Scratched neighbours car, she's being an arse, I'm getting stung

[zoltan]

sorry mate - buy I once allowed someone to sort out my prized S2 privately after that had done a couple of panels by accident - they were a garage/ van hireplace anyway.

it was only a few weeks later when i viewed the car under street lights that I realsied it looked like a jigsaw. cos the of paint - it got worse and worse over the summer - Audi red doesnt last too well in the sun - until I was only able to sell it by discounting the price of a full respray from the cost ( quite particular these Audi club people )

I would never allow anyone to do this to me gain, especially if it was anything more than a run of the mill car.

I can see her point and this way she has comeback - I would likely do the same.

 

[Pingu]

£800 to respray minor damage to a Y reg astra...

lol

you could probably buy her a replacement car for not much more*


they are taking the piss.

I had the rear 3/4 of a 5 series BMW resprayed (by BMW - no choice it had to be them as it was a lease car) and even with their total rip off prices it was only £500.

what type of metalic paint is it? Gold leaf?

*eta - not wrong here either (bit older but...)
http://atsearch.autotrader.co.uk/ww...category=CARS&channel=CARS&id=200719283854092

 

[girasol]

Does anyone know why 'approved garages' are always so much more expensive than normal ones?

I once crashed my car and took it to an 'approved garage' who decided my car was a write-off, when in fact all it needed was a new door.

I don't trust approved garages, all they seem to be interested in is ripping insurance companies off, which in turn raises premiums even more.

I once scratched someone's very expensiver bumper, luckily they were the understanding type and we sorted it without getting insurance companies involved.

 

[detective-boy]

Does anyone know why 'approved garages' are always so much more expensive than normal ones?

You already kniow the answer, dont you, you tease!!

I don't trust approved garages, all they seem to be interested in is ripping insurance companies off, which in turn raises premiums even more.

See. I knew you did! ... Because we're paying!

 

[DarthSydodyas]

I went to a few local garages to suss out what the repair costs to my car would be after my accident. Mostly, it was circa £500. One of the local insurance approved places charged me for the quote and totalled near £4k. :/

 

[King Biscuit Time]

She's had work done on her husbands car at a local place, and was happy with the standard, so it seemed logical to go there, because as Zoltan has pointed out, the worst case scenario would be for me to pay for a repair that I can see was shabby, i'd feel awful.

Anyway - described it to them down the phone and the bloke says, oooooh, you're looking at something around £120 for that mate.

We're going to take it in tomorrow so he can have a proper look.

 

[mattie]

She's had work done on her husbands car at a local place, and was happy with the standard, so it seemed logical to go there, because as Zoltan has pointed out, the worst case scenario would be for me to pay for a repair that I can see was shabby, i'd feel awful.

Anyway - described it to them down the phone and the bloke says, oooooh, you're looking at something around £120 for that mate.

We're going to take it in tomorrow so he can have a proper look.

Good to hear.

 

[equationgirl]

Good to hear, £800 was sounding

 

[pembrokestephen]

Thing is, every conversation we have involves me saying time and time again, that I'm happy to claim on my insurance, and that its entirely her right to play things by the book.
Then she starts saying that she wants it to be as cheap as possible for me and that it was good of me to come and find her and own up etc etc etc.

As soon as a practical suggestion is made she clams up and starts to invent reasons why it has to be done this way.

She said it seems daft to spend £800 repairing an old car, I said, it is daft, would she rather I just gave her some cash to compensate her for the decrease in value?? Sje comes back with 'I can't drive around in a scratched car' even though there are plenty of other scratches on in and a few fuck-off big patches of rust.

She also claims that it needs sorting this week before it goes rusty - the scratch is on plastuc ffs.

I could take her hardline stance and swallow for the insurance hike if it wasn't mixed up with her making like she's doing me a favour.

Tomorrow I'm going to ask her if she's willing to do me a favour and take the car to another garage that someone has recommended me near our houses. If she refuses, I will be annoyed with her, but I'll say nothing and let her get on with it, but I will not allow her to continually bang on about doing me a favour.

I'm inclined to think you need to go back and say to her, next time she gives it all this favour stuff: "Look, if you were doing me a favour, we'd sort this out cheaply and quickly, and not be going for the Rolls Royce £800 insurance job: doing me a favour would be getting the scratches patched up cheaply, and accepting a few quid from me by way of goodwill - you win, I win.

"So please let's have no more talk of doing favours - if you want to do it through the insurance, by the book, then just do that, and let's stop pretending this is about anything other than getting the maximum out of the insurance company: it's not doing me any favours, and I can't see how it's doing you any either. Here's my insurance details: get on with it."

 

[1927]

Sounds like the repair she is proposing will increase the value of her car, spomething she is NOT entitled to. Furthermore if 3 panels of her car get resprayed the rest of the vehicle is going to look a mess!!

I rercently reversed my car into a wall outside the house, crunched in the rear corner and smashed the huge light cluster. It cost under £400 to get it all sorted and respray the back end and side panel, and was off road for two days. This woman is having a laff.

Get yeself some t-cut and platsic rejuvenator, spend a sunday morning washing the car and sorting the bits out and lob her a couple of hundred.

 

[Gixxer1000]

Has she mentioned a hire car for when her cars off the road being painted yet? That should add £500 to the bill.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Has she mentioned a hire car for when her cars off the road being painted yet? That should add £500 to the bill.

Yep:

and 4 days car hire at £40 a day.

She's covered every base.

FOUR DAYS???

I had some fairly major reconstructive work done to the front of the Celica, and they had it for a day and a half.

 

[johnnymarrsbars]

i drove into the back of someone at a set of traffic lights while messing withy my iPod (silly mr marsbar i know..). the car in question was a clapped out old MPV covered in dents and scratches. the woman got out of her car and started going on all these marks that were total bullshit, and a big scratch on the bumper. as i drove into her at about 4mph theres no way i caused any damage whatsoever. she asked for my name and number etc for the insurance, i just laughed and told her to get lost then drove away.

i probably shouldn't have but theres no way i was paying for her to get a new bumper when i did fuck all to it.


you cant just tell her to get shafted really though if she's a neighbour. maybe write her a cheque for 100 quid and deliver it nicely attatched to a brick through her front window?

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Took it down to the local bodywork place.

The everything but the scratch on the bumper will come off without using paint. £100 was the quote to do the bumper and sort out the rest. Then he notices that there's a very slight dent that neither me or neighbour had noticed, offers to sort that out for another £150. Of course, the neighbour wants it done.

So £250. Will take a day and a half and I'm gonna have to sort her a car during that time. I'd give her my van but I'm not sure she'd go for that.

Even at £250 and 2 days hiring the smallest car I can, it's worth me paying, so I should be able to afford my insurance next year

 

[Gixxer1000]

Yep:

She's covered every base.

FOUR DAYS???

I had some fairly major reconstructive work done to the front of the Celica, and they had it for a day and a half.

To be fair youre supposed to allow time for paint to harden.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

next time you dent her car DONT TELL HER ABOUT IT