Everyday Randomness

Blazer Going To The Shop Tomorrow

My internet is back, but I’m not sure for how long. I called tonight to order my DSL, and now I’m just waiting for my modem package to arrive. It should be here in about 10 days at the most, so I think I can deal with crappy Charter for that long. I’m canceling Charter the day the package arrives. We decided to keep their cable tv service because we’ve only had a few problems with it that were fixed promptly. It’s just the internet they can’t seem to handle, so they will never see another dime from me for that.

On another good note, hubby has to drop the Blazer off at the body shop in the morning. They originally wanted us to drop it off and pick it up after they could “get to it”. I had a fit over that, and after spending an hour on the phone today going over everything that’s wrong hubby is going to drop it off in the morning. If it’s not ready by tomorrow evening when he gets off work they are going to have a rental car waiting on us.

After I inspected the bumper again today I realized it really is a simple fix. What happened is you can tell they were rushing to put it on, so they installed it lopsided.

The other thing I’m still pissed about is the right corner. You can see it’s still all smashed up. That’s part of what happened when hubby fishtailed. That side brushed into the guardrail, but because most of the impact was taken on the left side our insurance company refused to fix that one little corner because they said it “isn’t consistent with a left side impact”. It is when you’re fishtailing! You can’t tell me it would have been any harder to Bondo, sand, and paint that little corner. Oh well that’s why I’m definitely switching insurance companies.

Anyway what really matters in the photo is how lopsided the bumper is. That’s not just the rubber/plastic/whatever it is top cover. The entire bumper is off like that.

After everything is finished they are paying for us to get it professionally cleaned at the detail shop we normally take it to because they left it a wreck. Not only is there still glass everywhere, but there’s dust from all the sanding and Bondo. I lifted up the cargo mat and found a huge mess of dust and fiberglass chips.

They also seem to think that the lift gate problem can be fixed with an adjustment. If not they’ll be ordering a new one. I don’t know exactly what’s happening with the roof paint yet. I asked our insurance agent if we could request a new adjuster, and he helped us get that taken care of. The new adjuster wanted the list of everything that was wrong, and he’s going to meet hubby at the shop in the morning.

You don’t know how much stress has been lifted off my shoulders knowing there’s someone finally who’s willing to help us get it fixed the correct way.