Car got crunched; insurance company wants to say it's a total loss?

[owlice]

Only 198K miles? Oh, c'mon, abejita! Your car is a pup! A baby! Young! :-D

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I've never been given a door before, but wow, what a GREAT present! My brother showed up yesterday afternoon with the driver's door off his 1996 Honda Civic, which used to be my Honda Civic. I sold it to him when I bought the '98 Civic I can now drive again, because we put the '96 door on my car and I am good to go!!!

Granted, the only window that can be rolled down is the driver's window (electric windows on the other three doors now not operable because the "new" door doesn't have the controls for them), and I need two different keys for the car (but have only one, for the passenger side, because neither one of us realized that hey! the lock is NOT the same! until after the door was on the car and I got ready to lock it [the Doh! moment of the day]), and I now have a smashed car door in my shed, but I can drive the car again, yay!!!

[tulip]

But we want to know: does it match??

Glad it worked out for you.

[OakLeaf]

Hee hee.

Glad it worked out. Hope you get a big check from her insurance.

And I'll bet you can wire in a dashboard switch for the other windows. You're gonna need them, as hot as it's been. Better yet, you could just screw the old switch onto your new door to match the "fabulous" theme.

[Tuckervill]

Switch the lock on the wrecked door with the lock on the "new" door.

Glad it worked out.

Karen

[owlice]

But we want to know: does it match??

Yup! Both cars are silver.

I hadn't noticed until the new door was on, but one of the differences between the cars (the older a DX, the newer an LX) was that mine had a strip of silver metal running around along the bottom edge of the window, instead of just the black edging. So the driver's side window doesn't have that shiny silver piece now; I can live with that!