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Originally Posted by matt fe2o3
Nice - hope the car come back OK. As I have indicated B&S has a great reputation as a class act shop. Jeff did me a total solid on a total this year and knows his stuff.
I hate to say it - California makes damage over zzz$ reportable no matter what. That can be a gray area... You live here - you know.
By the way I have a lead on a shop in Oakland for auto electrics and I'm going to have them do a front and read camera install - wiring inside the headliner - to trunk - will post up pics!
If Enterprise works out - that's great. I always use my carrier, however I carry xtra endorsements. Not to turn this into an insurance thread - but here's the deal - at least for me. I have OEM parts and new car replacement endorsements on my policy.
Those endorsements are paid for by me - to my insurance company regardless of fault. So in a situation where I get whacked - let's say by a GEICO driver, GEICO could not care less about my endorsements. They only want to pay the minimum.
So I file with my carrier based on my endorsements and let them subrogate.
Hope to meet up at one of the east bay events.
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B&S rocks. I'm working with Rick at the Pleasanton shop and the experience has been everything I expected and more. He's been really helpful in dealing with the craptastic insurance company handling the claim. In retrospect, I should've just filed a comp claim with my insurer, but I didn't want to take a hit on my premium. Some say it wouldn't go up since I wasn't at fault, others have told me it would still increase since I am filing a claim... that's a gray area, IDK what to believe.
Do you know what the threshold for reporting damage/claims is? Both the body shop and ELCO, the insurance company, specifically said they couldn't report it unless I instructed them to do so. FWIW, ELCO is part of a French insurance conglomerate. Maybe they operate differently
By the way, are there any meetups happening in East Bay? I know the Good Guys car show and autoX are coming up on Nov 10 & 11.