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big dong wanter posted:Accidentally turned off the traction control in the commodore, thank gently caress leather seats are easy to clean because the non matching tyres made the fuckin thing go mega sideways. Excuse me while I borrow a crowbar to unclench my arse That's normal operating conditions for driving a Commodore. My scariest Commodore experience was slowly driving from the traffic lights in a company car Commodore, and it had a brain fart and threw me into the lane next to me. Not sure if it was due to lovely tyres, as I was taking off slowly due to the road being wet.
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I am an uncle now. My neice arrived about an hour ago via c-section. Over 3.5kg and the spitting image of her mom.
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As a fellow Cool Uncle I can attest it's all the good things of kid ownership without the monthly fee. Congrats.
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Ether Frenzy posted:As a fellow Cool Uncle I can attest it's all the good things of kid ownership without the monthly fee. Congrats. Quoted for truth! Being an uncle is the best. It’s certainly softened my position on the possibility of being a father one day.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I miss being blown away by a new band or album coming out, it's all been done already and nothing sounds new or fresh to me anymore, just a variation of poo poo that's been done already. I feel like this is more a result of our youthful brains experiencing things for the first time versus listening to new tunes as an older, more jaded person. I can listen to lovely old low-bitrate MP3s I downloaded on Napster twenty years ago (holy gently caress) and get crazy feels I don't get with recent releases, but that's just nostalgia. I finally ponied up for a paid Spotify account and have had a lot of fun while commuting trying out new stuff I would normally write off as pop garbage. Sure, most of the time I'm rocking The Grateful Dead or nineties alt-rock or whatever but you know what, this Billie Eilish chick has some catchy tracks. I don't know jack about actual musical composition or whatever, so maybe that helps but I made it a point years ago to try to enjoy new music as best I can because nothing says grumpy old man more than a music snob who only likes albums from highschool. In other more car-related notes, AAA really came through on my claims for my total-loss E46 and Aprilia V4R that got melted in my dad's garage fire. I was especially concerned about the motorcycle since it's somewhat rare in my area and had a factory/dealer-installed performance package I had no receipts for. The adjustor worked with me based on photographs I had, and they paid out just $650 shy of what I bought it for it five years ago. E46 prices are pretty much bottomed out right now, but I had recent glamor shots of it after I did a full claybar detail and those combined with the low milage got me a more than fair payout. Overall it was a very painless process and I'd definitely recommend them for auto insurance. RIP   ~happier days~   I won't lie, it was hard to watch the BMW go out to it's new future of getting torn apart at a pick-n-pull. That drat thing never let me down despite it's German heritage and I planned on keeping it until it was a classic. It was clean as hell and I have a lot of good memories in that car  It's just nostalgia though right? Hahah. 
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Ferremit posted:
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Yeah seriously, it's morbidly fascinating. The heads melted off and I could look down into the top end. It was parked right in the main door which was open, so it got completely blast-furnaced via airflow induction from a rear window & door in the back of the garage. It was also right next to a cabinet full of paint/solvents/a few gallons of motor oil. The forks and wheels are completely incinerated with no trace left.
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Humphreys posted:Holy poo poo! I didn't even notice that was the bike Same, I thought that was a deformed engine+transmission that happened to be in the garage as well. 
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freelop posted:Sabaton's entire gimic is singing about military history/machines outside of other context though which they've said in interviews - it'd be like saying Alestorm are weirdly obessed with pirates. quote:He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas gently caress 'em. The Bismarck (like all the super-dreadnoughts) had a short combat record of no note. It was crippled by obsolete torpedo bombers less than 10 days into its first sortie, then scuttled after the Royal Navy pounded everything above the waterline to scrap. Stanning for Wunderwaffe bullshit isn't cool.
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Kazinsal posted:Same, I thought that was a deformed engine+transmission that happened to be in the garage as well. gently caress, if I was the insurance adjuster OP would have a hard time convincing me there totally 100% pinky swear was a full bike before the fire.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:In other more car-related notes, AAA really came through on my claims for my total-loss E46 and Aprilia V4R that got melted in my dad's garage fire. I was especially concerned about the motorcycle since it's somewhat rare in my area and had a factory/dealer-installed performance package I had no receipts for. The adjustor worked with me based on photographs I had, and they paid out just $650 shy of what I bought it for it five years ago. E46 prices are pretty much bottomed out right now, but I had recent glamor shots of it after I did a full claybar detail and those combined with the low milage got me a more than fair payout. Overall it was a very painless process and I'd definitely recommend them for auto insurance. FYI, this is absolutely the exception and I encourage anyone in California to dump AAA insurance like their HS girlfriend dumped them.
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I'll write up my experience with AAA insurance sometime tomorrow after I get up. It wasn't great.
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Don't say that guys. My girlfriend had an ancient guy hit her Stinger in a roundabout last week and he has AAA. 
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Previa_fun posted:Dude is a really good songwriter, probably better than 95% percent of pop punk/emo bands, despite how juvenile the lyrics can be (they own) I still give them a listen every now and then. I got tired of listening to the same music that I've liked since college, so I listen to way more podcasts now instead. 
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Liquid Communism posted:gently caress 'em. The Bismarck (like all the super-dreadnoughts) had a short combat record of no note. It was crippled by obsolete torpedo bombers less than 10 days into its first sortie, then scuttled after the Royal Navy pounded everything above the waterline to scrap. Stanning for Wunderwaffe bullshit isn't cool. Maybe they'll write a song about how awesome the Yamato was next  [e] their gimmick is bizarre imo, lets write metal songs about military history it will be educational! Applebees Appetizer fucked around with this message at 13:17 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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Applebees Appetizer posted:[e] their gimmick is bizarre imo, lets write metal songs about military history it will be educational! Honestly thats what initially attracted me to them. How else am I supposed to know that at 11:02 on the 9th of August the second bomb was dropped?
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Maybe they'll write a song about how awesome the Yamato was next Worked for Iron Maiden 
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My dad serviced his 2014 V70 at a dealer garage (I know, I told him not to do that anymore) and they tried to upsell him the stupidest poo poo like: - engine bay wash @ ~$60 - new wiper blades because apparently the expensive Bosch ones we only just mounted (and work amazingly well) suck @ $50 Adding to that, apparently the rear pads are worn, and brake fluid should be flushed. Grand total of ~$400. A/C service? $450. Dealer garages suck, but this is just stupid expensive and bullshit (wipers and engine bay wash). MrOnBicycle fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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KillHour posted:Don't say that guys. My girlfriend had an ancient guy hit her Stinger in a roundabout last week and he has AAA. Does she have comprehensive insurance? If so it's more about who her insurance company is, since they'll be the ones going after the other dude's insurance to recoup costs. This is also a good reason to carry comprehensive with a good insurer even on a cheap car, and why I do so on my Ranger even though I could replace it out of pocket, gently caress going to battle with someone else's company who is purely motivated to gently caress me over, I'm gonna sit on the couch and massage my whip lashed neck while I wait for my check to come inside a week, with a free rental, and all haggling and negotiating being entirely invisible to me.
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Elviscat posted:Does she have comprehensive insurance? If so it's more about who her insurance company is, since they'll be the ones going after the other dude's insurance to recoup costs. She does, but she's going through his insurance.
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mariooncrack posted:Worked for Iron Maiden Lol comparing them to Maiden is laughable. Besides, the few songs Steve Harris wrote about war was from his own point of view, not literally copied out of a history book.
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My AAA insurance experience: I'm out of state in Colorado in my month old GTI. On the last morning of my trip a guy makes a blind left turn across traffic and forces me to hit him. He's 100% at fault and gets a ticket and everything. I decide I'm going to let my insurance deal with everything as that's what I have them for. I'm leaving the next morning so my main concern is getting a rental to get home, and they're super scarce because of a massive storm rolling through. The car is on a flatbed and I basically have that one truck to decide where to take it without paying out of pocket for the tow. Once again, I'm out of state in the mountains and don't necessarily have the time to track down a good shop in Denver to get towed to right at that exact moment. So I go with AAA's recommended shop in the area, Caliber Collision in Dillon, CO. Their reviews aren't great, but it seems to mostly be a timeframe issue from the complaints, so I let it go there and finally track down a rental and drive home the next morning. The other guy was at fault, so his insurance is going to cover everything including the rentals. On the rentals, it turns out I'm going to have to wait for reimbursement from his company and pay out of pocket for some reason, but I can afford it so it's not a huge issue. I'm going through my insurance company, who should be paying for it and then get reimbursed themselves, but whatever. No one but myself seems to be doing much talking with the shop that it's at either. Initial timeframe for repairs is something like 4 weeks with an initial estimate of $7k in damages that quickly goes up to $11k. I'm going to be back out in Colorado about 6 weeks after the accident, so if they run over their initial estimate a bit it's no huge deal. They do run over their estimate and being the only person apparently talking to the shop, I tell them when I'm going to be back out and to just have the car ready by then. They say no problem and I just call once a week for updates. I'm obviously talking to AAA, but they have no idea of what's going on at all. 6 weeks rolls by and I'm back in Colorado for a quick snowboarding trip. I've talked to this shop multiple times and they say the car will be ready for sure when I get there. I get there and show up to the shop the next morning. The car is not ready and it's not even there. They've had to ship it to Denver to a dealer for some reason that I never get explained but it will be back tomorrow. Fine. Except everyone knows how this goes and they tell me the next day that the car won't be back that day. Once again, I'm leaving the next day. I call my insurance company and kind of lay into them. This is loving ridiculous, I want my loving car back, why is no one but me putting pressure on them to get this poo poo done when I've been in a rental for 6 weeks at $30+ a day? After making a bunch of calls to the shop and AAA I get some good news, and whatever the car was at a dealer for has been resolved and they'll have it back to me before they close for the night. This all finally happens and I show up to pick up the car. It's dirty from being on a flatbed going through the mountains in winter. Once again, whatever, and I take a quick look over the car in the fading light and jump in to go grab dinner and I'm just super happy to have it back. I'm a few minutes from the shop and I notice that one of the buttons on the steering wheel is still broken from the airbag deployment. I immediately call my insurance company and take it back to the shop after I eat. "We don't know how that got missed". I'm still leaving the next day and I'm taking the car with me and my insurance company says fine and we'll get it taken care of when I get home. By the way, final repair bill of SEVENTEEN THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS on a VW GTI. I'm obviously pissed but I have the car back. I get it home and wash it. This is when I notice the shittiest body work I've ever seen. Like Maaco could have done a better job. You can clearly see which panels have been painted as nothing was blended, and the paint work is completely poo poo on top of it. Back on the phone with my insurance company. They end up sending out 3(?) adjusters who all agree that the work is poo poo and needs to be redone. I tell them what body shop I want but they want me to get multiple quotes for some reason. I say I'd rather not waste my time as it's going to the shop I want, but they want the quotes. Each one is higher than the next, with the final from my preferred shop. I've had the car back for like a month and a half at this point. Some number of months after I've gotten the car back I finally get approval to have the car reworked. I'm going to need a rental again while the car is out. I try to get my insurance to cover it. They won't do it and say that they'll try to get the other insurance to cover it. They're clearly not going to as they've done their part but I get my company to say that they'll do what the can at least. I'm going to eat this rental bill and I already know it. The car has been in the shop for like 4 weeks and I get a call from the shop that my insurance company is refusing payment over them not properly documenting the repairs with pictures or some poo poo. The car is done but I can't have it back. I get caught up in some pissing match between the two and get forwarded into their email chain where they're bitching at each other. I call AAA and tell them that I don't loving care about any of this and I want my car back right loving now. So I finally get it back a week after it's done. So 5 weeks total. The car looks amazing and I'm finally happy with it. I talk to AAA about the rental. They tell me the other company won't pay for it and I'm on my own. I knew this was coming but I'm obviously pissed. I end up about a thousand dollars out of pocket on these stupid rentals. I make some inquiries about suing people, and I have no issue not making money on this, but am explicitly told it's not worth the time or cost. Most of this is obviously a result of a super lovely shop, but AAA didn't do poo poo and I had to end up doing a ton of legwork myself even though I specifically let them deal with it so I didn't have to gently caress with any of this. In the end everything got made whole outside of that final rental, but they fought me the entire way when I wanted the car re-repaired. I think it was about 5 or 6 months from the accident to me having the car back in acceptable condition. They were also my house insurance provider and I needed my roof replaced after a hail storm and the deductible was $7000 while the cost to replace the roof was $7500. gently caress AAA insurance. E: forgot to mention that the bill from the second shop was over $5k putting the total repair costs to almost $23k. fknlo fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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I was in an accident earlier this year where I tboned a guy who had run a red light, instead of calling my insurance I called this accident claim handling company who coerced the other driver to admit fault and then they proceeded to completely rape his insurance company. I was in a hire car for two months lol. Didnt have to pay any excess nor lose my no claims bonus. Owned
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tl;dr: got junkyard wheel. got new front tires. got alignment. junkyard wheel isn't totally straight. Oh well, it's still a shitload better, and Discount Tire said I'd probably only feel it at highway speeds (they were right - slight vibration at highway speeds, no more paint shaker above 10 mph). Told alignment shop "the car is a beater, I just need it to make it through the rest of the year.. you're going to find at least 20 issues that I don't give a poo poo about fixing, and if the bushings are shot, I'm fine with a 'good nuff' alignment". When I picked it up, they told me most of the bushings on it are shot, but there was enough left to do a "good nuff" alignment and still warranty it. They said they didn't bother building a quote to fix it up since I was upfront in telling them I just want it to stop eating tires and don't want to spend any other money on it. It drives a shitload better. Totally different car aside from the lack of 2nd gear. They were going to do a drain/fill on the gearbox using fluid I brought for a flat half hour labor, until my dumbass mentioned it grinds going into 2nd...  I'm just gonna need to get off my rear end and cut down an allen key to fit the drain plug. The moment they heard "grind" they basically said "OH HELL NO WE AIN'T TOUCHING THAT GEARBOX".tetrapyloctomy posted:People who just drop often don't even know what hit them. They go into ventricular fibrillation and just go out. I've had people grab my arms during CPR and ask me what the gently caress I'm doing, then go back out because they stopped my compressions. We finally get the pads on them to shock, and they don't remember anything. So I'm going to say your bud went out painlessly. I'm sorry for your loss, man. I honestly hope that's what happened. That's supposedly what happened with another friend - she was in her mid 60s and at her son's having dinner. Her son told me they were in the middle of a conversation with her talking, she stopped talking for a second and "looked confused for a second", followed by a faceplant into a plate full of food. And.. that was it. fknlo posted:My AAA insurance experience: FWIW, I've used Caliber twice (once in Dallas TX, once in Plano TX). Both times they did excellent work, I really had no complaints. Service King made 1/3 of my car look like a loving bass boat, and somehow only managed to wash half of the car - outside of laying down bass boat levels of metal flake (and laying it in the wrong direction), the work was "okay". No overspray, but the paint fumes lingered inside the car for about a month. I used a local chain (Herb's Paint and Body) once to try and support local businesses; they were pretty well regarded in DFW, but they did absolutely terrible work. You could easily see the marks where the hood was straightened, the bumper wasn't even on its hangers properly, and the headlights were laughably misaligned (and when I pulled the bumper to try to get the headlights remotely pointing the right direction, I found both were only held on by 2 out of 5 bolts).. The paint was decent for a few months, then it started falling off of the front bumper in large sheets. When I took it back, they said they wouldn't warranty it because there were some scratches on the bottom of the bumper from parking. If the factory paint can handle 8 years of typical scrapes over a parking berm over 2 previous owners, why the gently caress can't you add enough flex additive to handle 1 scrape? Elviscat posted:Does she have comprehensive insurance? If so it's more about who her insurance company is, since they'll be the ones going after the other dude's insurance to recoup costs. This depends on the state and the insurance. Comprehensive here doesn't cover a drat thing if an impact is involved while the car is moving. It's only acts of god covered under comprehensive in Texas - theft, fire, vandalism, hail, flood, etc. UM/UIM will come into play in a hit and run (even while parked), comprehensive takes over if your car was in motion regardless of fault (but they'll subrogate and try like hell to get your deductible back). FWIW, I've had to have my insurance subrogate twice in accidents. Once they got my deductible back after about 9 months (Nationwide). The other time they threw their hands up after only a month (Geico), but in their letter they claimed they were siding with my side of the story, and my rates didn't go up. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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I got his by a car by a woman with AAA and with good coverage. She was at fault, it was on video (god bless bars that have fights so they have cameras on the street), and she admitted as such. They low balled the absolute poo poo out of me. They would not negotiate at all. So I took her rear end to small claims court. They made he go to court with no support. She also lived like 150mi away and had to be in court at 8am. They provided no support in court -- they can't send a lawyer, but they can send an adjuster, etc. No negotiation allowed by them. She again admitted fault. No facts in dispute. She was found 100% at fault. They wasted this paying customer's time over like $4k, sent her to court with no preparation or support, and were just generally lovely. It is one thing to make things suck for the other party, but it is quite another to just gently caress over your paying customer. Seriously, if you are an insurance company and your driver hits someone not in a car and it costs less than $10k, just loving pay out. If I wasn't a lawyer, I'd previously have called an injury lawyer who would have somehow make it costs twice as much. I just wanted to be made whole.
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fridge corn posted:then they proceeded to completely rape his insurance company. hey don't fuckin do this
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Fender Anarchist posted:hey don't fuckin do this You're right, sorry. I shouldn't use the word rape in such a way
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Them being a nationwide chain that seems to be above average as a whole is what made me ok with sending my car to them. https://imgur.com/a/HO36l That's an album with some of the issues. Not all super easy to see, but the color matching was terrible, panels with terrible orange peel in spots, fingerprints and smudges in the clear coat, etc... The shop that ended up doing the repairs noticed something on the hood when I took it in for an estimate. The sun was hitting it just right and you could see that they'd done one pass and you could see the black primer really, really well.   They're not easy to see, but you can see the side to side lines there. It was impossible to not see in person once you knew about it. e: this is on a car that is leased too. I leased it planning on buying it out, but that obviously wasn't happening after the accident. I think the winning argument from me with AAA was that turning in the vehicle in that condition was going to be an issue and all of their adjusters agreed. fknlo fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Aug 19, 2019 |
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nm posted:FYI, this is absolutely the exception and I encourage anyone in California to dump AAA insurance like their HS girlfriend dumped them. Well poo poo, I guess I got lucky because it was a very simple process for me. Like, I think it would have been a struggle to match what I got if I was selling on craigslist. Do you say that due to the incident where the woman hit you, or have you seen it in other cases in your lawyering? One of the firemen the day of the fire asked me who the bike was insured with and said " oh that's too bad" when I told him so you're not the only one to bring this up. I was planning on keeping AAA for whatever I car I get next, but I guess I will need to do some shopping around. Which insurance companies have you AI folk had good experiences with? fknlo posted:My AAA insurance experience: a total disaster Geeze that sounds like a terrible experience. Guess I got double lucky.
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STR posted:It drives a shitload better. Totally different car aside from the lack of 2nd gear. They were going to do a drain/fill on the gearbox using fluid I brought for a flat half hour labor, until my dumbass mentioned it grinds going into 2nd... I did the VW last year when it started randomly grinding and popping out of second, new fluid fixed it completely. I ended up using a short 13mm (or whatever the fill plug size was) double nutted to get the fill plug out.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:And here's some of the Keith Moon we all know and love I regret that I was unable to see Keith Moon before he died. At least I saw The Who before John Entwistle kicked off (1989, The Biggest Party In History. That man is amazing with a bass. Thunderfingers indeed. Ferremit posted:
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NitroSpazzz posted:I did the VW last year when it started randomly grinding and popping out of second, new fluid fixed it completely. I ended up using a short 13mm (or whatever the fill plug size was) double nutted to get the fill plug out. That's a neat idea. I'll have to remember that should I ever need a shorty hex key.
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Darchangel posted:after it was fitted with a Wave-Motion Engine and made spaceworthy. 
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Lol I realize the scene is still there but as far as rock being mainstream or popular music it's over. This isn't a knock on it because like I said I love it (look at my avatar it's loving Keith Moon), but denying it and calling people dicks for pointing it out doesn't make it less true. Saying "rock is dead" is just a term stating the popularity of it is nowhere near what it used to be, it doesn't mean it's buried six feet under, some of ya'll are taking it way too personally geez. Keith Moon fuckin owned. His drumming sounded like throwing a drum kit down a flight of stairs but in a super precise way.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I was planning on keeping AAA for whatever I car I get next, but I guess I will need to do some shopping around. Which insurance companies have you AI folk had good experiences with? USAA is my rec, if you're eligible. I've never had any claims otherwise besides windshields (with other providers), but had one with USAA when we hit a coyote. Not a single hitch, even when the shop had to do some rework at my request (bit of overspray). I like the policy changes you can tweak online at any time and be told right away how your rate/payment is affected.
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I know this is probably against the popular opinion, but the one claim I had with Geico went super smooth and the shop they recommended did a great job.
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KillHour posted:I know this is probably against the popular opinion, but the one claim I had with Geico went super smooth and the shop they recommended did a great job. Your choice of Aston ownership doth witness against you. Allstate. I pay a slight premium but get premium service so 
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