Usually ten years plus airbag deployment means they total it out.
And since insurance companies have agreements with body shops, typically costs are higher than if you were to get repairs done yourself. It just depends on the insurance company, too. Mine once reimbursed me for sourcing the parts myself and doing the repairs/using a shop I preferred. But that was also on a car that was (at the time) 5 years old. I had to have both front and rear body clips replaced, hatch, radiator, hood, etc. 99 Eclipse GTS.
And the whole “Cash for Clunkers” legislation in the US a few years ago really screwed the ability to source parts for older cars. When a car was traded in under that program, it had to be scrapped and couldn’t be parted to a salvage yard. Engine blocks even had chemicals added that seized and fused the components.
Three years ago, my wife rear ended another vehicle in our 00 Camry which was both leaking and burning oil and needed a catalytic converter. Nobody was injured. The airbags didn’t deploy, but the insurance company totaled it, and then gave me twice as much as I had paid for it three years prior.
A week before the accident, the same person who I had purchased a vehicle from in a prior private sale offered me his MDX. I called him up, did the deal, and we were suddenly driving the nicest vehicle we’ve ever owned (and needed as we just had our second kid), all without missing a beat. It was the most fortuitous vehicle situation I’ve ever experienced.
In that regard, it supplanted finding a 64 Impala when I was 15 years old. It was originally from CA, and needed a lot of work, but the body was immaculate. That was my first car. It was just like Snoop’s except it didn’t have the drop top.
@NotTelevision - Ha, it was Lil Troy, but you’re excused since we haven’t really heard back from him since that banger. I saw your Midsommar post. It’s at the top of my Netflix queue, but it’s a long wait. I’m a touch nervous due to the length. Two hours is usually my cutoff, as a film starts to lose me at that point no matter how interesting it is. My wife and I take lots of breaks during a movie, and it’ll probably take us 3.5 hours to get through it. I’m giving it a shot because Hereditary exists, but I’m a bit nervous. I can do the slow burn as long as it eventually burns down. Will I be rewarded?
@ThanosReXXX - You’re 8/16 bit analogy to books was really interesting. It’s a reason why I initially feel empty watching a movie adaptation of a book I’ve read. I usually have such a strong image in my head of the characters and scenery that I struggle to accept the filmmaker’s versions of characters and places. As Hollywood continues to struggle to make interesting movies in general, I remain baffled that they haven’t looked into Tom Robbins works for adaptation. Still Life With Woodpecker would make an amazing film in my opinion.
@NotTelevision - Perfect, enjoyed both. My two hour line is in regard to horror movies only, but breaching that isn’t a deal breaker for me; I just have to be sure there’s going to be a payoff. Otherwise I’d just rather watch a Friday the 13th movie and enjoy some mindless carnage.
@bimmy-lee Yeah well there is always a cozy 80s slasher flick. I need to get on watching some I haven’t seen yet, since it’s that time of year.
@Joe-b Radio silence on that one. It was probably going to be a WiiU game, designed around the game pad but they had to make changes after the system’s demise.
Fun Fact: recently, I was able to get my hands on a 1943 penny for the first time ever! The story is that because of WWII, they needed copper at that time for the war effort, so for that year only, they made the pennies out of a zinc-coated steel!
Be yourself, no matter who you are!
For me, that's being madly in love with fictional characters. Plz don't judge.
Yes, my first anime was High School DxD. Don't ask or judge!
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Gaaah...!!!
I have fallen asleep again when i wanted to start my drawing project on my PC. 😣
But fortunately, i have drawn on Library's PC during my working time at school.
I will continue again tomorrow.
Might be i have felt so tired today.
How silly, i fallen asleep again......
@StableInvadeel That curry looked damn tasty. I can imagine that eating it wasn't too bad of an experience either...
Would have gone for the regular, pork version, though. I do eat vegetarian from time to time, but in this case, it would have to be the meat version for me.
@RedderRugfish Oh, definitely agreed. After having modded my Wii twice before quite a few years ago, once with the Twilight hack and once a more risky one that also involved the "Trucha bug Restorer", I ultimately decided to re-do it for one final time, to get the latest of the latest, so I opted for the "softmod any Wii v9" tutorial from GBATemp, which by default includes installing Priiloader.
However, I'd rather just install the right Wiiware and VC games right away, instead of installing incompatible ones, and having to use this admittedly quite handy anti-brick app to repair my Wii again.
@bimmy-lee Thanks. That's the way I often feel about it, anyway. I don't see the older, pixel-based games as real, and of course they never could have been, but I do often catch myself thinking about these games in a real-life setting, so I guess I sometimes view these 8 and 16 bit outings as avatars of the "real" characters and worlds. In some ways I'm glad video gaming is now coming to a point where they're catching up to my imagination, but in other ways, it's a definite loss, because their imagination is also quite often not exactly how I envisioned certain things, so that's still a very strong pro for older games and being able to use your own imagination to fill in the blanks.
@Link-Hero I always use PostImage. Completely free and super-user friendly. Never had a single problem with it. Here you go: https://postimages.org/
When your picture is uploaded, you'll get a list of links. Use the one that says "Direct Link" to post pictures here.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
So, I'd message Ant, but he won't get it again because of the same reasons as last time, but, @stableinvadeel if you're chatting with Ant at any point, may want to mention notifications are broken again.....
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