$3700 to repair a scratch on a 2000 Infiniti Q45T

[Victor]

My youngest daughter just got her license and put a scratch on my other daughter's Q45T when she hit a guardrail entering a freeway (only second time she ever drove on the freeway). But anyway she had to pay the $500 deductible. But now the passenger side of the car looks brand new. The wheels got chewed up a tiny bit too, and I don't know how they fixed them but the wheels look brand new now. They also did a four wheel alignment as part of the repair. Now if she could just scratch the drivers side the car would end up having a flawless exterior.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Glad you came out ahead on that one...consider yourself lucky.

[maxnix]

My youngest daughter just got her license and put a scratch on my other daughter's Q45T when she hit a guardrail entering a freeway (only second time she ever drove on the freeway).

Bet the younger one was a driver's education graduate too!

[BadQ45t]

If she hits the other side your insurance will go up 300% so I wouldn't encourage it.

[unknown007]

Get full coverage and have someone scratch it!!! Brand new paint job.

[Victor]

Before my daughter brought her 2000 Infiniti Q45T in for bodywork repair there was a check engine light on that she said had been there for a couple of months. After the repair the light wasn't on anymore. I am guessing they had to disconnect the battery while working on the car and that cleared the fault. According to the owners manuals three things can make the light come on, a loose gas cap, dropping below 3 gallons of gas in the fuel tank, or an emissions control problem. I guess what ever it was isn't there anymore. BTW, I must be searching using the wrong words, but I couldn't find any list of codes for a second generation Q45. Does such a list exist?We drove back from Colorado to southern California, traveling at 79 mph most of the way, and I didn't notice any problems with the way the engine sounded. In fact the engine is so smooth and quiet when idling both me and my daughter inadvertently tried to start it when it was already running on two occasions. We averaged 20.6 mpg, and that included a trip through Zion National Park and 20 miles of hairpin turns, with the car fully loaded with three people and all the luggage and other stuff we could cram into the car.

[paranoidjack]

Get full coverage and have someone scratch it!!! Brand new paint job.

....and the reason insurance rates are so high!