January 15, 2008
Last Friday
Last Friday was not the best day I've ever had. I didn't make it in to work. It wrecked the whole weekend, and we had a lot we needed to get done that weekend.
The insurance company is saying it's repairable. But it's gonna take a good three weeks. Aside from the obvious, it'd get a new AC compressor and pretty much everything belt driven off the engine. But there's just enough value left in the car to be "worth" repairing, from the insurance company's perspective. It's the second accident for that car in two months. We would be better off with something that got better mileage (24/27 isn't bad, but at 33 miles each way to work I'd buy the Prius if I could afford a few more thousand).
Spend $400 on a rental (I don't have rental coverage on my insurance) plus the deductible? Or take the repair cost and sell the car for scrap to buy something cheap?
I think the Prius is going to have to wait a few more years. We've been searching web sites for little Hondas and Toyotas and such for what seems like days now.
Of course, we've only had actual internet access since this afternoon. Searching car websites on dialup is only an improvement from trying to do the same on an iPhone. :-)
Posted by fictionman at January 15, 2008 10:17 PM | TrackBack (0)ouch! You're fine I hope??
What was the first accident in 2 months? :\