Eight weeks and a five-digit figure of dollars later, the Matamoose (moose killer) car has returned. Now that it is back home happy and intact, I will retire its sobriquet which is most unfortunate.
Things we didn't realise: the roof was pushed back so they had to replace it. They replaced the following in addition to that (as I remember since I don't have the three-page report in front of me):
radiator and all parts that hold it in place
power steering reservoir
front right light, fender, rear-view mirror, antenna
front bumper, grille
windshield
interior ceiling material
dashboard
right airbag (even though it didn't deploy)
That's just what comes to me late at night.
They did an absolutely fabulous job on the paint. Look how that car sparkles... and that's without wax.
As a reminder, this is what the body shop received in the beginning of June.
The guy who runs the body shop told us this story about some woman who was driving in a small Neon (remember those?) when a moose crashed into her car. She had a bicycle rack on the roof of the car and the male moose had a rack on his head and the two got entangled. The car flung the moose off to the side of the road and as he bounced off, he tore the bicycle rack off the roof of the car. The driver then witnessed this frantic or furious moose trying to shake the bicycle rack off his rack. She didn't hang around to see if the moose was going to free himself from this trap; she drove off to get a friend and the two of them came back to find the moose gone and the bicycle rack in a heap. They surmised the moose must have had an awfully sore head. Somehow the image of a moose hung up in a bicycle rack right now strikes me funny (I am tired, I know) and there has got to be an analogy in there somewhere of how I feel about the relationship between The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.
3 comments:
Whew. Did you have Moose Insurance?
The car does look great.
It's still costing about $2000 out of pocket when the deduction and rental car are factored in. Another $1000 and they would have totalled it but unfortunately for the insurance company, since the body shop had already ordered about $1500 in parts that couldn't be returned, they had to go ahead. The adjustor goofed on the estimate which is another reason why they went ahead and spent more than $10K on repairing rather than totalling the car.
We are awaiting the return of our Matadeer. Almost identical repairs except that our windshield was OK. Felt really guilty about the pieces of about-to-be-dead deer embedded in the car. We won't get ours back for another three or four weeks -- they found out we had a spare car (actually a truck we use to haul water which guzzles gas when used as primary vehicle) and so decided we were not candidates for a rapid fix. I so wanted a "total" verdict so we could get on a waiting list for a Prius or Civic. Ah well. The joys of living with wildlife. --
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