Body Damage (continued)

[WildWG]

I just wanted to update y'all on what has been going on with our 2000 2619 that we bought 3rd hand in the spring of '06. Since purchasing our TM, we have spent over 100 camping nights in it including a roundtrip from Albuquerque, NM to Jasper, Alberta. It has been great and we love it.

Last November, while on a fishing trip, we stopped at a grocery store to pick up last minute provisions. I parked along side cars in the parking lot. As we were leaving, and I swear we had not moved out more than 2 or 3 feet, our TM hit the edge of a door that the driver had just opened. While we could not have been moving more than a couple of miles an hour and the only damage to the car was a dimple in the edge of the door, our TM suffered quite a bit of cosmetic damage which is evident in the photos that I will make every effort to include in this post. We contacted our insurance company immediately and were informed that the accident would be charged against us as we were the moving vehicle. After several months of researching, wrangling and negotiating, our insurance company has totaled our TM because the estimates to fix our damage have been in the $5,000 area. We paid $9,000 for the TM and will be receiving a check for $7,000 from the insurance company. We also will be keeping our TM with a salvage title. Our TM is currently in a very reputable RV repair facility that is going to fix our TM to our satisfaction for less than $2,000.

The lesson that I have learned is that it is very, very easy to do a great deal of damage to a TM and that I have to be more careful in the future, especially in parking lots.

Wild Bill