AAA
Jay Laifman (Jay_Laifman(at)countrywide.com)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 08:06:30 -0700
The battle with AAA on my car has escalated. If you may recall, I had two
Sunbeam experts tell me it would take $8,000 or more to do the work right.
The AAA adjuster said it would take $3,200! I had my body shop do an
estimate and send it to the AAA. That estimate came out at $7,000. The
AAA adjuster left me a message that the body shop was way off and
unreasonable. I faxed him a letter that his estimate was unreasonable
because it based its times on what his "book" says it will cost to fix a
Karmann Ghia - which has fenders that bolt on and off and has a flat floor
panel, with none of the crossmembers that we have that now need to be
straightened. He responded in a voicemail that he would then total it by
"AAA guidelines", to which I responded that I have an appraiser who says it
is worth over $10,000, and I know of three Alpines that have sold recently
for over $10,000, and I know a number of people who have seen all the cars
and will say my car is/was the best, so that if he is not near those
numbers, we will settle this in court.
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!