{"id":2037,"date":"2025-04-22T18:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T23:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2025-06-29T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T15:36:42","slug":"rental-car-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/rental-car-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental car blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It seems like old news to me by now, but I haven\u2019t said anything about it here. This blog is for posterity as much as anything else, so I suppose this is worth mentioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Thursday, March 27 2005 I was involved in a automobile accident. There were no injuries thank God, and the damage was relatively minor. But even this low level of car wreck is a massive inconvenience. It\u2019s been almost a month and things are moving at glacier speed. The insurance company is in no hurry to get things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The body work is very slow going with the insurance company not being much help. I need to try to contact the claims adjuster and they even make that a chore, having to go through their website communication portal I\u2019ll call it. They don\u2019t call. They don\u2019t text. They don\u2019t send emails, at least not directly. The only emails I have received from the insurance people have been telling me to check their website for the actual information. But at least they started doing that. The first couple days I would just get the adjusters voicemail when I tried to call, and had no idea they were sending things on their portal. So annoying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t know how this sort of thing goes for most people. I suspect it isn\u2019t much better. I expect most insurance companies make things as uncomfortable as possible while still fulfilling their legal requirements. The one time I was actually able to reach my claims adjuster the phone line was so bad I couldn\u2019t understand half what she was saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The accident was 100% the other parties fault. This was acknowledged by his insurance company. They claim to make everything right. Great. I just have to do everything on their schedule and the way they say. They won\u2019t even cover the rental car cost upfront. I have to rent the car on my dime then submit form to be reimbursed. I\u2019m wondering what fresh hell the insurance company will unleash when trying to get back the $800 plus dollars expended. I shudder to think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rental car is a Mitsubishi Mirage G4. It was pretty much brand new when I got it. It had 400 miles on it give or take. It\u2019s a small car, but the interior is pretty comfortable for my large posterior. It doesn\u2019t have an arm rest to the right of the driver though, and that\u2019s a little inconvenient. It does get good gas mileage. 40mpg if I\u2019m reading everything right. I haven\u2019t done the math yet though. There aren\u2019t a lot of bells and whistles. But the price is pretty low compared to a lot of other options. It seems like a good value from my limited experience with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It seems like old news to me by now, but I haven\u2019t said anything about it here. This blog is for posterity as much as anything else, so I suppose this is worth mentioning. On Thursday, March 27 2005 I was involved in a automobile accident. There were no injuries thank God, and the damage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterpix.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}