Originally Posted by minmet

I don't see the Jeep is lifted. It's a regular 4x4 Laredo.

BTW, I became the joke among my colleagues at work place now. I quickly adopted to the new driver assist system two years ago with my Honda Pilot and then this A4 last year. Was advocating it to everybody whenever we had car talk. Yet, I rear ended somebody. The first reaction from my colleagues/friends was "what, I thought your car will warn you or stop for you?". How ironic.

My previous statement of solar glare blinded my eye is part of the detail. The another part is that I am having sever spring pollen allergy and was having extreme itchy eye that morning. While I had to rub my right eye with one hand and then the solar glare blinded my another eye at slightly right turn.

Anyway, the car is at a reputable body shop and insurance appraiser will look at it today. I will get the estimate soon. The body shop's quick look estimate is at 8k to 10k range of repair. Will take three to four weeks as all parts has to be ordered and not readily available for this new model. Good thing I am not their first B9 A4 customer. They already had two in past year so they already had some experience with this new model.

Originally Posted by bob m

Wow, 8k-10k repair for a 10 mph rear-ender! That's one of the issues with all that tech on the front - gets real expensive real fast - even when driving real slow.

Originally Posted by KevinB656

Perhaps that's why my car insurance doubled when I got the A4. This was with a company (State Farm) I had used for 40 years and never had a serious claim. I said to my agent, "wtf, this thing is loaded with safety and anti-collision features?" He said he doesn't know, that corporate makes the decisions and have decided this one is an expensive one to insure. Perhaps it is indeed because those safety/anti-collision features can't be counted on and when they fail it's very expensive to fix. Fortunately, I found an insurer (Erie Insurance), who insured it for much less.

Originally Posted by KevinB656

Perhaps that's why my car insurance doubled when I got the A4. This was with a company (State Farm) I had used for 40 years and never had a serious claim. I said to my agent, "wtf, this thing is loaded with safety and anti-collision features?" He said he doesn't know, that corporate makes the decisions and have decided this one is an expensive one to insure. Perhaps it is indeed because those safety/anti-collision features can't be counted on and when they fail it's very expensive to fix. Fortunately, I found an insurer (Erie Insurance), who insured it for much less.

Originally Posted by bob m

What was your other car? As a side note, I was with State Farm for over 30 years and was very well satisfied with their service and my agent was in the next town from me. But on recommendation from my earlier dealer checked out Liberty Mutual. Excellent ratings and they were literally 1/2 the price. I approached my State Farm agent to see what they could do, but they had no answer why they were double the price nor could they discount any further. I hated to leave them and gave them a chance to see if they had wiggle room, but they were not able to do so.

Originally Posted by KevinB656

My other car was a 2005 Acura TL. I had exactly the same experience you did with State Farm when I tried to get insurance for my A4.

Originally Posted by bob m

Kevin, I think you have misread what I wrote. I had State Farm for many years and my insurance for my 2017 A4 was in line with my previous car - 2016 Macan. No great jump changing cars. It was that when I checked out Liberty Mutual they were 1/2 the price.of State Farm for my A4.

Originally Posted by Dan in St. Louis

Best way to get good pricing from State Farm is insure all of your cars, houses, recreational property, etc. with them. I am receiving over 50% discount from the "base price" for insurance on my 2017 Allroad.