Since I started this thread let me clarify some points. To Farmers Insurance's credit, if the vehicle was a Range Rover instead of a 20 year old Westy, to make a proper repair would require replacing the entire panel justifying their $1750 estimate. I would have been happy with the $856 pound-it-out repair settlement and even showed the adjuster their bid when he was giving me the $1750 borderline total out spiel. He was non-plussed and simply handed it back to me as if to say "If Farmers' computer collision repair estimate says you get $1750 then that's what you get and not a penny more." I know in the Great Universal Scheme of Insurance Things that if one poor sucker seems to make out on one claim a hundred others will pay the difference and then some. I've taken the moral highroad more than once and unless you're careful the thin air up there will fill you with a false sense of righteous indignation and pride and cost you $$, military promotions, career advancement, mariages, friends, ...all in the name of Truth,Justice, and The American Way. Now take the IRS (a Delaware Corporation),or HMOs...but it's not Friday. Ken Hunter 82 Westy 1.9D 84 Jetta 1.5D |
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