The Wreck . . .

Last week Judie was up in Flower-Mound tending to grandson Jamie.  She was over on state route 407, a fairly busy road, going east and turning left across traffic.  She misjudged the speed of the on coming auto and it slammed into the right front of her car.  Her car, a Lincoln MKX is a pretty tough automobile, but the Volvo that hit her broke off the right front wheel, did in the grill, headlight assembly, etc.  No one is really sure about the axle except that it is broken off the transmission.  Nor do we know the state of the transmission itself.  To top matters off the over exuberant Fire Department cut the cables to the battery, that meant the wiring harness for the car was severed.  So the Fire Department did even more damage to the automobile.

The car was a 2012 and was new when we got it.  It had about 9,000 miles on it, certainly less than 10,000 miles on it.  USAA independent adjusters evaluated the car several times and in the end totaled it out.  There is no telling what Lincoln would have done on warranty items, the car had a four year warranty on it.  So I am sure they would have ducked out on all the warranty items because of the wreck.  There is also legal term called "diminished value" in that even though repaired back to original condition the auto would be worth less because of the wreck history.  So all those elements went into the USAA decision and the car now belongs to USAA.

Judie now has a 2013 version of the same version car, it is Ruby Red, bright red color.  It has basically all the same things as the 2012 with a few small changes like a towing hitch.  It has paddle shifters on the steering wheel, something we will never ever use.  The dealer, a neighbor, said that Ford installed those because GM and other makes and brands had them.  We have found the software has been tweaked, it is more user friendly, more voice activation gizmo's.  And typical of Microsoft who does the Ford system, had already a new update.  The update is on a memory stick, just put it into the USB port and it updates the car.  It has a lot of memory so a lot of music was uploaded too.  We were told it has 9 speakers in it ~ a Bose sound system.  Blue tooth synced in her cell phone and the garage door opener is also keyed in now.

So Judie is happy again.   She was very angry about the accident but she will get over it.  She likes the red color so far.  She had a Chevy Impala rental and it was a real piece of crap.  Terrible gas mileage, black, slow air conditioning system to come on and slow to cool it.  We were happy to get the new car and get rid of that junky auto.