Wecked at home...

[SaerinRhoe]

It would seem that Home Sweet Home doesn't equate to Home Safe Home. Our neighbor across the street backed into my Yaris a few minutes ago with her '01 Chevy CrewCab long bed pick up. :cry:

It hurts to see my car wrecked but I can honestly say that I'm glad it happened like this rather than being hit on the highway or on the way to work or something. This could've been a full speed broadside that could've landed me in the hospital or worse.

The damage appears to be limited to just the door and the glass. Obviously the internal parts of the door will be broken as well and I know the glass is shattered all the way down.

Insurance has already set up a rental for me but I won't get that until Monday when I have the car towed down to the repair shop.

I thank the Lord for keeping me safe!

Truck - 1
Yaris - Broken

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[auxmike]

that's just awful. And it's an 09 to boot!

[lilredrocket]

It also happened to a great guy too! If it was me I would have made sure the truck got a beating too!:evil::evil:

[SaerinRhoe]

I brought it home from the dealer at the beginning of March so she's not quite 3 months old yet. The lady that was driving the truck is a very good person. Her and her family are wonderful people and it was an accident. Besides, the top of my car isn't even as high as the side of the truck bed.

I just looked at the Enterprise.com website and it shows that they have "Nissan Versa, Toyota Yaris or similar" so maybe I can get a Yaris as a replacement. That would be cool if I can. Even if I have to go to a different Enterprise location to get it.

Hm... we'll have to see come Monday. Too bad I'll have to take off part of the morning to get this all worked out.

S.R.

[BailOut]

I thank the Lord for keeping me safe!
I'm curious... If you credit "the Lord" with keeping you safe then who do you credit with allowing/causing your car to get hit?

[auxmike]

I'm curious... If you credit "the Lord" with keeping you safe then who do you credit with allowing/causing your car to get hit?


The Lord does allow things to happen.
We all have free will, right?:iono:
He WILL allow a train to run you over if you decide to see what happens if you stand there.
Do not test the Lord thy God, as it's said...
Just my .02, and yeah, I'm a believer and not ashamed to state so.:thumbup:
...but I don't have a little fish emblem on the back of my car, LOL!

[MPC Motorsports]

That sucks!

But I'm guessing your Yaris was parked in the street. I avoid parking any of my vehicles in the street for that obvious reason. Minimize your risk when you can.

[SaerinRhoe]

I don't know if I can adequately respond to that because I've never been very good at discussing or debating topics like this. I admit that I'm not as studied in matters of faith and belief that I probably should be.

There's a lot of ways that this could've been much worse, a lot of 'what if' situations. I believe that the Lord cares more about the health and welfare of me and my son than he does about whatever car I happen to be driving. I don't believe that the Lord sits on his throne, examines a 'to do' list and decides that my car needs to get plowed by a 3 ton truck nor do I think that he plays some heavenly game of darts and my car came up randomly. :)

This happened at 4pm and I was due drive my son to see his sister's ballet recital an hour north of town. There's a lot of open country and I could've wrecked the car somewhere out in the boonies. We could've been on the highway and been hit or we could've made the trip up and back without a problem. There's just too many variables.

I hope I got my thoughts across clearly. :)

S.R.

[SaerinRhoe]

Please, let's not turn this into a flame session or let ourselves start bickering. :)

S.R.

[SaerinRhoe]

That sucks!

But I'm guessing your Yaris was parked in the street. I avoid parking any of my vehicles in the street for that obvious reason. Minimize your risk when you can.

My car had been in the driveway behind my mom's van but she had to go to the store and...

S.R.

[The little red pill]

That's pretty scary that the truck did all that damage going a slow speed (ie. backing out), makes me wonder what our cars would look like after a full speed collision with the same type of truck. ouch. :frown:

[SailDesign]

That's pretty scary that the truck did all that damage going a slow speed (ie. backing out), makes me wonder what our cars would look like after a full speed collision with the same type of truck. ouch. :frown:

Here's my little red 07 that got hit by a Toyota Sienna (minivan) at 35-40 mph or so. Not too shabby, although most of it was taken low down near the "frame", not in the middle of the door. Walked away (stiff side for 2 days.)

[auxmike]

What happened after, you bought another?
Like those rims, did you put them on the other car??

[SilverBack]

Damn that sucks. On the plus side at least you weren't in it when it happened

[808_Yaris]

damn...the beauty of yaris crash test ratings :)

[nemelek]

10 years ago my wife backed her Rav-4 into her daughters Tacoma. Nobody usually parks in the driveway. There was nothing I could say (what if kids had been playing in the driveway) that would make her feel worse. I am sure that you neighbor feel bad. People with big trucks that can't see over the tail gates will pay the price for damage. While collecting rocks in the mountains for a garden I backed into a 3 foot tree stump that I couldn't see in the rear view mirror. It cost me $300.

[Forrest]

I just looked at the Enterprise.com website and it shows that they have "Nissan Versa, Toyota Yaris or similar" so maybe I can get a Yaris as a replacement. That would be cool if I can. Even if I have to go to a different Enterprise location to get it.

S.R.

I have used Enterprise in the past and usually they come to you with the rental, where you are leaving your car for repair. Makes it easier for you.

[YarisFan007]

[COLOR="Blue"]It would seem that Home Sweet

I thank the Lord for keeping me safe!



+1

Sorry to hear about your Yaris... Glad to see you're still here : )

-->Matthew 6:19-21<--

[MadMax]

I worry about the same happening to Sprocket, I will roll it out of the driveway and into the street in front of our house when I need to get my Jeep out of the garage. The folks across the street drive a huge pickup and I fear they'll not be looking for my car when they back out of their garage. I think if this happened to my Yaris, I would be sick to my stomach!

Oh, and I had a Yaris rental in Tampa when I was down there for work. It was a sedan and before I got my car, I picked it up at the airport and was able to take any car in the subcompact lot. There was only the one Yaris in the back corner (they must be pretty popular) so I snagged it. That was my "test drive" and I really liked the car a lot. A month or so later, I had one myself (but a LB)...

[SaerinRhoe]

There's an Enterprise office at this body shop so I'll be going there.

S.R.

[Kaotic Lazagna]

Glad no one was hurt, and that insurance is taking care of everything.

[SaerinRhoe]

So, I called the lady's insurance company at 7:30am this morning (Monday) to arrange for a tow truck to come get my car and take it to the body shop. They tell me it'll be about an hour for one to get there. An hour and a half passes and nobody shows up or calls. I call the tow truck driver with the number provided by the insurance company and he tells me that he had a flat tire and had to wait for someone to come and change it.

The tow truck finally shows up at my house at 10:15 and the guy loading it didn't seem too concerned with only strapping the car down on one side. I asked him about it and he was all "sure, sure, will be fine, just follow, will be fine" and I'm thinking bad things will happen. As he's driving and I'm following behind him, I notice that the chain holding the front of the car keeps going slack every time he goes over a bump. I start thinking more bad things about what he's doing to my suspension.

We get to the body shop, he unloads the car, I go in and get all the paperwork started and go over to the Enterprise location. Now remember, this was called in on Saturday afternoon. I also called the rental agency this morning (Monday) to make sure they'd have a car for me. Well, they have no car for me. They might be able to find one by about 12:30 or so but I'm out of luck until then.

Then my luck changes and a guy comes in to return a rental and pick up his personal car. It turns out that this is the exact 'class' of car that I need for what the insurance will pay for so I'm rolling a Mazda 3 while my car is in the shop.

I want my Yaris.

S.R.

[SaerinRhoe]

I talked to the guy at the body shop and he said the damage is all the way into the intrusion beams (no real surprise there) so they have to replace the entire door. All parts are coming from Toyota and I'm pleased about that. He said the door should arrive today and the glass might take until Friday to arrive so hopefully that means I'll have her back sometime next week.

S.R.

[SaerinRhoe]

YAY! I got my Yaris back today.

Everything is fixed except for 1 piece of interior trim that they somehow managed to mess up when they installed it. It looks like something sharp was pressing against the bottom of the trim piece and discolored it with stress marks.

They're ordering a new trim piece from Toyota so it should be here in a couple of days.

At this point, the repair and labor charged to the lady's insurance company is $2,068 and some change but it looks good, sounds good when opening and closing the door and it feels so darn good to have my :wub: Yaris :wub: back!

Wow, ok, sorry for that folks. I just got a little excited there. :biggrin:

I'll post pics as soon as I get back to the house tonight.

Y'all be safe now, ya hear?

S.R.

P.s. Gas mileage in the Mazda 3 averaged 27mpg for the tank (14.5g) and a half that I had it. :cry:

[Tamago]

I'm curious... If you credit "the Lord" with keeping you safe then who do you credit with allowing/causing your car to get hit?

would you rather he credit Obama? or Satan? :rolleyes:

[manborn]

that's why i started parking in the driveway instead of the street