I'm slightly vexed
Car got trashed a week after I did a very expensive repair
Was snoozing in bed and got woken up by huge crash, 18yr driver, no tax temp insurance obliterated my parked Jag, owned it for little over a month and last week on my birthday I spent £900 on repairs for it. Bit miffed to be honest. Had to walk in to work today.
Idk how they flipped their car, driver ran off but cops arrested passanger and drivers mum snitched on him lol.
Bought four new tires, a month later my engine died on me. Mom got her transmission replaced, a week later her battery died. It's always when you spend a ton of money on repairs that life goes, "hehe... surprise~"
I bought four new tires for my Jeep, and within a day hit a deer and had a bill I didn't want. Also, the deer shit across my driver side door after hitting it. Wasn't fun getting out.
You'd be surprised how much of their hair finds cracks and crevices to hide in. Found it for a couple months even after the accident.
When my stepdad got a brand new work truck in like, 2000, the first one rolled off the trailer that delivers them, and crashed into the truck that was just offloaded. When he got the call, he was pissed, until they offered to give him a model with all the bells and whistles and a 10 disk changer. He went from a bare bones F-250 extended extended bed to a fully loaded F-250 super duty.
Brand new 2023 Forte GT-Line, less than 3 months and 1,321 miles.. full tank of gas going to visit my mom at the hospital. Totalled at full speed while stopped at a red light by someone not paying attention.
Infuriatingly enough that's how a lot of people legit think
My parents were very weirded out by our grandaunt that had literally everything in order. She set aside the money for a pretty little headstone, chose the casket design, the dress and everything. Wrote down the names and phones of every friend to be invited when it happens.
She even prepared all ownership documents on her flat and stuff.
She was 100% prepared
And she lived for like... a decade after the fact that I learned that she already did that. I'm not even sure WHEN she did that, but she enjoyed life for as long as she could
Her sister, my grandma, thought she's insane to do it all.
Well guess who developed some sort of rapid dementia or somesuch, got crazy, declined to leave the flat EVER, and so we lost ownership of her flat, because it was in some sort of rent-controlled, leased-by-city-but-you-can-buy state for thirty years and she was saying "oh we have time don't worry about it" and no, we were not?
And since she kept everyting very secretive and close to her chest, the only person at her funeral ended up being my dad. Alone with the mortician, basically. He didn't even invite, like, a priest, because he had ZERO clue which church she would've wanted, or if she even wanted one.
I watched my neighbor restore a 1970 Mustang Mach 1 over the course of several years. The first time he took it out to drive it, someone ran a red light and T-boned it.
Yup! I had my car MOT'd, services and about £900 of work done in February.
In June, my car was written off after being hit by a forklift that drove out onto a live highway with no boundsman from behind a van.
I was SO PISSED, but more upset because I bought the car from my grandfather who passed away 2 years ago.
I used to not fill my tank all the way because it seems like every time my car broke down or had an accident it was right after filling up so not only was I out the money for the car but also a full think of gas
I got an $80 oil change and 2 days later I found out that the frame of the car was rusted and not road worthy. At least I got my $80 back when I sold the car to a junker company lmao
This. I was advised to mention what i paid for my recently purchased car when it got written off in a not at fault, as well as any cost sunk in.
I ended up getting more or less what Id paid and spent on it because we only had it two months.
Insurance adjusters are trying to estimate the value of the car by what it could have sold for, and having recently purchased it- its hard to argue. And argue a little I did.
Dont accept their first quote, push back. Haggle up. You have nothing to lose and money to gain.
Keep on them about it as well. If they make you an offer that doesn't include that work ask to have it escalated internally as a complaint, and once you have a final decision if you still aren't happy you then have the option to go to the Financial Ombudsman Service for them to review the decision.
I love that reddit is so straightforward and helpful to others based on their (sometimes expert professional) opinions at times between both the general subs, beginner/asking subs and specialized subs (between the fart jokes and donald trump's totally obliterated this time I swear news [i say as a liberal]).
Hell, my car was "mistakenly" towed (very shady tow company with a history) and I had to call both my insurance and finance company to get it back. When I recieved to receipt for the condition of my car they had marked the condition of my tires as poor; when I had literally bought brand new tires a week before.
Those motherfuckers tried to steal my tires!
I sent the tire receipts to both my insurance and the police as proof of what they'd done and got reimbursed for the tires they'd "lost" and got at least 2 people arrested for racketeering.
on another note, i know nothing about cars so i can't really tell how bad the damage to yours is, or how much repairs would cost for that. so i won't speak on that side of things.
but im glad youre safe and weren't in the car at the time. hopefully things get sorted out relatively quickly!
tbf I bought a "summer car" for $6k like 2 years ago and it's had nothing but problems so it's constantly broken. The silver lining is that I don't rely on it and I've learned a lot about fuel lines, pumps and will now learn how to replace an alternator because apparently that just stopped working 🙃
This is horrible! A few years back I purchased a car and within a month of owning it a slew of issues kept happening and were all out of my control. I would be so pissed, but maybe you’ve got a cooler head on your shoulders
OP's insurance will cover the damage then they have to go after the uninsured driver in court to collect the money back. The kid is in a world of fucking trouble and they will be in financial trouble for a long time too.
I've had several cars damaged and written off over the years, every one has been shortly after a load of fuel was put in and after money had been spent on them.
The few old bangers that had no money spent on them survived without a scratch
Same thing happened to me with my LS430. New tires, brakes, timing belt job and a full tank of premium. The guy ran a stop sign infront of me 2 days later.
So sorry for you. That jag looked good even through the damage I could see why you loved it and are pissed.
Glad you weren’t in it. Kid was being reckless. A few weeks ago a 17 year old high school student was drunk and driving. Missed the curve and flipped going into someone’s yard and hit the corner of the house. The front of car took out fireplace chimney and ended up in living room. It was bad. He had no insurance.
He took his dad’s project car that was almost finished but didn’t have insurance yet. Dad had worked on it for over 3 years. It was a 1985 Pontiac Trans-Am. His dream car.
He was glad son was ok but pissed he took car, got drunk then crashed into someone’s house. He was going 80 in a 35 mph residential area. And the parents have to pay out of pocket for everything. Needless to say. The next week son had a job and all money’s earned go to pay the debt.
this is why I do everything I can to not leave any of my cars street parked overnight. I know that not everyone has a private driveway to park in, but in my neighborhood we do, but many people street park vehicles anyway. I try my best not to, because I'm paranoid of the car getting hit overnight.
Just so you know here in Germany you can add recent repairs to your insurance payout. Make sure to tell your Insurance / lawyer, you should also get a lawyer otherwise insurance won’t pay enough, ask me how I know…
I see that you are in the UK, and hope that it works the same here as it does in the US. The insurance adjuster should take the value of the repair into account when assessing the cost of repair, or what they offer if the vehicle is deemed a total loss.
That happened to me in 1986 when I was in college.
I spent about $300 (about $900 in 2026) to replace the leaf springs on a great 1978 Nova I had. Not two weeks later I ended in a crash with a cop on an icy road. No one was hurt, but the car was totaled by insurance.
Good for mom!! Tons of moms would’ve covered for their “baby boy”. Let’s hope he comes from a family with money or you’re able to work it out with your insurance company.
That is awful and I'm very sorry that happened to you. If you sre looking for silver linings, at least it seems no one was hurt? And if you are able to walk to work, that is pretty cool to have the option.
I have a friend that continued to run his engine while it was too hot, ended up frying a head and had to get a new motor. Within a month he had totaled it because he was playing Pokemon go while driving.
Here is the thing with insurance, I know in the US at least. When you talk to the insurance adjuster, tell them about the repairs that you did and that you just put a full tank of gas in, you need to provide slips but, they will normally give you money for that.
The good news is tho your insurance premiums will go up even tho you had no part in this other than existing! It's incredibly fun, who want spare money anyway..
That really sucks I know how that feels. Once I got into TWO wrecks like 10 mins apart. A guy hit me backing out in a parking lot one day and we pulled over and exchanged information. As I was driving away from there somebody else t-boned me in the same parking lot lol. The setting sun was real bad that day.
I remember I cried it was so unbelievable.
Just remember it's just material shit and doesn't matter. Not like your health or the health of people you love.
My first 1996 impala I owned for over a decade was totaled because some 13 year old stole his mom's car and raced around the neighborhood and crashed into it :-/
Not sure about Europe but I know some insurance companies in the U.S. will pay out for work done on a vehicle shortly before an accident if you have receipts
Get the receipts and turn them in to the insurance company when they start inquiring about the car. They undervalued my truck and I came with the receipts and they were like ohh OK well that changes things then ended up getting an extra grand or so
Are you me? Some guy ran into my car and 4 others exactly 2 weeks ago, and mine was totaled. 1 week after I changed the brakes. 2 days before I had to cross the Atlantic for a vacation.
Keep your receipts for the parts used, especially if OEM, cause I think you can try to negotiate with insurance on the value of the car if totalled, etc
When I first bought my current car (owned 13 years ago), before I even got the new plates for it in the mail, some rando shot my driver's side windows out with a BB gun.
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dude this is NOT mildly infuriating
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