In the middle of an otherwise lovely Saturday morning, as we were loading into the car and truck to take Nande to the vet for her next round of shots, P backed into our neighbor's car. Her car had been parked in our portion of the driveway and was up against the fence and kind of hidden from view. P tagged it with her driver's side bumper just at the end of the BMW's driver side door.
It didn't look like much at all but, in the time it took us to go the vet's and for me to come home, she'd taken it in for an estimate. Bear in mind that this is a very small zone of damage we're talking about, maybe five inches by five inches on the very, very extreme outside. Its small. Small enough so that you'd be unlikely to notice it at first. What was the damage repair estimated at? Can you say $800? For a very small little area. And it could have been worse, by far, if P had hit her on the door seam then it would have been far, far worse with damage on multiple panels.
P did make a good point that they really shouldn't be parking in our driveway and there's no way she would have hit them if they hadn't been there to begin with. And she couldn't see the car at all in her mirrors as she backed up, couldn't even see it after she'd hit it even, because of how the driveway works.
So, it's going to suck a good chunk of money out of us but will hopefully not happen again and we'll likely end up with them not using our driveway to stash their cars in. Still sucks though.
But we're going to get a couple more estimates because $800 for the damage done seems just waaaay excessive.
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