[osidak]

A friend of mine hit a deer back in February - Car was still drivable (though I questioned if it should of been) - I started calling body shops for her and no one could look at it for at least a month. Finally one of the shops said if it is towed in they look at them right away. I asked if they wanted me to use anyone in particular and they said they didn't care.

They looked at it, totaled the car (2015 Honda Fit) - I was prepared to do battle on the value of the car... started collecting comparables.... The insurance company came back with a price that was more than she paid for the car originally by about $2000

Finding the replacement was fun though. She didn't want a payment so I figured used initially - Used cars are crazy unless you are looking at cars with more than 100K on the odometer all of them were with in a few thousand of new (with as much as 75K on the odometer) so we started looking new

everyone was taking huge markups on top of the sticker. Finally found a dealer that wasn't.... I have never paid sticker on a car before... we did this time and I felt like I accomplished something