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I've recently moved to Alberta and left my project with the shop that has been doing all the work. They were in the midst of moving when I left for Alberta so I left them some money to tow my car to the new shop location. There was more then 1 car that needed to be towed out all of which needed a flat deck to move, mine included. The tow truck driver hauled away the first bunch of cars and said he'd come back for mine another day.

He showed up with just a regular tow truck, the guys at the shop expecting a flat deck just zapped each of my wheels on quickly with 2 nut per wheel (car is 4 bolt) they told the driver this and that he shouldn't tow the car. The drivers response was "It's alright I'll be driving slow" and hooked the car up anyways. He then drove away, my buddies where shortly behind him to help him unload the car at the new shop, but when they had caught up to him my car had lost a rear wheel and had been dragged about 100ft or so down the highway. The Driver then told my buddies "guess i should have dolly'd it after all and laughed, then unhooked the car and just took off.

My car was uninsured, but because it was in the tow truck drivers possession at the time ICBC can get involved under his insurance and garage policy. I called the tow truck driver and asked what he'd like to do about the situation, he basically told me "not my problem your buddies didn't strap the wheels on properly, it looked like they used cheap aluminium nuts or something" (120$ lugnuts are hardly cheap) So I called ICBC and had a claim started, I was told right away that yes its the drivers fault and that he is 100% at fault. Now today I talked to ICBC and they're telling me that it may not be his fault and that I should go after my buddies shop or I'd have to take the tow truck driver to Court.

I haven't yet seen pictures of the damage, I should hopefully have some this week. From my understanding both of my Origin Rear over fenders are cracked about 5" per side and the one coilover that was dragged may be to damaged to be any good, initial guess of damage is anywhere between 1500$-3000$ from my perspective, without seeing the car I have no idea.

This car has been my project for the past 4 years, every extra dollar I've had has been put into this thing, being a single income family and father of 2 its difficult to find money sometimes, the car was within a few months of being finished, this is a pretty crappy setback, the fenders I'm not worried about, I'm a bodyman by trade so I can fix them no problem but I can't just go buy a single coilover to replace the broken 1, a full set new is around 1200$ shipped for low end.

If anyone has any experience with an issue similar to this that can give me a few pointers as to how I should deal with this it would be greatly appreciated

Incase anyone was wondering the car in question is a full Origin widebody, single turbo 13B-REW powered AE86