Accident and replacing

Hazelandlucy · Sep 16, 2016

I was in accident where someone fell asleep and came over onto my car almost perfectly parallel. It was not a big jolt but I do have a dent and scraping and $1600 worth of damage. Clek says replace, Britax says minor accident ok and it does meet the criteria of minor. Would you still want to replace the Britax or be fine with keeping it?

oakster · Sep 16, 2016

We kept our Britax seats in a similar accident and had no concerns about doing so. Our insurance did offer to replace the one that was occupied during the accident, though, which is state law where we live.

Hazelandlucy · Sep 16, 2016

oakster said:
We kept our Britax seats in a similar accident and had no concerns about doing so. Our insurance did offer to replace the one that was occupied during the accident, though, which is state law where we live.

My state says the same thing, I had no idea until I checked after your post!

LISmama810 · Sep 16, 2016

oakster said:
We kept our Britax seats in a similar accident and had no concerns about doing so. Our insurance did offer to replace the one that was occupied during the accident, though, which is state law where we live.

Hazelandlucy said:
My state says the same thing, I had no idea until I checked after your post!

Are you guys in states other than Illinois or California? Those are the only two states I know that have regulations about replacement, but we keep track of stuff like that, so if other states do, too, please let me know!

oakster · Sep 19, 2016

Yep, we're in California.

Kobain's Mommy · Sep 19, 2016

If insurance will replace, I would do that for my own peace of mind.

oakster · Sep 19, 2016

Yes, if the other insurance is paying anyway, you might as well replace it. We didn't for ours since it was an at-fault accident so we were trying to keep the total lower (and neither we nor Britax thought the seats needed to be replaced). Though ironically we ended up getting the non-occupied seat replaced anyway after the repair shop broke it trying to take it out before we got there to do it at the prearranged time... (Sadly that seat was a year-old Frontier, while the occupied seat was a four-year-old Marathon G3 that I would have loved an excuse to replace!)

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