i worked for progressive for 5 years. im also an insurance agent, and im sure you've heard the horror stories about these companies. ask any repair shop about progressive claims and they will tell you that they hate to do progressive work. i heard this stuff when i worked for progressive, but didnt believe it until i started working with repair shops. i was involved in an accident with a progressive employee, in the progressive parking lot, and he had progressive insurance. and while they wasted no time in cutting me a check(im sure you know that tactic, which is shady), they put a used rear bumper on my car, and i took the car to a "progressive preferred shop". i didnt know the rear bumper was used until i got into another accident and saw the shiny red paint under my gold paint.

you should also know USAA is doing horrible. when ever they do horrible, we get tons of applications, haha. they will soon be shutting down their call center in new tampa.

and +1 on fl no-fault/direct. they suck, but i did have a good claims outcome with them. i recently totalled my accord because another driver failed to yeild the right of way, he had direct. direct covered all my aftermarket parts without reciepts, just photos and links to prices. but they could have been treating me better because i was an insurance agent, and the fact that i was fully prepared for legal action.

 

Direct just sucks all the way around. They are a shady ass buisness and they need to be ran out of the state of florida. I personally blame them for the 65% or more rate of uninsured motorised on the streets but thats all about them. This industrie is hard enough in florida with out non-standard companies.

i never worked with progressive and im glad that i didnt take that job with USAA

 

Nope, they told him that almost verbatim. He was pretty pissed that they took him for a retard. He would post here but....

 

Damn that sucks they should hire car ppl to do claims.

 

I have also heard the horror stories on progressive, I switched from them when they told me my rates would go up from $120/month to $300/month when I got the trans am. Geico was the cheapest @ $250/month and just 4 months ago they lowered it to $190/month. For no reason!

 

yep, hes a manager at progressive, and a car enthusiast, and they tried to tell him sugar was harmless. he was so pissed that the guy thought he didnt know anything.

 

First of all, any insurance company will put an LKQ or aftermarket part onto a vehicle older than one year. It is an insurance company's duty to indemnify the parties involved, not put them off in a better spot they were before the accident. Example: A 2004 Honda Accord gets into an accident today. The 2004 Honda Accord obviously had a 2-year old bumper on it prior to the accident. That car will get an LKQ bumper off an 04+ Honda Accord....NOT a brand new OEM part. It is the shop's duty to prep/paint that piece properly...so you shouldn't even know it was a different color prior to installation on the vehicle.

Secondly, sugar in the gas tank hardly ever works...which explaines why Progressive may have needed to further investigate the matter. Granual sugar generally sinks harmlessly to the bottom of the tank. If it is picked up, generally it blocks up the filter or the fuel pump pick-up. You hardly ever see granual sugar that has been pourd in the tank actually make it up to the injectors because the gas in the tank doesn't easily dissolve the sugar so it can pass through the filter. Pre-dissolved sugar products like syrup, coca-cola, etc are a different story all together. THAT can royally mess up your fuel system.

 

Good info Alan. I was told it was sugar, and his motor was locked up. I saw it out of the car. So sugar or not, his shit was fubar.

 

Key words in his post: ....fully prepared for legal action.....
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Senor Honda Give it a rest will you?