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Originally Posted by ctrlz
Sorry for the bad day, OP.
I think JaxChris is in the ballpark with his estimate, maybe on the high side.
My bet on the Enterprise employee is he tests positive for opiates and cannabinoids. He'll have a script from a local ER for some opioid for his "back pain" and claim he was around friends who smoke dope. Not that we'll ever know how this plays out.
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So I finally have an update worth sharing. It took Enterprise's insurer three weeks to settle my painfully simple claim. The cheap bastards challenged their own appraiser's estimate of the damage caused to exhaust system. Their estimate of the body work is also below what the body shop quoted me, but the difference is actually in the labor cost, not the parts, so the body shop will recover any extra amount from the insurer in a supplement. In any case, California law entitles me to a full repair back to new condition using factory parts as the car is practically brand new (<12k miles, current model year). If this requires a new exhaust, so be it. That's between the repairer and the insurer.
As for the driver who hit me, he was driving the Enterprise shuttle that picked me up from the shop when I dropped my car off! Talk about irony. You can safely assume nothing happened to him, no job lost, no real consequences, nothing.