Valet ran my truck into a wall

luckily for you, that would be an easy repair for the body shop guys as all they would do is re-skin the doors and slap another bedside on..it wont be as bad as you might imagine it to be

 

"and topping our news tonite, a valet in Southern California was run over and dragged to their death. Surveillance video shows an irate female in a silver Toyota Tacoma speeding off after the incident......"

 

Haha, Al. Went to buy my brother his Christmas gift. Put my stuff in my passenger seat and as I was leaving the parking lot, it started to fall off. My instinct was to look over and stop it from falling. All within a split second and I was pinned up against a concrete pillar. Happened at very low speeds, but did some significant damage. Really bummed and pissed, but you live and learn.

I'm hoping this is the case! I found the OEM door skins online at about $190 for the rear and $225 for the front. Not worried about the bedsides because I'm going to replace them with fiberglass for my rear LT. At this point, I'm going to try to price it out myself and then decide if I want to go through the insurance route or pay out of pocket to keep my rates down.

 

At least you didn't get hit by an oldsmobile the first week you got your truck

 

I said nevermind. HAHA. Live and learn - yes. Been there and done that.

 

Ya know, that's why i don't let anyone touch my truck, that way, nothing bad can happen to it and no one will get hurt.

 

Used to be a valet and I would definitely never valet any of my cars after what I have seen.

One valet totaled a brand new Roush mustang by gunning it out of the garage which made the mustang pretty much powerslide into a fire hydrant followed shortly by wrapping itself around a palmtree.

Other stories involve how valets love to test driving any type of sportscar in the garage...

At least he didn't total it???

 

...Thank god I got my sliders on before this winter weather hits

 

That sucks!
I hope it works out for you both $$ & fixed properly.

 

The Valet company will have insurance and they will take care of it. Sucks it happened man, sorry to hear it

 

thank you!

yeah it blows.. i know it will be fixed, and it WILL be done right. I hope the adjustor does not try to low ball me

thank you!

 

And this is why the first thing I did was armour my truck...

Sorry to hear about it, glad to hear it's being handled responsibly.

 

I just remember staying in an hotel in DC with mandatory valet parking, and guy would park my conversion van by feel, into a brick wall, time and time again. Did a number on the fancy spare tire cover and mount...

We don't valet park much these days.

Howard

 

Sorry about your damage.
I hate valet, I will walk pretty far to avoid.
My wife parked hers (6 speed manual vw) with a valet, almost, since none of they knew how to drive a manual.

 

Hey Jen , sorry to here about your truck, dont worry it will get fixed, and if it doesnt , bring it back to Va and ill hook you up with my paint and body guy. hope the west coast is treating you well! later chris

 

Lol thanks man! Everything is good out here just been really busy!

I just found out that all I have to do is mail them two quotes and they will send me a check so I don't have to go through an adjustor! Yay