I had to get it looked at, because it could have (in theory) turned out to just be out of alignment instead of having tie rods munged and whatnot. But I did not expect to be that lucky, and I wasn't. Yeah, it sucks. :-(
My insurance will be suing the (uninsured) driver if, as expected, the insurance company for the car he drove denies the claim on the grounds that he didn't have permission to be driving it. (But so far, they've not given a straight answer to me, to my insurance company, to my neighbours whose cars were also damaged, nor anybody else's insurance.)
If everything goes down as expected, my only hope of getting my deductible back is if the driver wins the lottery. (It doesn't look like he'll have anything for us to take otherwise.) The owner's insurance company wants an even bigger bite out of him than anyone else involved, since he totaled their policyholder's 2005 Malibu in the process of totaling my 1990 Accord and my neighbour's 2003 Miata and doing smaller damage to a Passat and a Cirrus.
Actually, I'm not entirely certain whether the numbers I was quoted this morning were before or after applying my deductible. I hope those were the "what will be on the check" figures.
That's a pretty decent price for an armor kit, installed. Which is the only way I can think of to make a Honda "safe". But then again, maybe you don't drive the way I do.
Er ... fast but otherwise kinda conservative-ish 90% of the time, plenty of following distance, not as many lane changes in traffic as when I was 19. Thing is, the Honda was responsive and felt sure-footed -- doing a*mumble*and*mumble* MPH through the hilly parts of the PA Turnpike, the only things I worried about were the placement of other cars and the potential of radar, not how the Honda handled. If I had wiped out or hit something at that speed, well I'm not sure I'd count on any car to save my ass unless it were built for F1, NASCAR, or IRL.
(I also don't recall the Honda having the annoying 0,4 second lag between what I do to the gas pedal and when the engine changes speed (or the additional tenth of a second or so before the transmission catches up to the engine), that I've noticed in the rented Dodge Caliber that I swapped the Ford Fusion for.)
So in this context, "safe" means "able to handle responsively at highway speeds and not go sliding away from the first serious exit ramp or spontaneously fling one of its wheels off."
So sorry to hear it. FWIW, I have a current Consumer Reports online subscription & could look up their evaluations of specific models you may be interested in. Just let me know.
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If everything goes down as expected, my only hope of getting my deductible back is if the driver wins the lottery. (It doesn't look like he'll have anything for us to take otherwise.) The owner's insurance company wants an even bigger bite out of him than anyone else involved, since he totaled their policyholder's 2005 Malibu in the process of totaling my 1990 Accord and my neighbour's 2003 Miata and doing smaller damage to a Passat and a Cirrus.
Actually, I'm not entirely certain whether the numbers I was quoted this morning were before or after applying my deductible. I hope those were the "what will be on the check" figures.
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to make a Honda "safe". But then again, maybe you don't drive the way I do.
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(I also don't recall the Honda having the annoying 0,4 second lag between what I do to the gas pedal and when the engine changes speed (or the additional tenth of a second or so before the transmission catches up to the engine), that I've noticed in the rented Dodge Caliber that I swapped the Ford Fusion for.)
So in this context, "safe" means "able to handle responsively at highway speeds and not go sliding away from the first serious exit ramp or spontaneously fling one of its wheels off."
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