So I have been in bed sick all day, missed a day of work, and did not get out of bed until 3-4pm. By 1am, I finally have enough energy to drag myself to the gym just to get my blood pumping after being sedentary all day. While working out, the guy and the front desk made an announcement over the PA, asking for the driver of a red 2-Door Lexus to come up front.

Immediately, my stomach dropped as I the thoughts of the unimaginable things that might have happened to my beloved car ran across my mind. Someone stole my car and took off with it? Some broke into it and attempted to steal something? Why else would they ask for the proud owner of a Lexus coupe to come up front? Wishfully thinking, I might have left headlights on? No, impossible, my car turns off its headlights automatically I remembered. Still a little optimistic and admittedly a little selfish, I guessed with a slim possibility that there might be another Lexus Coupe out there and that is the car they are referring to. But given how uncommon these cars are, what is the chance of there being another red SC out there at 2am on a Saturday night? Not very likely.

So me and my buddy rushed up to the front desk to we saw the front desk employee with a nervous looking patron staring at us. He asked if either one of us are the owners of a Red Lexus Coupe and apologetically confessed that he hit it while backing up. All three of us went outside to inspect the damages and he brought his insurance card, driver's license, and registration card back inside and I photocopied his documents. He was being apolegetic about it and I was superficially calm. He thanked me for being calm about the whole thing so I thanked him for being honest and staying behind. Personally, I would not expect anyone to stay behind if they backed into someone else's car at 2am in a dark parking lot.

The aftermath:

















My car's BlueBook isnt worth that much sadly. It is a 1992 SC300 w/ 185k miles. I have absolutely no knowledge or experience with insurance claims or body work. For anyone of you guys that do, please help by giving me suggestions either on here or through PM'ing.

 

Ouch man....sory to hear that,its a beautiful car

Open the trunk,pull the carpet and you will see the back of the quarter panel.Try to push out as much as possible ,and see where you are then.

 

Take it to a paintless dent removal place. They can probably get alot of the dent out w/o body work. I'd find out how much a body shop would fix and paint the dent for and how much a paintless dent removal place would pull it for.

Maybe the guy will pay you cash and you can make a couple bucks if you can live with the paint chips/cracks. The paint damage doesnt look bad at all from your pics.

 

push it out .... rubber mallet hit it softly =] nice car btw

 

i'd definetly try a paintless dent removal place, it's amazing what some of them can do without body work..

sorry to see this though man, i always dread this happening to me

 

aye its not that bad from what i can see no sharp bends, so pull, or mallet it, if not wanting to do it yourself, take to a body shop get a estimate, then turn it in to his insurance, but it isn't that bad.

I have seen worse come out fine, so just relax, just sucks that it happened and have to get it fixed but shouldn't be that big of a issue

 

ohh man ouch! sorry about that but i thank him too to have the guts and be a man of telling you straight up of what happened. even giving all his info with out a fight. i hope insurance covers everything! goodluck!

 

damn, that sucks, hope you can get it fixed

 

Damn.. sorry man. I hope you work it out.. thankfully the guy stayed or else things would be a lot worse

 

You can go to any bodyshop, get an estimate, turn it into his insurance, and they'll write you a check. Then you can use the money to repair it however you like, at least that's how it works around here.

My friend's 240SX got backed into by a tow truck and he got an estimate for something like 2,000 dollars and the tow company wrote him a check and he fixed the car with used parts, total costing him about 50 bucks, haha

 

Im thinking make sure you inform your insurance. Although kbb say your car isnt worth what we all think its worth. Make sure nothing comes out of your pocket. I dont think you should go on and try to fix it just yet. Make sure uve filed a claim.

 

take the crpet from the trunk and take out cd changer then push with your hand as hard as you can every where. it will pop out. dont use mallet still leaves marks from the out side. pushing it works wonders.

 

i swear your avatar looks like christopher in the sopranos

 

Been there bro, luckily he stayed around and didn't peace out. On a positive note, I LOVE those rims

 

Man... That sucks Jerry. Sorry to see what happen. But the damages doesn't seem that bad. Let the insurance pay you and take it to a good body shop to have that taken care of.