Re: 'Your G5 is just as good a car as it was.....it just has a minor injury that, at worst will leave a scar. It will likely be just as fuel efficient, and dependable as it was before the accident.' I'll first acknowledge your sympathy; it means a bunch to me as a fellow vet about my age, thanks ETC(SS) Next... the chief problem with the car I'm rather stressed about... is it doesn't drive the same. Minor parking lot ding, hmm maybe. But it was fast enough to bend the door frame enough to break seal... and also, bend the sheetmetal under the striker (makes sense, the door was latched at time of impact). The damper mount and control arm pivot mounts aren't that far away... Priuses from at least G2 have had to sacrifice in the unibody in order to accommodate the weight of the battery and hybrid system, vs. a pure FWD ICE Toyota subcompact... which is logical for the mfr... so have to go thru the process of assessment (by the guilty party's insurance, since I'm damn sure not going to have my insurance pay for it) to show the car may have a bent unibody. Which will extend the time I may be w/o a car. -- Re: 'I get it. I feel the same way about my base model 2023 GMC, and I loathe every rock chip, ding, and glass chip - but it is what it is.' If this were a ding, I'd be waaay less stressed My Civic had just gotten out of the shop for its bigger accident, when a young girl just decided not to look, and pulled out full-send from a side street in my neighborhood, to hit my LR wheel and quarter panel (luckily I dirve like I'm invisible from 2 decades riding motorcycles... so saw her and sped up a touch to avoid hitting me broadside). That was upsetting... but far less stressful than the possibility the other person's insurance won't total this bent G5, and'll have to make payments on it 6 more yrs, dog-walking down the road -- Not a dig at all on your response -- which is just how I'd frame similar with someone else in my situ. But yeah, that's already been tabled and the next 2 mos are gonna just need some patience Thanks again
Hey thanks bisco -- true... tho tbh I'm far more worried about functional than the aesthetic. Yeah it's a touch embarrassing to assume other punters will think I bashed into someone else... but f*** what they think -- I'm over 50, not YD&FOC anymore Just got off the phone w/ their insurer, which wasn't intuitive... but the right people now know about how it drives... which until they show up to look at the car, is my last bit of input on possible real damage being noticed. As w/ ETC's reply... if this were just a ding I'd be elated, actually -- those take a few days and some paint and they're done (my Civic was done in a week post-covid, when the first impact took a month -- pre-covid supply-chain drama, and now tariffs. But simple door / end-cap dings vs. subframe let alone unibody damage, no comparison). Can't expect a state where everything's shipped in nautically, to ever have that kind of turnaround again, bodyshop-wise) The big Civic accident and subsequent second one years later, were handled by different insurance providers -- can't tell you how important having the right carrier is, to reducing stress. Progressive, at least here, is spendy but sooo much less strewn w/ 'wait, wth? why's that happening now...?' like my own carrier. If I brought in a bit more income, would switch to them immediately -- at least here where I live.
