insurance clames

[slimchriz]

Wait whats your front plate say? Nothing runs like a deer!
no wonder he jumped in front of you he felt he had to live up to the hype...sadly he didnt make it so probly resorted to theft of your headlight and grill so he can get some crack and drown his shame....

Or maybe its more complicated than that....

 

[grey ghost]

hey now if he would have said something i could have gave hin my last $20 then he wouldn't have to limp to the corner to get his eveningfix
might as well give him a cold one 2

 

[koda6966]

Well hell, that's not bad at all.

My brothers truck is wayyy worse, and he still drives it every day without fixing it.

 

[grey ghost]

Well hell, that's not bad at all.

My brothers truck is wayyy worse, and he still drives it every day without fixing it.

i agree but since i haven't even put 2000 miles on it yet since i've gotten it it's not a pleasent experance. i've driven junk for 25 years and it seams like i fianily get something i can be proud of this hapens.

doing the repairs myself will teach me not to take for granted there's only one crossing at a time..lol

 

[grey ghost]

here's a pic of the progress i've made today.

with my stepdad being in the cleavland clinic i haven't had much time to work on it ..maybe an hour here and there..hopefully since he came home yesterday i'll get it done this weekend?

 

[slimchriz]

Nice you should keep it black for the carbon fiber look...

 

[grey ghost]

i was thinking the same thing but the bank i have it fianced through wouldn't let me they told me it had to be the way it was when i wrecked it?
i don't see why i can't paint it the way i want but they are being A@@H@#$S about this whole thing...

 

[Mark_88]

i was thinking the same thing but the bank i have it fianced through wouldn't let me they told me it had to be the way it was when i wrecked it?
i don't see why i can't paint it the way i want but they are being A@@H@#$S about this whole thing...

Banks are being a$$holes? Gee, what a surprise...lol!

Well, at least you know what you might want to do with it when it's paid for...I've pretty much given up on customizing vehicles because you no sooner get something finished and you either want to start a new project or some idiot comes along and tries to deface it...

I'm kinda liking the beater look too...or plain Jane...

 

[rickcdewitt]

Nice you should keep it black for the carbon fiber look...

not a good idea,the black stuff is a temporary coating you need to paint the entire surface of the new parts.

the hood, fender,whatever should be painted with real paint inside and out.i still don't understand the reasoning on not wanting a bodyshop to do it right and colormatch it.or why the cheapest crap panels were used(dent easily and don't fit correctly) and ghost tried to talk the insurance company into getting less money?

you got estimates? so has a shop even looked at the truck?the adjusters who write "estimates" don't know what it takes to fix a car,they are there to f&*k the bodyshop and customer into chintzy repairs.bodyshops fight most estimates handed to them because the insurance companies never want to pay to get it to actual preaccident condition i would be worried about alignment and other issues that a trained eye can spot like mark said.

if its not totalled the deductible should be the same?so why not get some of your premium dollars back to fix as much as you can?

you should only DIY if theres no paint or suspension work involved in my opinion unless you have access to an alignment machine,and mixing station and pigments

i worked at one of the "good" bodyshops and i delt with this all the time,it sounds like you might wind up having to pay for the gap between payment and actual preaccident condition.


i'm glad i have a tough old ranger, i just bounced a deer off my bumper all the way across the road in circles the other night and all you can see is some hair and blood

 

[grey ghost]

not a good idea,the black stuff is a temporary coating you need to paint the entire surface of the new parts.

the hood, fender,whatever should be painted with real paint inside and out.i still don't understand the reasoning on not wanting a bodyshop to do it right and colormatch it.or why the cheapest crap panels were used(dent easily and don't fit correctly) and ghost tried to talk the insurance company into getting less money?

you got estimates? so has a shop even looked at the truck?the adjusters who write "estimates" don't know what it takes to fix a car,they are there to f&*k the bodyshop and customer into chintzy repairs.bodyshops fight most estimates handed to them because the insurance companies never want to pay to get it to actual preaccident condition i would be worried about alignment and other issues that a trained eye can spot like mark said.

if its not totalled the deductible should be the same?so why not get some of your premium dollars back to fix as much as you can?

you should only DIY if theres no paint or suspension work involved in my opinion unless you have access to an alignment machine,and mixing station and pigments

i worked at one of the "good" bodyshops and i delt with this all the time,it sounds like you might wind up having to pay for the gap between payment and actual preaccident condition.


i'm glad i have a tough old ranger, i just bounced a deer off my bumper all the way across the road in circles the other night and all you can see is some hair and blood

as soon as this truck passes the bank's aproval it's getting sold at an auction and the bank will get their money for the rest of the loan ..case closed .
i'm looking at an older 1970 f series and won't have to have a loan at all.
TO ADD TO THIS: i had a local body shop {at the dealer i bought this truck at} do one estiment and the insurance did theirs. apon doing the work in dad's garage i found both estiments to be missing the hood adjustment screws on the front of the hood and neither adjuster or body shop noticed the front tire wearing on the inside untill i cought it when my 9 year old neice said something to me about it..so if someone that's 9 can notice something why should i pay someone $44.00 an hour i should be paying my neice..

 

[grey ghost]

the truck is done and i borrowed a grill off another ranger to go clear it form the bank. i had no problems with them now when my new grill goes to the one on my stepbrother's car lot . and i have some one looking at my truck in the deal that he gets a loan for my pay off and takes the truck.

their is an extended cab f250 on his lot that he'll sell me for 4 grand and i'd rather have that truck i think.

 

[rboyer]

With gas prices coming down I think you will enjoy the F250. I bought my extended cab F250 in the middle of the summer only because of the deal I got on it but only used it when I could get a full load of junkyard gas for it. Now that gas is down under $2 I have been using mine more and more and just love the amount of room that it provides.

 

[grey ghost]

yes gas is under $2 a gal but it's the room in the cab i'm really after and the comfort of not having to worry about having full coverage and that payment.

family loans are cheaper than banks