Hey all,
TL;DR Car got hit while parked at my friend's street, no notes left, sentry mode didn't caught license plate, but found matching car with matching vehicle descriptions with identical damage and transfer paint, police were involved and got them to transfer information, have to wait next week for rental/other things from Tesla insurance since their claims department don't work weekends. Questions to ask below of post.
After about 20 months of ownership of my Model 3, my car unfortunately got involved in a hit and run (kind of) accident. The Prius took the left turn too fast to the street I parked my car at my friend's house, and hit on my driver's side rear quarter panel. I was on the back yard of my friend's house at first, heard a loud bang, then realized my car got hit.
I checked my sentry footages, it did caught the car hitting me, but unfortunately no license plate numbers were shown since it was very late at night. It was a silver Prius that hit me.
Here's the sentry mode video: 2021-10-02_22-27-33-left_repeater.mp4
Here's some pictures of damages of my car:
The driver didn't leave any notes, or bothered to stop, it was a good thing that my friend did some more investigation by walking along further in the street to see a matching description of the car that's parked on the street, had identical damage to his passenger front corner bumper area, and also had red transfer paint on his car (I have a red Model 3), so I got pretty lucky to find the car that hit it in the first place.
Police were called and knocked on their door, the owner of the Prius obviously was playing dumb (not too surprising there) when the Police was asking them, but they did eventually gave me their information regardless. So I do very appreciate the police for actually checking out the car that had the exact description.
Filed a claim with Tesla Insurance afterwards, gave all the information, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a rental since that's the job on the claims department and the adjustors, which they don't work on the weekends, which I was a bit disappointed at best. The car was still drivable so the car is in my garage for the time being.
Car questions:
1. Since it got hit on the rear quarter panel side where the charging port is located, is it still safe to charge the car at level 2 speeds?
2. Anyone in the SGV area in California, what are some of the good Tesla certified body shops? I am seeing some other ones in the list other than Tesla ones, are they just as good? My main concern is more on speed and quality, since I don't exactly want to deal with the rental situation past the 30 days point.
Insurance questions:
1. Most rental policies for auto insurances are likely 30 days, and repairs will likely go over that, how should I go forward about car rental past the 30 day point?
2. I am looking at potentially $15k-20k of damage based on what I have been reading from other forum posts, is that about right? Is it fair to say that it's not yet totaled in the state of California?
3. Based on my description of the story, do you think it's likely that the other party's insurance will be responsible without concrete evidence of lack of license plate on video, but had police intervention from the other driver?
TL;DR Car got hit while parked at my friend's street, no notes left, sentry mode didn't caught license plate, but found matching car with matching vehicle descriptions with identical damage and transfer paint, police were involved and got them to transfer information, have to wait next week for rental/other things from Tesla insurance since their claims department don't work weekends. Questions to ask below of post.
After about 20 months of ownership of my Model 3, my car unfortunately got involved in a hit and run (kind of) accident. The Prius took the left turn too fast to the street I parked my car at my friend's house, and hit on my driver's side rear quarter panel. I was on the back yard of my friend's house at first, heard a loud bang, then realized my car got hit.
I checked my sentry footages, it did caught the car hitting me, but unfortunately no license plate numbers were shown since it was very late at night. It was a silver Prius that hit me.
Here's the sentry mode video: 2021-10-02_22-27-33-left_repeater.mp4
Here's some pictures of damages of my car:
The driver didn't leave any notes, or bothered to stop, it was a good thing that my friend did some more investigation by walking along further in the street to see a matching description of the car that's parked on the street, had identical damage to his passenger front corner bumper area, and also had red transfer paint on his car (I have a red Model 3), so I got pretty lucky to find the car that hit it in the first place.
Police were called and knocked on their door, the owner of the Prius obviously was playing dumb (not too surprising there) when the Police was asking them, but they did eventually gave me their information regardless. So I do very appreciate the police for actually checking out the car that had the exact description.
Filed a claim with Tesla Insurance afterwards, gave all the information, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get a rental since that's the job on the claims department and the adjustors, which they don't work on the weekends, which I was a bit disappointed at best. The car was still drivable so the car is in my garage for the time being.
Car questions:
1. Since it got hit on the rear quarter panel side where the charging port is located, is it still safe to charge the car at level 2 speeds?
2. Anyone in the SGV area in California, what are some of the good Tesla certified body shops? I am seeing some other ones in the list other than Tesla ones, are they just as good? My main concern is more on speed and quality, since I don't exactly want to deal with the rental situation past the 30 days point.
Insurance questions:
1. Most rental policies for auto insurances are likely 30 days, and repairs will likely go over that, how should I go forward about car rental past the 30 day point?
2. I am looking at potentially $15k-20k of damage based on what I have been reading from other forum posts, is that about right? Is it fair to say that it's not yet totaled in the state of California?
3. Based on my description of the story, do you think it's likely that the other party's insurance will be responsible without concrete evidence of lack of license plate on video, but had police intervention from the other driver?
