[The Rookie]

While your car sounds jinxed, take heart from this tale of my Dads old car...

Metallic paint was kinda a new thing back in 1974, at 4 months old the paint bubbled all over and the car had a total respray.

3 months later approaching a junction and the car in the outside lane suddenly stopped to turn right (no brake lights) in the outside lane, my Dad inevitably hit him so the entire front end was resprayed.

4 months later driving down a single lane road and a tractor pulled out, the weight bars on the front cut through both outer and inner front fenders like a can opener, car was resprayed at the front again.

Car had rear discs and the safety brake (stick trans) had a habit of relaxing, we lived on a hill, one day the Dad forgot to leave it in gear so it rolled down the hill across the neighbours drive and ended up with the front end off the edge of the drive (over a 10' drop!) and balancing there, 2 new sills and an exhaust and more respray.

2 months later he was rear ended at a stop light, so that was the back resprayed again.

Thinking this car made Christine look like a kiddies nursery toy it was traded in and was bought by a guy who lived about 3 miles away - we saw it almost every weekday, 4 months later and the front was all stove in....

The colour?.......You know it...........it was Silver! (the car was a Peugeot 504 Ti for those who are interested) Silver just attracts disaster! (mine is Silver - Doh!)

Simon

 

[Telemarker74]

The colour?.......You know it...........it was Silver! (the car was a Peugeot 504 Ti for those who are interested) Silver just attracts disaster! (mine is Silver - Doh!)

Simon

After reading all that, now I'm scared to go out in mine! :biggrin:

 

[Dan]

While that is fairly wise on their part, I would caution you that my experience dealing with claims every day is that these people will likely change their mind once they find out how much your repair estimate is. Normal folks have no clue what body repair costs and think everything is $300. Just be ready for it.

Also, many insurance companies are offering lifetime satisfaction guarantees on repairs that they pay for. Not sure how difficult it is to get subsequent work done down the road on a repair that you aren't satisfied with, but something to think about. Kinda moot if the repair shop has a similar policy.

And honestly, I'd want it on the kids policy - there's nothing like financial pain to reinforce a lesson. That sounds buttholish, but how else is he going to learn about consequences?

 

[tgaudmx5]

And honestly, I'd want it on the kids policy - there's nothing like financial pain to reinforce a lesson. That sounds buttholish, but how else is he going to learn about consequences?

Ah, yes. I am 24 now, so I suppose it's my turn (duty?) to exact some life lessons of my own. :slightly evil laugh:

 

[neoshi]

Man.. I knew I should've gotten a white or black car... or CGM..

 

[Bobbo662]

I live right up the road from you, off Rte 30 in Vermont - but I had someone hit MY09 FXT in the grocery parking lot, and the paint on the bumper was down to the primer - I had to get the bumper cover replaced, insurance estimated about 800 bucks (that included labor too).

I had my work done in Rutland, at Turks Body Work they do Subaru, VW and Audi.

 

[tgaudmx5]

I live right up the road from you, off Rte 30 in Vermont - but I had someone hit MY09 FXT in the grocery parking lot, and the paint on the bumper was down to the primer - I had to get the bumper cover replaced, insurance estimated about 800 bucks (that included labor too).

I had my work done in Rutland, at Turks Body Work they do Subaru, VW and Audi.

Excellent!

I've actually seen your car (the one in your Avatar...at least I think it was yours) once on my way to visit a friend in West Dover.

I'm going to give Turks a call today. Thanks a million!

 

[abacall]

That's freakin ridiculous. . A flying mailbox. :lol:
As for silver, I found it gets significantly less door dings than black (which is a definitely cursed color, though beautiful), but more dings than red.

 

[back road runner]

Should have

the old lady on oxygen.

 

[honikon]

Exorcisms

No, Peaty, you're thinking of Honda exorcisms.

For Subarus it's a dead rat while facing East. :biggrin:

OK, OK, enough with the use of dead mammals. You'll have PETA monitoring the Forum if you're not careful! :mob:

 

[honikon]

Flying mailboxes

Eh, it's pretty funny to me too, really.

Really sorry about your car but thanks for sharing. LOL!
Glad you are keeping your sense of humor thru it all.

 

[Huvnaya]

Oh burger! I knew it was the colour. I've had my silver 2.5XT about 5 weeks now, first someone took the paint off the rear bumper at the extreme corner.
Now this week I found a deep gouge in the front bumper that had to have damaged the other car.
All this on top of having my Audi S3 smashed by a van in April, the wife's new Micra SR160 was also damaged by someone trying to do a turn in the road, insurance job of course, the other driver also didn't leave a note.

I'm honestly thinking of trading up to something in olive green, 80 tons with a cannon in the turret.

Now, where do you get a dead cat and a voodoo manual?

 

[honikon]

Oh burger! I knew it was the colour. I've had my silver 2.5XT about 5 weeks now, first someone took the paint off the rear bumper at the extreme corner.
Now this week I found a deep gouge in the front bumper that had to have damaged the other car.
All this on top of having my Audi S3 smashed by a van in April, the wife's new Micra SR160 was also damaged by someone trying to do a turn in the road, insurance job of course, the other driver also didn't leave a note.

I'm honestly thinking of trading up to something in olive green, 80 tons with a cannon in the turret.

Now, where do you get a dead cat and a voodoo manual?

I repeat my plea that no animals be harmed in the protection of the subies! :icon_razz:

Can someone consult the voodoo manual and come up with a floral solution in place of the fauna? and while we're at it, no endangered plants either! :Banane35:

Peace, love and subarus forever!

 

[GA Forester]

sorry to hear about it - its hillarious allright but in the end, someone's gotta pay.
Your's must be one of the prettiest car in your area drawing everyones attention in th parking lot.
Unfortunate - good to see you still hanging up there and not wanting to move back to Fl.

 

[fdxforester]

Silver is cursed, armadillo's more PC than cats

I decided NOT to buy a Silver Forester because it's predecessor, a Silver '01 Civic Coupe was cursed. The day I bought the Honda, I drove to Abilene, TX where the Civic was damaged by hail the first night I owned it. The next morning, a women from Dallas in a very large SUV backed into it in the hotel parking lot while I was checking out the hail damage. On the way home, the windshield found a large rock. Hmmm... over $1,000 in damage in less than 24 hours.

Regarding exorcisms and curse removals, a friend of mine offered me a frozen Armadillo in lieu of a dead cat for the ritual trying to be PC. I was almost tempted to use it after hitting it's live cousin which took out my air dam.

Moral of the story, I don't buy Silver cars.

 

[tgaudmx5]

I decided NOT to buy a Silver Forester because it's predecessor, a Silver '01 Civic Coupe was cursed. The day I bought the Honda, I drove to Abilene, TX where the Civic was damaged by hail the first night I owned it. The next morning, a women from Dallas in a very large SUV backed into it in the hotel parking lot while I was checking out the hail damage. On the way home, the windshield found a large rock. Hmmm... over $1,000 in damage in less than 24 hours.

Regarding exorcisms and curse removals, a friend of mine offered me a frozen Armadillo in lieu of a dead cat for the ritual trying to be PC. I was almost tempted to use it after hitting it's live cousin which took out my air dam.

Moral of the story, I don't buy Silver cars.

Ah well, lesson learned. The (decidedly) hard way.