Jay Laifman wrote:
> 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!