I'll keep this short and sweet. I'm sure you guys remember my thread a couple of weeks ago about me trading my Z in for a new Q60S. I took my car out (probably the third time driving it) to my fiancee's relatives for Christmas Eve. I picked the car up the Saturday before Xmas, mind you. I hadn't even had the Infiniti for a week. Like I told told the insurance guy, the tire shine is still on the car from the showroom. One relative side swiped my car as he was backing out of the driveway to leave. I parked a few car lengths back, off of the driveway. Sports cars are generally more difficult to see since they sit so low to the ground so I played it safe...got hit anyway.
. I was sick, this is the first time any of my cars have been damaged and this was my first BRAND NEW car. Cop that showed up was telling us we didn't have to report if it was less than 1K in damage. He said it should be less than that. I told him he was wrong..just to repaint a bumper, for example, is 300-400 for a decent job. We're looking at 2+ panels, and a handle. It ended up being a little over $2K. So as of now, my new car has been at the Infiniti shop since Friday night and I'm driving a Dodge Dart rental
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Then to spice things up a bit since things were starting to look up..my fiancee put her car into a pole last night coming home. She was going downhill to a stop sign, solid ice, and couldn't stop. I guess there was a car coming and she picked the pole rather than the car. Took it to the shop today, has $2K worth of damage. It was in town, so the car isn't in too bad of shape. I felt bad but I had to laugh after that..you just cannot make this up
. I also found it kinda crazy that our cars are about the same to fix, but hers is in worse shape than mine (in my opinion anyway).