Excellent advice. In the long run you will be the winner.

 

I spoke with insurance, and the guy said it wasn't guaranteed that insurance would cover this. And because the dealership my car is at isn't an express vendor / service department for insurance company....I would be waiting for another 8-10 days before they would send an adjuster to go and look at the car. All the while my car will be sitting on the lot outside at dealership. Although I'm waiting a week for the fuel crossover tube...but might come earlier. So didn't want to wait a possible extra week to get car inspected and then be told it isn't covered due to being a family member doing the damage in my house.

Whole thing just sucks. Have to call insurance today and decide whether to try insurance route....or just eat the costs myself and take to small claims court or something.

 

 

STOP RIGHT THERE.

Check your policy to see if there's any mention that you MUST take your car to such a place. Who is your insurance carrier?

I am smelling a second rat after your ex.

 

Insurance companies can't tell you where to get your car repaired at.

 

Who told him he had to take it to one of their recommended shops? Am I missing something? They're sending an adjuster, done.

 

Chances are your insurance wont cover the damage...............especially if she was on the policy.

 

Unfortunately we are screwed since we are both covered by the same insurer that happens to be a government owned corporation called ICBC with a complete monopoly. It would be like one of your states driving all insurers out and setting up a state corporate car insurance agency. This is a socialist utopia. It was a good idea initially due to an uproar about insurance companies ripping off the public. For a time we enjoyed the cheapest car insurance in the country until the government funneled funds into general revenue. We can buy supplementary insurance coverage from private companies but every vehicle must buy and carry a basic policy from the government monopoly. I used to carry agreed value coverage based on an appraisal and collectors car status but didn't renew this year because of the cost. When the basic mandatory ICBC coverage was added to the Hagerty policy it made me envious of the rates that high risk bad drivers were paying in other jurisdictions?

 

I doubt 5 months of sitting would cause the gas to go that bad such that the car wouldnt starts. Ive been doing that same routine for years with never a problem Whoops I obviously missed that he figured out the problem, but I didnt think I could be the gas going bad. Sorry Man.

 

What professionals? There are none of them at a Autonation chevy stellarships.Ever dealer that I've had my vettes to "Under Warranty) only had young guys that wear street clothes to work.with no auto tech school training.As far as i know GM does not have a training school....Note: I know more about cars than any of the kids at the dealer.

 

All I can say is try to recoup the $3k when you complete the settlement.

I would settle with the ex, fix the 'vette, sell the empty house, change your phone number and avoid ever having any contact with her or the pooch again. Let the lawyer do it. And never answer a call or letter or visit again. 4 hours away is close enough.

You'll be much better making this a faded memory.

The "major problem" ain't the car.

 

Wayne made a general "blanket" statement that is likely true. He did NOT make the absolute statement that "All women . . . "

Trying to disprove a general statement with personal, anecdotal examples ("my daughter . . . ") is irrelevant and a very common mistake to make and happens ALL THE TIME in real life. They are using the "outliers" on a typical bell curve in an attempt to disprove the vast majority who are in the middle.

If someone surveyed, let's say, a thousand random men on the street, and separately also a thousand women, and asked them detailed questions about auto diagnosis/repair, I'm quite sure there would a much higher percentage of men who answered the questions correctly than did women.

What does this mean? Despite a half-century of public feminist brainwashing, women -- if left to their own devices -- will naturally gravitate towards different interests than do men (this was common knowledge throughout human existence up until recent decades). Of course, there will always be the outliers: women mechanics, etc.

Looking around at people in your life, this should be self-evident. Keep in mind, all statistics have outliers which are usually ignored (maybe 10% on either end of the curve) when proposing a generalized theory.

Of course, the politically-correct cannot accept these basic ideas because they are always trying to disprove human nature with anecdotal examples or "outliers."

To prove the other side of this, do the same survey only have the women and men sit at a PC and decorate a living room, selecting from an infinite number of styles and colors for furniture, drapes, wall decorations, etc.

Haha, we all know which group would excel at this despite being politically-incorrect to admit it.

I can hear it now: "Women aren't better at home decorating because I know this guy who does it for a living, and he's quite good at it."

 

It is POSSIBLE there was water in the bottom of the tank at the gas station. Especially if it was a little used product. I have seen it happen, There are several ways for water to getting into the fuel. One being the product in pipelines is separated by a brine "plug" if you will. If someone does something wrong, there's a bunch of water in the tanker that eventually gets to your station and your car.

Mark

 

There is also the possibility of refueling at a service station while the stations tanks are being refilled. The process of filling the tanks causes whatever water is in the tank to be recirculated and pumped into your car. I worked at gas stations when I was younger and there was always water in our tanks.

 

Blanket statements of this type are rarely true for the simple reason that they DO include all members of the group named. The word "all" is not needed. Both of my daughters, and both of my nieces for that matter, are women, yet they do know a great deal about cars, making his statement false. If he'd used the qualifier "most" in front of that statement, he would have been relatively accurate.

 

In the US they can't tell you where to go but they CAN require an estimate up front from their adjuster or one of their shops prior to you taking it to your shop.

 

In my experience the insuror can tell you where to go...for an estimate. They can't tell you where to get it repaired. They will, however, only pay what their "shop" said the repair was, baring unseen damage.

 

94 Octane from a CDN gas station usually indicates ethanol in the mix, and upwards of 10% ethanol.

I'm wondering if the dealer really pulled out as much water from the tank as described, since in Canada all 94 octanes I see usually run 10% ethanol and you did store it for 5+ months, there's a chance they pull some separated water out and then "guesstimated" it was fully contaminated.