Corgidog1

The" before picture" shows the damage done before the repair and the "after picture" shows what the car looks like after the repair.

Actually all you need is the before picture to show that the damage had no effect on the frame and was relatively minor-- a car fax may not indicate the extent of the damage and leave a potential buyer nervous about the extent of the damage.

DickieDoo

Always a problem since Vettes have such good brakes... you literally have to ease off on your brakes if you notice someone on your tail.
Up here in Canada, we don't have diminished value.. so we get screwed royally.

senah

the closer someone follows me, the more room i leave between me and the car that i'm following.

senah

do you take vitamin c? if not, you can try 1 gram/day for every 50 pounds of body weight, so 4 grams for a 200 pound body weight, for example. split the dosage between morning and night. it can speed up the healing process and reduce pain while you wait.

just speaking from my own experience.

mschuyler

IF you are truly injured, sure, but this sounds like intent to defraud.

"Emotional distress"? Good Lord. For those case it doesn't look like ANY of that happened. More intent to defraud.

So after you have finished screwing the insurance company, screw your lawyer as well.

Why? The best thing for OP to do is disregard everything this poster has suggested. Get your vette repaired fairly and competently, for sure, but don't indulge in fraud as this guy suggests. He's an embarrassment to the Corvette community.

Really, Bui. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

JDM111er

I believe my attorney told me that you should get two to three times the money for the expenses you incur. I negotiated my own and got three times the money for an accident that only hurt the vehicle.

JDM111er

If your in a car accident, you should always have a doctor look you over within 24 hours of the incident.

River Rat

Being a new owner I've been thinking of what I would do if I was rear ended (DD in bay area traffic).

My thinking was I would not want my vette back (if I still had the same payment) after it was hit. Don't know if this is just wishful thinking, but I would want to be bought out of my loan and would buy a non accident car.

To all the sue-shamers...I have been rear ended twice. Booth times have had back problems after accident settlement was agreed to. Also, I have found things not repaired or noticed at the time of the accident which have lingered though out the remaining life of the vehicle. So, sue away (though I prefer to negotiate myself to avoid 1/3 going to the lawyer). You may think at the time of settlement it was fair, but in my experience you will find things (health or car damage) which you may not have been reimbursed for. CYA friends!

Bui

Unlike you, I didn't just come in OP's thread to flame people. I simply pointed out a couple of options. Its up to the OP to choose which he wants to follow and which he deems as unnecessary.


Of course. However, often times, I find that logic isn't a strong point for many people. Those same people are often quick to attack others who share opinions that do not agree with theirs.

Woodson

Where's the ignore button again?

Steve Garrett

Guys,


This is turning real ugly real fast.


Either we quit bickering amongst each other and quit calling each other names, or I'll just issue bans and close this thread.


One warning.......only one.

PUGPROUD

I was parked waiting for my grandson at his school two hours ago when a mother on her phone pulls up behind me in her Lexus SUV and hits my bumper head on putting two dings from her license plate bolts! This is going to be the most expensive phone call she has ever made!

AORoads

I think you need to get with YOUR insurance co. and not deal w. the other driver's insurance co. directly at all. That is why you have an insurance policy. Things may get messy otherwise, and messy to me means you will lose out.

I definitely think diminished value is a good idea to file for--whether it's by you or someone you hire. There may be a Carfax report, and if there is it may be mentioned as minor, but I wouldn't count on that one. I also think it will be a blot on the value of the car ( as well as future salability).

Are you getting it repaired in your home state?

NMC7

Sorry to hear about your accident. I hope you were not hurt.


While you can get your car repaired to look like new, it will show up as having been in a car accident on Carfax and other similar services. If you sell or trade your car, you will likely get less because of this history. Different states have different insurance laws, but typically all your insurance company is responsible for is to repair or replace your car, whichever costs less. A diminution in value claim typically has to be pursued against the other driver and his or her insurance company. A couple of years ago my Lexus ES300h was rear-ended which resulted in $3,500 in repairs. I mention the brand only because it is germane to story. It was only a few months old and I pressed a claim for diminished value with the other driver's insurance company. I have a friend who works for CarMax who values, buys and sells cars for a living. He told me that virtually any accident history on a higher-end car will impair its value. On exotics, the diminution in value can be a near total loss with a history of a significant accident. The insurance industry has guidelines (Formula 17c) it uses to estimate diminished value. I pressed the matter with the other driver's insurance company and in addition to the cost of repairs, I got a $4,000 check for the diminution in value to my car. That represented about 10% of the retail market value of may car at the time of the accident. I will say that my car appeared to have suffered more damage than yours which does figure into the diminished value claim. Of course, when I trade or sell that car, I will get less than if it had not been in an accident. I plan to keep the car for some years so hopefully the diminution in value spread will lessen. To make a long story short, I would not let the other insurance company off the hook for diminished value. You might check with a dealer or CarMax to get some idea of the diminution in value as a result of the accident and use that in negotiating with the other insurance company.


Good luck!

C7Joy

Sorry for the mishap. Must have been an incident of following too close or in attention. I hardly ever go out that I don't have some fool behind me tailgating.

felkebg

Interesting couple of cases involving distracted driving and brain logistics when instrumentation is involved.

First case is a Kentucky coed on the phone with her sister in a heated discussion. She was driving next to and parallel to a train and then she got ahead of the train a bit and started a right turn over the tracks. The engineer knew he was going to hit her and that she had no idea that the train was even on the tracks despite the fact that he was moving ~100 train cars along the road behind him. He said he had started emergency braking and dialed 911 even before the impact. She survived after several interventions involving the release of excess cranial pressure. The sister on the phone with the driver heard to whole thing and she is still in therapy. Should we ask people who we think are driving when they call us if they have us on hands free or can we talk when they stop?

Second case. My friend waited years before having brain surgery to remove a tumor that had started pressing on his optical nerve. After the operation, you could enter the room he was sitting in and he was nearly incapable of carrying on a conversation because he could not organize his thoughts or form words. If you called his home his wife would hand him the phone and he was able to converse in a fairly normal fashion.

Apparently we may use a different portion of our brain when we speak to a passenger in our vehicles than when we hold an instrument to our ears. The passenger is also another pair of eyes. I am looking forward to the autonomous car features to become common place so that these rear ending, distracted drivers can maybe get their cars to pay attention even when they are on the phone.

DCortez

Appreciate all the input. Still on the road, will keep you guys updated.

DCortez

Oops double post.

Bill Dearborn

Get your insurance company involved you are their Customer and you are paying them to protect you. They have the HP to get the things done correctly where you have little. Even if you hire a lawyer you still have little. You aren't GEICO's customer and will not be treated as their Customer. Lawyer's really don't provide a lot of benefit in cases like this. DV may mean something if you try and sell the car in a year or so. If you are like me and won't sell it for another 5 or 6 years it doesn't mean much other than some idiot will try and negotiate a lower price to which you can just say not acceptable. Look at all of those so called 60s muscle cars crossing the auction block at BJ. A large number have been involved in crashes, probably some have been assembled out of two totaled cars, there is a large percentage that started restoration as rust buckets. None of that hurts their value the only thing that counts is how well the repair/restoration is done.

Bill

thrilled

Whenever I'm behind A high dollar car I make sure that I give him extra space.I know if I hit him it's going to be more expensive than A Malibu.I'm surprised that most people don't think the same way.
To get back to the subject.It don't look all that bad.Good luck on the repair