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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 13:54:14 -0400
From: "Another_User" <the<underscore>ninepoundnopsamail.com>
Subject: Re: Saab ("sob") story - might just be losing the old gal
"6) make a medical claim to get more cash....(ha ha - saab drivers don't get
hurt in accidents, right??!! he says as he rubs his aching neck...)"
Don't even joke about that. People that do that are scum of the earth.
"Abdallah Jamal" <abdallahjamalnopsamAMnopsam.ca> wrote in message
news:QC2%9.174215$H7.6656049nopsam2.calgary.shaw.ca...
AHCTTFME
dang. some li'l ol' lady in a white camry rams into my beloved '87 9000T in
the rain. grrrr. (okay, maybe not quite yet my beloved - but i am still
infatuated and still courting, after all, we just met last april.) but she
got her left side all torn up by the camry, and she won't heal too easily.
(oh if i could only cradle the 3000lb baby in my arms). insurance estimator
took one look and (without evaluating it) said it'd be a write-off. i
didn't want to hear that, i told him. so i asked for the options. i could
take their write-off offer (i'll find out monday - probably in the C$3500
range, after some haggling) and leave my love with them, he said, or i could
take 80% of the offer and keep her.
so i went to a body shop to get an immediate assessment of the repair -
C$5800 - yikes.
see, i've already put some good money into it to get it to where i like it
and wondered what everyone thought i should do. i was originally planning
to keep the car for about 3 years.
i could:
1) haggle and haggle to try to get the complete repair done by the insurance
guys (i wasn't at fault, so there is some hope here, though not a hell of a
lot)
2) take the 3500 and try to find a replacement car. not too likely, given
the vintage - they're getting rare now. (the estimator has agreed to give
me a few months to look for one, though i'd have to drive around in the
wreck for that time - the rear door, driver's side doesn't close completely,
so its open to the rain, and noise...)
3) take the 80% and the car, and put it towards a complete repair. (i'd have
to fork out the 3000 or so difference)
4) take the 80%, keep the car and try to do a "partial repair" (you know,
live with some cosmetic damage, just get the door fixed to close completely,
but live with a dented front fender for a while.
5) take the 80%, keep the car and hunt for a replacement, then use the old
gal for parts, or try to sell it in pieces.... (i don't really want to
become a parts guy, tho')
6) make a medical claim to get more cash....(ha ha - saab drivers don't get
hurt in accidents, right??!! he says as he rubs his aching neck...)
i don't have a lot of spare cash, so i'd be looking for a replacement in the
5000 range, tops.
thoughts?
--
abdallah
87 9000T (240,000kms) (..snif..)
87 9000S (270,000kms)
(for those that couldn't decipher the acronym: after having cleared the
tears from my eyes)
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