My sisters neighbor was parked next to me and when he was backing out, he scraped the side of my car. That was back in January. He gave me all his insurance information and I just finally called his insurance company last week and reported the accident.
The scrape doesn’t look that bad to me, but I took my car into the body shop and got an estimate of $1900. In the meantime just two days ago I was parked at my dentists parking garage. It has all those stupid cement pillars you always see. I was backing out and hit one and tore my side mirror on the drivers side clean off. It was hanging by a cable. And put a huge dent on the fender. The insurance lady said I can spend that $1900 on whatever I want so I’m not going to fix the scrape. I got an estimate for the mirror of $800 but the dent in the fender is about $1800. So instead of an $1900 windfall, I’m looking at shelling out about &700. Man, if I had only been more careful about backing out!