Alright, well I'll be holding my breath and might keel over and die (oh the joyous day for many of you!) until my insurance check arrives.
The insurance adjuster just came to my house and gave me an estimate for the deer damage done to the front end of the WRX for $3761.61, less my $100 deductible, so a check for $3661.61 should be arriving in the mail shortly.
The reason why I'm holding my breath is that I'm hoping the check doesn't need to be co-signed by a repair company. If the check, like in the past (although, insurance companies are operating very differently now and are virtually eliminating adjusters and making repair companies act as an adjuster to eliminate insurance fraud) is made out to myself I'll be able to go buy the carbon fiber hood for my car that I want.
The estimate included over $600 for left and right headlamps and I already have a spare set of stockers sitting in my basement, so I just pocketed $600 right there. Add in the money that will be pocketed as a result of the carbon fiber hood not needing to be painted and having the fenders blended like a stocker would along with not having the need for another stock grill ($150) and there's easily over a $1000 of money left over.
With that money, if all goes well, I'll probably have the small imperfections of the car fixed - it was keyed on the rear quarterpanel before I got it and has about 7 tiny, tiny door dings on the rear door AND then hopefully have money left over for parts.
The insurance adjuster just came to my house and gave me an estimate for the deer damage done to the front end of the WRX for $3761.61, less my $100 deductible, so a check for $3661.61 should be arriving in the mail shortly.
The reason why I'm holding my breath is that I'm hoping the check doesn't need to be co-signed by a repair company. If the check, like in the past (although, insurance companies are operating very differently now and are virtually eliminating adjusters and making repair companies act as an adjuster to eliminate insurance fraud) is made out to myself I'll be able to go buy the carbon fiber hood for my car that I want.
The estimate included over $600 for left and right headlamps and I already have a spare set of stockers sitting in my basement, so I just pocketed $600 right there. Add in the money that will be pocketed as a result of the carbon fiber hood not needing to be painted and having the fenders blended like a stocker would along with not having the need for another stock grill ($150) and there's easily over a $1000 of money left over.
With that money, if all goes well, I'll probably have the small imperfections of the car fixed - it was keyed on the rear quarterpanel before I got it and has about 7 tiny, tiny door dings on the rear door AND then hopefully have money left over for parts.
