[Schroder]

Go to a different shop. It sounds like they're trying to gouge more money out of you.

[DIYSteve]

[Cyclopath]

Thanks everyone, for chiming in with your thoughts and experience. It sounds like the paint blending thing isn't as bad as I thought. It sounded obviously wrong. I think they're planning to paint half the front door and half the rear panel to gradually fade into the new paint. I don't know, I was extremely stressed when he explained it to me. The only thing worse than moving is, well, finding out someone hit your car while you're trying to move. I'll talk to some other shops, the one I got an estimate from was recommended by the Subaru dealership.

[Cyclopath]

[DIYSteve]

You're a smart guy but letting your emotions mix apples and oranges. Insurance is a creature of contract, not of your subjective belief of what it ought to be. The insurance carrier's risk stops at the cost to repair the car. You have the right to seek additional compensation from the negligent driver, although that has practicable limitations and is may not be worth pursuing. You borrowed money. You agreed to pay it back with interest. The car is collateral to secure the loan. An event that diminishes the value of the collateral is irrelevant to your obligation to replay the loan. ETA: Think of it in terms of contractual allocation of risk. The insurance carrier took on the risk of repairing the vehicle, but not of restoring its value. The bank took on the risk of your ability to repay the loan, a risk independent of the condition of the collateral.

[BirdDog]

Take car to Gerber Collison in Interbay. They recently did an outstanding repair job on my moms car that had extensive damage. Paint match was perfect.

[Slide Alder Slayer]

WHO IS YOUR INSURANCE AGENT? When there are disagreements like this contact you agent or company and get them involved. The other company is just trying to mitigate its’ losses at your expense, talk to you agent to get some unbiased support and help. Having said this be sure you filed a WSP accident report so your side of the story is on file with the state.

[Daryl]

[Brucester]

Skeeters Auto Rebuild 2104 S Plum St Seattle.

[RichardJ]

Cyclopath, is their insurance going to pay for a rental car while yours is in the shop? My wife's CRV was hit in a shopping mall parking lot and the other person's insurance insisted in assigning my wife 10% fault because she did not do a good enough job of evading this person as he blindly backed up into her on an icy surface. Crazy. I got nowhere arguing with their insurance on how ridiculous that was, but was able to get them to pay me for the 3 days of car rental that I did not use. That helped me offset the silly 10% fault.

[Cyclopath]

[wheatie]

My subie that I paid cash for 4 years ago needed it's first significant repairs a few weeks ago. Repairs cost more than half I paid for the car, but I will likely drive it another 4 years at least. A dent nor scratch will not break my heart, it already has a few and I will pocket the couple hundred a month car payment

[tom roy]

I called Amecia yesterday to get a quote.We bundle every thing I thought All state was being a bit tough on us. When we got to the home owne policyr she asked about pets I said just a Parakeet. She asked if it was in a cage? Well yes and there was a 50 dollar a year surcharge for the bird? What the hell would a dog cost? I called other places and saved some money. And America had no motorcycle coverage and she quoted a few hundred dollars more a year than Allstate without the bike.

[kawi_200]

Did you get a police report, and do you have under-insured motorist? This sounds like a situation where their insurance wont fully compensate for your loss and an under-insured motorist plan on your end would cover the rest. Then since your insurance is paying out they will go after whoever they need to to recoup the extra money they are spending to fix your car. A police report would help you against their insurance if it indicates that the person was 100% at fault. That being siad, blending is the best way to fix this type of issue without having to repaint the entire car. But I have a replacement fender on my car that was OEM painted and it matches just fine. I also replaced my rear bumper with a white one, and the shop I took it to painted it to match my blue car in a weekend. 8 years later and my rear bumper still looks great. If the body shop can buy an OEM door that came painted in your car's color it should match just fine. No repainting needed.