Freak incident has probably totalled my 2015

[opticsguy]

Last Tuesday I was driving to visit a friend in a private street. I passed a "construction ahead" sign and about 100 yards later I couldn't see out the front. I had driven into 6" of DRY portland cement that had been spread on the road. Like Ready Mix, but without the sand and gravel. Tons of it everywhere. And it was windy. I don't know if this is even legal.

Anyway, I left my friends and drove down the freeway about 10 miles to blow the cement dust off the car. I left a pretty good cloud the first 5 miles or so. Then I went through the car wash twice. Then I hosed down the engine since the belts had some dry cement powder around them.

The next morning the car made a horrible noise when I started it. When backing out of the driveway I couldn't turn the steering wheel. Turns out the UBPs had been stuffed with the powder and had turned to solid cement overnight. I spent half of yesterday prying the front UBP off and chipping away 5 gallons of dried cement from the suspension. No bueno.

Insurance had it towed to the shop. This isn't looking good. I had just changed out the original Hankooks and Hyundai replaced the cat converter (a 3 week ordeal) last month. I don't think I'll find a 2015 with only 29000 miles (you read that right).

 

[PFWiz]

Wow!
I have never heard of such a thing. Sounds like you are about to see just how good your insurance is.

 

[celltech]

That is messed up...guess you have extra undercoating now?

 

[EdP]

That is messed up...guess you have extra undercoating now?

He can do well parting it out. Advertise "parts are fully encapsulated to protect them"

 

[Bill in Alexandria]

You can tell the insurance company that the car was under witness protection program from the mafia and a stool pigeon snitched.

 

[daviderle]

Sorry for your loss, I know exactly how you feel after being hit by 220 pound deer few years back..

On the bright side, there are few Vehicles with low mileage around. One example:

Used Genesis 2015

You can use these examples to get the insurance company to closely match that price and try to avoid accepting the first offer they put on the table. In my case I kept pushing them to almost 15% above their first offer before settling the claim.

 

[opticsguy]

Update: about $8K worth of damage. New front suspension. Possibly new drive shaft.

 

[opticsguy]

Update: It ended up being $4600 in work. Some company was able to spray stuff on the cement and it dissolved. In the 4 weeks the car was in the shop, the offers I got for it went from $18,600 to $20,300, which is what I sold it for to a Toyota dealership. It was a clean car, garaged night and day for 6 years, with 29,000 miles and new Contis with 50 miles on them. I didn't need a car that big anymore but man, it was a great ride. Except for the cat converter going out two months ago it was never in the shop.

As for the Genesis owner experience, I essentially was dealing with a Hyundai/Kia experience the whole time. Even when I would call the Genesis dealer for service, I was asked "is this for Hyundai or Kia?", as if they never heard of Genesis. Just an oil change was a 3 hour ordeal so I started using the Mobil place a block from my house. As the owner of 3 Audis I expected more from buying a $50K car.

If you want to sell your used Genny, now is the time. The dealers here (N. TX) have almost nothing new to sell, so their sales guys are following up leads on every used car.