Blaming it on the valet is easy

Seriously...we need a story here, pronto.

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Why do you need to replace it? That damage is not major. From what I can see you need driver side fender, two doors, and possibly hood. Can't tell if the wheel is damaged. Hardly a reason to get rid of it and buy something else, unless you were planning on buying a different vehicle anyway.

i thought that car was pretty much all aluminum?

yeah, I had my gti valeted once. Got the car back, something smelt burnt, I was missing part of my keychain, and the front pass side wheel area was making an awesome shimmy noise. I'm assuming it was the ball bearings..

needless to say, I traded in the car but never again will i have any of my cars valeted.

I was gonna call shotgun on the wheels until I saw the L/R. Man, that sucks. I can't wait to hear the final explanation.

If you can't see that this car is totaled, you need glasses

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Money it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

I'm pretty sure that OP's car is an A8.

A newer A8 would be a nice step up though. Hope you get some extra scratch for your troubles.

i know there's little or no valet appreciation here. but it's a great job for me (in college) and being an enthusiast.

i get so pissed when i see/hear about this kind of stuff

that sucks man, hope you get it worked out.

there was a post on here a while ago, that was about a post on some GTO board or something. One of the members was a valet, and was telling about how he took this guys lambo out for a drive while he ate dinner.

some people...

i'm a valet now, and have been the past 2 years. like kcn0113 said, you get the ****e end of the stick all the time. but whatever, i get a paycheck at least. definitely take this to the valet company if you haven't. they have to take responsibility for it and their insurance should cover it. sucks man, i always baby peoples' cars whenever i park em, cause i know how pissed i would be if my car came back all fugged up

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I have some good friends that valet part time. They all tell me exactly the same thing. "Don't ever valet the GTO." Same goes for any fast car. These guys have a set course around the parking lot that they refer to as the "test track". They all get to drive some high end stuff too.

I smell lawsuit, small claims, something, coming.

I think you need glasses. You're probably one of those people that cries that you want your car written off if you get a little scratch on it. Those pics don't look bad, however the owner added that there's damage to the floor pan and interior is destroyed. Just looking at the pictures, the car is far from totaled.

I doubt it. The guys I know have a form they fill out if something gets damaged. At the bottom of the forms are two boxes labeled something like "WDI" and "DNDI", meaning "We did it" and We didn't do it". If they know they screwed up, they check the WDI box and the insurance just takes care of it. If they check the other box, the insurance company creates a huge hassle for the car owner. I'd say in this case there's not a lot of doubt about what happened.

I've never let anyone valet any of my cars, and I've never had one that cost even half of what a (new) A8 cost

sorry to see, man

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Achtung Ingolstadt, (München, Stuttgart, Trollhättan, Detroit, Göteborg, somebody!?!?!?) I like station wagons with a manual transmission.

Thats not a little scratch--some d-bag seriously messed up that car, and it would never be the same after it was 'fixed'. It wasn't his fault, he deserves either a payout or a comparable car.

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Ahh...the racing valet. Jeez. What a dumbass.

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That's a pre-facelift model D2 A8. The market value is most certainly exceeded by the cost of repairs needed.

Actually, I think if you looked a little closer you would see a part of the car wrapped around the pole, which means it had to hit so hard that some part of the car had to go over the pole and catch on!