Interesting Week
So it's been a rather interesting week for me.
Tuesday my car was hit while it was parked in front of my house. Literally it was parked on the side of the road where there are always cars. The neighbours dad pulled in to park in front of me and got too close, causeing him to rip the front end to shreds when he caught my bumper on his wheel well.
We discussed settling before going to ICBC but he didn't want to out of pocket more then $100 (it was his company truck that he hit me with and there is no damage to his truck, save a scuff mark).
My ICBC appointment was this morning. $1700 Damage. They want to write my car off.
I have two options.
1) Take a $1000 cas settlement and do with it as I wish. I can keep my car
2) Let them write off my car, and get $1115 plus pst towards a new car. $1193
I don't like either option really. I should just take the cash and keep driving, but my problem is that I have issues to fix on my car and i don't know how much longer it's goign to live for. i know damn well that if the car dies at the end of summer there won't be any money left. But on the other hand, I can re-silicone the bumper and get the cat fixed so that I can pass aircare and insure it properly.
I figure I'll call the guy that hit me tonight and let him know the cost of repairs and not tell him about the write off yet. See what his company is willing to do.
Tuesday my car was hit while it was parked in front of my house. Literally it was parked on the side of the road where there are always cars. The neighbours dad pulled in to park in front of me and got too close, causeing him to rip the front end to shreds when he caught my bumper on his wheel well.
We discussed settling before going to ICBC but he didn't want to out of pocket more then $100 (it was his company truck that he hit me with and there is no damage to his truck, save a scuff mark).
My ICBC appointment was this morning. $1700 Damage. They want to write my car off.
I have two options.
1) Take a $1000 cas settlement and do with it as I wish. I can keep my car
2) Let them write off my car, and get $1115 plus pst towards a new car. $1193
I don't like either option really. I should just take the cash and keep driving, but my problem is that I have issues to fix on my car and i don't know how much longer it's goign to live for. i know damn well that if the car dies at the end of summer there won't be any money left. But on the other hand, I can re-silicone the bumper and get the cat fixed so that I can pass aircare and insure it properly.
I figure I'll call the guy that hit me tonight and let him know the cost of repairs and not tell him about the write off yet. See what his company is willing to do.