CrimsonKero 2025-04-23 00:49:41

Sorry about your car.

I just plowed through a lot of my savings to help get ADR3-N out of debt, so I'll probably only get half-body.

cacodayum 2025-04-23 00:52:09

So what, no insurance? Either way, $2500 is highway robbery. Head to nearest junkyard & find yourself a similar truck, get to replacing. :v

Yatsufusa 2025-04-23 01:21:24

"I'm not a used car salesperson, I swear. But..."

How much does a decent used car cost where you live? I'm not an expert when it comes to car prices but using a random online portal for used cars (non-US) I'm seeing several 'Mercedes-Benz' for (rounded) $1,000 to $1,500.

Yatsufusa 2025-04-23 01:49:48

@Porter Oh wow...! Those are some _scary_ prices...

Yatsufusa 2025-04-23 10:55:10

I'd like to apologize for something... I easily get caught up in the flow of a conversation and along the way I forget half of what I wanted to address. What I also wanted to say (but neglected to 'actually write down') was:
I'm glad nobody was hurt!

cacodayum 2025-04-23 13:31:37

@Porter Sounds like crap to me... But that aside, yeah, time to go parts swapping.

cacodayum 2025-04-23 13:32:22

@CrossVeiw Well maybe don't drive like a fool and there wouldn'ta been enough stress on it to die right then. FFS.

cacodayum 2025-04-23 13:33:56

@Yatsufusa @Porter Try Fascistbook marketplace instead. Those are the prices they could be. Usually find stuff on the lower end a lot.

Yatsufusa 2025-04-23 13:43:02

@cacodayum I will take your word for it being a good place to look for that since I never made an account. Like Twitter, Discord, and similar services, I took a closer look and either did not see the appeal or was appalled by their privacy policy.

When Discord was first coming out and got a shout-out by TotalBiscuit, I wrote the company an email, explaining "how sections of their ToS could be 'misunderstood' as being pretty damn malicious." I never got a response, but as it later turned out: That was _the_point_!

bettafish541 2025-04-24 07:24:04

try to replace as little as you can for now, try unbending the bumper support instead of replacing it and find some used front end parts. bumpers can be found in white if you look enough which will save you on paint and it'll look close enough to the rest in color.
I'm sorry about the car and I hope you can get the money to fix it soon

cacodayum 2025-04-24 19:11:53

@Yatsufusa Discord's fine far as I know. Yeah obviously facebook twitter etc are trash. Everyone knows that. Decent place to sell stuff local tho, depending on your location.

ADR3-N 2025-04-25 16:20:38

Oh my God. This just happened to me -- not car accident but ridiculous auto repair bill. I was tipped off by a little birdie that this just happened to you, too. That absolutely sucks. I won't have anything to give until the 1st, but please add me to your @ list for updates. NG saved my ass the last month and a half, and I would like to return the favor!

Also @CrimsonKero -- BAD! No blowing through your savings for me. I'm not that important or cool! T_T

ADR3-N 2025-04-25 16:26:06

@Yatsufusa

@Porter is not kidding. It's about the same where I live. I got an 09 for $10k total after financing charges. That's where they really get you. The blue book of my car is somewhere around 3k lower.

And the monthly rates -- don't get me started on how high they want to go for used car vs new. Lower ofc is worse in the long run but a lot of used car sales, your interest is locked in whether you pay it off quickly or not. I'm currently trying to get out from under my car payments asap as well, in addition to that high ass repair loan that MANY people helped me through.

In short, an old used car will run you up in interest and repairs the same as a new vehicle. It is so much hassle to fix, but even at these gouging prices that's the best we can get. New cars are averaging between 30k and 60k, and 2010-2020 cars are still selling around 20-30k where I've looked. That's if they're even worth buying.

I only got my 09 for 10k because, A, it was 10k, and B, it didn't appear to have many problems despite the mileage. C, the make of the car is known to last well into 300k miles.

ADR3-N 2025-04-25 16:28:36

@cacodayum @Porter I've had pretty bad experience with Fascistbook marketplace. The cars are sold as is, and if you don't have a solid knowledge of cars when you take it for a test drive, you could buy something with a blown radiator, cracked heads, etc. When it craps out on you a month later, you're assed out and back to the shop for $2500 in repairs T_T

Source, happened to my ex with her $5k Cadillac. Like new outside. Raped and pillaged for parts on the inside.

ADR3-N 2025-04-25 16:31:00

@bettafish541 Whatever you do, don't let them do the little scanner, if you know for a fact the only thing wrong with it is X collision caused Y damages -- nothing is spewing everywhere, leaking suddenly, and so on. That's how they got me. Suddenly, my cabin air filter needed replaced, my intake gaskets, and so on. Those are repairs you can mostly perform yourself when you change spark plugs, and they'll charge $800 for labor on the gaskets, in addition to $1000 for the sparks. Or flip that around. You're absolutely correct about doing the bare minimum at the shop if you can.

Creeperforce24 2025-04-25 22:45:53

Bro that sucks ASS! Glad to see your not hurt, can’t say the same for your wallet sadly. Hope you get out of this, even if it means skyrocketing your commission prices :(

Good luck man, stay safe.

G2961 2025-05-04 05:46:13

Damn it! The main thing is that you're okay, and you're still alive! I would help you somehow, but unfortunately I'm from Russia, and there's no way I can send you at least $1, even though I don't have enough money myself.

Yatsufusa 2025-06-08 15:12:28

Hello again...

(Sorry to bring this up in a semi-public place, but I have no other means of contacting you since your PMs are set to 'friends only'.)

I would like to feature this news article of yours (as well as the update) in a Top 13 for posts in the Artist News. Since money is involved in your post, I'd like to get an "Okay" from you - because "being associated with me, even indirectly" could go both ways for you. I am a pretty direct person and at times I criticize others in the Artist News (when I think that would help them to grow as an artist - or person).

Due to scheduling, I would require a response before the 13th of June. "No." is _always_ an acceptable answer.

And lastly: Due to messages like this one and some other factors, the list is not finalized yet. I cannot 'guarantee' that your post would be on it.

I hope you'll get to enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Yatsufusa

bettafish541 2025-06-21 11:09:02

@Yatsufusa DO NOT EVER GET A $1000 MERCEDES FIXING IT WILL COST MORE THAN THE CAR

bettafish541 2025-06-21 11:12:22

@ADR3-N unrelated repairs are deniable, if they do it without asking you don't actually have to pay (but if you don't then check for sabotage after getting it back, some shops will do that if you don't pay for unapproved repairs)