A little crosspost from Bimmerpost, I’ve had my f80 for a couple of years and thought I’d share my nightmare from late last year.
At the time I lived in an apartment building with an optional pay-per-space garage (which is where my car lived). It had at one time a fully closing floor to ceiling gate, but that had unfortunately been out of operation for a couple of years.
To walk the dogs, my fiancé and I would walk through the garage, out to a common grassy area. One morning she came back from the dog walk and immediately said “Elk……… I think something happened to your car!”
I took the elevator down to find the scene in the attached image :(
The glass was from my neighbor (both in parking and in the building, coincidentally) whose Hyundai was affected by the recent spate of thefts. No transponder, someone stole her car, hit mine backing out, and took it for a joy ride.
Fortunately, a door replacement and some paint later, everything is wonderful with the car, I was just out the deductible!
Wait, what?! That seems so incredibly backwards and foreign to me. In the UK, this would be fully paid out by the insurance company of the vehicle that caused the damage, regardless of who the driver was (in this scenario).
Unfortunately for me that’s not how it works here, I’m not sure that I disagree with it though. My neighbor wasn’t at fault for an idiot stealing her car and hitting mine so it seems odd to me she’d have to pay for it.
I will say, I think Hyundai should have some liability for building their modern cars without basic, standard, and inconsequentially cheap security features!
Yeah I find it quite odd that there’s no law requiring immobilisers in the US, like pretty much everywhere around the world. Kia and Hyundai unfortunately complying with the law so I doubt they could be on the hook for anything.