Car Update
Dec. 23rd, 2008 09:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiI made a ton of calls this morning. The car will be picked up by the salvage truck today and I can get my plate from the shop that initially towed it. The insurance company has my payoff balance from Rockland Trust and once they get the authorization form from me (it should come this morning from UPS) they'll pay the loan off.
Regarding the value of the car, they couldn't get an odometer reading because its such a wreck, so they'll have a copy of my oil change receipt from 2 weeks ago to estimate (I had included it with the loan payoff authorization form, so they'll have it today). I told them about the remote starter and Alpine system I had installed, and she said if I fax over the receipt from that work to them they'll figure that into the value of the car. She did say that the body condition was noted as "better than average", so the assessor did take into condition the recent work I had done. Come on big money!
Given the holiday she suggested that a check is sent regular postal mail rather than UPS (since they are closed for the rest of the week after today) which would get me a check as soon as Friday or Saturday. Assuming I get my plate today, this could put me into a new car tomorrow or Friday. I'm going to call the car dealer shortly to figure out what to do there next.
If you ever have to deal with this kind of thing I can suggest keeping everything (I mean everything) in a folder and keeping your phone and a pen nearby. Keep receipts of all of the work you have done to your cars because they can come in useful later. Write down who you talk to when, phone numbers, faxes and that kind of thing and keep it all in the folder.
What an exhausting process, but its hopefully almost over.
Regarding the value of the car, they couldn't get an odometer reading because its such a wreck, so they'll have a copy of my oil change receipt from 2 weeks ago to estimate (I had included it with the loan payoff authorization form, so they'll have it today). I told them about the remote starter and Alpine system I had installed, and she said if I fax over the receipt from that work to them they'll figure that into the value of the car. She did say that the body condition was noted as "better than average", so the assessor did take into condition the recent work I had done. Come on big money!
Given the holiday she suggested that a check is sent regular postal mail rather than UPS (since they are closed for the rest of the week after today) which would get me a check as soon as Friday or Saturday. Assuming I get my plate today, this could put me into a new car tomorrow or Friday. I'm going to call the car dealer shortly to figure out what to do there next.
If you ever have to deal with this kind of thing I can suggest keeping everything (I mean everything) in a folder and keeping your phone and a pen nearby. Keep receipts of all of the work you have done to your cars because they can come in useful later. Write down who you talk to when, phone numbers, faxes and that kind of thing and keep it all in the folder.
What an exhausting process, but its hopefully almost over.
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Date: 2008-12-23 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-24 02:58 pm (UTC)Hope you get a new car soon!