body shop in etobicoke i hate black ice

[Shizuka_Osamu]

all the sign were there. black ice notices all over morning news. had to be my luck. broke hard approaching yellow light. i hit pole luckily no other car or person involve. car towed to my parking space. not sure I want to go through insurance. where is a good body shop for front end damage.

[DumpInfo]

thats awful dude :s

post up pics if you dont mind

[boyracer]

Sorry to hear that. :sad

[Takumi616]

damn sorry to hear, that sucks, hope everything works out...

[Shizuka_Osamu]

i heard driving conditions in canada were different. now i know better.
anyone. need to find shop soon as i have no othen mean for curent transport.

[Fayvir]

Sorry to hear that man. I was droppin off my frd last night and her driveway was all iced up too, I went up and stopped just in time before ramming into her garage, pulled my ebrake hard. Prtety scary stuff, gotta drive safe everybody.

[terapr0]

dont slam on your brakes to stop for a yellow light...not only are you risking your own traction, you're endangering those behind you who may also need to slam on their own brakes because o your move. If its still yellow and the conditions wont allow you to stop safely, keep going through. Even if you got pulled over for going through a yellow or red, cops will understand it was safer to do that than skid out into the intersection or hit a pole. Seen way too many accidents because someone wanted to slam to a stop for a light that just turned yellow.

[n00bMeiSter]

dont slam on your brakes to stop for a yellow light...not only are you risking your own traction, you're endangering those behind you who may also need to slam on their own brakes because o your move. If its still yellow and the conditions wont allow you to stop safely, keep going through. Even if you got pulled over for going through a yellow or red, cops will understand it was safer to do that than skid out into the intersection or hit a pole. Seen way too many accidents because someone wanted to slam to a stop for a light that just turned yellow.

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Go through insurance, that's what it's there for. I was told black ice was considered an "act of nature" and that your rates would not go up. But maybe that differs from company to company. Might not hurt to call and ask.

[aris]

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Go through insurance, that's what it's there for. I was told black ice was considered an "act of nature" and that your rates would not go up. But maybe that differs from company to company. Might not hurt to call and ask.

Actually the rates will go up.... They say you should have control of your car at all times... Regardless of the weather.

A couple that comes into my restaurant owns a state farm insurance in belleville and they told me this

[Cab0oze]

Go through insurance, that's what it's there for. I was told black ice was considered an "act of nature" and that your rates would not go up. But maybe that differs from company to company. Might not hurt to call and ask.

Every company I have ever seen (when asking for a quote) doesn't care whose fault it was, only that you made a claim. There is a good reason for that, and based on this I can come to the conclusion that any claim you make will affect your insurance premium, somehow.

Furthermore, if he's got a huge deductible, it may not even be worth it. Find out how much it will be, and compare it to how much your deductible is, and use that to make your decision.

[n00bMeiSter]

Actually the rates will go up.... They say you should have control of your car at all times... Regardless of the weather.

A couple that comes into my restaurant owns a state farm insurance in belleville and they told me this

While this is true, when your car hits ice, you don't always have a say in which way you're going to go. I was told it only applied to black ice because you can never see it. Of course, I could barely understand the person thanks to the wonderful outsourcing the company did. I don't think they could have picked a worse call center.

[peterm15]

Act of nature applies to damage out of your control. Like a tree falling on your car, as well as hitting animals. As far as I understand rolling accidents due to weather do not count.

BUT I have been told it doesn't affect accident forgiveness. If you have that it won't affect your insurance OR your accident forgiveness.

Each company is different though, the damage an cost to repair may not reflect your premium as much as you would expect.

There isn't any harm in calling and asking. If you don't claim they cant raise your insurance.

[ottoyu34]

If you car needs to be towed. It's quite a lot of damage even if they can reuse most of the parts.

[gallipd001]

check out conquest auto body in etobicoke. dealt with them with my previous car and I was happy with the outcome.

[p-o-g-i]

Sorry to hear about the unfortunate mishap, Shiz.

I know a couple of body shops in the Mississauga area (Mavis/ Burnhamthorpe... Dixie/ Britania... Eglington/ Dixie), but nothing per say in the Etobicoke area. I've heard of body shops by the 427/ QEW, but nothing I've been too.

You could ask Igor at Krown Lakeshore. He won't be able to provide the repairs, but he has alot of connections in the area.

Good luck.

[Shizuka_Osamu]

thanks everyone for input. i end up taking to Unique Collision Centre. repairs being be more than $3 thousand as driver side fender was damaged to. going to sell all parts i picked up over the winter thus far, including cbe tein springs kyb shocks side skirt extensions etc. driving a rental now but once car is fixed it will be up for sale as well.