Re: 03 Eurovan crisis in So.Cal ! Need REPUTABLE, body repair shop immediately !
- From: "Matt B." <noway@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:11:31 -0700
"netnanna" <unclejamie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Recently moved to Long Beach, CA AND after much searching bought an 03
> EV (in pristine, as new cond. with only 11,000 miles on it) from Pop
> Top
> Heaven in Yucaipa, Ca. On 09/10 at 2 am people in this part of LB
> (Ocean Avenue @ 2nd Place were awakened by a loud noise. By the time I
> got outside,the source of this noise was undergoing a field sobriety
> test after crashing -HARD- into 3! vehicles parked in front of our
> residence. She failed four attempts and was accorded the temporary use
> of two SS bracelets, and given a ride in a LB B&W to ? The vehicle
> owners (of
> a Mitsubishi SUV, a 1950 Ford and a 2003 EV (me) were left with no
> contact info.-driver was kept incommunicado by LBPD to cope with this
> mess as best we could.
>
> Since much of my financial worth is tied up in this vehicle-the
> thinking
> was that I would have a place to stay wherever I chose to go and if
> necessary I could rent out my beachside studio for income-it is vitally
> important to me that the repair be done correctly.
>
> To that end I chose a shop well recommended by many, including a close
> family member, in San Gabrial, town some distance to the north of
> here.
> After a long ride on a flatbed a week ago I got a prelim., eyeball
> estimate
> of $8500. to put Humpty Dumpty together again. (State Farm, thankfully,
> has been very supportive re the choice of a high end repair shop.)
>
> Unfortunately, this body shop in whom I had heavily vested my hopes
> for
> a good outcome for my expensive replacement of a 71 Bubble Top VW
> camper
> bus** called a few days later to inform me that they could not put
> Humpty
> Dumpty together again after all. Too many camper parts with which they
> are unfamiliar have to be removed and replaced to fix it properly.
>
> SO HERE I
> SIT CARLESS IN LB WHILE MY EV LANGUISHES IN AN EXTREMELY TENUOUS
> POSITION IN SAN GABRIAL. Does anyone have any suggestions for a shop,
> preferably in So Cal, which does a good job on EVs??
>
> **(Adventurer pkg.-wonderful configuration
> which I drove daily, and solely, for 17 years. It was with great
> reluctance I finally had to admit that I needed a new vehicle-I was
> spending too many weekends fixing something on my beloved van and had
> shoved too many rebuilt motors into its rear end. Although its white
> fiberglass "attic" space above the driver and passenger helped keep the
> temp.inside below broiling, even I had to admit it was past time for
> air conditioning. In short, an aging, air-cooled 48 hp vehicle needed
> restoration-which I couldn't afford at the time or -retirement. So I
> defected to the Honda camp for a few years and put the bus out to
> pasture. Unbelieveable as it sounds, it was stolen off the street just
> a few months ago in the town from which I just moved !)
>
> This entry probably ranks amongst the longest ms. ever posted here. My
> apologies and my thanks to any who took the time to read it.
If this is a EVC (sounds like it is) you might need to have an EV repair
place first repair the camper equipment and then have a body shop repair the
EV-only body stuff. See if your ins. co. will cover such an arrangement.
.
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