THANX TLW. The body shop will replace it with the stock one. You wanna laugh though, I had plans on changing the grill because I've seen pics of many CL member cars with these nice bright grills. The stock ones are very dull looking.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can get the grill that's non-stock? I'll ask the guy on Friday. Probably not but it doesn't hurt to ask; everyone's different.

 

Sorry to hear that man. I just had some stuff go down with an uninsured driver - and my insurance company actually paid him If I ever run into that dude I am gonna knock his *** out.

Jonny

 

Yeah looks like your horn and bracket are bent and that needs to be replaced. Yeah 100 bucks could maybe cover your emblem. What an *** hat

 

Well I got the estimate for the repairs and it was a whopping $2,130 to repair the damages. Besides the exterior damage, there was damage internally to the area housing my headlights by the radiator supports. I had to play the message like 3X's because I couldn't believe it at first. Ever since the accident, I chose to not even open the hood and check for more damages. I wanted to keep stuff intact and leave it up to the shop to check everything out. I'm going to the shop (that's if there open today because of Veteran's Day) and check it out myself. But damn, I would not have thought it'll cost this much and that the guy who hit me was offering like $200 to fix it. I' should get the car back by next Wed. or Thursday.

 

I second your plate man, native New Yorker here. Man I'm really sorry to hear what hapened to you. What people don't seem to realize are two things: 1) There's more damage than just what's visible to the eye and 2) It's a Lexus, these parts are not cheap in price and in quality. Hey that's one of the reasons why we got em.

I ran over a tire tread that took off my front lip and aside from the bump, it cost $2200 in damages just for what was messed up under the car not including the wheel well splashing that cost $106.22 a piece from the dealer. So I'm sure that the whole thing will come to maybe over $4200 when it's all done with . You wouldn't be able to tell that from just looking at it.

 

Good two points Lexism. Not knowing of the damages beyond the exterior is where I was suprised. Right now I'm stuck with a '06 Dodge Stratus and the engine is noisy as hell. Gimme my GS back!!!!!

Up here in DE, we only have one license plate which is on the rear. So I have the luxury in showing my team pride with the front plate. I'm not sure if Georgia requires two plates like NY does.

Shout out to FLIPSP33D, sorry man I forgot to post earlier.

 

damn...i sure hope you get ur money man. let us know on any inputs. sorry to hear

 

MrG, that happened to me twice on LI when I was living there. First time was a 14 year old (obviously no insurance) who also pulled out $1,000 cash and ask I don't call the police to settle which I knew wasn't enough. The damage was 6k. Then my ex-wife got hit by an uninsured driver that showed the cops an insurance card to find out a day or two later that insurance card was a fake.

 

Sorry to hear that but you will come out better than ever.