I walked out of my apartment complex today to find my brand new, shiny, pretty jeep wrangler up on cinder blocks.
The thieves were attracted to my upgraded, big mudding tires that I bought off of craigslist for $600 and failed to mention to my insurance company. That was a my bad.
To their credit, Geico has been great, so far. We will see. They have provided me with a rental car free to me until next Thursday. An assessor is coming out Mon or Tuesday to circle thecar and confirm that the wheels, tires, rims are truly missing.
I called the cops, who handed me a card with a claim number, and said my situation is too bad.
I called the jeep dealership and they have nothing in stock. Everything is being imported from Detroit and wont be in till the 4th or 5th. They agreed to balance and mount the tires before we pick them up, and put them on the jeep ourselves at the apartment complex.
I am sad that Geico demands I buy standard, factory rims and tires or there is no coverage. I wouldnt mind paying the difference for the bigger tires, but Geico wont do it.
Here's the kicker- My jeep wheels had a tire lock. They were LOCKED ONTO THE JEEP. The thieves got the lock key out of the center consol and removed my tires, LEAVING THE 5TH WHEEL ON THE BACK OF THE JEEP! They TOOK THE LOCK KEY WITH THEM! So I cant remove the 5th wheel.
Now I will be driving my jeep with small standard tires and a big honking mudding tire on the back.
And since they didnt steal the 5th tire, Geico wont pay to replace the 5th tire, so I will have to pay for a spare tire myself. Although I dont know where to store it, with the big supersized tire locked onto the back of my vehicle.
And I have to pay my $500 deductible. So I pay $500 for tires that are crappier than I had yesterday. {{sigh}} And until everything arrives late next week, my jeep is propped up on cinder blocks, redneck style.
Yup- this set me back quite a bit. At this point, due to Baseball team issues I dont feel comfortable announcing to the world at the moment- we are bleeding money. This was it. We are borrowing from future savings to pay this deductible, and if one more thing goes wrong, I just dont know what we will do.
Oh- and they got my IPOD.
I was in shock all morning. Going through the motions to do what I gotta do- and now I find it mildly amusing. Theres nothing I can do, I might as well laugh at hoow comical it is to see a brand new, shiny wrangler on cinder blocks.
Pretty pretty jeep tricked out redneck style
June 28th, 2008 at 01:58 am
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So sorry! Glad you had the humor to share the photo! DH's car went up in flames back in Jan and was a total loss (obviously). We had some cool pictures. You will look back and laugh.
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June 28th, 2008 at 02:25 pm 1214659515
Stinks, doesn't it? I was miserable. If it makes you feel better, I can look back and (not exactly) laugh, but time has definitely made it not such a big deal.
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Is there anything such as a master tire lock? Or some kind of id # on it to make another one?
June 29th, 2008 at 04:38 pm 1214753912
My office isn't in the greatest area but someone dropped off a car and completely stripped it and left it on cinder blocks. Never seen anything like it. In that case my boss had to pay to get the dang thing removed.
Just reminded me.
I can not imagine walking out and seeing my car like that. Poor Jeep!!! & poor you!!
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