how minor of an accident do you replace seats?

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bbygrl99

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #1

Today we were with family in a rental car and we were swiped by a tractor trailer. He didn't even know he hit our car. No one was hurt and there was minimal damage- just scrapped the side of the car and knocked off the side view mirror. Do I replace her RA now? Is there limits on that? How do I do it? Just tell the insurance co? Thanks for any advice.

 

joolsplus3

Admin - CPS Technician

• Jun 25, 2007

• #2

Britax would say no. If there's no injury, minimal damage, car can still be driven, then it qualifies as a minor enough crash that the seat doesn't need to be replaced (Graco and Evenflo are more strict, but Britax adheres to the NHTSA recommendations...it's gotta be a pretty bad crash to worry about replacing the seat if it's a Britax).
Man, that's gotta be annoying, though

 

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southpawboston

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #3

yeah, if you've got a britax seat and the car only got scraped + broken side mirror, then the seat doesn't meet britax's requirements for replacement. i'd say that's about as minor as it gets, short of a parking lot ding

some mfrs automatically say to replace, but that's less because they think there's damage and more because it eliminates those "what if" situations, and therefore, those "what if" lawsuits. it's just easier for them... CYA. britax takes the high road with their more realistic checklist.

did you get the no-deductible waiver on your rental? good thing it wasn't YOUR car!!!

 

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bbygrl99

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #4

Ya it was all taken care of and the worst part was he was on his cell phone and had NO CLUE he even hit us!!! We were on the phone with 911 and had to follow him until they caught up with him to let him know! What a bummer but they replaced the car right away with a new one which was super nice even though it was only scraped. Thanks for the help! I don't know what I would do without this website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

all together ooky

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #5

My last car scraped along a guard rail (just the paint was scraped all the way down the side of the car). It did end up totalling out the car though (shows how much my car was worth, Ha ha). The lady that ran me off the road had fallen asleep (at 10:30 in the morning!) She had no idea she had ran me off the road either. She did strat crying when she realized there was a kid in the back seat.

I didn't replace my seat. It was a minor accident, no sudden stop. Shoot, I think I put more pressure on the seat when I'm installing it.

 

ThreeBeans

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #6

They replaced your whole car with a brand new car

 

all together ooky

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #7

The paint job would have cost more than the car was worth. So they gave me the amount the car was worth and took the car. Still ran and drove fine.
I could have kept the car and and gotten less from the insurance, but I hated that car and was very ready for a different one (It had 170,000 miles on it and as far as I knew the timing belt had never been changed. The accident turned out to be kind of a good deal for us. Sad, but true.)

 

ThreeBeans

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #8

Holy cow, way cool

 

all together ooky

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #9

Yup, made a nice downpayment for the minvan. :thumbsup:

(I think it helped that the auto body shop I went to to get my quote is awesome. They restore old Corvettes and do all the body work on the cop cars around here.)

The best part was that it was all on the other person's insurance.

 

ThreeBeans

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #10

Wait..you're a different person from the OP. I'm so confused

 

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southpawboston

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #11

all together ooky said:

The accident turned out to be kind of a good deal for us. Sad, but true.

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i had a car once that just didn't stop making money for me... every time someone hit it, insurance kept paying me for the damage (never my fault), but it just wasn't worth it to me to fix it... then one day it got totalled (again, not my fault) and insurance gave me $2600 for a car that was quite literally worth less than $1000.

oh, and to top it off, i had bought the car used, and one day a jewelry box fell out from under the dash... cashed in $1850 worth of antique jewelry. i had paid $1800 for the car two weeks earlier. no joke...

luckiest car i ever owned...

sorry for going O/T!

 

all together ooky

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #12

Oops! Sorry! You post was right after mine so I thought you were responding to me. Doh!

That is really cool that the OP got a new car. Awesome! :thumbsup:

 

Jeanum

Admin - CPS Technician Emeritus

Staff member

• Jun 25, 2007

• #13

The OP was driving a rental car, which was swapped by the rental company for another car after the crash involving the first rental car, I believe.

 

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southpawboston

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #14

and then it went hopelessly O/T...

 

ThreeBeans

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #15

And now I'm lost forever.

But I'm going to go kick my dashboard to see if any antique jewelry falls out. Score.

 

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wildchild

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #16

I was rear-ended at a stoplight, without my daughter in the car. We were using a two year old Evenflo Triumph at the time. Well, it was bought new and we had been using it for two years, I don't think I ever checked the DOM, so I have no idea how old it actually was. Anyway, I told the insurance company and they gave me what I paid for it. I saved it to put towards a new carseat.

 

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LaurensMommy

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• Jun 25, 2007

• #17

ThreeBeans said:

And now I'm lost forever.

But I'm going to go kick my dashboard to see if any antique jewelry falls out. Score.

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LOL, that was very funny.:thumbsup: