Sorry to see that happen to your lovely car Jeff. Hopefully it can all be put back to gather properly without any permanent damage.

 

It will be fine, the only part I wont get new is the rear under tray.

It will come out better than it went in.

 

These heifers giving me the stare down!

Haven't hit a single animal in over one million miles! Yet!

 

So sorry to hear about the collision Jeff. Glad to see you're doing ok. It ran underneath is much better than above!
Is it too early to ask you a favor and ask the owner of that E90 M3 if he/she is selling?

 

haha...ya, that car is pretty F*ed up...I had a look at it.

 

Here is the rear view.

Ive stripped out the audio, I was on the phone at the time.


Here is the camera...I evaluated a lot before ending on this one

https://www.nextbase.com/en-us/dash-...22gw-dash-cam/

 

So you're running two of those cameras? Good idea the world is full of surprises out on the road.

 

The front main unit takes an input for a rear one you can get from them as well.

 

So sorry to see the damage. But I'm glad it didn't hurt you or disable the car.

 

Update...aint insurance fun???
This is just the first round with them, Im sure.
But after two weeks, i'm glad its finally being managed...

 

Would you be willing to tell us which insurance company you are using?

 

USAA

 

I had a similar experience about 2 years ago driving at night on a dark freeway, driving my '88 944, passing a pickup truck on a right hand sweeping turn -came up suddenly on very recently killed large dead deer laying in the middle of the left lane, absolutely no time to react and no place to go to avoid hitting it. Basically drove right over it doing 70mph. I exited the next exit about 1/3 of a mile away with a good amount of undercarriage damage . Lower Valance destroyed , condensor coil, radiator leaking heavily, radiator support brackets bent aft to a 45 degree angle, and both elec. cooling fans broken. I decided not to report to my insurance due to already high rates. I bought the replacement parts, straightened and re-welded radiator support brackets, which took about a month on my spare time. Deer are always danger to me living out in the country, and I have had several other near misses.

 

The front undertray is available, but just got expensive.

Interesting that your insurance is deleting broken pieces from your estimate.
Do they propose that the pieces just be left off the car?

 

I just left from my body shop, to make sure we're on the same page...theyre used to this from an adjuster at home..without their reading glasses, and hacking away at a quote, then forcing the shop to have them physically visit during the job, to adjust for the stuff they missed.

We're just getting this all done before it goes in the shop and I lose it for a few weeks...still a PITA.

And the used parts USAA said could come from porschepartsdepot.com, my shop would likely never get, because my shop has refused every recycled part they have ever sent them.

Just for those new to this...you NEVER have to accept a settlement, you can say no...