An NCSU-owned van hit my car today in a parking lot. Small scratch, knocked off my side mirror and bent the mount, and my window won't roll up.

Body place, general mechanic...?

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 3:59 PM. Reason : I'm supposed to get the estimate sent to the driver's boss.]

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 4:05 PM. Reason : And some recommendations wouldn't hurt. I live in Garner.]

3/30/2007 3:57:48 PM

body shop. i would reccomend going to at least two, three if you have time so you get a good range of prices.

3/30/2007 4:04:14 PM

true2form?

3/30/2007 4:41:49 PM

RJ and G on Western, down before Wolf Creek

3/30/2007 5:03:40 PM

^true that, I've been there for an estimate before. They're expensive as hell though. Good if the school will be paying for it and not you.

3/30/2007 5:52:25 PM

Raleigh Auto Body Works on Departure Dr off of Millbrook.

3/30/2007 7:07:37 PM

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"body shop. i would reccomend going to at least two, three if you have time so you get a good range of prices."

Something I had not thought of. Tomorrow, I have the time.

^^^any more recs like that?

I can't wait to drive with a sideview mirror again!!!

Oh, and who will actually do the work for cheaper?

[Edited on April 25, 2007 at 2:00 PM. Reason : I know none of this stuff ]

4/25/2007 1:54:57 PM

kenny hawkins is also $$$$ so good if the school is paying

4/25/2007 2:02:35 PM

Thanks

4/25/2007 2:03:49 PM

haddock's on 401 b/t garner and fuquay

4/25/2007 2:28:15 PM

kenny hawkins sucks matty, ppl have posted that a ton of times and wral did a 5 on your side article on it. where you been?

4/25/2007 2:48:32 PM

i never said how good they are but if she's going for high prices, they're one to get an estimate at suckaaaaaaaaa

4/25/2007 2:52:33 PM

$1212 - RJ and G
$414 - Kenny Hawkins

[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 2:58 PM. Reason : Now if anyone in Facilities understood "I need to know [guy who hit me]'s supervisor's name"...]

4/26/2007 2:57:37 PM

who was it? what zone? it's not hard to find, hell i probably know the guy. usually the supervisor doesnt deal with it, office of risk management does


btw, turn in the high estimate, then get it fixed at the cheapest place

4/26/2007 3:02:49 PM

Jerry Hicks
Centennial

Quote :

"usually the supervisor doesnt deal with it, office of risk management does"

If that's so, I appreciate it. Was going by what the cop said.

Quote :

"btw, turn in the high estimate, then get it fixed at the cheapest place"

DUH! I might not have a Y chromosome, but I am an honorary jew

[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 3:07 PM. Reason : You working on campus now? Facilities?]

4/26/2007 3:06:49 PM

513-7184 is his zone supervisors number

Hicks, Jerry W
HVAC Mechanic
Centennial Campus Maintenance
Box 7276
NCSU Campus
Raleigh, NC 27695
jwhicks@unity.ncsu.edu
Fax No. 919-513-2201

Building Maintenance & Operations Centennial Campus 3-7170
Mike West
B006, Engineering Bldg. I., Box 7108
^ head honcho over there, but i would call his zone supervisor first



[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 3:46 PM. Reason : administrative portal ftw]

[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 3:48 PM. Reason : they leave at 3:30 though, you're gonna have to try tomorrow]

4/26/2007 3:43:00 PM

I already had all that information.

The best I can remember from the day this all happened (his boss' name is in my wallet, which I have lost) is that the guy I'm supposed to send the estimate starts with a P, and sounds Italian.

4/26/2007 4:16:37 PM

have you called the zone shop yet?

513-7184

4/26/2007 4:19:02 PM

yup

thought someone answered, because I could hear lots of background noise, and what sounded like someone saying 'what?'...but it was to leave a message :-\

I'm gonna grab someone another day, down there, and just hand-deliver it. I was gonna mail it today, if I could get an address, because I was already buying stamps, and wasn't gonna be over there today.

4/26/2007 4:28:04 PM

Box 7276
NCSU Campus
Raleigh, NC 27695

4/26/2007 4:56:04 PM

So, on the 26th, the office of risk mgmt FINALLY got the police report.

The university's insurance company adjust is coming to look at my car tomorrow.

They only just called me this evening.

5/4/2007 8:33:20 PM

Where's my sausage bitch!

5/4/2007 8:53:31 PM

finally got the check.

Now...is RJ and G someone yall would recommend I go get the mirror fixed at? I'm not getting the paint fixed. I want a progressively uglier car to bully soccer moms with.

And is it gauche to show up to a shop with the part already in hand?

^come get some, you boatbitch

[Edited on May 15, 2007 at 9:47 PM. Reason : I want a boat.]

5/15/2007 9:46:58 PM

oui...c'est tres gauche.

And it's a great way to piss shop folks off. It's one of the few things that really makes enemies between the customer and the shop.

I suppose it's an ego thing almost as much as anything. For one, they often think you're trying to do their job for them and indicates you may feel they are incompetent. Second...you eat into their profits when you do that. All shops make some profit off of parts; with the huge amount of overhead they shoulder, labor is often NOT enough to guarantee a worthwhile profit.

I do not recommend furnishing the parts unless it's a good friend doing it on the side.

I suppose RJ & G is okay...better than Kenny Hawkins, at least from a regular production work perspective.

5/15/2007 10:09:58 PM

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"Second...you eat into their profits when you do that."

That's what I was most afraid of doing.
Any better suggestions, since you said 'okay'

?

5/15/2007 10:14:47 PM

My roommate in Raleigh (cuz I gots 2 roommates in 2 different places) has had outstanding luck with True2Form.

Tunstall-Williams down on South Saunders St does good work.

Most of the folks I know and trust are in Clayton; H & H and Love & Co. are two that come to mind immediately.

5/15/2007 10:19:08 PM

I owe you cookies or porn or something

5/15/2007 11:32:15 PM