I figured I would start a separate thread instead of filling up the "What are you working on?" thread on my journey to resurrecting the "totaled" Rav4.
Just as a refresher a few weeks ago, some unfortunate events and life lessons happened. After a good night out with friends we arrived home to find a shelf in our garage that had paint on it had fallen and landed all over the front of our 2005 Rav4 L (and my snap-on tool box):
My first reaction is "Oh My God", then my second reaction was not internet appropriate but something along the line of "
", and then final reaction was "Honey, get me your keys I'll take it to the car wash right now."
So I took it to a local carwash and got as much of the paint off as I possibly could:
From there, that is how it sat, outside... In the sun, since I couldn't get it back in the garage. I called homeowners insurance first to see if any damages would be covered. After waiting a few days, I finally got the word that homeowners was not going to cover anything, well more language came out. But then I was advised to file an Auto Claim since I did have full coverage on the vehicle.
So earlier this week I dropped off the vehicle to get an estimate, and this is the condition I dropped it off in:
After waiting a few days, the insurance company contacted me to tell me that they were going to total the vehicle. Which was a) not what I wanted to hear and b) absolutely ridiculous.
So, after discussing it with my husband, we agreed to just withdraw the claim, pick up the vehicle as is, and perform the repairs ourselves.
We picked up the vehicle today, and it was exactly as I left it, not even an attempt to see if the paint would come off was made, this already sent my temper to a place it need not go, and made me question exactly what the insurance was thinking. From my deductions, they based their entire assessment on the peeling paint of the hood, saying that the house paint was acting with the cars paint and would probably take it off where ever else it landed:
Now, the vehicle is 14 years old, and has 125K on it, one would think that after that many miles being driven, the hoods clear may be close to gone if not completely gone, so its a good possibility that as the house paint came off it took the car paint with it.
Just as a refresher a few weeks ago, some unfortunate events and life lessons happened. After a good night out with friends we arrived home to find a shelf in our garage that had paint on it had fallen and landed all over the front of our 2005 Rav4 L (and my snap-on tool box):
My first reaction is "Oh My God", then my second reaction was not internet appropriate but something along the line of "
", and then final reaction was "Honey, get me your keys I'll take it to the car wash right now."So I took it to a local carwash and got as much of the paint off as I possibly could:
From there, that is how it sat, outside... In the sun, since I couldn't get it back in the garage. I called homeowners insurance first to see if any damages would be covered. After waiting a few days, I finally got the word that homeowners was not going to cover anything, well more
language came out. But then I was advised to file an Auto Claim since I did have full coverage on the vehicle.So earlier this week I dropped off the vehicle to get an estimate, and this is the condition I dropped it off in:
After waiting a few days, the insurance company contacted me to tell me that they were going to total the vehicle. Which was a) not what I wanted to hear and b) absolutely ridiculous.
So, after discussing it with my husband, we agreed to just withdraw the claim, pick up the vehicle as is, and perform the repairs ourselves.
We picked up the vehicle today, and it was exactly as I left it, not even an attempt to see if the paint would come off was made, this already sent my temper to a place it need not go, and made me question exactly what the insurance was thinking. From my deductions, they based their entire assessment on the peeling paint of the hood, saying that the house paint was acting with the cars paint and would probably take it off where ever else it landed:
Now, the vehicle is 14 years old, and has 125K on it, one would think that after that many miles being driven, the hoods clear may be close to gone if not completely gone, so its a good possibility that as the house paint came off it took the car paint with it.
