Today, I finished installing a brand new engine in my old car. It cost just over $6000. Later, I was waiting at a red light and an uninsured drunk driver smashed into it head on. It's completely totaled. I got to drive it 5 miles. The car is worth $1000, even with a new engine. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I paid $2300 to a mechanic for fixing my car. It's also the day I got into an accident and totalled said car. FML
Today, after my car got stolen and flipped on its roof three months ago, making it an insurance write-off, and getting a new car a week ago, a drunk driver crashed into my parked car, writing it off. In both instances the drivers were thankfully OK, it's just my insurance premiums skyrocketing, no biggie. FML
Today, I got the repair estimate for my car. It's going to cost me $3,000 to rebuild the front end. It was wrecked because a couple decided to have a lovers' spat in the middle of the freeway. I had that car for exactly four hours. FML
Today, my car was totaled. It was so new, I haven't even made the first payment on it yet. FML
Today, accustomed to dealing with my old car's faulty accelerator, I pressed the pedal way too hard in my new car and crashed into a pillar, totaling the engine, and giving myself a concussion. I could still see the dealership down the street. FML
Today, I bought my very first car that I spent years saving for. A few hours after I signed all the papers, I let my boyfriend go for a test drive. He totaled it. FML
Today, I had the lovely experience of witnessing a tow truck cause a couple thousand dollars' worth of damage to my broken-down car. FML
Today, I bought a new $10,000 car since my old one broke down. Today, I also found out the old one wasn’t starting because i never had it in park. FML
Today, I woke up to find the entire driver's side of my car wrecked. Front door, back door, front and rear bumper smashed to shit. A drunk driver had hit it the previous night and ran. Don't worry though, he stopped and left his insurance information. He keyed it into the undamaged side of my car. FML
Today, I hit a patch of black ice and totaled my car. The car is a month old. For the next 5 years I'll be paying for a car I can't drive. FML
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Amkii 0
:( Ugh. I'm sorry. Your insurance should cover most of it, right? This is why we need to have stricter rules in the US about drunk drivers... esp. uninsured ones!
spiderman0606 0
Dude, if he doesnt have insurance that automatically means it's his fault (although it is his fault) and he has to pay for everything. But fyl until everything is taken care of.
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tjfreemanjr 0
I hate to ask but why wouldn't you have taken the 6K and put into another car worth (um) 6K?
omgzdude 0
f*ck you drunk drivers!
flyboy57 0
YDI. why would you put so much money into a shitty car?
BikerMike 0
you are a dumb ass for putting a $6000 engine in a $1000 car. If you saved all the receipts for the engine, you may be able to get some of that back.
Le_Pecheur 0
you're an idiot for putting an engine in the car that costs more than the car itself.
sumdizzyfoo 0
AHAHAHA thats why you get a car appraisal and full coverage my friend. Without it your insured at the blue book. With it your insured at its value. Ah well, you live you learn. Good luck with classic rebuild number 2!
kissthesky 0
Pretty sure I've never heard of an engine costing $6000 and only being worth $1000 for the whole car after a crash..an engine for 6G? Were you driving a Bugatti? And even then it'd be worth more.
buttseckz 0
lesson to be learned: don't blow money on a new engine unless this was a project.
dixiehighway 0
There must have been two drunk poeple in this case. 1)The other driver 2) YOU--- Personal Finance 101, don't put $6,000 into a $1,000 car!
ladiesman14 0
sorry dude you are sol. ydi cause some insurance companies have addendums you can buy for modifications like this.