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Sorry to hear about the mishap - we all do it. Good time to vent - but be careful what you ask for!
Remember in the mid 70s when the Feds mandated 5mph crash resistant bumpers to all cars because everybody complained of rising repair costs! Not only did it make every car hideous looking, the cost to repair at a greater than 5mph impact was twice what it would have been without the crash resistance hardware, not to mention the firefighters that lost thier lives during extracaton when those compressed gas absorbing bumpers let go and shot the bumper mount across the highway, often under more than 2,000 psi of pressure after impact.
I've got a receipt around here for $530 to Denver Bumper for my rear bumper I caught on a parking lot cable last spring and ripped it right off the truck. Sure it was lightweight and mostly plastic, but thats the price of fuel efficiency my friend! In the end, the only one I could blame for the cost of repair was me for poor judgement in driving.
Cheer up, brick is far more expensive.
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