Crashed the beauty today
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Crashed the beauty today
Was picking up brother and sister from school today, heavy traffic with construction. Lady went from a roll to a sudden stop and I had lil time to slam on the brakes, luckily for her and her huge *** ford expedition with its hitch and metal bumper she didnt take any damage but mine got f***** up. any ways here some pics of it, give me some ideas on what to do as in fix. any new parts/upgrades i can get?
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I'm going to report it in the morning to the insurance Co. I'll have to wait and see what happens hopefully its not to much to repair, radiator got bent and pushed back, i think thats the most costly thing.
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Could i do that? i mean the lady i hit called the police and like 10 firefighters, paramedics, and whole bunch of cops came and we had a police report. I dont think i can report i as a hit and run if theres a police report??
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btw, if you still have the upper left (passenger side) chrome strip of the grille undamaged, I'll buy that piece off you. Didn't clip mine down fully it would seem on one of my grilles and that piece flew off.
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well i was thinking of doing some upgrades as in grill and bumper, i cant find a CF hood for the 350 :/ but i believe i need both stock and after market.
and i just took the grill apart the piece you want is still together but i believe has a small line in it. i can post pics in a few. and u can have it if you want. need some good karma coming my way
and i just took the grill apart the piece you want is still together but i believe has a small line in it. i can post pics in a few. and u can have it if you want. need some good karma coming my way
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I had a simliar accident a while back. The damage on mine that were visible was hood, grill, left head light. After that body shop said bumper was damaged as well. Which came out more expensive cuz of the fog light housing etc. However, bumper looked fine, it was the clipings that were broken.
Cost of fix was 4000 then it went up to around 10K
Car was in the shop for about 1 month. The only aftermarket part I can see you get is the grill. Other than that AMG bumper? 
Oh yea and 1 piece of advice. When I got my car back I drove it at night and the head light color didn't match. At first I thought they put halogen bulbs in stead of Xenon. I mean my left light didn't match my right. I brought the car back they said "No it's fine, it's just cause you have a tint on one of your headlight and the brand new one isn't tinter." OH PLEASE...even I can tell (I have a little color handicapped where I can't tell some colors). So I didn't want to argue knowing it could be me. Got it tinted at the same place I got it done the first time and I looked at it, the color is still different. Brought it back, had them take out my bulb from the head light unit cuz the bulbs were okay and had him put it in. He gave me some technical info something about the round part in the HID were different color inside and they didn't realize
Anyways just make sure you get everything done the way you want and be prepared to make a few trips back and forth. Totally sorry for your loss, I feel for you
Cost of fix was 4000 then it went up to around 10K
Car was in the shop for about 1 month. The only aftermarket part I can see you get is the grill. Other than that AMG bumper? Oh yea and 1 piece of advice. When I got my car back I drove it at night and the head light color didn't match. At first I thought they put halogen bulbs in stead of Xenon. I mean my left light didn't match my right. I brought the car back they said "No it's fine, it's just cause you have a tint on one of your headlight and the brand new one isn't tinter." OH PLEASE...even I can tell (I have a little color handicapped where I can't tell some colors). So I didn't want to argue knowing it could be me. Got it tinted at the same place I got it done the first time and I looked at it, the color is still different. Brought it back, had them take out my bulb from the head light unit cuz the bulbs were okay and had him put it in. He gave me some technical info something about the round part in the HID were different color inside and they didn't realize
Anyways just make sure you get everything done the way you want and be prepared to make a few trips back and forth. Totally sorry for your loss, I feel for you
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10k X_X im in some deep s*** here. i was thinking of the amg bumper, grill, i guess ill just stick with the c350 hood. im not sure if headlights are damaged or not. i hope nothing is wrong with the frame work or anything.
Ugh an i was gunna get some nice HID lights for xmas to
Ugh an i was gunna get some nice HID lights for xmas to
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Sorry your car got damaged, glad you and your siblings didn't. Good luck geting insurance to pay for anything other than OEM parts.
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well i was thinking of doing some upgrades as in grill and bumper, i cant find a CF hood for the 350 :/ but i believe i need both stock and after market.
and i just took the grill apart the piece you want is still together but i believe has a small line in it. i can post pics in a few. and u can have it if you want. need some good karma coming my way
and i just took the grill apart the piece you want is still together but i believe has a small line in it. i can post pics in a few. and u can have it if you want. need some good karma coming my way
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For example (numbers aren't real)
Amg bumper $10
C300 bumper $9
So you buy the AMG bumper for $10 at the dealer and give it to the body shop, have them pay you $9 so you're only out $1.
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Have a full estimate for the repairs written up by the dealership and then tell the insurance company to cut you a check for the full cost of repairs.. then use the money towards aftermarket parts.
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