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For 700 bucks do not involve insurance and no police report. Just pay out of pocket and make sure your body shop doesn't report to car fax. Otherwise you'll have to deal. With diminished value and that's a whole bigger mess. I reported a claim for a small scratch from a piece of cardboard on the...

Based on the picture since there is not much damage you do not want to involve your insurance as it can lead to higher premium and a police report would cause Carfax and then diminished value. I'd say either open a claim with their insurance if the repair cost is super high but if it is less...

Okay could be a state thing. I'm in California insured with a company called Root.

Interesting. That's not what I was informed. In my case my at fault party was underinsured so they are just saying that the at fault party is personally liable for the remaining amount and I have to take them to court to recover the damages.

From my understanding of DV, ( if I am wrong please do correct me) DV can be claimed only from the at fault party insurance. So if you have uninsured coverage that will take care of repair costs even if the other driver is at fault. But I don't think you can claim DV from that.

Ariana auto body in Newark. They said. I should get the car by the end of this month. I hope they don't delay it any further.

I went with the appraiser suggester by my body shop. Its called st. Lucie appraisal. All they need is the repair estimate and information about any prior repairs on the car and they can prepare an appraisal. You don't need a lawyer just yet. You might need to lawyer up if the insurance company...

got rear-ended by a motorcycle because of some stupid guy who stopped in the front for no reason. Total repair cost including labor was $19k. even though the damage wasn't much, the labor costs raked up. I got a DV appraiser and got an appraisal for $20k diminished value. But unfortunately, the...

Shit, all this while I thought my car has run-flat tires but on some heavy internet searching, I don't see the ZP sign on my tires which indicates run-flat tires for Michelin. 😲

So another point I just thought of - I was planning to replace just the rear axle as my fronts have a lot of life. But I found out that the Michelin PS4S are not run flats whereas the stock tires are. Is that a problem? is anyone running run flat tires on one axle and non run flat on the others?

thanks for the thread. I shall be reading up more on this tire. The equivalent performance of PS4S at almost half the price sounds enticing.

To everyone wo is suggesting Michelin PS4S and Conti Extreme contact sport - How are these compared to oem tires (Michelin PSS) in terms of perrformance and durability? Is it same performance, same/improved durability or less grippy but more durable? Would love to know more details.

Took my car for the second year of service and the dealership did a multi-point inspection and found that the rear tires tread depth is pretty low (3mm) and they say I should be replacing them soon. Any suggestions on which tire to choose? I live in California so I don't have a winter problem...

Where do I buy this coolant? I am not able to get it on Amazon and I cant find it on toyota parts store.

I do a lot of city driving and I hardly get 230-240 on a full tank. And I am in normal mode all the time. What am I doing wrong? I put in 91 and that's the highest I get around here in the bay area.

Damn what happened? Shit. That looks like a costly repair.

No, I was not comfortable with participating in wet conditions. So I requested NASA and they were kind enough to move my registration to an event on May 30 in Sonoma.

Holy shit. It's so dry. Why does it have to rain just on my track day. I don't even know if it's too late to cancel or not.

I bought a 2020 even though the 2021's are out mainly because the differences are imperceivable and the deals are better on a 2020 and it's tunable and the actual dyno results show that its way more powerful than 340hp (maybe not as much as 382 but I saw dynos up to 370hp) and you can get the...

yeah that's what I figured. I guess I have to go the night before and take a hotel or something.