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Car up in flames!

January 28th, 2008 at 04:01 am

I haven't posted in awhile, as it has been a lot of No Spend days and I've been very diligent about adhering to the budget.

My DH's car went up in flames yesterday. He was not in it (thankfully) and we expect that it had been burning for awhile before DD9 noticed. DH's car a 98 Grand Prix with 151K had just been picked up from our friendly mechanic for brake work (front brakes $248.61) The car had its share of oil leaks and issues, but nothing major Just had a 10 point inspection of 1/12 and it had a clean bill of health (just the recommended brake job) and had two new front tires. Anyhow, I dropped DH to pick the car up and then went to my parents for a birthday dinner with my children. We sat down to the meal at 1:30. At 2:00 DD9 went to the bathroom and happened to look out the front window (DH thankfully parked on the street). She came back a bit bewildered and said, "There is a car on fire"

We all said, "Whose care?"

She said, "Our car". And sure enough the front was engulfed in flames. Tall orange flames with billowing smoke. 911 got there in two minutes and it took awhile to extinguish the flames.

Now we have to deal with the insurance company. State Farm took the claim info over the phone. I guess the adjuster will contact me tomorrow. I will be happy with replacement value, though it shouldn't be more than $3,500 (based on blue book value for age and condition). We at least have car rental coverage $25/day up to $300 (I think that's what the insurance person said) until we figure out what to do.

Yikes!

5 Responses to “Car up in flames!”

  1. boomeyers Says:
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    How scary!! This happened to my friends husbands truck, unfortunately it was in their garage!!
    You better go back to that garage and tell them they better have their insurance paid up!! Who will look at it to see how the fire started? We have State Farm and they have always been top of the line! Why is it when you take a car in for maintenence, it comes back with more problems???
    Good luck!

  2. JanH Says:
    1201494307

    You've just made me glad my garage is too full right now to keep the cars in! Glad everyone is okay!

  3. monkeymama Says:
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    Oh my!!!!!!

    So sorry.

  4. SingleGuyMoney Says:
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    Sorry to hear about your car. Glad no one was in it at the time!

  5. disneysteve Says:
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    Been there, done that. We had a minivan burst into flames in our driveway back in 2000. We never parked in our garage and lord knows we never will after that. Had the car been in the garage, we would have lost our house. As it was, we had to repave our driveway, replant a section of the lawn, replace the garage door and outside light fixtures and have a tree pruned all due to fire damage.

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