My first day at my new job today and my truck gets side-swiped where I parked it...and no notes or anything from the person who did it. It was parked infront of a Lumber Yard where Large Tractor trucks drive by with trailors all day and it looks like a trailor got me. It got the left side fron corner of my truck. It put a dent about 3 x 3inches and 1 inch deep on the top left corner and got a good 1 inch ding on the hood, tire mark on my blinker, bumper slightly bent down, headlight tweaked and the piece of body between the grill and bumper is bent. And no one to blame it on! My insurance probly won't be affected, same thing happened to my mom and nothing changed.

The weird thing is when I got off work I got in my truck and drove home, sat around for a hour, then went back out and got something to eat threw a drivethrough and went to the gas station and got the truck washed.Then I get home and I'm walking out with the food I got and thats when I noticed I was hit. Crapy part is I got my truck washed so it could have washed away paint from the other vehicle!

Good things about it are, I have a friend who owns a body shop so he can work in my $100 deductable, the headlight that was "ruined" was actualy already screwed up(shhh), my bumper already had a big scratch where it got hit and I was planning on buying a new induction hood and now my friend with the body shop might be able to make my insurance pay for that, they will think they are paying for just a regular new hood. And also I get to trash the rental car I get!

 

sorry to hear about the truck, id be royally pissed off! but onthe bright side, hopefully whenits all over and done with it will look better than before the accident (with the new hood and stuff). good luck with it.

 

thanks, I'm going to go the the lumberyard tomorrow with a camera to see if I see any trucks with my paint on the them but I'm doubtful...these trucks come and go in just hours

 

Man that sucks I guess next time you will be more carefull on where you park your truck.

 

Hopefully insurance will take care of your truck. I'd be P-Oed

 

Ok well an update

My insurance won't go up at all
My deductable is $250 but I found a shop that will work that in so I get it for free(don't tell the insurance hehe)and also I get a new bumper
I get to drive/trash a rental car that my insurance pays for

So at the end it isn't costing me a dime, I get a new bumper, new headlight and a new painted fender.

 

what about the hood?

 

Well..I won't know about the hood until I take it to the body shop...it's got about a quarter size gash in it but I'm going to try to get them to work the deductable($250) plus if I throw some cash in, to get me a new induction hood. But if they won't do that it will just be repaired for the 3rd time(previous owner liked to drop heavy objects on it before).
They just better be able to match the paint good, because I would think my paint color would be a bit of a challenge.?.?
I got rearened 2 years ago a week after I bought the truck, my rear bumper was trashed and just a little bit of the bottum left rear section was bent, but they fixed it and matched the paint great...but that was by the dealership.

 

ya but a computer color matcher can do wonders .

 

Ok well the truck goes in tomorrow morning to get fixed...hopefuly it won't be there to long and I won't be able to drive the rental car because I'm not 21..so I have to drive my step dads 00 cougar special edition...lol I'm going to get a ticket.