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Dog-faced pony soldier
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: A Rock Surrounded by a Whole lot of Water
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That's what I was hoping for, but it sounds like nobody on here knows for certain.
I think a phone call to the State Insurance Commissioner's office might be in order on this. It's not the dollar amount, it's the sleazy undertone of this whole thing. My understanding of insurance is that it's supposed to return your property as closely as possible to the state it was before an accident or incident. What they're proposing here would CLEARLY devalue the car. Think about it, if you were looking to buy it and noticed that 4 out of the 5 pieces of glass on the vehicle were Sigla O.E. and the last was some knock-off, wouldn't you expect money off the price? I sure as hell would. The fact that virtually all of this claim is getting paid out of my deductible makes it even more offensive that they'd try and pull this kind of nonsense.
FWIW I called a couple of glass shops independently. Quoted $520 for an aftermarket replacement, don't know about O.E. yet - waiting to hear back.
This is B.S. All the more reason I'll never buy a vehicle that's ever had an accident history. Between the scheisters in the auto body industry and the scheisters in the insurance industry trying to cut corners and push out substandard work for premium prices, you'd be lucky to not have the thing spontaneously explode on you or come apart on the freeway.
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