your TL.
@rockstar143 and @04WDPSeDaN Thank you for the value able information and input, the damage isn't that bad but both headlight and hood is what cost the most of this repair. I might gonna have to dip into my own pocket to let this one not getting totaled.
Last time we had a vehicle with this similar damage and they quoted around $5800 which led me to believe the damage will be around there as well. My insurance gave me contact to the adjuster yesterday and seem like its a chick so chance of total are high. I will have to deal with repair shop today tho and will report back.
interesting facts, I was stationary at the time of impact. If I was moving the result could been worst, the truck took most of the impact as she was going about 50 mph with no brake applied (well beside using the pick up truck as a brake) and my TL happened to take the most blow out of the other two that park at the light.
Her vehicle actually caught on fire, yes we could see fire coming out under the hood. luckily one of the near by resident is a retired fire fighter was able to turn the ignition off and someone else pull her out the burning vehicle as she was screaming loud AF. Once her dad arrived on scene he tried to act as his daughter is a "victim" and well that didn't go down too well as the deputy point out several alcohol containers has been opened and statement from EMS stated that they could smell her breath having alcohol.
I feels bad for the deputy has to go down to the hospital with the gal and throw a pair of cuff on here once she regain conscious.
This is the 2nd time I got hit by drunk driver, this is why I take this shit seriously.... no drink is too little or ok to drive and I don't care if I drink my wife or someone else that not drinking can drive.
I am still working in the process of getting the TL to the "trusted" body shop, the goon who towed my car got upset after they said "lets us do the work". I turn them down and they didn't like the fact that I told them you guy gonna slap a base front bumper as Type S only available through OEM.
They mentioned LKQ, I ask them "oh so you gonna charge OEM new part price and use LKQ sourcing for profit?" lmao the guy tone change really quick from "we could help you in hard time" to "well f**ck yourself". Nope there are no chance in hell I would dealing with crooks like that.
In my accident, I drove the Mercedes home and the very next day I dropped it off to the body shop. Insurance wanted me to use their "suggested" shop which was a complete shit show. Insurance got upset I took the vehicle to a body shop of my choice. If I was you and you could, take the TL out of the tow yard and take it to a shop you trust. Here's the other issue. WE ALL KNOW that the KBP 6MT type-s is worth more than what KBB says, your insurance company and body shop will think the TL is worth whatever it is on their end. This is a tough one just like a MK4 Supra. Keep us posted. It's nothing fun to deal with.
In my accident, I drove the Mercedes home and the very next day I dropped it off to the body shop. Insurance wanted me to use their "suggested" shop which was a complete shit show. Insurance got upset I took the vehicle to a body shop of my choice. If I was you and you could, take the TL out of the tow yard and take it to a shop you trust. Here's the other issue. WE ALL KNOW that the KBP 6MT type-s is worth more than what KBB says, your insurance company and body shop will think the TL is worth whatever it is on their end. This is a tough one just like a MK4 Supra. Keep us posted. It's nothing fun to deal with.
The car is already at the new body shop place, the way they handle the paperwork, payment to get the KBP out of the tow yard, towing and treating people is really good. They answer all form of communication even Yelps, typical response time is about 15 mins or less.
With that being said IF and only IF insurance total out this KBP I gonna buy it back and fix it up. From what I have seen is front fenders, hood, front headlights, grill (most of these I already source a used part from another KBP with entire front end intact lol) and Aspec lip. I already order another Aspec lip just in case they are discontinued soon. As far as mechanical goes the car did not have any fluid leak from the accident.
I just hope that insurance know about the true market value of the KBP TL-S MT with two tone interior so that give me some wiggle room to play in the repair cost. I will keeping you guy updated.
After my wreck I was going to a physical therapy place for my tweaked back & neck. There I saw people who barely able to walk from their wrecks, and counted myself lucky.
I used to have to drive to your town for work, and the level of crazy drivers there always impressed me. Dallas is calm by comparison.
So this has been a hard week for me, as we just lost (laid off) 90% of people in my department. I was fortunate to stay and work this weekend, however on the way home I was humble at a red light along with everyone else. A Nissan decided to ran 2 red lights hit the pick up truck and flew into the TL, I tried to back up but there are no where to go as the intersection was packed. I am ok tho.
Well I guess we can't have something nice since other people decide to fuck it up. BTW the deputy found several alcohol bottles open inside the vehicle and the EMS was able to smell from her breath, GOD DAM it!!!!! its happened to me TWICE already.... The last one got totaled hopefully this one is fixable, no air bags deployed.
Omg man! I’m so sorry that happed! And to the KBP of all cars!
That accident is more than fixable. Couldn’t tell you what I would do if that happened to the 6MT.
Five years ago, I was driving home from the gym when an early 20s kid in a beat up 1991 Subaru Legacy hand-me-down, rear ended the Comptech TL at a stoplight at low speed.
I walked over to his car while he hide his head in the opening of his steering wheel, opened his door and yanked him out of his car with one hand.
His eyes resembled Justnspaces. I called the police and they said they don’t show for fender benders.
I was buying a Type-S rear bumper anyways, so kept the insurence money and called it a day.
interesting facts, I was stationary at the time of impact. If I was moving the result could been worst, the truck took most of the impact as she was going about 50 mph with no brake applied (well beside using the pick up truck as a brake) and my TL happened to take the most blow out of the other two that park at the light.
Her vehicle actually caught on fire, yes we could see fire coming out under the hood. luckily one of the near by resident is a retired fire fighter was able to turn the ignition off and someone else pull her out the burning vehicle as she was screaming loud AF. Once her dad arrived on scene he tried to act as his daughter is a "victim" and well that didn't go down too well as the deputy point out several alcohol containers has been opened and statement from EMS stated that they could smell her breath having alcohol.
I feels bad for the deputy has to go down to the hospital with the gal and throw a pair of cuff on here once she regain conscious.
This is the 2nd time I got hit by drunk driver, this is why I take this shit seriously.... no drink is too little or ok to drive and I don't care if I drink my wife or someone else that not drinking can drive.
I am still working in the process of getting the TL to the "trusted" body shop, the goon who towed my car got upset after they said "lets us do the work". I turn them down and they didn't like the fact that I told them you guy gonna slap a base front bumper as Type S only available through OEM.
They mentioned LKQ, I ask them "oh so you gonna charge OEM new part price and use LKQ sourcing for profit?" lmao the guy tone change really quick from "we could help you in hard time" to "well f**ck yourself". Nope there are no chance in hell I would dealing with crooks like that.
Parents will usually believe their child is a victim after they do things they will later regret and their kids can not drown out of their memory.
They said the car value at $6200 and they want to totaled it lmao, I politely told them "If you could find a 07-08 MT with similar mileage/ condition and having CLEAN title I would pay out from my pocket and get another one" I request the case to be escalate to the supervisor and waiting for a phone call from them tomorrow.
BTW my original damage estimate wasn't that much off from the body shop, the body shop quoted $5500 to fix the car.
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They said the car value at $6200 and they want to totaled it lmao, I politely told them "If you could find a 07-08 MT with similar mileage/ condition and having CLEAN title I would pay out from my pocket and get another one" I request the case to be escalate to the supervisor and waiting for a phone call from them tomorrow.
BTW my original damage estimate wasn't that much off from the body shop, the body shop quoted $5500 to fix the car.
Not surprised... Insurance companies are brain dead and only care about screwing the people paying and making profits. Stress with them prime examples of what your TL goes for and tell them the kbb is worthless in this situation. I can't discuss about the Optima, but long story short, I printed out 50+ prime examples of other optimas nation wide, different trims around the same mileage and what they were going for. I ended up getting an additional 3K due to my research.
it's about them insuring something with zero collateral if they have already paid out of pocket what the car's market value is.
And remember...there's a reason we all go look for cars out in the wild to buy but then sell them on here to enthusiasts that appreciate them.
"I know what I have bro!"
We have emotional connections to the cars...the insurance company does not...they deal in numbers. The least they can give you for an incident
and then walk away clean, the better. That's the business model and if you ran an insurance company yours would look the same or you'd go out
of business!
Or they can charge you a fuckton more for insurance and give you a more reasonable offer for total loss.
I might list my KBP for $5500 for @truonghthe 's insurance company to stumble on to have a little fun.
I got royally screwed when I totaled out my rare bird B16 Sentra SER Spec-V. Late January, barely a handful of that trim for sale nationwide - and all priced low AF, even the couple low-milers. I had zero comps to fight back with. Hopefully the 3G TL-S 6MT market is stronger right now.
So I just got off the phone with the insurance company and the appraise (3rd party) showing them the current market value of our 07-08 TL-S MT around the country. Currently the lowest listing for TL-S MT is 8k with 145k miles and the rest is $11-$17k (one at 11k with a rebuild title), I am not asking for outrageous value not because "I know what I have" but I ask for actual market value. Come to find out they compare the KBP with BASE model market....
I kindly remind them look for a UA7 instead of UA6 and the appraise goes "we use vin decoder" as trust me we are the expert, I then commented "well IF you using VIN decoder then you guy would catch the difference between BASE and TYPE S" needles to day that settle the argument. I also notice if you find one MT cheap make sure its "clean title".
Now back to "we got to re-evaluate the pricing do to different market" aka we try to screw you but that didn't goes through. They said they will be back with the report in 24 hours.
So I just got off the phone with the insurance company and the appraise (3rd party) showing them the current market value of our 07-08 TL-S MT around the country. Currently the lowest listing for TL-S MT is 8k with 145k miles and the rest is $11-$17k (one at 11k with a rebuild title), I am not asking for outrageous value not because "I know what I have" but I ask for actual market value. Come to find out they compare the KBP with BASE model market....
I kindly remind them look for a UA7 instead of UA6 and the appraise goes "we use vin decoder" as trust me we are the expert, I then commented "well IF you using VIN decoder then you guy would catch the difference between BASE and TYPE S" needles to day that settle the argument. I also notice if you find one MT cheap make sure its "clean title".
Now back to "we got to re-evaluate the pricing do to different market" aka we try to screw you but that didn't goes through. They said they will be back with the report in 24 hours.
Yeah, brain dead. Keep fighting them. At least you were nice and calm with them. I on the other hand...
Honestly only if a handful of us car enthusiast in the business of auto insurance adjuster that will help. 90% of these people has no clue which is which.....
The joke we got in the Lexus community is when someone drive a ISF and then a non car person said "yeah by B/GF has the same car" turn out to be a IS250 F Sport. The F guy really salty about this lollol.
Thanks Breezy but they only looks at dealer pricing, that even help me out more as the last KBP MT sold for $19k. The cheapest sold for $13k, may be the appraisal company hiring some employee from FB group
Thanks Breezy but they only looks at dealer pricing, that even help me out more as the last KBP MT sold for $19k. The cheapest sold for $13k, may be the appraisal company hiring some employee from FB group
Did they say where that $19k one sold from by chance?
Asking because I have my paperwork from the dealer, if I can help your case out.
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