Hi everyone, I recently hit a deer, messed up the grille and pushed the radiator and condenser back into the engine a little, but it didnt leak, in fact the AC worked better than it did before...haha.
I called Geico and filed a claim, drove the car around 2-3 days because I needed it for work, never had an issue with it.
Geico finally set me up with a rental car and sent my car to a body repair shop, which gave an estimate of $2k to fix it.
Fast forward 5 days, I get the car back, and on my way to work I happen to look at the temp gauge at a light and its pegged on H. I'm not sure how long it was pegged on H but it only happens when I'm idling, I have a suspicion they forgot to fill up the radiator when they replaced it.
My question is if my engine ends up damaged from overheating like this(my wife picked it up and I doubt she looked at it otherwise she would have stopped and called me, so it might have been overheating on her too and she didn't know it), am I out of luck and have to pay for any future engine damage? Or will it be covered as a mistake on the part of the body shop?
The body shop is coming to get it in the morning where I work to fix it, but the block is aluminum, Id have a hard time imagining it didn't do some form of damage to it.
Thanks for any help/suggestions with this.
I called Geico and filed a claim, drove the car around 2-3 days because I needed it for work, never had an issue with it.
Geico finally set me up with a rental car and sent my car to a body repair shop, which gave an estimate of $2k to fix it.
Fast forward 5 days, I get the car back, and on my way to work I happen to look at the temp gauge at a light and its pegged on H. I'm not sure how long it was pegged on H but it only happens when I'm idling, I have a suspicion they forgot to fill up the radiator when they replaced it.
My question is if my engine ends up damaged from overheating like this(my wife picked it up and I doubt she looked at it otherwise she would have stopped and called me, so it might have been overheating on her too and she didn't know it), am I out of luck and have to pay for any future engine damage? Or will it be covered as a mistake on the part of the body shop?
The body shop is coming to get it in the morning where I work to fix it, but the block is aluminum, Id have a hard time imagining it didn't do some form of damage to it.
Thanks for any help/suggestions with this.