What IS it with me and my car?
I drove it for 6 years with nary a scratch nor ding.
Finally get it completely paid off, title free and clear and in my hot little hand, and promptly smushed it twice in one month! (backed up and scraped the side into a pillar, then backed into a mailbox and crushed some expensive bits)
AAAArrrghHHHH!
I figure I've put about $2,000 damage into that car this month. Haven't taken it to a body shop because I just cannot afford even my deductible right now.
$2,000 could have bought a lot of bike. Dammit.
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08-21-2011, 01:03 PM #1
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You bought it, you broke it.
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08-21-2011, 02:32 PM #2
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08-21-2011, 02:56 PM #3
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My brother has this problem...only for him it generally starts before the car is paid-off. He has a really nice Subaru WRX hatchback that has been in SO many fender-benders (at least 3/4 were his fault...he can't drive for sh!t).
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08-21-2011, 03:46 PM #4
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Oh no! Someone backed into us the week after we got my car.
At least I don't leave slime trails.
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08-21-2011, 04:01 PM #5
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I'm sorry! Do you happen to be under any unusual stress? I ask because the same kind of thing happened to me after years of no accidents when I was having to juggle small kids and my out of town seriously ill father. Hit the side of the garage one day and then the side of my husband's car while backing out of the garage another day - although of course after getting the first damage repaired. I truly do think it was the stress.
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08-21-2011, 04:25 PM #6
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I have an 11 year old diesel jetta. I love this car. I want to keep it forever. I keep it in excellent shape mechanically but don't repair a single ding or dent. I have a nice piece of red duct tape covering a hole in a tail light. I have a bumper sticker covering a hole in the bumper. Some time ago I took off the full coverage insurance and only have liability on it. Its age and rather battered condition are freeing. I don't care where I park. If someone whacks me in a parking lot I won't even know.
At only six years it is tough to know what to do. I think mine was about that age when I just started letting things go.Last edited by goldfinch; 08-21-2011 at 04:28 PM.
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08-21-2011, 05:30 PM #7
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Aw, bummer.
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