Saturday, February 4, 2006

Car update

We picked up the car from the towing place last night. Hopefully if we do go after the insurance company of the person behind me (which I think is just as silly as the person in front of me going after my insurance company, she didn't have any more fault in not being able to stop than I did, but I suppose such is the insurance industry), they'll reimburse us for it. But I didn't want it to sit there and collect storage fees. It turns out that it was the inertia switch (auto gas shutoff) that made it not start up, which I did think about on scene, but I wasn't too comfortable driving it at that point anyway. What I did find that I hadn't noticed before was that the hood is slightly bent up on one side, and on the opposite side the bumper got pushed inward. The car is perfectly drivable going in a straight line, but when the tires turn they scrape the back side of the bumper. Sounds yucky, I made Charles drive it because it was scary. He's going to call a mechanic who's worked on the car before and ask if he can fix it and look it over for other things. Charles says that this guy does everything, but I want to make sure he does do body work before we either drive it to the valley in that condition (has to be on the curvy freeway) or get it towed (which cost us $350 last time).

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