Heart attack time. Almost watched my two-week old Clarity get t-boned in a police chase

New cars attract bad drivers (usually in uninsured beaters). You're lucky, a bullet through your Clarity's windshield would be an expensive disaster!

 

Someone crashed into my Clarity less than a month after I bought it. That was painful.

 

Was it difficult to find a body shop that works on aluminum cars? After someone ran into my aluminum Insight, I had to travel 40 miles to a shop that specializes in fixing Audis and Ferrari and Lamborghini sports cars. I'm surprised aluminum cars are not significantly more expensive to insure than steel cars.

 

Not all welder knows how or want to deal with aluminum welding, that's probably why not every shop can fix the car. But the work isn't all that different so the charge rate is comparable

I swear to God there is gotta be a higher accident rate on new cars than cars > 6 months or something....

 

They backed into my front end so it was some internal parts that needed replacing and the front bumper cover repaired and repainted. There was just a little visible damage but it cost $3000 for the repair. It wasn't too difficult for them to handle. Luckily, the paint (white) is the same as on other existing Honda models so that wasn't a problem. BTW, that was my first accident in over 25 years (knock on wood!).

 

Someone also backed into my car in front of my house while I was parke. This was less than 3 months after I got the car. The person must've been drunk since he/she had to have gone up the curb to hit me like that. It damaged 6 different parts, but luckily there was no internal damage. I collected the tail light shards and determined that the person that hit me drove an old 1997-1998 Lexus ES 300, but never found the person. Had to pay $500 deductible out of pocket.

 

I am so sorry to hear that. That is why we need the dashcam with parking mode turned on.

 

See now, you should have made the perp maroon, so we could all say...



Seriously, glad you and your new "baby" are okay.

 

Last night my son backed into the front driver quarter panel just behind the headlight!!! There's a two inch scratch there now with a small dent. :-( I thanked him because now I don't have to worry about the first scratch.

 

My Clarity was caught outside of Denver near a toronado in a hail storm during a cross country trip. I commented earlier but deleted the post. The body shop had to to cut the roof off, replace all the outside panels and doors, mirrors, front and back glass were destroyed and the estimate came to $19,000 for repairs. What originally started out as a three week job took 85 days before I got the car back. Three week, three more weeks was very frustrating to hear but car parts were a bear to get and the shop did a good job putting it back together.

 

Thanks for the report. I was really wondering what happened after reading your original post. What an ordeal!

 

I took my car to the body shop to get the hood tweaked and then to the Honda Dealership and was told they canceled my new car warranty because of the hail damage to the car. All the damage was external so I will discuss it with them tomorrow or Thursday to see what's going on.