corvette fire (sad)
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From: Palo Alto CA
Sorry for your loss.
Seriously argue the $5000 pay out. Your insurance should atleast give you Kelly Blue Book or NADA value. That's lower than KBB trade in - good value $19,097 for a coupe, and $10,954 for Z06. Some insurance companies are notorious for trying to get you to settle for half or less than half of the book values. Had to deal with that dog and pony show myself.
Seriously argue the $5000 pay out. Your insurance should atleast give you Kelly Blue Book or NADA value. That's lower than KBB trade in - good value $19,097 for a coupe, and $10,954 for Z06. Some insurance companies are notorious for trying to get you to settle for half or less than half of the book values. Had to deal with that dog and pony show myself.
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From: Belleville Mich.
I'm wondering if by chance you had/have a manual tranny & had a clutch remote bleeder installed?
Such a miracle you and child were thankfully not hurt.
Good luck.
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From: Wylie TX --> Less is More, except under the hood !
I'm most glad to hear you and your son are not harmed. Im sorry to hear that about your car for sure. I would feel just sick !! I hope you are able to get another car soon !
My friends think its a little silly that I recently put a fire extinguisher in my car, but its situations like this that I'm glad I have one. I hope I'll never need to use it.
Toque
My friends think its a little silly that I recently put a fire extinguisher in my car, but its situations like this that I'm glad I have one. I hope I'll never need to use it.
Toque
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I'm most glad to hear you and your son are not harmed. Im sorry to hear that about your car for sure. I would feel just sick !! I hope you are able to get another car soon !
My friends think its a little silly that I recently put a fire extinguisher in my car, but its situations like this that I'm glad I have one. I hope I'll never need to use it.
Toque
My friends think its a little silly that I recently put a fire extinguisher in my car, but its situations like this that I'm glad I have one. I hope I'll never need to use it.
Toque
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From: corpus christi tx
my car was a auto,just got word on what started the fire, the fire department thinks the o ring for one of the injectors failed. dam i m pissed, thats becase i was at pep boys last week looking at those fire exting thingy's
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From: corpus christi tx
car had 210,000 miles,thats what they told me at least, im going to wait to fight this prob, the car was worth about 9,000.00 on kbb
