09-13-2024, 08:44 AM
(09-12-2024, 09:33 PM)Notably0ffbeat Wrote: 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.
