[Absolut Speed]

Went autocrossing today as I often do. Some kid's Dad rolls over my t-top in the paddock area (the t-tops were flanked by my red tool box and a red and white cooler and a red helmet bag) He says sorry, gives me a phone # and leaves me with the mess. After he left I found the glass ripped the embroidery in the Firehawk floor mat it was resting on. My wife, who was feeling more reasoned, called him tonight. He won't order a t-top for me unless his insurance company says it was his fault. He said, "How was I supposed to see it?" Dunno, dark top top flanked by three red items on light colored concrete, seems difficult, I know. When my wife called back a 2nd time 15 minutes later (at 9:45pm) to mention the floor mat, he didn't answer the phone.

So now, I may have to order my own and Lord knows, could well end up in small claims court. The bad part is the 10th annual Firehawk Rally is this weekend in Ohio and I have no T-top.

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I'm ticked, so you'll see this on a few boards.

[CMC #37]

OMG! I have not been to many autoxes, however, I have seen this a couple of times! One time I was doing a school with some of the usual Southern California suspects on this board and saw someone run over a person's entire pit area, chairs and all! I think the proper and prudent thing to do would be to pay up immediately and not mention a thing to the ins. company. You never know how that will zing you in the future if you do, trust me! Read on......

I found out recently selling my house that ins. companies are all networked through computers and information sharing is instantaneous. A few years back I had a water main break under my driveway, most likely caused by the City I lived in installing a water meter on that pipe three mos previous. We made a claim to our ins. co and they paid us a measly $248 for some water damage to the driveway. The fix was about $3000.00 and involved rerouting around the driveway, a (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rant.gif) place to put a water main pipe anyway!

We wanted to recoup some of our costs, make sense, right? WRONG! Somehow, this got entered as "water damage" to the HOUSE, and the buyers of our house were denied homeowner's insurance by all ins. companies! Apparently if you make a claim on water damage in your house, you have to wait about five years before anyone will insure you again! All this for a measly $248, it was not worth this hassle. To complete the sale of our home, we had to call the ins. co and had them specify where the damage actually occured, on the driveway. They almost would not do that for us. Apparently exterior of the house water damage escapes the cursed water damage policy.

The bottom line is, if you can avoid making a claim, AVOID IT!