Major accident for me tonight (5/26) (New P85 arrives 7/8)

[SouthJerseyJon]

Atleast you are okay...I would get the 85 and don't look back...sometimes things happen for a reason. The sooner you get the new one, the sooner the love affair will start over again.

 

[William13]

Almost all cars incur further damage when towed. My daughter put a car in the ditch and it didn't look bad until towing caused it to buckle in the middle making it a total loss.

 

[GasDoc]

Atleast you are okay...I would get the 85 and don't look back...sometimes things happen for a reason. The sooner you get the new one, the sooner the love affair will start over again.

But the only thing in inventory is 85P. So $15k more...

 

[MikeK]

I certainly hope that your insurance company is going after the towing company. They should have to pay for being irresponsible in how they handled your car.

 

[rlang59]

Any ideas how much you are going to get from the insurance company? How much are they going to hit you on deprecation?

 

[GasDoc]

Any ideas how much you are going to get from the insurance company? How much are they going to hit you on deprecation?

I'm waiting to hear. They are supposed to pay for the cost of a replacement car in identical condition including tax and prorated registration fees. If they lowball me I'm going to fall back on Tesla's equation for selling their loaners $1/mile. I'll be out of pocket $5k and I'll try to recoup that from the other party. My insurance company is going to be doing the settlement numbers so they won't try to skimp on me given that the other party is at fault.

 

[bhuwan]

Hopefully we finally get to see the video too.

 

[GasDoc]

Hopefully we finally get to see the video too.

Soon...

 

[rlang59]

I'm waiting to hear. They are supposed to pay for the cost of a replacement car in identical condition including tax and prorated registration fees. If they lowball me I'm going to fall back on Tesla's equation for selling their loaners $1/mile. I'll be out of pocket $5k and I'll go after the parents of the kid for that. My insurance company is going to be doing the settlement numbers so they won't try to skimp on me given that the other party is at fault.

Good luck, hopefully everything is resolved soon.

 

[hvb]

I'm waiting to hear. They are supposed to pay for the cost of a replacement car in identical condition including tax and prorated registration fees. If they lowball me I'm going to fall back on Tesla's equation for selling their loaners $1/mile. I'll be out of pocket $5k and I'll go after the parents of the kid for that. My insurance company is going to be doing the settlement numbers so they won't try to skimp on me given that the other party is at fault.

So the perp was some snot-nosed kid?

 

[dsm363]

You deserve a P85+ after all of this. Hope it gets resolved soon.

 

[GasDoc]

You deserve a P85+ after all of this. Hope it gets resolved soon.

I'm trying to decide on whether I should keep the salvaged wreck in this thread. Apparently, I have first dibs to buy the old car from the insurance company after my settlement.

Maybe my car's parting gift to me will be enough upside to pay for an upgrade.

 

[GasDoc]

Picking up my replacement Model S on monday 7/8

Short story: my car was in an accident on 5/25 and declared totaled this week. The story of my accident is here.

I'm picking up a P85 replacement on monday! Same color and options but a P85 instead of a 60.

Man, that P+ was tempting!

BTW, I have a replacement custom license plate already in hand, I was squatting; now that the "60 KWH" no longer applies.

 

[GasDoc]

Picking up a P85 on Monday!

Couldn't bring myself to pull the trigger on the P+

 

[dsm363]

Congrats. All in all not a bad turn around time for getting the new car and got a P85 as well. Very nice.

 

[GasDoc]

Congrats. All in all not a bad turn around time for getting the new car and got a P85 as well. Very nice.

We shall see. The insurance settlement isn't done yet. I may be out of pocket a few $$

 

[YoungStranger]

Congratulations! Wishing you many years of accident free driving in your new new car!

 

[phat78boy]

The joy from a new P85 should soften that blow quite a bit though. Congrats.

 

[brianman]

I don't think it was Tesla's service. The driver ignored me when I told him he had to put the car on "skates". He said that because my airbags deployed, it meant my car was totaled and implied that it didn't matter what he did from that point on.

I'm pretty sure the bean counters will disagree strongly on this one. I would relay this anecdote to them.

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Happy to hear your new wheels are ready soon. This is one occasion where I wouldn't mind them selling one of the SC loaners, even if it was from the SC near me.

 

[spaghetti]

Picking up a P85 on Monday!

Congrats! Am glad you will be back again behind the wheel of a MS and hopefully put this whole incident behind you.