Some motherfucker smashed my car window

The BBQ Pit
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Last night, I was visiting a friend a few miles from home. I left at 1:15 in the morning, and found the driver’s side window on my car smashed. The car parked behind me had the same damage, the 4 cars in front of me had kicked-in dents on the drivers doors.
Some stupid asshole caused a lot of damage for a bunch of people.
Nothing was stolen, nobody was hurt, so I know things could be worse.
BUT, WHAT THE FUCK?
Random property damage, way to prove yourself, ASSHOLE !
I’m pissed off. I had to call the cops, file a report.
I’m going to call my insurance company in the morning, and have to find a Toyota dealership not TOO busy with recall repairs to replace the window on a 2001 car. How many hundreds of dollars is this going to cost me, I wonder?
Money I really want to spend this way.

ASSHOLE big-shot vandal. Have a nice day, motherfucker.

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“You can’t say BANJO without smilin’”…Bob Pinciotti

David…sorry bout your loss. Good rant 7/10

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[Vincent Vega]
They should be fucking killed, man. No trial, no jury, straight to execution. What’s more chickenshit than fucking with a man’s automobile? I mean, you don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle. You don’t do it. It’s just against the rules.
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Most insurance places will deal with auto glass replacement shops, so at least you have that potentially going for you.

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Which is nice.

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Speaking of auto glass companies, a few years back, cars were vandalized in a few neighborhoods in Cincinnati. A few weeks later, the owner of an auto glass company was arrested for the vandalism. Seems he was trying to drum up some business…

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When it happened to me in 2007 I wasn’t covered by comprehensive (it was a 14-year-old car at that point, despite looking pretty good due to Saturn’s nice paintwork).

After having been quoted $700-800 just for parts (and presumably more for labor) I was eventually able to get it done for much less. My advice: don’t be too proud to phone a junkyard.

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Happened to me twice.

Side window smashed on my car while it was in a parking lot… a pretty busy and active parking lot on a Saturday night. I assume they mistook my messenger bag for a laptop bag and thought it was worth it. All they got was my sweaty refereee shirt, two stop watches, and a binder… as well as the irreplaceable sentimental seasame street wallet chain.
first time it happened, I had taken my ex soon to be new girlfriend at the time out into the country one night to look at the stars. Parked along a road in the middle of nowhere. We sat on a hill and had a romantic time. Then heard smashing glass. Assholes stopped their car. Smashes three out of my six windows hooted and hollered and then drove off.

That was an awful drive home.

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I pay a buck a month for glass insurance. It’s worth it for the peace of mind, I figure. Plus, they come out and repair rock chips in my windshield for free!

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I mean, chances are the poor kid who smashed you windows had a lot of issues…like lousy parents, school bullying, etc.
On second thought, I agree with you.
We have a lot of property crime because the punks know that even if caught, nothing would happen to them.
If these creeps stood to get a good beating, there would be a lot less of this crim.

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Burn the bastards! BURN THEM!

On a low-key note, ‘ve had the car (along with all others in the small parking lot) keyed at one point during college. It’s rather frustrating when people chose to be vandals/jackasses towards others’ property, and get away with it. :frowning:

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Just a word of advise from someone who worked in the auto glass insurance business for five years in a billing capacity. Don’t go to a dealership to replace a broken door glass. Any auto glass shop can do the work for you at a fraction of the cost and in many cases won’t take them more than a half hour. Most will go to wherever the vehicle is to do the work.

Dealerships will often hire a glass replacement shop to do the work and will charge you more for the “privilege” of having the work done at their lot. Also original equipment glass is often 2-5 times as expensive as aftermarket and aside from a logo on the glass is the exact same thing often even made by the same manufacturer.

Furthermore sometimes even if you have comprehensive coverage your insurance company may simply refuse to pay for a dealer do the work for the reasons I stated above. Or, if you insist, you can have the dealer do the work but you may be responsible for the difference. All insurance companies have different policies regarding dealer glass some don’t care.

Spare yourself the additional expense and trouble and just call a glass shop out of the yellow pages. Often you can find someone who can do the work same day.

Sorry about what happened, by the way. It sucks.

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:frowning: No fun! I hope the rest of your week goes better!

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** UPDATE **

I paid $200.00 to a Toyota dealership, and they DID NOT clean all of the broken glass out of the car. There was a big shard under the trunk-release lever on the floor, glass still on the driver’s seat, and glass on the floor on both the driver’s side and the passenger side.

I had purchased this Camry new in 2001, and had very good dealer service until 2 years ago when my original dealership changed hands. I got so fed up last fall, I wrote a 5 page letter detailing their mistakes and lies. When I finally talked to the current dealership owner, and asked him if he wanted my business, he said, “No.”

I found a different dealership to go to, further way from home. I TOLD the manager of this dealership about my previous bad experiences, and GAVE him a copy of that letter. He said he would do right by me. He said he WANTED my business. I got a phone message on Monday night that the car was ready, and I picked it up on Tuesday at 1 pm.
They had washed the car’s outside, but had NOT looked in to see the condition of the sub-contractor’s glass work on the inside of the car.

I had told the manager early on Monday morning that I brought the car to the dealership, rather than an auto-glass shop, because I wanted to establish a relationship with a new dealership.

Today, when confronted with the problem, he offered to detail the car for free.
That entails sending it out to someone else, and me waiting around or finding errands in that part of town for 6 hours. I value my time more than that.

I told him he lost a customer.

ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS LOOK INSIDE THE DAMN CAR!

With all the bad PR that Toyota is having, this dealer doesn’t have a clue how to win a customer.

Stay away from Grossinger City Autoplex and Northside Toyota in Chicago if you are looking for honest service. They don’t know how to offer it.

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hi there. i am quite sure that a lot of the readers of this forum are sympathetic of your situation. crap, if that happened to me i’d probably lose my mind over repair or looking for a car window replacement. but hey, what goes around comes around.

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No, it really doesn’t.

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Sometimes it just needs a little nudge to get rolling.

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You drove the car to the dealership with glass on the driver’s seat? The mechanic at the dealership drove the car around with glass on the driver’s seat? The guy that ran it through the car wash drove it through with glass on the driver’s seat?

Really?

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What? You revived an 8 month old thread to…what, imply that the OP deserved getting his window smashed in? is a petty vandal himself? I don’t get it.

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Not only that, but he or she went to the trouble of creating a new account and username, and then used their maiden (and so far only) post to zombify an old thread with an ambiguously worded reply which seems to imply that the OP deserved getting his window smashed in.

What’s your deal, sullivan8?