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About two years ago I backed over a neon that was illegally parked in a reserved spot. I was driving my 1999 (new at the time) Z-71. I did not even see the car there , and I looked too. before I knew it I had buried my back bumper about a foot into the passengers rear door. This happened in a apartment complex. No one had seen me do this it was 6 am. So I went around trying to find the owner of the car. Finally I found the owners daughter. She was borrowing the car from her dad. Her father was a police officer. GREAT. So I spoke to him on the phone and told him about what had happened. I asked him if I could fix the damage as I have done many cars in the past. I also gave him the option of taking to my friends body shop. He said that would be fine. This way I would not have to turn it in and have my insurance boosted. About 3 days later he calls me up and says he wants to have it fixed at the dealer. They no doubt want to charge 3500 dollars, about the value of the little s$%t box. I finally turned it into my insurance company. I told the guy, " and the police wonder why people lie to them, you know I could have just drove off". I have since seen the car driving around town not repaired.

<blockquote data-quote="steveny" data-source="post: 20921" data-attributes="member: 4356"><p>About two years ago I backed over a neon that was illegally parked in a reserved spot. I was driving my 1999 (new at the time) Z-71. I did not even see the car there , and I looked too. before I knew it I had buried my back bumper about a foot into the passengers rear door. This happened in a apartment complex. No one had seen me do this it was 6 am. So I went around trying to find the owner of the car. Finally I found the owners daughter. She was borrowing the car from her dad. Her father was a police officer. GREAT. So I spoke to him on the phone and told him about what had happened. I asked him if I could fix the damage as I have done many cars in the past. I also gave him the option of taking to my friends body shop. He said that would be fine. This way I would not have to turn it in and have my insurance boosted. About 3 days later he calls me up and says he wants to have it fixed at the dealer. They no doubt want to charge 3500 dollars, about the value of the little s$%t box. I finally turned it into my insurance company. I told the guy, &quot; and the police wonder why people lie to them, you know I could have just drove off&quot;. I have since seen the car driving around town not repaired.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="steveny, post: 20921, member: 4356"] About two years ago I backed over a neon that was illegally parked in a reserved spot. I was driving my 1999 (new at the time) Z-71. I did not even see the car there , and I looked too. before I knew it I had buried my back bumper about a foot into the passengers rear door. This happened in a apartment complex. No one had seen me do this it was 6 am. So I went around trying to find the owner of the car. Finally I found the owners daughter. She was borrowing the car from her dad. Her father was a police officer. GREAT. So I spoke to him on the phone and told him about what had happened. I asked him if I could fix the damage as I have done many cars in the past. I also gave him the option of taking to my friends body shop. He said that would be fine. This way I would not have to turn it in and have my insurance boosted. About 3 days later he calls me up and says he wants to have it fixed at the dealer. They no doubt want to charge 3500 dollars, about the value of the little s$%t box. I finally turned it into my insurance company. I told the guy, " and the police wonder why people lie to them, you know I could have just drove off". I have since seen the car driving around town not repaired. [/QUOTE]

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