Tony,
You are right. The car wash did the right thing and
turned the problem over to the insurance company. It
is the insurance company that is the problem. It seems
that I will have to turn this into my company and they
will go after the other company. The problem is that
it will increase my coverage rates. It seems that
these companies are getting out of hand. If your
classic Imperial is damaged, you get the headache. I
still have not heard from our state commissioner. On
the phone they stated that the car should be returned
to the same quality it was before the incident. Most
any wash wand will get under the paint if it is is
laid on the car. I suspect that this is what happened.
The sad part is that the attendant did it in two
spots. You think that he would have payed attention to
what was going on. I know that I will never go to that
wash again. RC Billings Montanaaaa --- Tony Fortner
<keith_f79@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Rodger;
>
> I just HAD to chime in on this one!! I am a
> professional car washer at
> the local car wash with 16 years expierence. I
> think what happened to your
> Imperial is just absolutly terrible! I have worked
> at my place of
> employment for all those years and not once have I
> seen paint blown off a
> car. That leads me to believe that the owner of
> that particular
> establishment needs to take more care and pay more
> attention to how much
> pressure they are running through that power gun.
> We run ours at only 1100
> psi. and wide fan nozzle that can barely rinse of
> your hands, let alone
> blow paint off the car.
> On the defense of the professional Car Wash
> industry, one would be
> amazed to see how many things that the general
> public is so quick to blame
> the car washer for. There is great time and money
> spent in the design of
> these systems to be as gentle on your car (if not
> more so) as washing it at
> home. We have had people come in and try to tell us
> that the scrathes came
> form the wash and they demand it to be fixed when it
> is obviously not our
> fault. You can tell by the way the scratches run if
> we in fact did do the
> damage. We get people telling us that we shorted
> out their radios for
> crying out loud! I think that the car wash industry
> has been dealt a cruel
> blow in today's society and that people shoudl not
> be soo afraid of them. I
> have five cars that are ran through at least twice a
> week and I have never
> gotten any damage from there and my father washes
> his $52,000 2003 Cadillac
> at least twice a week as well. All that I am saying
> is that more care should
> be taken by owners of these places to ensure that
> all the equiptment is all
> the proper specs and make sure that the attendants
> are properly trained to
> do the job
>
> Any how it sounds to me that you are more upset
> with his insurance
> company than the Car Wash. I hope that i did not
> upset you, I am just
> telling my story on this one. Because of all the
> bad rumors floating around
> out there of damage at the car wash, poeple like me
> are losing out on added
> clientel that woudl have otherwise visited the Car
> Wash.. After all
> everyone has to have a job and I have to eat too..:)
>
>
> Tony
> Fortner
>
> 69 Imperial Coupe
> 71 Imperial 4 door
> 71 Newport 2 door
> 92 Lebaron GTC vert
> 90 Imperial sedan
>
> >From: roger crabtree <rcrabshish@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: IML: At the car wash (not a old song)
> >Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 07:52:29 +1100 (EST)
> >
> >Here is a interesting story about the way insurance
> >companies work. I own a 1955 Imperial sedan with
> >37,000 original miles on it. The car has been
> covered
> >in a heated garage for 20 plus years. It is a
> >beautiful original auto. Last August I was being
> lazy
> >and took the car to a local car wash. It was a
> fully
> >automated wash with two hand wash attendants. As
> the
> >car went into the wash, one of the attendants blew
> the
> >paint off of the trunk. The wand he was using was a
> >high pressure wand and should never have been laid
> on
> >paint. The company admitted that they did the
> damage.
> >It was turned into the companies insurance. This
> is
> >where it gets interesting. I was told to take the
> car
> >for a appraisal for repaint of the trunk. I was
> told
> >by the Chrysler dealer that the paint can not be
> >matched. He stated that the type of paint on the
> car
> >is no longer used in the industry. I called six
> other
> >body shops in the area only to hear the same story.
> >The insurance company then told me to get an
> estimate
> >on a total repaint. Chrysler bid it at $4,200.
> The
> >bid was turned in on August 28th of this year.
> Last
> >week after multiple phone call to the insurance
> >company. They sent an adjuster to look at the car.
> He
> >wrote a bid for $2,400 and depreciated the paint
> 50%.
> >They stated that the paint had a life of 10 years.
> >The company offered $1,200 to repaint the car. I
> have
> >filed a complaint with the state insurance
> >commissioner. Has anyone in the group ever have
> this
> >type of thing happen to them? I could use some
> help
> >on this.
> >RC Billings Montanaaaaaa
> >
> >=====
> >
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