2012 Volvo S60 T6

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I had a 940t for a while, absolutely bulletproof. Too bad it got stolen and impounded. The impound fees was more than the price of the car. I told them they could have the signed title so the next owner that buys it at auction can have it but they declined.

[CCoburn]

I had a 940t for a while, absolutely bulletproof. Too bad it got stolen and impounded. The impound fees was more than the price of the car. I told them they could have the signed title so the next owner that buys it at auction can have it but they declined.

The 940s actually look like a Volvo with that hallmark boxiness, and you can pretty much tell from a distance that's what it is, but my S60 T6 on the other hand would require a bit of a more up close and personal encounter unless of course there did exist some prior intimacy.

Your 940 looks like what the cops around here drove on a stint; it was maybe back around the mid '90s, and I have thought to myself on occasion that they must've been fast if the cops were driving 'em.

Impound fees are just absolutely ridiculous. It's highway robbery – literally. I think the cops are in with the tow guys (thick as thieves). I was up north a bit a couple years back and got distracted by this female jogger just as I was approaching a turn that was littered with dry pine needles – a recipe for disaster. I ended up in a ditch, and when the staties showed up I told them I had AAA, but they called their pals with some cock-and-bull about it being closer.

The insurance did cover the above, but there were other scenarios where I did have to pay out-of-pocket. The average cost is somewhere around $300, depending, and one place had a flat fee plus $60 per day; that cost me closer to $400 for my car to sit in their desolate junkyard. The tow guy said he was hoping I would leave it there so he'd have something nice to drive.

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Impound fees are just absolutely ridiculous. It's highway robbery – literally. I think the cops are in with the tow guys (thick as thieves). I was up north a bit a couple years back and got distracted by this female jogger just as I was approaching a turn that was littered with dry pine needles – a recipe for disaster. I ended up in a ditch, and when the staties showed up I told them I had AAA, but they called their pals with some cock-and-bull about it being closer.

No doubt. I had a vehicle illegally towed from an apartment complex where I had a parking pass, but they had handed out more passes than parking spaces, and I worked at night. I ended up parking on a completely unmarked curb - absolutely no spaces in all 35 acres of the property. Tow company and landlord never gave notice as required by law before towing. I had to walk to the tow company 3 miles away.

They had just towed my car like 2 hours before but had purposely buried my car several deep in their lot so I couldn't drive it out. They refused a card payment, which is illegal in that state, to get the car. I called the cops and when they showed up, they "agreed" with the photo of my car the tow company took that I "must have been in a tow-away zone" even though there were ZERO indications that I was in any kind of a no parking zone at all. No signs, no paint, no nothing. What the cop told me was "its a civil matter." I've noticed they love to pull that stunt when they just don't want to get involved.

Couple weeks later, someone posted a big painted sign on the light pole near the entrance that said "Pollard's Towing - KICKBACK$$". Guess I wasn't the only one. About a year later someone vandalized every car in the Pollard's lot one night. Pollard's got sued by several parties for quite a large sum and ended up having to sell the place. Too bad, so sad. What comes around goes around.

Edit to add:

I knew what the towing regs were because I worked at the time at an office just up the street. We had a very small lot with assigned spaces that were leased to our offices. This location was very close to a downtown area and we often had people parking in this spaces who were not workers of or visitors to the office. The procedure was to call it in the PD, who will post a neon orange sticker on the car informing of the tow, attempt contact, and then wait 24 hours. Of course, when we would call PD and give them the story and that we had to have employees park on the street behind due to lack of parking, the pig then did a run on that street and ticketed all our workers who had parked on that street for more than 3 hours without moving their vehicle. Assholes everywhere I tell 'ya.

[CCoburn]

There's definitely some deep dark towing rabbit holes you might unexpectedly find yourself descending. My last tow that was paid by insurance was over $1,000. The best case scenario in getting the car right out it's maybe three to four hundred.

There can be any number of tow-related "rabbit holes" that start out as just some minor turd of inconvenience but when not properly addressed due to out-of-control circumstances or whatever becomes this big rolling ball of shit that just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

I have AAA anyway, and there's no reason why I should be paying for any tows, but it still happens on occasion.

Both my Chargers had busted fuel gauges. I tried keeping track using the trip meter but would occasionally run out only God knows where. I had AAA bringing me free gas four times a year – the maximum allotment.

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There's definitely some deep dark towing rabbit holes you might unexpectedly find yourself descending. My last tow that was paid by insurance was over $1,000. The best case scenario in getting the car right out it's maybe three to four hundred.

There can be any number of tow-related "rabbit holes" that start out as just some minor turd of inconvenience but when not properly addressed due to out-of-control circumstances or whatever becomes this big rolling ball of shit that just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

I have AAA anyway, and there's no reason why I should be paying for any tows, but it still happens on occasion.

Both my Chargers had busted fuel gauges. I tried keeping track using the trip meter but would occasionally run out only God knows where. I had AAA bringing me free gas four times a year – the maximum allotment.

My junker has fuel gauges that work when they want to. I vaguely keep track about 385 miles to a tank and once it shows less than 1/4 tank I just fill her. I changed the sender on the driver's side about 3 years ago and now the passenger's side is out. *sigh* It's kinda creepy to watch the estimated mileage thing on the dash count up instead of down.