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we had a storm within the last week, that blew up... it helped put out a lot of the forest fires burning...
it also came with high winds... my wife's house has about 50 plus oak trees on the property...

The acorns are the size of small ping pong balls this year...and dinged the roof of our low mile 2008 Carmry..

The insurance company wants to total the car, if you can believe that...

totaled by acorns...that's a new one on me.. kinda like State Farm commercials..."we've seen a thing or two.. ( of weird schitt)..

of course, all your opinions always suck....

Pour some Jack over Coke and ice and ponder your next vehicle....

Man, you got some nuts!!!

Body and paint work has gotten damned expensive and replacing the roof of the car probably isn't worth what it would cost.
We have a 2009 Honda Pilot with a lot of sun damage to the upper surfaces of hood and roof. We had the car in for a minor fender repair at a well regarded local body shop last year and I ask the estimator how much to paint the whole car; 5k-7k was the answer.
Needless to say we declined.

Don’t think of it as damage; think of it as character.

That is crazy. Will they total it, cut you a check, and then let you buy it back at a wholesale auction price?

Sorry for your little car and big nuts. There’s a reason garages were invented.

Forgive my laffin’, never heard of totaled by nuts before.

Rear ender at stop light on my 2007 4x4 LTZ Avalanche cost the other dumbasses insurance close to 10k to fix. Caught the receiver hitch square and bent the ends of the frame where it attaches. Also body, exhaust and air ride damage. Luckily its a low mileage vehicle we have maintained or they would have tried to total it the body shop told me. I turned it into my insurance under subrogation and they went after the other company.

Most Insurance will. BTDT. My daughter's fox body Mustang, the hail got it good. We bought it back with about 1/4 of the insurance check and switched it over to Liability only. She drove it for about six more years. Then she sold it with "parts only" written across the title and bill of sale.

That’s crazy

What kind of oak?

That's CHEAP. If his work looks good that's real CHEAP. A quality paintjob with minimal bodywork aside from prepping the surface should run well over 10k.

Total the car?

That should cover the next few valve cover gasket repairs.

It's just a formula to them, if the cost of repair is more than the car is worth then they'll total it. Dings are expensive to fix and each one adds up so they total something like that, I've seen brand new cars totaled due to hail dings because it costs more to fix than the car is worth.

Let them total it, take the check, then buy it back at the salvage value as said by others. It's just cosmetic and it's a Toyota so you should easily be able to drive it another 300,000 miles. If the dings bother you then find a paintless dent repair guy and haggle with him to pull them out.

This. Or take the check and buy a different car that won’t get totaled by falling acorns.

Bur oaks have big acorns.



Have some here, but they aren't native everywhere.

Which is crazy when one thinks about it. A new compact or slightly bigger car can be had for +/- $ 25-30K. With a quality paint job already applied, that with decent care will last 15 years or so before the clear coat dies.

I'm not going to believe the car makers are spending anywhere near $10K for a paint job. Even given their production quantities, $4k is way over what they are spending.

I know what it will cost, as I have a friend in the body shop biz, and new paint and clear coat on my 20 year old Tacoma would be $4-7K he said. A few dings in it, but within the last couple of years the clear coat has gone bad and the windblown area at the top of the windshield is getting down through the actual paint.

Last truck we had, an '86 2wd Toyota, got the rattle can job once it's paint got really bad. Sometimes not a rattle can either, some spots got hit with a brush and whatever silver/gray paint was laying around the place. I'm guessing my relatively nice looking one is in for the same treatment soon.

Those are some big acorns! Need to wear a hard hat under those trees. BTW, Farmers Insurance. Not that it probably makes any difference.

Seafire,

good thing your car wasn't parked under a sugar pine.

The burr oaks here'bouts have some mighty large acorns.

Dry ice and a hair dryer, or heat gun! Heat each dimple and drop the dry ice on it, pop out will come the dent! Worked for hail dents, should work for nut dents! Ask the buy back price, if its cheap enough buy it back and go the heat, ice route! Then sell and make money on the deal!