I backed into this Nissan Titan pickup. A minor dent, I thought. Sigh.Well, my naive idea of covering the damage myself so our insurance wouldn't go up did not work. When the gracious guy who I backed into gave me his estimates, I saw that life is indeed more expensive in North America.
If I were in Nairobi, it would have cost about $70 to fix this. Ten times less!!
Moral of the story - pay attention, every second you are behind the wheel. Or have your accident in Nairobi.
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That's the problem with cars in the US... nobody bothers to fix them. it's $700 because they'll pull off the old fender and replace the entire part. so the breakdown will probably be like $50 labor and $650 parts... when it really should be $100 labor and a few bucks for touch up paint
Paul,
Count your blessings. I did this in grad school, and asked for an estimate but instead was stuck with a repair bill that included even the air conditioning!
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