My Quakes app appears to be entirely useless, all it does it tell me it failed to register for remote push notifications.
Remote push notifications are kind of its core responsibility. You had ONE JOB, Quakes!
Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. We're here to make a deal.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - May 21, 2015 6:53:55 pm PDT #26896 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
meara - May 21, 2015 7:07:15 pm PDT #26897 of 30000
I can has temporary kitten! Little black sneezy yowly poopy kitten.
Also, a car with a caved-in back door. :( Dude rear-ended me (I was stopped...he was...not) with his work pickup truck, so it hit the spare tire that is in the middle of the back of the car (it's a mini-SUV) and it just sorta caved the whole thing in a bit. It seems to still open and close some. His car was worse off (leaking some fluid, the front bumper almost off, the hood bent). But I figure it will be awfully expensive to fix (replace?) the back door of my car. Anyone have experience with this kind of thing? How does this go? I have never actually had an accident where my car was more than marginally dinged (...there are a ton of dings and bumps on my car, but some are me running into a pole, or my garage, or one big dent in the passenger door that happened mysteriously back when I was parking on a DC street). The car is only worth maybe $4K?
sarameg - May 21, 2015 7:13:02 pm PDT #26898 of 30000
It's pretty much all up to insurance. But don't let them railroad you, you should call your agent to figure out the next steps. And take pictures.
Yay kitten!
Consuela - May 21, 2015 7:16:35 pm PDT #26899 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
oh, no, meara! But I'm glad nobody was hurt.
Kitten!
I wish I wasn't allergic so to cats, because I do love playing with kittens. Mallory Ortberg had a fabulous ongoing story this week about catching a feral kitten in her yard, and it was SO WEE.
Burrell - May 21, 2015 7:21:11 pm PDT #26900 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
sarameg is right, this is bread and butter to insurance companies and the body shops that work for them. They'll tell you what to do.
meara - May 21, 2015 7:21:47 pm PDT #26901 of 30000
Well, but what happens? I mean, do they tell me "take it to X place, and once they've looked at it we'll either fix it at Y place or give you $Z"? Or do they say "take it a place you go and tell us how much it will be"? Or?? Do I get a rental car while it's getting fixed? Can I take a rental car to Canada, because I'm supposed to be going there in two weeks? Ugh.
lcat - May 21, 2015 7:31:56 pm PDT #26902 of 30000
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
Meara
When a delivery truck backed into the side of my parked car last year (2012 Subaru Forester), the bill to replace the door, back panel and tire was about $5500 all of which, fortunately, was covered by the delivery company's insurance. You will first need to decide whether you want to process the claim under your insurance (in which case you will have to meet the deductible but the insurance company will handle all of the negotiations with the repair place and the other driver's insurance company) or under the other driver's insurance company (which avoids the deductible and the hit on your insurance but means you have to make all of the phone calls -the insurance company, the rental car company, the body shop, the tire shop -yourself over the next few weeks) and, unfortunately, sometimes the body shop won't give you an estimate until they know which insurance company will be paying the bill.
In either event, notify your insurance company tonight and get a claim number; you can tell them to cancel it later if you decide to work with the other driver's insurance.
Burrell - May 21, 2015 8:10:26 pm PDT #26903 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
In my case the other company paid for it all, and they sent someone to take pictures and send in an estimate and then I called a body shop my mechanic recommended. They took care of all the insurance stuff after that. I called a rental place too, and they contacted the insurance company to arrange for them to pay the bill. Was pretty low stress, considering.
meara - May 21, 2015 8:25:35 pm PDT #26904 of 30000
Yeah, luckily I'm home all next week, but still don't want to waste lots of time having to deal with this! And I don't know a body shop (or have a mechanic, really). And I've been thinking about a new car, but really don't need one now and don't really want to spend the money, but...getting this one fixed seems like it might be silly...
brenda m - May 21, 2015 9:05:29 pm PDT #26905 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Burrell's experience is mine.
My concern given the age of the car would be that if the repair is more than the value they may declare it totalled. Which would take the choice out of your hands. (When that happened to me I knew there was no way I could get a car as reliable for the amount the car was officially worth. To avoid having it classified as totaled I had to take a much lower settlement.)