So my car got hit (need advice)

[Rookieca18det]

Ok so on Tuesday I was heading to my boys house to drop off a harness for his car and some girl runs right into my driver side and damn near kills me. Let me elaborate: I was heading north on sunset strip in the left lane and this girl in a camry leaves out of a neighborhood and drives through the break in the median but doesnt stop to see if traffic is coming. So I see this car coming towards the median and of course I glance over but then I notice this **** is not slowing down or stopping so I honk and turn my wheel to the right lane but to no avail she ran right into me, Im pretty sure she never even hit the brakes.

Yeah so... The driver side pretty much got royally raped, the door wont open and the window wont go up. Her insurance company came out and took pics and said they would mail me all the details. The guy who came and took the pics was pretty cool and had a clean *** blue vette. He said more than likely they are going to call it a total loss and will either give me around 2k for the car and take it or I can have 80% of the value and keep it. From the looks of things the frame is fine and I can probably replace the door and fender, the only thing Im worried about is the rear quarter panel and how much you guys think a body shop would charge me to get that fixed and have the car resprayed black.

Here are the pics for my more visual audience.


Modified by Rookieca18det at 9:24 AM 7/20/2006

[c-rad]

Use photobucket next time

[kamikazestorm420]

photobucket FTW

[Rookieca18det]

*EDIT*

[kamikazestorm420]

well ... when i hit my rear quarter panel. the dent was probably half of the rear quarter panel and it was dented in to where the antenna was. i was quoted $900 for them to fix it. but since it was my friends uncle he hooked it up and i got it done for $400. the fender and the door can be picked up at a junkyard and just get them resprayed black. but im pretty sure that your insurance will call that totaled. IIRC if it takes more than half of what your cars worth to fix it = totaled

[~4N~]

As long as it runs, keep it!

[Rookieca18det]

yeah i know they are going to consider it total but I will more than likely keep it. Thanks for the info on the price of the repair. Like I said I am more concerned about the quarter panel as the door and fender can be replaced. Yeah she runs fine, just hurts to look at.

[adrianfromthecastle]

+1 for photobucketif anyones asks wtf happend, just tell them "dorifto battle scars"

[Alfador]

+1 for cool insurance guy/company. Around here they don't tell you **** until someone shows up at your house with a tow truck and a transfer slip to take the car, and you usually have to take them to court for the money. I'd say keep it and the 80%, use it to fix what damage you can and bite the bullet on the rest. Too good of a car to lose on BS like that. Who knows if you run this ***** up enough and take her to small claims you might be able to get a little more $$ straight out of her pocket or at least get the satisfaction of making her life miserable.

[Rookieca18det]

I think I will just cut my losses and try to repair it if possible or swap everything to another shell. The girl seemed pretty upset about it and she was only like 18, not trying to ruin her life over it. What is done is done, I mean dont get me wrong im still pissed but at the sametime accidents happen. Im gonna clear my head and go out tonight and think about what I should do. Thanks for all the advice so far.

-richard

[Toshima]

Buy some wide body rear quarter pannels the fiberglass ones. Then buy a used door and fender. That should be under a $1000 then the rest of the money use to get the the body back in good shape a maybe some paint.

[574-240sx]

looks like that rear quarter was bondoed/repair previously, could be the angle but looks like the bondo cracked from the impact. Better off just starting with a new body/used car. It doesn't look like a hard fix if you were to run some aftermarket rear wide fenders. Get a new door and fender and make it work with a sledge hammer.

[MeanGreenS13]

start gathering up reciepts and fight it...

[LiteraryCannon]

Damn that sucks, that car will never be the same again. Whenever a car gets hit in the quarter panels like that.. I cry

And I would only trust a really really good shop with repair work of that caliber and thus the price of such an endeavor would be more than the chassis itself.. so I say part it and get a new chassis or switch performance parts onto another chassis.

[Rookieca18det]

I may have found a shell for 300 but its a real pos...the body is decent so might just swap everything over and go frome there.

[JesusLikesKFC]

as long as it runs and is back to the way it was, people **** up and make mistakes. as long as they pay up and **** gets fixed ur ok. however the ***holes that deny **** and try to run...... sue the fucers!

[wayfast240]

if it was me, i would take the 80 percent, and get some qoutes to fix it or get a shell. but to me the damage does not look to bad. ive been doing body work for 4 years and ive seen cars with 6 times more damage get fixed and drive like brand new, as long as all the check points on the frame are measured when the work is going on there should be no problem. were i work frame measureing is about 150-200 dollars, and the rest of the work to me would be about 7 to 9 hundred dollar range. if it was my car i would fix it. would hate to see a 240 go to the grave.

[PS13TurningArtist]

I just got my car totaled and so far things are looking okay. I got 2200 for the car plus im keeping it. I just bought a whole front end for 350, and im getting it fixed for around 1300. 1300+350= 1650... so 2200-1650= uhhh = 550 for my pocket . not bad except for a salvage title and the month i spent not driving my car

you should be fine as long as you can get it hooked up by your friends

[Rookieca18det]

yeah im gonna see what happens, i would hate for all my time work and money to go to waste. Plus, I love this car it is the only car I have ever owned. If I dont keep it I will part it out and get a bike. My brother has a crx just sitting in my driveway so I can drive that on days I dont feel like being a moving target on a bike. Hopefully they call me today with more details.

-richard

[Sandy sx]

That sucks about the car. Dumb chick. Anywho, seems like the general concensus is to take the 80% and get the quarter panel fixed. And I'd say the same thing. Good luck with it.

[1990 pignose]

dude tht sucks so bad....good luck to u...hope she get fixed..i live in hollywood n there is a u pull it down the road they have alot of s13s n the parts tht you would need

[mrzabala]

As long as it runs, keep it!

............... ............ And I didnt get any of this advices. It was all" sell your car or part it out. "

[BOOMSHAKALAKA]

that sucks...i know if my 240 got damaged it would be either repair it or take the bus...and in florida...waiting for the bus takes forever.

But your ride will get fixed. You can rebuild it. It can be done.

[Rookieca18det]

Yeah the bus really does suck here so I will more than likely get a door from u pull it or M&L. I heard from them on friday and said that everything is in motion and I would here back from them on wednesday about the $$$, so now Im just waiting. Im gonna talk to this mechanic I know at his shop and see if he knows a good body shop locally maybe he can get me a good deal. Or I might be taking a trip to miami to get it fixed.

-richard

[Z28ricer]

First thing, start gathering up all of the receipts you have for the car, i dont care if its as small as spark plug boot grease, and I mean everything, if you bought extra hose clamps for your turbo install those will count too. Second see if you can get friendly with a friend who has a shop, or even a storage location they work on their cars at and have them print you up a receipt for about how many hours you spent doing the swap @ 75 or so an hour. Clean the interior, wash the exterior, clean everything and detail it all.When they come out to appraise it this will make a big difference in how much they value the actual car at, then the receipts for the work will help bring up what you get for the damage, it wont be full value, thus why everything counts, they are out to screw you as much as possible, so the more you can show for, the closer you are to getting something fair. Make sure you let them know the car was swapped and you have receipts for all the mods, they'll ask for them, just dont go making up stuff saying that you have a such and such exhaust and then end up having two receipts, or really the stock part on the car, you have to keep it within reason.

After all that crap is done up, they'll get you a figure on how much they're offering it to you for, then you want to ask them how much is buyback on the car, they have a list of salvage value on the cars which is what they'll get from an auction house that will sell it off, typically this is in the $50-300 range, so that gives you an idea if they ask you to make an offer, they may just come right out and tell you, in that case i'd say for you to expect around 175-200 $

Use the money for a non bashed car and swap all of your parts over

[SR20Essex]

Man, I couldn't imagine this happening to me. I think I would tell the insurance company to shove their $2k and it would be AR-15 time on the chick who hit me. Yes, if someone hit my car I would be on the 5 O'clock and 11 O'clock news, then an instant part of the federal prison system if not laying next to the crappy driver in the morgue from police gunshot wounds. Oh, same thing If they tried to take my car for any reason.
Modified by SR20Essex at 11:13 PM 7/26/2006

[shane_lxi]

Dammit, that sucks! I remember when the same thing happened to my first s13... but that was my fault. Buy it back no matter, what, they will want to keep whatever was in the pics, ae, wheels, engine, stuff like that :P. If nothing else, make a track car .

[wa-chiss]

i got my car stolen once. Not a 240 but still. Rims, tires, body, suspention, engine.I spent a LOT on that car and kept every receipt. from valve stem caps to antenna. the car was only worth $3000 bone stock. But with all my reciepts, i got $5000. Not bad eh? enough to pay off the car and still had enough for a down payment on my 01 Xterra. I say f***'em, don't let them f*** you. show everything you got. even oil and filters. They will keep adding up. Then, show the quotes to fix it. If they quotes is less than half of their offer, they wont "total loss it and you can keep from having a salvaged title.

[Rookieca18det]

Okay, so they said they are giving me $1600 for the car... so I pulled my motor last night and will be taking off the suspension and taillights tomorrow. I will probably take off the wheels tomorrow as well. The guy who took the pics of the car really only took pics of the damage so we will see what happens. Hopefully I can put everything back to stock and get the $1600. Oh and here are some pics for the hell of it. Me and my friend jay pulled it out at like 10 o'clock night due to work and stuff, this camera has a serious flash though.

[wa-chiss]

I like the duct tape in the 5th picture. "if you can't duct it f*** it" I swear my family uses too much of that stuff