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I really appreciate this. I'm gearing up for a long ride, and hearing this really gets me ready for it. Thanks.Not good at all, but I can relate. I would go thru insurance and have it fixed at a reputable shop. Talk with the shop what you want done and see if they can do it.
It MAY take some time, please read on...
On May 25, 2021 my daughter was hit by a texting driver. The woman crossed the center line, hit a vehicle head on then spun out of control ramming 5 other vehicles. All 4 lanes of traffic were closed for hours. My daughter's car was the last one she hit and it was a side impact on her driver's side door (looked like my daughter had been t-boned). Luckily she wasn't injured but she was shaken pretty bad as it was her FIRST day on the job at work (she was driving there).
I already had a body shop in mind and had the tow truck take it there. I called insurance and told them I would rather use them than the woman's who caused the accident (as is my right).
I was afraid they would total the car so I made plans to find another one. I looked all over from St. Louis to Tampa and only found 2 and they were priced higher than what we paid for hers in 2017. She did not want a different car, she wanted hers fixed so we stressed with the body shop that if it could be fixed then we wanted it fixed. Around a week later they assessed the damage and the body shop said they could fix it but that it would take some time to get parts. This is full pandemic mode so parts were stalled everywhere.
The first replacement door that arrived in July did not fit - she has a convertible and they sent a hardtop door. The body shop found another one in Washington state (we are in Florida). Then we had to get an inside door panel from Germany (VW). It arrived broken and they had to order another (they didn't lie, my wife happened to be there checking on the car when the part arrived and was there when they opened it to find the broken door panel). Air bag wire harnesses were on back order with no ETA.
By this time our 30 day rental had long run out and we were paying out of pocket for a rental.
Around Sept 16, 2021 her car was returned to us. That is a LONG wait for repairs - May until Sept!
The good news is insurance fully covered the damages and I had no deductible and my rates did not increase (since the accident wasn't my daughter's fault).
Just found a pic of her door, it looked like this:
So the point of my story is, if you really LIKE your Maverick get it fixed. I can see from the damage it is not near as bad as the damage to my daughter's car and if it were me I would want it fixed.
We are very thankful that it was repaired... My daughter loves this car and she was so happy to get it back (she did not know when she would get it back... That leads to another story on rentals.... Enterprise had no more cars and would not extend my current rental... I went to return the rental and it looked like they were closed - there was one vehicle there and it belonged to the guy who worked there. I returned the vehicle and wondered how I would get home. The body shop called while I was gathering my thoughts at Enterprise. They said it was ready and I told them it was good timing because I was stuck at Enterprise. They picked me up, took me back to the shop, told me to start it up, put the top down and then put it back up, leave it running, get out and make sure everything worked. It did so I called my wife and told her not to tell our daughter I was coming home with the car. When they saw me pull into the driveway they were so excited to get it back).
Daughter is extra cautious even now and never travels on that 4 lane road anymore (always accidents there).
Anyway, sorry to write a novel but that's my thoughts on the issue.
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