Wednesday, July 14, 2010
TOTAL SURPRISE
We heard from the AAA insurance today about the totaled Sebring.
We were floored.
After researching the Blue Book and the other evaluation sights we had decided that we would only get about a fifth of the cost of the replacement Volvo.
As it turns out, they are giving us about twice what we expected which is about a third of the Volvo cost.
Pleasant surprise.
We have been treated very well by AAA and heartily recommend them for all insurance.
They researched this. We sent in the repair records for two years. They looked up the value of the same car here in the desert. There are a lot of them. Very popular. I am sure that had an effect as well. The used market is pretty good for the convertible. It has a good record.
So its local value is higher.
We will have to take the title in and sign the car over to them. They will send it to a recycle, used parts place to cannibalize it. I am sure that has something to do with the settlement also.
Who knows?
We are happy to have anything turn out twice as well as expected.
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