Bronco Possibly Totaled

[Steve_In_29]

After our accident on Wednesday, my wife had been hurting more then I thought was normal for a seat belt bruise. So yesterday I took her to the bigger hospital in Show Low (pop 15K plus thousands of tourists) to visit the Urgent Care. Well the empty UC told us she had to go to the packed ER instead. So 4 hours later, with us being no closer to getting seen then when we walked in the door, we left.

Today I took her to the smaller hospital in Springerville (pop 5K) and we were in and out in 3 hours. They did blood work, x-ray and CT scan. Results were that her sternum was broke in the accident. Everything was still in correct place but she will be in pain for roughly the next 6 weeks.

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[Steve_In_29]

Interesting. In my case it was getting rear ended. Obvious damage was bumper cover. Hidden damage was, of course, the actual bumper was damaged.

Every place I took it to said "the bumper itself is probably damaged, but we can only estimate what we can see for legal reasons". All reputable, high quality shops.

What they are doing is lowballing the estimate to get selected for the repair. Then will do a $$$ supplement after repair is locked in.

My body guy rarely had to do a supplement.