Well, I wasn't planning on getting the lock fixed, since it's on the passenger side and the lock still works, though with some difficulty. Besides, I have keyless entry, so I barely ever use the actual door locks anyway. However, the company who owns the building Xapiens is located in said they would pay for the damages, so I guess I will. Now the question is what do I do about the damage from when I was hit before? It's unrelated, so I don't want to make the company pay for it, but if the car is going into the body shop for work to be done on the very panel where the damage is, it seems the perfect time to take care of it as well. I don't know if repairing the scratch will require repainting the whole door or not. I haven't had very good experiences with touch-up paint, but maybe body shops have better equipment or techniques. But if they will be repainting the whole door anyway, it seems obvious that the dent should be fixed first. I wonder if I can arrange to have them charge me for that, and charge the company for the rest. But that sounds like it would be way too complicated, trying to explain to them the convoluted mathematics I want them to apply to the bill. Maybe I should just avoid complicating things and let them include the whole door in the estimate. Dunno. Thoughts?
Posted by Bryan 3 hours, 25 minutes later
If you don't say anything, maybe they will assume that the damage occured while the theif was breaking the lock? It's a little disshonest but I dont think it's going to cost them a whole lot more since they offered to pay for it. meh.