[peteboyd]

I did not know this existed until recently, but you and the article poster probably have a very good claim for diminished value and loss of use. Basically non use of your high-end car for many months.

I recently created a short online quiz for a law firm in Florida that checks to see if you have a claim. It was a completely new area of law that I did not even know about. It does email your contact info at the end - in case you want to be contacted.

Anyways if anyone is interested it is at http://www.diminishedvalue.law/quiz/ and is based on Florida law.

I am not trying to hype the firm. There are other firms that do the same thing. I just happen to know about this one.

[timdorr]

I was made aware of that by the body shop who is doing the repairs. I plan on filing just as soon as I get the car back, which looks to be soon.

[quasse]

I think you might have wanted to do some input validation: http://imgur.com/a/510dc

[londons_explore]

I prefer sites not to validate fields they have no need for programmatic use of.

Every validation has a few users who don't pass. Names longer than expected, people with no surname, phone numbers with an "extension" code, addresses with no house number, email addresses xyz+2@8.8.8.8, etc.

Validate only what you need to to make your service work, and when you do, use an official validation library rather than baking your own.