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driver100

Just checked the rules:
(b) The frame of the racket shall not exceed 32 inches (81.28 cm) in overall length, including the handle and 12½ inches (31.75 cm) in overall width. The strung surface shall not exceed 15½ inches (39.37 cm) in overall length, and 11½ inches (29.21 cm) in overall width.

driver100

snakeweasel said:

stickguy said:

I am still stuck at about $30k as the point that starts to give me palpatations. I don't think I could handle $40k. And would definitely be just looking at leasing at that point.

I would agree with you on that. Now I may lose my membership over this but I think my next car is going to be a simple inexpensive reliable "appliance" type car, a well under $20K type of thing.

I think that should be grounds for dismissal, certainly enough to lose your Gold Card privileges.

fintail

Reduction in expenses, really? What part of the budget is made up of clerks entering data? They'd just do something else too, like traffic cops (harassing skateboarders, cracking down on soft drugs, etc). Expensive special programs? Compare it to revenues, please, I'd need to see independently audited numbers to believe it. I read somewhere that Chicago gets something like 8% of its budget from traffic fines. You think the brave patriotic praetorians involved with the blue line, and the judges and lawyers on the take, are going to let that walk away? Not to mention the corrupt camera operators and the guillotine-worthy politicos on the take.

Heck, a no doubt well-paid highly-bennied "public servant" said "We can’t afford to get rid of them" in terms of red light cameras alone

snakeweasel said:

My whole point is is that if a municipality doesn't have to enforce traffic codes then they will save a lot of money or resources can be applied to other things. No traffic enforcement means there will be more police for other things as well as the municipality not needing as many clerks entering ticket information into computers that the municipalities won't have to buy and maintain running expensive special programs that the towns wont have to buy any more. Not to mention lower costs of running courts due to there not being a need for traffic courts.

The benefit to losing that revenue stream is a reduction in expenses.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Well, it was a little left handed....the hate to admit it part.

Besides, once a year he may have something worthwhile to share.

With comments like that I expect @jmonroe 's next post to be one stating he is tired of the shots he takes here and is going to leave for a while.

Nah, we are a captive audience for JM. Who else is going to read his 3 page posts?

The CIA, the NSA, the FBI, MI5, the SVR, Massad and Kaos.

driver100

Traffic tickets have to be a money maker....one reason for quotas, even though often denied....but, every once in awhile it is proven.
If they don't get money one way, they will find another.....tax on the cost of riding in a self driving car.

driver100

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Well, it was a little left handed....the hate to admit it part.

Besides, once a year he may have something worthwhile to share.

With comments like that I expect @jmonroe 's next post to be one stating he is tired of the shots he takes here and is going to leave for a while.

Nah, we are a captive audience for JM. Who else is going to read his 3 page posts?

The CIA, the NSA, the FBI, MI5, the SVR, Massad and Kaos.

The IRS maybe, since he admits he cheats on that.

snakeweasel

oldfarmer50 said:

nyccarguy said:

I need some help from my fellow New Englanders (@explorerx4 @laurasdada @sb55). I'm supposed to go skiing with my 11 year old (& 4 other people from his Boy Scout Troop) at Pico Mountain in VT (near Killington). The guy from the Scouts who is organizing the trip & has a season pass to ski Killington told me to go a specific way (Taconic Parkway to Route 7 to Route 4) because he swears it is an easier ride than taking the interstate (Merritt Parkway to I-91 to Route 4). Normally I'd be OK with that, but I'll be driving through the middle of a NorEaster when I leave this afternoon. All comments are appreciated. Her'e's a link to the Google directions:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Roxbury+School,+751+W+Hill+Rd,+Stamford,+CT+06902/Pico+Mountain+Ski+Resort,+73+Alpine+Dr,+Mendon,+VT+05701/@42.3756224,-74.2532765,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c2a3d497a78e63:0x7d71075346c8c104!2m2!1d-73.564248!2d41.089132!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e02bfe72e07899:0x71a0289466d99094!2m2!1d-72.842512!2d43.6621499!3e0

nyccarguy said:

I need some help from my fellow New Englanders (@explorerx4 @laurasdada @sb55). I'm supposed to go skiing with my 11 year old (& 4 other people from his Boy Scout Troop) at Pico Mountain in VT (near Killington). The guy from the Scouts who is organizing the trip & has a season pass to ski Killington told me to go a specific way (Taconic Parkway to Route 7 to Route 4) because he swears it is an easier ride than taking the interstate (Merritt Parkway to I-91 to Route 4). Normally I'd be OK with that, but I'll be driving through the middle of a NorEaster when I leave this afternoon. All comments are appreciated. Her'e's a link to the Google directions:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Roxbury+School,+751+W+Hill+Rd,+Stamford,+CT+06902/Pico+Mountain+Ski+Resort,+73+Alpine+Dr,+Mendon,+VT+05701/@42.3756224,-74.2532765,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c2a3d497a78e63:0x7d71075346c8c104!2m2!1d-73.564248!2d41.089132!1m5!1m1!1s0x89e02bfe72e07899:0x71a0289466d99094!2m2!1d-72.842512!2d43.6621499!3e0

If you can postpone until tomorrow I'd reccommend it. Weatherman blew it big time and 1-3" is now over a foot. Snow is like shoveling concrete. Roads are bad.

Stick to major highways if you can. Take the blue line up 91 or you'll be going right through the worst hit areas.

They were predicting 1-3" here too but we got exactly zero.

And the National Weather Service wonders why no one listens to them.

tbirdmarco

 GG that is messed up what your friend did that’s not cool they don’t talk forever and they just pull you out of the blue messed up our used to go crazy trying to keep in contact with people it’s tiring like a second job so maybe a couple of times a year I’ll reach out if I don’t hear from anyone that’s fine on them ha ha Ha just me 

tbirdmarco

 And the nor’easter come through here yesterday and two this morning I know electricity till 20 minutes ago from 930 last night it is what it is we’re trying to keep the phone someone charged good thing I fully charged it last night before the power had gone out so was OK anyone else lose power or get tons of snow locally with rain and super strong winds here I know my brother got a few inches of snow in upstate New York where he is he probably lives somewhere near old former actually a little late Wow 

snakeweasel

explorerx4 said:

@roadburner,
Better to embrace it. Kind of reminds me of going to Christmas parties. I grumble about going, afterwards am glad I went.

That's usually because Christmas parties have booze.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

Just checked the rules:
(b) The frame of the racket shall not exceed 32 inches (81.28 cm) in overall length, including the handle and 12½ inches (31.75 cm) in overall width. The strung surface shall not exceed 15½ inches (39.37 cm) in overall length, and 11½ inches (29.21 cm) in overall width.

I knew as I posted that that someone wouldn't get the joke.

snakeweasel

fintail said:

Reduction in expenses, really? What part of the budget is made up of clerks entering data? They'd just do something else too, like traffic cops (harassing skateboarders, cracking down on soft drugs, etc). Expensive special programs? Compare it to revenues, please, I'd need to see independently audited numbers to believe it. I read somewhere that Chicago gets something like 8% of its budget from traffic fines. You think the brave patriotic praetorians involved with the blue line, and the judges and lawyers on the take, are going to let that walk away? Not to mention the corrupt camera operators and the guillotine-worthy politicos on the take.

Heck, a no doubt well-paid highly-bennied "public servant" said "We can’t afford to get rid of them" in terms of red light cameras alone

snakeweasel said:

My whole point is is that if a municipality doesn't have to enforce traffic codes then they will save a lot of money or resources can be applied to other things. No traffic enforcement means there will be more police for other things as well as the municipality not needing as many clerks entering ticket information into computers that the municipalities won't have to buy and maintain running expensive special programs that the towns wont have to buy any more. Not to mention lower costs of running courts due to there not being a need for traffic courts.

The benefit to losing that revenue stream is a reduction in expenses.

We have at least one (maybe two, I am not sure) whose only job is reviewing traffic tickets and entering them into the system and running the related reports and such. Plus they use a specialized software to do this processing and that does cost money.

I would like to see how much of Chicago's budget goes to enforcing traffic codes.

tbirdmarco

lol lol

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

Traffic tickets have to be a money maker....one reason for quotas, even though often denied....but, every once in awhile it is proven.
If they don't get money one way, they will find another.....tax on the cost of riding in a self driving car.

The fact that people get warnings instead of tickets prove that its not about the money. One of the last times I got pulled over I was doing close to 70 in a 45 zone and got a warning, I wasn't even detained long. So yeah it's all about the money.

snakeweasel

Update on the oil stock. Yes it was a legit company, however their specialty was drilling dry wells. They folded not long after the stock was purchased.

On the plus side I have something to wrap fish in.

explorerx4

could frame it.

ab348

There were "red bar of doom" weather warnings ( a reference to how the Canadian federal gov weather site posts warnings) here but aside from some wind overnight and high surf along the coast it was largely a non-event. This afternoon the sun is out and it feels like a spring day except for the occasional cool gust of wind. Nothing at all like what the unfortunate folks in Boston and environs received.

Don't want to jinx things but there is no snow at all on the ground here, has been like that (mostly) for weeks now. We could be in for the earliest Spring in memory.

tbirdmarco

 On 348 glad you didn’t get any. Bad weather where you are in Canada feels like pretty much a spring day here too now the suns out enjoying it a bit tomorrow could be even nicer no snow for the upcoming week overall been a pretty good winter over here can’t complain 

dino001

oldfarmer50 said:

On valuation tools, does NADA offer a private party valuation? I thought they were strictly dealer retail and trade in values.

I checked and you are correct - only dealer retail and trade in. So it can’t be a primary valuation tool. It actually is abgood reason to pull back on the offer - the gentleman was not using a right offer. Dealer retail includes both markup and some reconditioning of a vehicle. Using it as a primary justification for an individual sale price means the gentleman either doesn’t know or is trying to pull wool over buyer’s head.

thebean

graphicguy said:

RB.....as others mentioned, good thing you’re enjoying it. Hell, for the price of one of those fish fry outings, I’ll come up there and vote for you.......twice! I have a college friend I hadn’t heard from in a long while. She reached out to me earlier this week out of the blue, wanting to catch up. My 7th sense told me it wasn’t a “let’s catch up” sort of request. Agreed to meet for a drink. After a brief exchange of “what have you been up to?”, the purpose of the meet surfaced. She’s running for a State Rep seat. She’s looking for donations. As I explained to her, our political views couldn’t be more different. Plus, she’s running for a seat in an area where she wouldn’t represent me, as I don’t even live in the county she’s running in. Made no sense to ask me for money, but she gave it a shot. I ended up having to pick up the tab for drinks and snacks on top of everything else. I don’t mind helping out a friend in need. But, don’t lure me into your political goals when you can’t represent me. Not sure why it irritated me so much, but I sort of felt deceived.

I agree.  That would hack me off big-time.  It would be one thing if you were in her district, but this situation would be money wasted.  Sounds like desperation on her part.

thebean

snakeweasel said:

Ya know, after listening to the two of you discuss you tennis skills, it doesn't sound like either of you are all that good. So yeah, I'll shine your cars with one hand, and play both of you with the other and I'll still win. :@ jmonroe

JMonroe...you are on...if you also pick up the balls. Do you play with a wannabe racquet too?

Why do you ask, you worried? :@ jmonroe

Just so you know....these racquets are illegal;

You would never guess this but that's a regulation sized racquet.

That's what I thought, also.  It's just a real tiny little man.  If you play him, hit lots of lobs.

roadburner

graphicguy said:

RB.....as others mentioned, good thing you’re enjoying it. Hell, for the price of one of those fish fry outings, I’ll come up there and vote for you.......twice!

I have a college friend I hadn’t heard from in a long while. She reached out to me earlier this week out of the blue, wanting to catch up. My 7th sense told me it wasn’t a “let’s catch up” sort of request. Agreed to meet for a drink.

After a brief exchange of “what have you been up to?”, the purpose of the meet surfaced.

She’s running for a State Rep seat. She’s looking for donations. As I explained to her, our political views couldn’t be more different. Plus, she’s running for a seat in an area where she wouldn’t represent me, as I don’t even live in the county she’s running in.

Made no sense to ask me for money, but she gave it a shot. I ended up having to pick up the tab for drinks and snacks on top of everything else.

I don’t mind helping out a friend in need. But, don’t lure me into your political goals when you can’t represent me. Not sure why it irritated me so much, but I sort of felt deceived.

I've never solicited funds for a campaign; in the first place, when I was a judge it was ethically forbidden. Even now in my current campaign I haven't asked anyone for a donation- although several friends have been very generous. I just don't feel comfortable trying to coerce people to contribute.

stickguy

snake, I agree with you on going cheap for one car, if there is a 2nd nice one in the household. Heck, I just bought a new car, and it was less than $19k after my incentives. The difference with us though is I usually take my car when we are out together, since I prefer it to the RDX, unless we need the cargo room. So getting a real appliance means we would use the old car more. Which led to my new scheme for next time (trade her car in on something nice to be the use all the time car, and treat mine as purely a spare set of wheels, for me only).

fintail

I suspect the tickets far outweigh the cost of a couple of admins and some software.

Again, when a possibly on the take politico (it is Chicago after all ) admits they can't afford to not have red light cameras, what happens when nobody is running red lights? It's an elephant in the room that autonomous car defenders can't answer.

snakeweasel said:

We have at least one (maybe two, I am not sure) whose only job is reviewing traffic tickets and entering them into the system and running the related reports and such. Plus they use a specialized software to do this processing and that does cost money.

I would like to see how much of Chicago's budget goes to enforcing traffic codes.

fintail

Maybe the quota was already met. Or do you have a FOP sticker, LEO plate, etc?

snakeweasel said:

The fact that people get warnings instead of tickets prove that its not about the money. One of the last times I got pulled over I was doing close to 70 in a 45 zone and got a warning, I wasn't even detained long. So yeah it's all about the money.

driver100

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Just checked the rules:
(b) The frame of the racket shall not exceed 32 inches (81.28 cm) in overall length, including the handle and 12½ inches (31.75 cm) in overall width. The strung surface shall not exceed 15½ inches (39.37 cm) in overall length, and 11½ inches (29.21 cm) in overall width.

I knew as I posted that that someone wouldn't get the joke.

And I forgot to add.......unless you mean it was Photoshoped!

driver100

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Traffic tickets have to be a money maker....one reason for quotas, even though often denied....but, every once in awhile it is proven.
If they don't get money one way, they will find another.....tax on the cost of riding in a self driving car.

The fact that people get warnings instead of tickets prove that its not about the money. One of the last times I got pulled over I was doing close to 70 in a 45 zone and got a warning, I wasn't even detained long. So yeah it's all about the money.

It was probably time for a coffee break....didn't really want to write up a ticket.

jmonroe

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe said:

driver100 said:

Ya know, after listening to the two of you discuss you tennis skills, it doesn't sound like either of you are all that good. So yeah, I'll shine your cars with one hand, and play both of you with the other and I'll still win. :@
jmonroe

JMonroe...you are on...if you also pick up the balls. Do you play with a wannabe racquet too?

Why do you ask, you worried? :@

jmonroe

Just so you know....these racquets are illegal;

You would never guess this but that's a regulation sized racquet.

If you said that for my benefit, thanks but I don't need that kind of help. I can beat him and jip playing with the handle end.

jmonroe

snakeweasel

fintail said:

Maybe the quota was already met. Or do you have a FOP sticker, LEO plate, etc?

snakeweasel said:

The fact that people get warnings instead of tickets prove that its not about the money. One of the last times I got pulled over I was doing close to 70 in a 45 zone and got a warning, I wasn't even detained long. So yeah it's all about the money.

No quotas, no FOP sticker and no LEO plate. In most situations the police have discretion on whether or not to issue a citation. That alone supports the argument that it is not a money making scheme.

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

Just checked the rules:
(b) The frame of the racket shall not exceed 32 inches (81.28 cm) in overall length, including the handle and 12½ inches (31.75 cm) in overall width. The strung surface shall not exceed 15½ inches (39.37 cm) in overall length, and 11½ inches (29.21 cm) in overall width.

I knew as I posted that that someone wouldn't get the joke.

And I forgot to add.......unless you mean it was Photoshoped!

Nope, it was ment to suggest that it was a regular sized racquet and a very small man.

Thebean got it.

jmonroe

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Well, it was a little left handed....the hate to admit it part.

Besides, once a year he may have something worthwhile to share.

With comments like that I expect @jmonroe 's next post to be one stating he is tired of the shots he takes here and is going to leave for a while.

Nah, we are a captive audience for JM. Who else is going to read his 3 page posts?

The CIA, the NSA, the FBI, MI5, the SVR, Massad and Kaos.

You forgot the IRS. After what I have said a few times about cheating on my taxes, which I'm about to do again, that's the outfit that worries me the most.

jmonroe

jmonroe

driver100 said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

ab348 said:

driver100 said:

Well, it was a little left handed....the hate to admit it part.

Besides, once a year he may have something worthwhile to share.

With comments like that I expect @jmonroe 's next post to be one stating he is tired of the shots he takes here and is going to leave for a while.

Nah, we are a captive audience for JM. Who else is going to read his 3 page posts?

The CIA, the NSA, the FBI, MI5, the SVR, Massad and Kaos.

The IRS maybe, since he admits he cheats on that.

Shuuuuuush. :@ :@

jmonroe

explorerx4

Don't forget Homeland Security.

driver100

jmonroe said:

snakeweasel said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe said:

driver100 said:

Ya know, after listening to the two of you discuss you tennis skills, it doesn't sound like either of you are all that good. So yeah, I'll shine your cars with one hand, and play both of you with the other and I'll still win. :@
jmonroe

JMonroe...you are on...if you also pick up the balls. Do you play with a wannabe racquet too?

Why do you ask, you worried? :@

jmonroe

Just so you know....these racquets are illegal;

You would never guess this but that's a regulation sized racquet.

If you said that for my benefit, thanks but I don't need that kind of help. I can beat him and jip playing with the handle end.

jmonroe

You got to hand it to JM....he has got such a great imagination.

tbirdmarco

 On 348 glad you didn’t get any. Bad weather where you are in Canada feels like pretty much a spring day here too now the suns out enjoying it a bit tomorrow could be even nicer no snow for the upcoming week overall been a pretty good winter over here can’t complain 

imidazol97

graphicguy said:

Near my neighborhood. I drive by it 2-3 times/week.
http://www.ogaramobilesystems.com

My long term memory says that Hess und Eisenhardt were modifying cars long ago and occasionally one of their limousines was in the news. But I recall seeing a Cadillac station wagon from the 1952-4 era at the all GM cruise in at Bill DeLord in Lebanon. It had been in a newspaper article or a magazine article. IIRC that car was an H & E product. It was a pea green. No woodie. Here's an H&E mod:

imidazol97

oldfarmer50 said:

That's ugly even for a hearse. I wouldn't be caught dead in it.

Well, when JD Powers or CR sends you a survey after riding in it, let them know how you feel (felt).

laurasdada

Life is good; my '13 XF is a virgin no more.

Whilst lunching with the GF and her mother, some fine upstanding young man/woman defiled the Jags near pristine exterior. Might have been two incidents, a very strange dent in the driver side rear door, possibly a door slam or shopping cart. Paint isn't cracked, but a raised "scar" in the steel in the middle of the concave area of dent. More noticeable, and maybe more egregious, the lovely mesh grill now has a mangled mesh hole in the drivers side portion. As well as cracked frame. Either someone intentionally kicked it in, a trailer hitch, or very corner of a bumper hit? No paint left in either damage area. Needless to say, no note left, no cameras in the parking lot.

I'll drop by the local Jag dealer, see how much for a new grille. May just live with it. As Jags are known to hold their value so strongly, I'm afraid these cosmetic imperfections my really hurt at trade/sale time!

abacomike

snakeweasel said:

Ya know, after listening to the two of you discuss you tennis skills, it doesn't sound like either of you are all that good. So yeah, I'll shine your cars with one hand, and play both of you with the other and I'll still win. :@ jmonroe

JMonroe...you are on...if you also pick up the balls. Do you play with a wannabe racquet too?

Why do you ask, you worried? :@ jmonroe

Just so you know....these racquets are illegal;

You would never guess this but that's a regulation sized racquet.

Yes, but the tennis player is 3 feet tall and weighs 67 pounds! :-)

abacomike

Just got a call from my son.  He said that my grandson went 3/5 hitting today as first baseman and won the game with a grand slam homerun in the bottom of the last inning.  He had 5 rbi’s. 

On Monday, he is the starting pitcher in his first game as a senior.  The other team does not know that his fastball is now up to 91 mph per radar gun.  The last time they saw him pitch was in April, 2017, when his fastball was averaging 88 mph.  Aren’t they in for a surprise!!!

explorerx4

@laurasdada,
2 places damaged when parked? It has been pretty windy, but maybe you have a 'Kick Me' bumper sticker?

jmonroe

laurasdada said:

Life is good; my '13 XF is a virgin no more.

Whilst lunching with the GF and her mother, some fine upstanding young man/woman defiled the Jags near pristine exterior. Might have been two incidents, a very strange dent in the driver side rear door, possibly a door slam or shopping cart. Paint isn't cracked, but a raised "scar" in the steel in the middle of the concave area of dent. More noticeable, and maybe more egregious, the lovely mesh grill now has a mangled mesh hole in the drivers side portion. As well as cracked frame. Either someone intentionally kicked it in, a trailer hitch, or very corner of a bumper hit? No paint left in either damage area. Needless to say, no note left, no cameras in the parking lot.

I'll drop by the local Jag dealer, see how much for a new grille. May just live with it. As Jags are known to hold their value so strongly, I'm afraid these cosmetic imperfections my really hurt at trade/sale time!

I'm know how that feels. Went through it when a jacked-up pickup truck took out the right front fender of Mrs. j's Subie 2 years ago in a kids hockey arena parking lot.

If your insurance is like mine, it will cost you your deductible (mine is $500) but it will be a not-at-fault claim and your rates will not go up.

Ok, this is the second parking lot thing for the guys in here. Who wants to make it 3 and finish the bad luck for us guys.

Let us know how the claim goes.

jmonroe

Mr_Shiftright

imidazol97 said:

Mr. Sandman's posts sound like he'd like to keep the car even if it's totalled by the insurance adjuster.

Does he have any options of buying the car from the insurance company and paying to have it repaired
on his own. I recall people getting their "totalled" vehicle from the insurance company. The insurance
is looking at the cost to them of paying a value claim for their opinion of the car's value that they are
liable for combined with what they can get for that vehicle from the folks who buy damaged vehicles.
So the income from selling a car that does not have any damage to the front end especially is high which reduces
their cost of that payment to @sandman_6472.

I thought of this because there's a large "yard" near IKEA West Chester (Cincinnati) that is filled with wrecked cars and it appears to be an insurance company yard where buyers come in for the rebuildable and parts cars.

Yeah, he can buy the car back and fix it himself. They'll charge him something like 10%-13%. But they can also refuse to sell him the car.

Mr_Shiftright

dino001 said:

oldfarmer50 said:

On valuation tools, does NADA offer a private party valuation? I thought they were strictly dealer retail and trade in values.

I checked and you are correct - only dealer retail and trade in. So it can’t be a primary valuation tool. It actually is abgood reason to pull back on the offer - the gentleman was not using a right offer. Dealer retail includes both markup and some reconditioning of a vehicle. Using it as a primary justification for an individual sale price means the gentleman either doesn’t know or is trying to pull wool over buyer’s head.

Never use NADA to purchase a car--they are, without fail, always higher than any other price guide. You use NADA to sell a car.

laurasdada

jmonroe said:

laurasdada said:

Life is good; my '13 XF is a virgin no more.

Whilst lunching with the GF and her mother, some fine upstanding young man/woman defiled the Jags near pristine exterior. Might have been two incidents, a very strange dent in the driver side rear door, possibly a door slam or shopping cart. Paint isn't cracked, but a raised "scar" in the steel in the middle of the concave area of dent. More noticeable, and maybe more egregious, the lovely mesh grill now has a mangled mesh hole in the drivers side portion. As well as cracked frame. Either someone intentionally kicked it in, a trailer hitch, or very corner of a bumper hit? No paint left in either damage area. Needless to say, no note left, no cameras in the parking lot.

I'll drop by the local Jag dealer, see how much for a new grille. May just live with it. As Jags are known to hold their value so strongly, I'm afraid these cosmetic imperfections my really hurt at trade/sale time!

I'm know how that feels. Went through it when a jacked-up pickup truck took out the right front fender of Mrs. j's Subie 2 years ago in a kids hockey arena parking lot.

If your insurance is like mine, it will cost you your deductible (mine is $500) but it will be a not-at-fault claim and your rates will not go up.

Ok, this is the second parking lot thing for the guys in here. Who wants to make it 3 and finish the bad luck for us guys.

Let us know how the claim goes.

jmonroe

Thanks, I did stop by the local police to register the event. I'll check with my insurance, but I have a $1k deductible, so I may live with it... And, die a little each day that I see the missing teeth and scarred flank!

laurasdada

explorerx4 said:

@laurasdada,
2 places damaged when parked? It has been pretty windy, but maybe you have a 'Kick Me' bumper sticker?

Yup, front grille and side door. Maybe a band of psycho shopping carts. Or some angry dude...

explorerx4

What's really bad is watching someone damaging your car.
I was at a DD eating some breakfast with my 80+ year old mom when I saw a some lady repeatedly opening the door of her Forrester into the side of my car.
I knew I couldn't leave my mom by herself or explain why I was upset and was leaving the table, so I just had to watch it.

fintail

I hope my dashcam would pick up most incidents like these. It has a shock sensor when parked, but I've never had to use it.

Sandman6472

If they total my Golf, it's gone as I won't buy it back. Makes no sense and I need a vehicle to live my life that I can count on. I just hope they can fix it properly to begin with. But, from what we saw when we opened the drivers side rear door doesn't give me much hope. It was pretty banged up down there and pushed in a few inches. Plus the rear wheel was pushed in at the top at a weird angle, doubt that rim is usable so a new one would be needed.
All kind of moot now until I hear something either Tuesday or Wednesday. I just don't have a good feeling about getting it back, that's all!

The Sandman

qbrozen

laurasdada said:

Life is good; my '13 XF is a virgin no more. Whilst lunching with the GF and her mother, some fine upstanding young man/woman defiled the Jags near pristine exterior. Might have been two incidents, a very strange dent in the driver side rear door, possibly a door slam or shopping cart. Paint isn't cracked, but a raised "scar" in the steel in the middle of the concave area of dent. More noticeable, and maybe more egregious, the lovely mesh grill now has a mangled mesh hole in the drivers side portion. As well as cracked frame. Either someone intentionally kicked it in, a trailer hitch, or very corner of a bumper hit? No paint left in either damage area. Needless to say, no note left, no cameras in the parking lot. I'll drop by the local Jag dealer, see how much for a new grille. May just live with it. As Jags are known to hold their value so strongly, I'm afraid these cosmetic imperfections my really hurt at trade/sale time!

I'm know how that feels. Went through it when a jacked-up pickup truck took out the right front fender of Mrs. j's Subie 2 years ago in a kids hockey arena parking lot. If your insurance is like mine, it will cost you your deductible (mine is $500) but it will be a not-at-fault claim and your rates will not go up. Ok, this is the second parking lot thing for the guys in here. Who wants to make it 3 and finish the bad luck for us guys. Let us know how the claim goes. jmonroe

Thanks, I did stop by the local police to register the event. I'll check with my insurance, but I have a $1k deductible, so I may live with it... And, die a little each day that I see the missing teeth and scarred flank!

Uhoh. I wouldn't have done that. It may show up on carfax now. I'd much rather eat the cost and avoid the extra depreciation.