car damage and /anger

[tribalman]

i'm not sure if other people have had this happen, but i just had a pumpkin thrown thru my rear windshield, shattering it and also damaging the body. does anybody know of any places in illinois what will replace the window and and fix the body for cheap? $500 deductables really suck. how about installing window tinting? i'd like to get about 10-15% tint.

anybody else have stuff like this happen? post your stories. what really ticks me off is i was away from the car for 1 hour and 30 minutes and didn't hear anything happen or notice anything either! the car was across the street and over one house on the street. i was in the front room of the house! i haven't even had the car for 6 months yet! darn rich irresponsible teens!

[Vircolac]

Here's one for you....

I was working second shift and at about 11:00 in the morning one of my neighbors in the apartment complex knocks on my door. She says to me to come out and take a look at my car, and, "please, don't get mad!", so I knew something was very wrong.

I go out to the car which is parked on the street. The whole rear window is smashed to bits AND the rear passenger side window is gone, too. I take a quick look to see if anything is gone from inside the car, and call the police. I'm thinking that kids just took a bat to my car windows just because they have nothing better to do. I call work and tell them I can't make it in because I have to take care of this mess, and they give me some flak, almost implying that if I don't make it to work, the whole economic system will collapse, blah, blah, blah..., and I say, "tough! I won't be in. I've gotta take care of this mess!" The deputy sheriff arrives, and we start looking around. He sees a lot more than I do. He looks at my trunk and sees a dent/scuff mark, and a major smash in the rear window frame housing, a limestone scuff mark in the street, and, after poking around some more, a limestone landscaping slab, the size of a large book and about 15 lbs, in the lawn in front of the apartment, quite a distance from my car but almost directly in line with my passenger side rear window.

The best we could figure out was this: Someone, or some how, this limestone slab came cartwheeling down the street (I was parked downhill), hit the asphalt, bounced up, putting a dent in the trunk, smashing in to the rear window and frame, and ricocheted out the side rear passenger window, and landed in the grass some 25 feet from my car. It was going fast enough to leave a couple of divots in the lawn. To this day I can't figure out how a rock that size could get going soo fast to do all of that damage. Anyway, total damage was a little over three grand. with me paying about $900.00 out of my own pocket ($500 deductible and rental car fees; it was in the shop almost two weeks. They did a great job of fixing it!).

I know you feel like this happens only to you, but my little story may help make you feel a little less lonesome.... Sorry about the pumpkin incident; hang in there!

[Eagle]

yeah, my car got egged the other night. No body damage, but the paint is screwed.

[91Foxtrot]

I had my car broken into last year. They broke out the vent glass (the little non-movable triangular piece in the back door). I did a search for glass repair and the national company Safelite came up first. I called them for a quote, which they gave as $175 and they could do it on Tuesday (this was Saturday morning). I took a look at Craigslist and someone recommended Aaron Auto Glass in Chicago. Called them for a quote: $55 - get here before 4 and we'll do it while you wait. They even used Volkswagen glass.

[rkjunior303]

Hooray for glass being covered in the state of MA by insurance with no deductible..

You may want to file a police report and see if with that, your insurance will cover it without the deductible. Usually the deductible is only if you're operating the car. The car was stationary, etc, so it's not your fault.

Case in point.. Here in MA, my mom's car popped out of gear and rolled down the street, hitting a telephone pole... Insurance covered it.

[Lohman446]

I get a chance to outdo all of you, I'll start with my own.

About 3AM one morning I get a call from the sheriff department. "Mr. Lohman, do you own a green Taurus?" Its the middle of the night I'm like, ummm yeh. "Could you verify its location for us" So I walk out to my front door and its not there. Hmm, thats interesting. They were just pursuing it, someone tried to run an officer down with it. They tell me they will get me any new information they can, I go back to bed.

The next morning I call and get a ride to work, I get a call awhile later, the guy was going a bit over 100MPH down a gravel and dirt road and rolled it, repeatedly, though he did walk away from it. Since he is a minor I can only sue his family - who has nothing so not worth doing. Michigan no fault insurance law and I don't specifically carry theft coverage, its not covered, AT ALL.

[billybob_81067]

I get a chance to outdo all of you, I'll start with my own.

About 3AM one morning I get a call from the sheriff department. "Mr. Lohman, do you own a green Taurus?" Its the middle of the night I'm like, ummm yeh. "Could you verify its location for us" So I walk out to my front door and its not there. Hmm, thats interesting. They were just pursuing it, someone tried to run an officer down with it. They tell me they will get me any new information they can, I go back to bed.

The next morning I call and get a ride to work, I get a call awhile later, the guy was going a bit over 100MPH down a gravel and dirt road and rolled it, repeatedly, though he did walk away from it. Since he is a minor I can only sue his family - who has nothing so not worth doing. Michigan no fault insurance law and I don't specifically carry theft coverage, its not covered, AT ALL.

That sucks... but at least it was only a taurus!

[slade]

I get a chance to outdo all of you, I'll start with my own.

About 3AM one morning I get a call from the sheriff department. "Mr. Lohman, do you own a green Taurus?" Its the middle of the night I'm like, ummm yeh. "Could you verify its location for us" So I walk out to my front door and its not there. Hmm, thats interesting. They were just pursuing it, someone tried to run an officer down with it. They tell me they will get me any new information they can, I go back to bed.

The next morning I call and get a ride to work, I get a call awhile later, the guy was going a bit over 100MPH down a gravel and dirt road and rolled it, repeatedly, though he did walk away from it. Since he is a minor I can only sue his family - who has nothing so not worth doing. Michigan no fault insurance law and I don't specifically carry theft coverage, its not covered, AT ALL.

/lohman wins

[tribalman]

lohman and Vircolac, those both suck. yeah i know it happens to more than just me, i just need to vent slightly. no one is up at 4am around here . yeah i called the police right after i found out what happened and after some very harsh words yelled into the air.

insurance will cover it, after a $500 deductable looks like i'm having to pay for the whole thing though. actually, there have been a big increase of theft and auto damage in the town where i was. been reading the town paper and police reports, theft has finally overtaken DUI and marajuana as most popular arrests. maybe i should just move to the moon to get away from it all.

what is really astonishing, i had about $3k+ worth of stuff in there. from ipod, stereo, speakers and sub, to a nice 35mm camera and paintball stuff but nothing was taken. man i really lucked out there. next time i know it's going to be theft also. *note to self, keep as little in car as possible*

[93civiccpe]

^^ All of the above are just a few more reasons to invest in a "trunk monkey". =P
(sorry to hear of your losses.. been there, done that as well)

[psychowarden]

Last summer while I was away for a week, someone put a few pieces of bologna on my hood. If you dont know what that does to your paint, it looks like someone took a disk sander and just polished off my paint. So, a few weeks with a polka dot hood and a few phonecalls to the insurance company, and I have a new hood.

[bornl33t]

keyed twice and ran into twice in one month. No notes no nothing. You think pickup owners are jerks for driving too slow or "hogging the road" but what about the fruit cakes that hit a parked truck twice the sice of an average sedan?

Oh and why do some people have a problem with math? I mean take a 6ft wide parking space and put a 5 ft wide truck in it. Divide that by two and you got 6 inches on both sides of the truck. People it's impossible to leave a foot on both sides it just can't happen!

[thecavemankevin]

lohman deffinately wins at the biggest looser

two stories, my truck go sugar put in the gas tank but fortunately i noticed it before i started the engine (saw sugar on the ground). Thank god for that chevy having a driver side tank. It sucked because i had to pay for towing to the service station and since it had a full tank i had to pay a ****e load of EPA gas disposal fees. cost me $400 bucks when it was all done. And for a kid in high school where $400 is what you make in two weeks that really sucked.

My old VW bug had the vent glass broken out and about $800 worth of tools and other stuff jacked from inside. (that happened in about 15 minutes)

so you are very lucky that they didnt jack you stuff from inside the car.

[PyRo]

Sugar in the gas tank doesn't do anything. You should have just drove it and laughed it off.

[Altimas]

A match on the other hand...