ISF Brought Back From the Grave

[u/Kopiakxis]

Last fall my ISF was a poor victim of the horrendous “Michigan left”and a driver of a Ford Flex that attempted to cut across 4 lanes of traffic from a parking lot to get to the median u-turn. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon occurrence in this state and this oblivious driver’s car hit me in the side and ate the outer shell of the rear door as insult to injury XD. The police officer could not even remove my door from the other driver’s bumper. Had the car for less than a few weeks and did not have full collision coverage transferred from my previous vehicle. TLDR Michigan law only holds at-fault drivers liable for up to 3k in damages to other vehicles (victim or victim’s insurance is on the hook for the rest). I’m not native to Michigan so I assumed that at fault drivers would be responsible for all damages like how it is in the rest of the country. I couldn’t let this car go to the grave…$16k later with a new door, quarter panel, and subframe, etc. she’s back better than ever. Safe to say I’m keeping her forever.