So my dad had a 2dr 1990 Chevy Cavalier in that crappy medium blue metallic when I was still in college. A buddy of mine had a 1991 2dr Cavalier in that ever-so-slightly different shade of blue green. My car was dead again (POS pontiac phoenix) so I'd borrowed my dad's car to go hang out with my friends. Well, I left…

You don't want it. Just outside the shot on the left corner was a nasty hammer blow. It might've been repairable, but, eh.

There were a few other messages left belittling the owner's sexual ability. They had misspellings too.

Little more than that, yeah. I want to say it was 126k. Weirdly, you could tell it was in good shape before the loss. The jeep was clean prior to getting the hell beat out of it.

Unfortunately, yes. And I say unfortunately because the vast majority of them still wound up with the carrier paying out. Very few were complete wins. Fraud is very difficult to prove, as the court may only want "preponderence of evidence" for civil suits and "beyond a reasonable doubt" for criminal suits, but most…

Mine is NA. I've heard of more issues from people that ownT5's and R's. Boring old NA's like mine seemed to do fine until they became V70's.

It blew my mind. It was an early build for the year, so it was more like a 1.5 year old wrangler, but it was still mind-boggling even at that. And I found an older invoice under a mat from the original owner about halfway through that first years and the mileage was crazy high on that invoice. I mean, sure, you're not…

Without a witness, car-b-ques are almost always probable. The trick is knowing how to hide your accelerants.

I have an 850 wagon and it is used as our kid-hauler. I and an insurance adjuster and deal with vehicle safety, wrecks, etc daily. I cannot praise a vehicle's overall worth more than to nominate it as the car used to ferry around my offspring.

While I'm not a fan of bipedal androids, I like seeing this. I live about thirty minutes drives from the largest naval base in the US, and a lot of my friends are navy, coast guard, and prior service, and an unfortunate slice of those friends deal with permanent disabling injuries from fighting fires on ship. Many of…

This post is excellent and needs way more stars.

Saw this one at a local auction yard while writing up another car. This poor, poor mazdaspeed miata. The interior was mangled.

Tough one. If her name is on the title, she purposefully damaged her own property. Many policies are written such that they won't pay out for that sort of act.

This. I've handled these sort of claims. One was a one year old Jeep Wrangler with over 120k miles on it that a fly-by-night dealership took in trade and couldn't move. It was reported stolen, and when it was recovered across town, there was no sign of damage to the column, but every panel, light, gauge, etc had been…

Bears do more damage. They do all this plus then tend to shit in the car as well.

"Your car has 700hp but we all know it loses, so don't race anything meaningful because your 700hp is only for show. And always use the red key so they know you have 700 show hp."

I handle that sort of claim too. It is far less than 50/50 here insofar as tow companies accepting damages. In the past, oh, five years, I've had... about five or six claims for damages in relation to towing, and the tow company's carrier fought tooth and nail every step of the way.

It's not a pot shot if it's true.

It's not mocking if it's true.

Proper procedure when towing a vehicle that is AWD, or when towing an RWD when you can only get the front, is to lift what you can lift and use tow dollies on the ground wheels.

If you're discussing "moral blame" then I guess you can say that paparazzis bear some minor portion of it, maybe, but there were a lot of cameras on this. Because paparazzis. I wasn't there, and am not privvy to any report, but the shots of him slamming into the rear of her car had no other cars near him. So I can't…