Someone hit my celi, I DONT KNOW WAT TO DO!! Options

[SeverX13]

OK this night is horrible. someone hit my car. backed into it. it is f**ked. I dont know what to do, i cant match the paint i cant sell for a decent price to get soemthing better im totally lost i am just completely lost. Right now i dont even know what im asking for in this thread. i just need insight or something idk

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Aug 17, 2008 - 8:33 PM

[CelicaST_CALI]

where were u when this happened???are there any cameras around that u could look at the footage?

[SeverX13]

where were u when this happened???are there any cameras around that u could look at the footage?

it wasnt a hit and run. it was someone i knew but hes lucky that ive known him along time and that he really does feel bad. about it.

[808celica]

if it makes you feel better someone vandalized my car with eggs at work 2 nights ago paint is **** now

file a report with the police and possibly the place where you parked at??? ask for any cameras and i guess take note on the other cars around you. also ask around if anyone knows who parked in the place the possible auto was at?

This post has been edited by 808celica: Aug 17, 2008 - 8:39 PM

[CelicaST_CALI]

pics???

[SeverX13]

it wasnt a hit in run, i knew the guy. but hes not the wealthiest person in the world nad idk if he can afford it


ill have pics up tomorrow when it is light out

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Aug 17, 2008 - 8:49 PM

[CelicaST_CALI]

is it totaled??i mean how hard did he hit it.and how do u miss that color!!!!lol

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Aug 17, 2008 - 8:52 PM

[SeverX13]

um idk i cant match the paint at all. its cracked pretty bad, i tryed to fix it and succeeded a little bit. im gonne need a new bumper and i cant paint it that same color because it cant be matched. so for it to look right i would have to paint the entire car which would be plus the bumper about 3300.

[CelicaST_CALI]

omg that sucks..u did all the **** to get it done to...not to be a dick but its karma cause u were gonna sell

cant u have the paint shop u had it at just do more paint..its only been like 3 months..

[stetsonaw]

since it's custom paint, you can never get the exact mixture again... bet you're wishing you got that extra can of paint... sorry to hear about your ca man.

[manphibian]

Insurance?

[95CelicaST]

Pics?

[DEATH]

Best thing for you would be to get the paint as close as you can, replace the bumper and sell the car [Seeing as you are already down on it before this happened].
Or sell the car and tell the new buyer everything on the up and up [subtract price of the bumper and what It would reasonably cost to get it painted]. Chances are the new owner won't be as anal about the color matching as you are since you worked so hard for it. There really isn't much that can't be at least very closely matched - it can't be all that bad.
Why would you park where there is a possibility of being hit anyway? I regularly park as far out as possible everywhere I go. If I can walk a mile to go in a store feeling fairly safe I'd do it in a heartbeat and my paint is nowhere near as fresh as yours. I always park near at least one or two obsticles like curbs, light towers etc. You're gonna have to work to hit my car.

[D-Man]

SEVER!! I'm gunna put my foot up your Ah forget it.

Okay, Look. that paint CAN be matched. Do all the prep work first, then take it back to the original shop that painted it. (got a recipt?) It can be hand matched. (sometimes with a bit of a fade/color difference, but POSSIBLE, and unnoticeable to the naked eye!!)

Secondly, That bumper was FIBERGLASS Polyurethane; Eat your heart out

Fiberglass is fixable VERY fixable. Even for you my friend even for you.

You've got some PM my little buddy. We'll get you fixed up. But tell your broke a- friend, that he's gunna be shelling out some dough, because if this aint fixed soon, Then i'll be making a road trip to build a boot-shop in someone's a-ahahahahahhh

(DAMNIT! that was our well planned paint job bro. Damn well planed and someone has already ruined it )

[SeverX13]

Best thing for you would be to get the paint as close as you can, replace the bumper and sell the car [Seeing as you are already down on it before this happened].
Or sell the car and tell the new buyer everything on the up and up [subtract price of the bumper and what It would reasonably cost to get it painted]. Chances are the new owner won't be as anal about the color matching as you are since you worked so hard for it. There really isn't much that can't be at least very closely matched - it can't be all that bad.
Why would you park where there is a possibility of being hit anyway? I regularly park as far out as possible everywhere I go. If I can walk a mile to go in a store feeling fairly safe I'd do it in a heartbeat and my paint is nowhere near as fresh as yours. I always park near at least one or two obsticles like curbs, light towers etc. You're gonna have to work to hit my car.

trust me in parking lots i park as far away as i can. but i was in my friends driveway. i pulled up behind my friend cause that was the only spot. i left a goot 7 or 8 feet behind and i went inside to chill. then he had to go take his sister to some store to get cigs and i hear this crrraaack and my heart sank.


Ive had so much luck with this car. and it was all bad. Ive gotten hit 3 times with it when it was parked. every damn time i was hit i was f**king parked. I think its a sign to tell me to get off my ass and sell it. I mean, i love the car so much. i put alot of blood sweat and tears into teh exterior. but all it brings me is bad luck with damages.

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Aug 18, 2008 - 10:44 AM

[Tigawoods]

since he is responsible he should have to pay for some or most of the cost

[GriffGirl]

Sorry, I know he's your friend and all, but is he insured? Then his insurance needs to take care of it, it's as simple as that. It's not you against him, it's you taking care of your car and his insurance covering it. That's why we HAVE insurance. That's great that he feels bad and all, I'm sure he does. But did he offer to take care of the damages? Probably not if he doesn't have a lot of $$, that's understandable. But he SHOULD say hey man, we'll go through the insurance and get it taken care of. That's what you're SUPPOSED to do. If he's not insured, well, sounds like you're screwed. I hope he's a really good friend of yours and and worth swallowing the loss in favor of your friendship. But if he's just some guy you know, well, it's an insurance claim. Or you could suck it up and file a hit and run with your own insurance, even if you just have liability that will usually cover hit and run damages.

[SeverX13]

I just got an estimate. it was 1290. hes not goin through insurance due to a driving violation. but when i told him he said its bull because a bumper is 300. i told him that they need the bumper, paint,materials and labor. they are gonna blend it with the fender so it will look right. So im not sure what hes thinking. if hes not gonna pay it im gonna half to kick the hell out of him. i shouldnt do that tho. if he says he not payin for it im fileing a lawsuit.

[97Celica]

I had a similar situation....a "friend" backed into it. He and I were drunk at a party and I had parked my car in the far corner of my friend's HUGE driveway as NOT to get hit...AT ANY RATE.....I am on the phone with this girl walking towards my car to get something out of it as I witness this "friend" sneaking off even after we told him not to leave because he was too drunk....backed right into my 97...scratched the door,rim,side mirror,cracked the fender,scratched the hood... 6,000 worth of damage due to the custom color of my car....he was 6 car lengths before the end of the driveway and just cut the wheel...I didn't want to deal with cops that night because we were both drinking and I didn't want him to get arrested....but he avoided me for 3 weeks and for 3 weeks I wanted to beat the living crap out of him and finally I made my insurance go after his because I gave them all his information. People suck. Needless to say...we aren't friends anymore because of this...but mostly because he was an idiot and a coward. Jail time might have set him straight.

[D-Man]

I have to agree. Unless he actually starts coughing up money for the damages that he caused, then he's not really a friend is he? You shouldn't even have to "split" it with him, Fcuk that; he was driving and ramed into another car. What if that was a cop-car he ramed? He'd be screwed. Or what if that was a little Altima with my wife & daughter in the car? Oh he'd be fcuked. What if that was a kid crossing the street that he ramed? He'd be facing many years in prison for it.

I'm just saying that he's lucky that he hit you, and that you're nice enough to give him the opportunity to pay for the damages. He should be GREATFUL that no one was in the car and injured. He should also be greatful you didn't whoop his ass on the spot, and called insurance right away.

If this was your Friend, he'd be breaking you off with each bit of his paycheck, or w/e he can muster to repay you.

[Sinyk]

I know what to do! Post pictures on the forums so we can see the damage!

[jason]

im in a similar situation, cept im draggin my feet to fix mine lol

make sure you file a police report of the incident, you should have done that from the start.

you can file a police report without taking any action, but the police report solves the your word against mine issue

if he doesnt pay, then pursue further action, but i would take the car to the shop that did your work, get an estimate, then take it to 2 other places and get estimates as well.

try to take it to a nicer place, so they high ball it, and take it to a less expensive place, so they low ball it

then tell him you want the work done at the original place (middle priced estimate) and that if he cannot abide by your wishes you will take legal action until he does.

the friendship thing ends when he starts to walk over you... dont forget he is in the wrong by hitting your car, and it is his responsibility as a friend to make it right for you. you shouldnt have to do anything more than facilitate his efforts.

if he strays from that... approach the situation just like it was some snobby ass rich kid.

if you need any help, im not an hour south of you and have some body work friends who im sure could meet and exceed your expectations (as well as get some spacers for them rear wheels so your car sits aggressive enough to match that c-one front )

[95CelicaST]

post pics or it never happened.

[SeverX13]

http://s246.photobucket.com/albums/gg108/S...nav_album_album


pics dont show the damage to well.


its worse in person.

might not look like much to you guys but to me it is

[D-Man]

Totaly fixable bro!! totaly!!

Step one is to put your foot in you "friends" ass DAILY until he pays you some "fix-it" dough

Seriously, ALL the houston members are pretty good friends, but if i backed into one of them, Sh!t, Payment would be expected within a week before toes and legs started getting broken.

[CelicaST_CALI]

1290!!!!omg haha just buy a new bumper and paint it...jesus lol i thought ur car got raped..that isnt even noticed..

[RickJamesBish]

I feel you, I left my car at a friend's house for an hour or two in the middle of the night, decent neighborhood, didn't think anything would happen...I came back two hours later and there's two dents in the right fender.

700 dollars to completely fix it.

[97Celica]

get a GT-Four front

[GriffGirl]

Tell your friend to find and provide you with that $300 bumper (that's exactly like yours) and then all he'll have to do is spring for the paint job. Sorry, but that guy sounds like a total jackass and I'm guessing there's a good reason he shouldn't have been driving in the first place. Why don't people ever think to themselves "jeeze, if I drive on a suspended license/house arrest/drunker than sh1t, what will I do if I get CAUGHT"? The stupidity of people just never ceases to amaze me. Your friend's a punk if he's not gonna make right on the damage, in which case f-him and his stupid driving violation or whatever, it's his problem, not yours.

[SeverX13]

well i guess his parents are going through the insurance because they dont have 1300 lol. But i am in teh process of ordering the c-one style bumper from boosted6g.


there wasnt any drinking or anything like that going on. he is just an idiot.

[DEATH]

Sell D-man or 02Bluerolla the bumper and make some of your money back. D-man needs a bumper badly and 02Bluerolla just bought my cracked VIS GT4 style hood that will go great with your bumper and he might as well fix both at the same time.
This is why polyeurathane owns all - that would have just popped right out and if the paint was mixed properly there is a small chance you wouldn't have needed that either [Trust me I know - unfortunately I've been hit in the front several times over the years]