Mad-Mic
Gone but not forgotten
was a nice day today and roads were dry so i decide to take the vette out and run some errands. so i went and signed the check to be deposited in escrow from my car accident in May 01 for my lawyer. (finally!) i decide to go out to the gas station on the main hwy i know of that has free air. (yes i'm a cheap bastard!) RR DR goes low now after a few days. well i'm cruising down the road and see this guy in full leathers on a big ass road king harley and i pass him in the slow lane about 30 mph and he pipes me. i guess he was enjoying the mid 40 degree weather also. no big deal i come to the light and drop gears to slow down nothing out of the ordinary. he's still in the left lane and we come to a part in the hwy that turns to 3 lanes wide.and now i'm in the middle lane since i was in the slow lane to begin with. he is still to my left. we come to another light and traffic is slowing. i do my thing and break about 3 times early just dropping gears and slowing down. i rather drift upto a car then have to jam the brakes. all the sudden i hear BAM! i feel the car move just alittle. i was going about 5 mph almost stopped and i look up after i completely stop and i look in my review and i see nothing. then about 2 seconds later i see the biker picking up his bike! i'm like WTF with a few other nice words to myself and i get out and make sure he's ok and we both pull into this dealership.
well the cops come to make sure everything is ok. he don't have a drivers license but has the registration to the bike. i copy all the info down and he tells me his insurance carrier. so now he's trying to talk me out of going thru insurance. so when i look at the damage it doesn't look bad. rearlower bumper clear coat is cracked. i'm thinking no big deal a few hundred maybe 3 at the most. tells me to take it to his friends auto body shop which i know of and does alot of mercedes work from the MB dealer i used to work at.
now i get the police info and i'm leaving to go to the gas station and put air in my RR tire the side he hit me on. i walk to that side of the car and what do i see? the damn upper rear bumper pushed in and pulled out with a nice scrape down it with clear coat shattered with that catching the RR quarter panel and cracking that up alittle.
so now i go down to the body shop and talk to them. i get an estimate of 1414.93. i call the guy up and tell him and he can't believe the estimate cause i am guessing he didn't see the side damage as i didn't because he pulled up to the side and was looking at the back of the car.
so he wants me to get a few more estimates as he don't want to go thru insurance but i got a gut feeling that it will. luckily i take alot of photographs of my car to prove there was no previous damage there. the guy at the autobody shop i took it to that he suggested knew the guy and said he was a stand up guy so i hope he is if not i'll be calling my insurance company cause he did tell me atleast who he was insured with which is my company and i got a police case # no report or paperwork just the officer wrote down his name and bad ge number along with the case number on my note pad with his info i copied down.
i'll give him to the end of the week. think that is fair? flip side to this i had some paint work on the front clip i needed done so i got that estimate also which was 500 but i think i can get it all cheaper at a few shops around my way that i have some distant contacts with. so i was planning getting the front clip done and if i can get the whole car repainted for 2000 + what this guy does or the insurance pays for i will just get the whole thing painted if i can get it done for about 3k.
Grrr!!!!
well the cops come to make sure everything is ok. he don't have a drivers license but has the registration to the bike. i copy all the info down and he tells me his insurance carrier. so now he's trying to talk me out of going thru insurance. so when i look at the damage it doesn't look bad. rearlower bumper clear coat is cracked. i'm thinking no big deal a few hundred maybe 3 at the most. tells me to take it to his friends auto body shop which i know of and does alot of mercedes work from the MB dealer i used to work at.
now i get the police info and i'm leaving to go to the gas station and put air in my RR tire the side he hit me on. i walk to that side of the car and what do i see? the damn upper rear bumper pushed in and pulled out with a nice scrape down it with clear coat shattered with that catching the RR quarter panel and cracking that up alittle.
so now i go down to the body shop and talk to them. i get an estimate of 1414.93. i call the guy up and tell him and he can't believe the estimate cause i am guessing he didn't see the side damage as i didn't because he pulled up to the side and was looking at the back of the car.
so he wants me to get a few more estimates as he don't want to go thru insurance but i got a gut feeling that it will. luckily i take alot of photographs of my car to prove there was no previous damage there. the guy at the autobody shop i took it to that he suggested knew the guy and said he was a stand up guy so i hope he is if not i'll be calling my insurance company cause he did tell me atleast who he was insured with which is my company and i got a police case # no report or paperwork just the officer wrote down his name and bad ge number along with the case number on my note pad with his info i copied down.
i'll give him to the end of the week. think that is fair? flip side to this i had some paint work on the front clip i needed done so i got that estimate also which was 500 but i think i can get it all cheaper at a few shops around my way that i have some distant contacts with. so i was planning getting the front clip done and if i can get the whole car repainted for 2000 + what this guy does or the insurance pays for i will just get the whole thing painted if i can get it done for about 3k.
Grrr!!!!
ad I know you love your baby just as much as I do mine.I don't post much but you really are an asset to this site with your knowledge
I hope everything works out-every thing happens for a reason,
