We didn’t go anywhere this weekend, because our planning was messed up by the fallout of getting rear-ended on the 404.

The body shop estimated 1-1.5 weeks, which meant that I would have to keep my rental over the long weekend. The 1.5 weeks were up on Friday, but they didn’t call me; so I gave them a call and they were estimating May 20th, 2 weeks after I brought it in! But they managed to get everything done on Friday and we got our car back. But it was too late to plan a road trip.

I also got a very detailed, itemized list of the repairs, and it totalled to almost $7k (including more than $400 for towing from the CRC to the body shop). Add to that the initial $200 to tow to the CRC, $320 for the rental, and various overhead costs for dealing with the claim; this event “paid” for almost 4 years of my insurance!

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: cars, driving