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Jesus H, Stef!!!........I'm glad it wasn't worse though, and that you're OK...

BTW if you need a good body shop I have a few out my way in Jersey that do great work. My car went there a few years back and my dads truck is there now, they're doing really good work. Lemme know.

I got an estimate of $2,562 from the body shop yesterday.

no worries Manny, they quoted me for the right way to do it... so instead of matching and blending they're going to repaint up onto the roof and all the way over to the other quarter panel
I just called my manager to find out if he spoke to corporate about it yet and of course he didn't. but I made sure he knew I'm not paying anything for this and he said he'd take care of it so I trust him

reason I didn't get out when I thought it was just the mirror that was hit was because my mirror has been hit before, not too bad of course, and I'm not really concerned about it at all.

so yesterday I talked to my manager. he said he called up HR and they told him there wasn't anything they could do, he thought that didn't sound right so he called someone else and left a message and is waiting for them to call him back.

he didn't want it to go too long before I reported it to my insurance just in case I need to go through them so I reported it yesterday and told them to hold off on arranging to have it repaired so I can see if my job will pay for it. at the very least my manager said they'd pay for the deductible and the rental car.

I know my work would have to pay for it if I sued and everything but I really don't want to turn this into a massive legal issue, I just want the car fixed

why don't you just call H&R yourself ? If your manager is giving you the run around just go past him. Why are you protecting him ?

I just called one of the attorneys next door to my work and he told me this is considered an "on the job" injury (the damange to the vehicle). He said it's a pretty easy situation and he since they're giving you such a hard time he would just go ahead with litagation. They had you do something you weren't supposed to do and they are clearly at fault. Call any personal injury attorney and ask yourself. They all would be happy to take this on. Stop letting them jerk you around.

so Dustin e-mailed them complaining and they finally got back to me

I just spoke to the guy from HR and everything is being taken care of. Pep Boys is sending me a check and they already set up a rental car for me. I'm dropping the car off for repairs on Tues

That's awesome. So many people get screwed by this type of thing. Glad to hear it didn't happen to you.

Oh man, this looks exactly like my incident with a local bus. Mirror folded and I wasn't too worried, bus didn't stop either. Later on I discovered the damage

sweet!... good news man! get that thing all blinged up agains hehehe -R

car is in the shop. dropped it off this afternoon, picked up the rental

they said it should take about a week to a week and a half

the rental nething good?

a dark blue 05 Neon ...eh, not sooo bad. I was supposed to get a Cobalt but there was delays in me going to pick up the car and they gave it away to someone else

You should mod it out!

just kidding. my sister has a neon.. ehhh

anywho now you can throw that tranny in the rental instead of your beautiful celi

I'm glad its getting fixed

my temporary replacement for the Celica...
it needs a drop...BAD
its actually pretty clean when there wasn't snow on it... it should be, its an 05 with only 28k miles on it





it decided to snow pretty bad the day after I brought the car to the body shop. kinda sucks because the tires on the Neon are terrible, it took me like 20 mins to get down my driveway this morning

haha looks like a truck

I GOT MY CAR BACK TODAY!

I had them repaint the rear bumper too. it was sunfaded and scratched a little, thats how it's always been, its how I bought the car... so this is the first time I've seen it all shiny and nice

I just have some crappy camera phone pics I took at work, I'll get some good ones later








the rear bumper BEFORE (this is the best pic I could find of it, I tried not to take too many pics from the rear because of it. plus it was right on the ledge so it didn't really show in pictures too much)

YAY!! I'm happy for you !!!!!!!! That's great, cause its depressing seeing damage on a celica even if it is your' retraded baby" ;p

I'm glad you finally got it back. My rear bumper just started doing that exact
same thing in the same spot. I have a spot like that about 2"x 2".
Must be all that invisable oil thats going out the exhaust.
Was it only on the passenger side?

I'm very very happy to have it back!



Randy, you're lucky you only have a 2" spot! the fading on mine wasn't only on the passenger side, it was all the way across the bumper on that ledge (I just don't have a good picture of it). it was like that when I bought the car and I've tried everything (scratch remover, buffing, paint cleaner, you name it) with no luck... but repainting worked pretty well



I did get it back with a new problem though
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=45637

Sweet! Glad you got your baby all nice and pretty



Accidents are the worst! with all the down time and stuff, but it is pretty sweet to get your car back from the shop Painted waxed and ready to go home.

better pictures