[s-cars] S4 Smashed

[Franco Barber]

Hi,
I just drove by your car today.  I saw it at the transmission shop
as I was leaving the Kroger's nearby.  Left side looked pretty bad.
Car looked really nice otherwise.  I wondered why it was at
a transmission shop with that left side damage, and now I know.

Sorry, I'm no help with the insurance, just wanted to say hi,
shame about the damage, good luck.

Franco


On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:06:56PM -0400, Karl N. Matthias wrote:
>
> Hey listers--
>
> I have a pearl white 1993 S4 which I bought in May and have been very much
> enjoying.  I parked it on the street overnight about 2 weeks ago, around
> the corner from my fiancee's house in a nice suburb of Columbus, OH, and
> someone decided to steal a car and joy-ride it around her neighborhood
> crashing into anything which happened to be in the way.  The police figure
> my car was hit at about 50mph in a side-swipe 3/4 impact that caved-in
> both driver's side doors and tore a huge hole in the rear door.  The
> B-pillar looks a little bent, and the rear door is kind of bunched-up and
> wrapped around it.  Every panel on that side was hit except the rear one,
> and the rocker is dented, too.  The wheel was hit, and the mirror is
> toast.  After all that, I tried to drive it and the transmission won't
> really go into 1st or 2nd gear, without a lot of effort.
>
> I am now dealing with the insurance @$$holes who insist that the
> transmission couldn't possibly have been damaged in this way by the
> impact.  I called 9 shops in town (including both dealers--who wouldn't
> take it) before I found one who would actually open the box for the
> insurance company to examine.  The insurance jerks are insisting that they
> see the damage and "determine whether or not it was caused by the
> accident" before they will pay to have it repaired.  Like the guy who
> comes to look at it will know what could or could not be caused by an
> accident...  And he's predisposed to thinking it's not from the accident.
> So the shop that's looking at it tells me "I just don't see how this
> problem could have been caused by an impact, it sounds like a bent shift
> fork from power shifting."  I don't power shift and the car worked fine,
> without a single transmission problem before the impact.  Anyone had to
> deal with this mess before?  Any advice, evidence, etc is much
> appreciated!
>
> On a side note... The car was in pristine condition when I bought it, with
> 110,000 miles but more or less factory condition.  The leather seats were
> a little scuffed, but everything else was flawless.  The insurance company
> thinks all the damage (minus the transmission) can be repaired for $3450
> which includes used doors since new ones are not available.  I think they
> are high on something.
>
> Any help, advice, experience with the transmission issue is greatly
> appreciated.  Thanks!
>
> Karl
>
>
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Franco Barber                   feb at febsun.cmhnet.org
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