Well, this escalated quickly...

ImportConvert · 01-24-2013, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SurfDog

I'm 45 and have had a pretty stressful career at times (20 years in the USMC as a helo pilot, airline captain now)

Here is my advice. Separate the event from your feelings about your car. Nothing is perfect. The best car made will have rattles and quirks and swirls and flaws and no amount of buffing, tuning or buying new will ever fix that fact.

I have at times transferred my desire for perfection onto things and it only brought anxiety. I would stress about car covers and fuel quality and rock chips etc etc etc etc.... It will make you nuts. maybe contribute to anxiety attack I dunno. It gave me marital stress. The point is, it is just a pile of parts all strapped together to perform a function. The Z is meant to shake rattle and roll a bit. It is a sports car. It is all about power, noise, passion, and fun.

My clutch rattles at stop lights (its supposed to) my exhaust Hisses (many do). my steering pulls in random directions at random stops (wide tires) the road noise on my (soon to be replaced) Hankooks forces my to wear earplugs on certain drives with "textured" roads. Steering lock fix, hatch rattle fix, hatch spring replacement, I could go on and on.

The point is, a Z is a quirky, "hairy chested" rumbling beast. That is part of its charm. You can tune and align and DynaMat the crap out of it and it will still at its core be a rumbling beast. Its not a sissy BMW M3 or 135 or a $80k Porsche to be driven by some turtleneck wearing yuppie stock trader. Its a car for people who drive with passion.

I say get her fixed! Love her (flaws and all) upgrade her so she is unique and special and all yours and remember that it is her dented skin and stiff frame that kept that SUV from crushing you like a bug.

A car is a pile of parts that can all be repaired and replaced, and none of which are ever "perfect" (though a bent frame is probably a death sentence to a Z)

Save your ideas of perfection for your love of people, your relationship with whatever creator you are into and for things with mathematical certainty. Everything else is flawed, and mortal, and temporary. Your car will *eventually* just be another pile of dust somewhere. Ashes to ashes and all that.

Perfection is unattainable.

Good luck my friend. I hope you feel better, and I hope the lawyers and insurance and rental car crap does not give fuel to your anger. Maybe the universe is speaking to you through this experience. It sounds like this is sort of a straw that broke the camels back type of thing.

Hang tough and I feel certain you will be laughing about all this in no time.

Thanks!

I'm honestly not sure where the panic attack came from regarding my feelings about things. I have kindof "written the car off" and am more into my Class III weapons hobby and getting a house. As long as the car isn't "junk" feeling and looks good, I'm cool. I think the stress of the accident itself, plus dealing with all of this BS, plus everything else I already had going in life, is what did it.

I know in 5 years my car will just be an aging "cool car". It's the headache of everything going on right now plus the wreck plus life in general, I guess. EIther way, this broke the camal's back the other day

Minsu · 01-25-2013, 11:47 PM

turning into an old people and medical problems thread xD

PapoZalsa · 01-26-2013, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by wheee!

My buddy just had $15000 plus worth of repair work done on his Z after a rear ender took him out... The car is like new he says and no problems.
Keep the faith!

About 2 years ago I was involved in an accident, total cost of repairs was $9,000. After the repairs the car runs like new and it has been on the Tail of the Dragon twice.

Nobody believe thay my car was in an accident when I tell them.

Keep the faith!

Rui Z · 01-27-2013, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by PapoZalsa

About 2 years ago I was involved in an accident, total cost of repairs was $9,000. After the repairs the car runs like new and it has been on the Tail of the Dragon twice.

Nobody believe thay my car was in an accident when I tell them.

Keep the faith!

Same here. It was about $8000 worth of damages, ran great, and no one could tell it was in an accident.........except when it came time to sell my car.

CDepp · 01-27-2013, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Minsu

turning into an old people and medical problems thread xD

GET OFF OUR LAWN!

ImportConvert · 01-29-2013, 12:19 PM

Update: Car is now at the correct shop. The shop manager called me to say he was very uncomfortable with what he was told by the adjustor Direct General (the at-fault's company) had sent over. They said I had lost control of my car, and they pushed him to use non-OEM/remanufactured parts, repair things he didn't feel comfortable repairing, ignored the damage to the rims (he insinuated that they implied that they were old damages, but he could tell they were shiny/new).

When I told him what ACTUALLY happened, the shop manager said that yes, that is exactly the story that my car told him.

In short, if you have Direct General, I want to pimp-slap the **** out of you because they are a crap company, and I am glad as hell that I lawyered up, this is going to be a nightmare.

b1adesofcha0s · 01-29-2013, 12:34 PM

Sorry to hear about everything that happened, I hope you get everything resolved with your Z and the insurance company BS.

My Z took some similar damage in an accident last year where I hit a guard rail. Front fender was replaced, rear fender was repaired/repainted, front and rear bumpers were repainted, and 2 wheels were repaired. Luckily for me it was only cosmetic damage, but the total came out to about $3-4k for the repair.

DesertZ · 01-29-2013, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ImportConvert

Update: Car is now at the correct shop. The shop manager called me to say he was very uncomfortable with what he was told by the adjustor Direct General (the at-fault's company) had sent over. They said I had lost control of my car, and they pushed him to use non-OEM/remanufactured parts, repair things he didn't feel comfortable repairing, ignored the damage to the rims (he insinuated that they implied that they were old damages, but he could tell they were shiny/new).

When I told him what ACTUALLY happened, the shop manager said that yes, that is exactly the story that my car told him.

In short, if you have Direct General, I want to pimp-slap the **** out of you because they are a crap company, and I am glad as hell that I lawyered up, this is going to be a nightmare.

What I have done in the past is to have my insurance company fix the car and bill the at fault company. One of the times was my 1991 300ZXTT that a old guy in a ford wagon turned into scrap metal, He had some crap insurance company. So state farm totaled the car. Paid me, and collected from his insurance. Talk with your insurance company and let them know what is going on maybe they will help speed things up.

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Minsu A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: New Jersey Posts: 1,401 Drives: 2013 MidBlue 370Z 6M Rep Power: 23	turning into an old people and medical problems thread xD CDepp likes this.

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b1adesofcha0s A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: MD Posts: 40,963 Drives: HypeTrain Choo Choo! Rep Power: 141	Sorry to hear about everything that happened, I hope you get everything resolved with your Z and the insurance company BS. My Z took some similar damage in an accident last year where I hit a guard rail. Front fender was replaced, rear fender was repaired/repainted, front and rear bumpers were repainted, and 2 wheels were repaired. Luckily for me it was only cosmetic damage, but the total came out to about $3-4k for the repair. __________________ Project: b1adeZmobile (2009 370Z) \| Uprev Tune by AAM Competition \| Berk Exhaust Project: b1adeZmobile 2.0 (2014 C7 Z51) \| Corsa Xtreme Exhaust

01-29-2013, 12:19 PM	#81 (permalink)
ImportConvert A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: SWMO Posts: 4,454 Drives: 2019 CX5 GT Reserve Rep Power: 7626	Update: Car is now at the correct shop. The shop manager called me to say he was very uncomfortable with what he was told by the adjustor Direct General (the at-fault's company) had sent over. They said I had lost control of my car, and they pushed him to use non-OEM/remanufactured parts, repair things he didn't feel comfortable repairing, ignored the damage to the rims (he insinuated that they implied that they were old damages, but he could tell they were shiny/new). When I told him what ACTUALLY happened, the shop manager said that yes, that is exactly the story that my car told him. In short, if you have Direct General, I want to pimp-slap the **** out of you because they are a crap company, and I am glad as hell that I lawyered up, this is going to be a nightmare.