This is just me venting....

I had my car parked in a parking garage. Actually, I had been storing my car there over the winter. Other people do the same (there is a Porsche, Jeep, and other vehicles obviously being stored long term). The garage is in a good location, and has security cameras on all points of entry/exit - both for the garage and the building. I belong to a gym that is associated with the garage (and the rest of the tenants are medical facilities)

Well, someone came though and broke into all of the cars that were in the garage overnight. I got my drivers side window bashed in (but nothing stolen, there was nothing to steal). The next day, the building manager decided to have all of the broken in cars that had not been moved since the evening before towed.

Mine was one of them - I happened to skip going to the gym the day after my car was broken into. F***. So on Friday, I went to the gym and noticed my car was missing.

I called the building manager to learn that she had my car towed, since it did not move for 1 day after the break-in. I go to pickup my car and all 3 lights are lit (Tarmac, Snow, Gravel). On the drive home, I start hearing death whine.

I call the towing company, and they claim to have known it was AWD and had a dolly on the rear wheels. This must be BS. They claim the damage must have been pre-existing.

So now I am in a battle to get the security footage from the garage showing that it was improperly towed.

F***

I am so pissed of at both the building manager and the towing company. The building manager claims they asked the gym if I was a customer, and if so, to contact me (no contact ever - and the gym has my cell and work numbers). I also had a work parking pass in my car, and if they would have contacted my employer, they would have got the same work and cell numbers for me.

At least the building manager is willing to turn over surveillance camera footage to me of my car being towed out of the garage.

This sucks!

 

holy shyt man i be fcking pissed man. That's bull shyt did u contact your insurance company ?

 

GL man i hope the footage shows the dynamic tearing your car up and you get paid $$$$ for thier stupidity.

 

Sue All of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry to hear about this.

 

wow, that sucks, hope you get it all figured out

 

Yeah, I am friends with my insurance agent, and asked him --- surely other customers have been done wrong in similar incidents. "Yes, but we always get the tow company to answer to the damage". Famers Insurance is a good company, but they do not see this as their problem (and my agent is trying to fill that gap)

 

get a good lawyer and yourself a new tranny

 

Thats pretty suck. Sorry to hear that man...Im really thinking about get a AWD sticker

 

So if they knew it was an AWD vehicle why would they put the dolley on the rear? Shouldn't they know they need to flat bed it? Sucks to hear, that's why I'm putting a "flat bed only" sticker above my vin#

 

same spot, saved my butt once...well worth the $5

 

Where'd you get this sticker? Teh goggles only shows me a yellow one.

 

That's a good idea and it certainly can't hurt, but I feel like the issue is that most tow companies simply don't care. It's less an issue of ignorance and more an issue of apathy.

Either way, sorry to hear about that incident. I hope you get the footage and get everything sorted.

 

Yellow one is good.

 

http://www.machv.com/awdtowdecal.html

Here, this is only one i can find. I like these better than a yellow

 

You damn right!!!!