Most expensive steak ever

[motordavid]

OT...
jeremym,
Not at all...you were correct and I was simply embarrassed to have confused the two companies. It pizzes me off, as I made a 30+ yr career out of remembering
a lot of 'stuff'; now, I find that ability to be eroding. Right on, man!
GL, mD

[jeremym]

Originally Posted by motordavid

OT...
jeremym,
Not at all...you were correct and I was simply embarrassed to have confused the two companies. It pizzes me off, as I made a 30+ yr career out of remembering
a lot of 'stuff'; now, I find that ability to be eroding. Right on, man!
GL, mD

I see. Thanks for the clarification. I had thought my comment came off rude after I saw your reply, but I didn't believe it was rude. So thus, I had to point the finger at you.

..back to your regularly scheduled thread. Cravin?

[cravin]

My car still has a dent in it. Going into body shop on Monday

[Thunder22]

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I always walk around the car before leaving the lot. I also park at the same garage in NYC everytime and they take good care of me.

Sorry about your situation Cravin, people just suck.

[cravin]

Believe you me, lesson learned. I have purchased an LED flashlight for my car and now plan to have it handy for nighttime walk arounds if the lighting is poor.

Having to turn your car over to others in NYC is an almost unavoidable situation, so now I will just not "trust" as easily. Expensive lesson, but lesson learned none the less.

[cravin]

Got a call from the Geico adjuster today that they have issued a check for another $1,000 for parts and labor from damage found inside the door once they took the shell off. Total to date is around $6,500.

[cravin]

Geico and the body shop agreed to around $5k for the full repair. $4k for the original estimate and the additional $1k from earlier this week.

Got my X5 back and am so damn happy. Was driving a Chevy Malibu this week and hated it. Crystal Clear did a great job. Part of the extra $1k was for wiring and electronics in the door that I guess got busted up. For this, they had to send it to the dealership for re-coding and now my Comfort Access isn't working. Touch the door handles and it won't lock/unlock. Guess I'll have to go to the dealership and get them to fix what they broke. But other than that, I'm very happy to have my car back.

[TerminatorX5]

congrats!!!! glad it resolved to your satisfaction!!! is the lizard going after the valet? gecko should go GODZILLA on them!!!!

[cravin]

They really couldn't have cared less. They took the location of the garage, but nothing more than that. No follow up calls or anything, so I'm sure that they'll just try and pass it on to me. If/when they do, I will just change insurance companies.

[Prx5xpress]

Originally Posted by cravin

On Tuesday night, I went to get a steak in downtown White Plains with a buddy of mine. Come out a couple hours later, and his car gets immediately brought up by the valet. I'm patiently waiting around 10 minutes to no car. I ask the valet and a guy comes running over 5 minutes later "Oh, I thought you were that guy outside. I parked your car over there". Don't think anything of it and drive off.

Wake up next day, and walk around to the passenger side of the car and the lower half of passenger side rear door is caved in. Scratches from wheel well to wheel well. You can tell that the bastard that ran up to me probably scraped my car all along a low barrier of some sort in the garage, and tried to be extra nice to me so that I'd just get in.

So of course I call the garage and they submit a claim but tell me "We will check the video, but understand that once you leave the premises, we are no longer liable." So I know that they won't look at the video and will just call me next week and say "We didn't see anything. Good luck".

I'm toying with having my legal insurance send them a letter, but from my research of garagekeeper's law, it looks like the liability does end once off prem.

Anyhow, anyone in Westchester area have a good body shop that they can recommend? I'm probably just going to pay out of pocket to get the job done right. If cost gets ridiculous, I will involve Geico.

That's such a fucked up story.... I will check w a friend of mine. He did his x6 in a shop by you and the work was immaculate......