Pick-up door damaged...(I'm an idiot)

[Scooter]

I worked late Monday night so I was very tired when I got home. I was getting out of my 2002 Silverado with my arms full and the door swung back and hit me on the leg. I got mad and kicked the door back open.

Well I kicked it too hard because the door is now separated from the hinge enough screw it up. The door and front fender are hung up and the door is hard to open. The door is not lined up properly anymore and the fender has a slight dent where the door catches it everytime I open it.

I'm such a moron. I called my insurance agent to see if it was covered. I have not heard back from him, but he did say he has never heard of this happening in 22 years as an agent. And if it is not covered, would he recommend is a body shop in town that will repair a car if it not a bloated insurance claim.

I've got to control my temper. Ugh.

But spot-welding a door onto a frame? No bolts, just welds.

This repair could be well over $1000.

Have I mentioned that I'm an idiot?

 

[txzen]

Let me get this straight - your lack of anger management caused you to damage your car....and you call your INSURANCE AGENT to see if the damage is covered?

Wow, man. Wow.

 

[ArrogantAssclown]

Just have an experienced body shop repairman rehang the door. Should be fairly inexpensive and easily done unless you kicked it so hard that you bent the hinges or something. If you did that call Mack Brown immediately, we could use your service on the punt team!

 

[MrPhlegm]

You sound like my kid, he ran his first car (a junker, that he paid for, we wern't about to give him a car the way he drove) into somebody and did very minor damage to the other guy's and his car. He then proceeded to kick the fender in on his car on the side where he nicked the other guy and did 10 times more damage than the actual collision. It was a junker so no collision coverage so he had to pull the fender that he kicked back out so that he could drive away.

That car finally died and he had saved up enough money for a small down payment on a nicer car and mom cosigned the note (and then rode his *** constantly to make sure he paid on time) and he got a used Grand Prix which he took pretty good care of until the day he wasn't paying attention and whipped into a parking space beside a truck with one of those pipe bumpers and was going too fast and ran his fender into the pipe bumper right behind the passenger side front wheel, and then got pissed and instead of stopping and seeing what was going on the dumbass floored it and ripped a huge gash down the entire side of his car right above the rocker panel.

Didn't get it fixed until he decided that he wanted a new car, mom and I had gotten new ones (our old ones were worn out) and he decided that he couldn't stand that and he wanted a new one too even though he couldn't afford it. He was also way upside down on his loan.

So he reported it to insurance, coughed up the $500 deductible and got it fixed.

Then got pissed because he couldn't figure out why his insurance rate went up.

Then two months after he coughed up all that money to get the car fixed, the dumbass lets the car run out of oil (we had told him to be sure and check the oil when he gassed up, but he is smarter than we are and decided that this was stupid advice and didn't do it even when the oil pressure light came on, which we had warned him about) and the engine siezed.

The car only had 60,000 miles on it, ran good and had good ac and a nice stereo and would have made a nice trade, but he killed it and made it worthless.

I was pissed and said that he should replace the engine but his mom told me to shut up and let him roll the loan into the new car as that would get her name off of the note

. She's smart so I shut up and he bought a grand am that he couldn't afford and mom did not sign the note and the dumbass has to pay for it himself.

He's had the new one about three months and I went out the other day and he did the parking trick again and has a scrape down the side of his car, said he did it when he dodged a dog and ran into the brick planter at the entrance to our subdivision. Yeahhhh Riiiiiiiiight!!! No silver paint on the planter, no bricks out of place, no repairs to planter.

At least this time it looks like he didn't floor it and rip the side of his car completely up.

Now if he would just learn to slow down and not get speeding tickets.

It's expensive to be an easily angered dumbass, as he is finnaly learning.

 

[hornface]

Would it be wrong of me to call your kid a dumass?

 

[DudleyHeinsbergn]

MrPhlegm =

 

[MrPhlegm]

Yes

I have more hair than Red.

 

[horn4life]

I don't think it's fair to call any kid a dumbass when his Dad's name is "Mr. Phlegm....."

Here is a way to "quick fix" you problem until you have time to drop the car at the body shop. It sounds as if you actually cracked the mounting pad to where the hinge attached to the frame? so it hangs out of place a bit and binds on the back edge of your front fender.

Go spend $12 and buy a Haynes auto book on your silverado, and figure out where the mounting bolts are for your front fender. Usually there are two on top and two underneath the bottom somewhere. Loosen them all and pull the fender slightly forward. You can also slightly move the door back by lossening up the bolts and sliding it back (but not much here or it won't close properly) Then you can drive it without further damage and shop around for your best deal on the repair.

OR you can simply find a light that everyone runs and wait to get pounded.... then of course you really might end up a "dumbass" if the guy pounds you good on your door...

 

[MrPhlegm]

oops, I meant to answer the question no, but my fingers typed yes, as in yes he can be a dumbass, but he is getting better, so we can only hope.

And I still have more hair than Red.

 

[horn4life]

Red Phlegm... that can't be good...

 

[Scooter]

Thanks, horn4life, I appreciate the response. I've been down about this so its nice not to be piled on.

Part of the deal with this, which is what I talked to my agent about, is where to go to get a "non-claim" body repair done. Very few body shops want to do repairs that aren't a claim, and if they do the price is unbelievable.