[JohnM]

Hello All

the car is back home in my garage. I had to pay to have the car returned to me though.

The insurance company is penny wise and pound foolish! It has paid $1200.00 to collision shop #1.....reimbursing for the hauling of the car from Cleveland to Batavia, Ny, $21.00 a day for storage, $65.00 an hour for the time to estimate the job...but won't pay that rate to repair the car.

They used collision shop #1 estimate and photos by the adjuster of the car and damage to find a shop that will fix the car for a shop rate of $42.00, and they want to cut off the nose (3/4 cowl cut) and splice in a new one.
Monday we start round 2 as I will have my car sent to a local collision shop who I think can handle and is interested in the job.

The local guy wants to involve both insurance companies....mine as well the other guys. He also thinks like many of you have advised here, that it would be best to deal with my company first and let them collect from the other guys.

It seems that between the insurance companies they don't bicker and try to low ball like they do when dealing with the consumer and collision shop

Jusat for everyones interest...the owner of the local collision shop is a boat racer who also does boat insurance work....for boat repairs the insurance companies pay shop rates of $80.00 an hour for fiberglass work, but for Cobras only 42.50 and hour for collision work

I'll keep you all informed

John