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"i dont know if any of you have worked on a mercedes or BMW before, but they are very different to work on, very tricky. i spent over 1.5 hours changing my fog light bulbs because of their position, and the way they are held in the light casing. the whole car is like this."

Good ol German Engineering, I have to put up with it every day.

ah, that'll buff right out.
Glad nobody was hurt tho!!

quote was 3700, but i'm pushing it a little. the guy that is going to fix it all knows how to get the insurance companies to pay. i'm not scamming them, just getting full price for all the damage. most only want to pay to fix it, i'm getting it fixed and reimburrsed for the damage. i think i'll get it all, the way its looking now.

Well im glad to hear that you are fixing the car. I'd hate to see a car like that go to crap with such a small amount of damage.

TEDD

ended up sending it to BMW, just to make sure everything was done right. glad i did that too. it came out looking awesome. the only flaw, and something i expected, was that the healight and foglight were replaced on that side and its clear that they were replaced. the others are really faded, so i might change them later this summer. as soon as i buff it out and wash it, i'll put some pics up.

i had them repaint my rear passenger door and the roof, because it got keyed a few moths ago, and i figured i might as well have them fix that too. so the paint job they did was spectacular. you cannot even tell it was repainted, i mean it looks brand spankin new, close too anyway....for a 10 year old car with 120k miles.

total bill was over 3k. i need your help in determining the cars loss in value, anyone know how to do this? i am claiming money from my insurance company, because i have never dealed with such assholes before in my life. man to i have some stories. but basically i want to claim every dollar i lost in this accident, and i dont know how to determine that. i figured i throw out a high number, like the total of the damages, and see where they go from there. but i want to know a ball park range in how they detremine it.

I think you can only claim for the amount of repairs that were done as a direct cause of the accident.

My friend was just in a fender-bender and he basically had a dealer estimated the repairs and that is how much is will be claiming to insurance.

Of course, the best way is to just call your insurance agent and put him/her to good use! SInce you're not paying for it, you may as well get as much out of it as you can. But I don't think you can claim for the pain job to fix the key scratches...

obviously that....but i mean the difference in resale value that i cant seel it for now that it has been damaged.