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Women are rubbish drivers ...

Just received an email from Graeme ...

Gonna cost a fair bit me thinks ... door .. back quater and bumper ...

Ouch

Indeed ... !

I new something was wrong .. he called me .. he never calls during the day ... so I immediately said .. 'what have you done .. ' ...

The hurt car has returned home along with its rather ashamed driver ..
Its fair to say the picture does not do it justice! .. it actually is rather bad ...its going through the insurance, £250 excess and going down to be assessed at the repairers tomorrow ....

Sorry to hear this Joe.

Hopefully you'll get it quickly sorted without too much fuss

Did it catch the wheel ?

I recommend a wheel alignment check to see if the rear wheel was upset.

In any case, bumper is a quick fix, door is repairable, quarter panel is gonna be a b****c to get right.
It will require a shop with skills rather than a shop with filler if you know what I mean

Petre the Pole, £300, splash n dash, Sorted!

No?



Oh ok, have it doen properly then!


sorry to see it Joe, but yes, despite certain claims, it is rumoured that not all men are perfect, all of the time


i know i know, i hardly believe it myself....




i bet whatever he hit was positioned by a woman in a daft place eh Graeme? go on, you can tell us

Concrete post by all accounts... doing someone a favour at that too ...

The bit that tickled me was when he said "I new I hit something.. didnt know what to do.. so I kept on going" ... I was trying not to laugh ... harsh that I am ..

Anyway .. I don't have any feelings for that car/ new piece of metal ...

I was very watchful when Graeme pulled up next to Luigi when he returned home ...

It looks like a zebra up close .. the picture really does not show it at its best ...

Ouch, that does look expensive. Hope you can get it fixed without too much expense...

Lauren

Hah - a bit of "T Cut" and it will buff out.......Well some of it!

Well .... the beast is back .. £1700 later and its back to normal ....

£1700
I hope it was a good job

Seems to be .. got it back yesterday last thing so what with the fading light and rain we have not had a propper look .. and we wont as Graeme headed down to London first thing this morning for the week . Tbh .. its not an issue as the repairer has a lifetime warranty on the work.

£1700?



and the insurance companies have the audacity to blame hikes in premiums on us the public and fraudulent claims!


Over inflated workshop prices under tied in insurance contracts are becoming so ridiculous!

i might be on my own here but......i don't think that's too bad if the insurance company have done their usual thing and fitted new parts instead of repairing?

did it have a new bumper, door or rear 1/4 panel?

if they just repaired and repainted all 3 items then maybe it's a tad high, but as you've only the excess to pay i'd guess you couldn't care less

Really not too sure what they actually did , not seen the receipt. Graeme is home tonight so ill have a gander later. I think the majority was down to Labour charges though. I honestly thought it would have been a whole lot more than £1700 tbh.

No replacement parts all labour and paint - Nero Etna, they did say at the inspection / appraisal that it was not an easy colour to match due to the flow of the metal flake on the surrounding panels.

bodywork flow looks like new, have yet to see the final result due to rubbish weather and having to be away in London for work. Will try tomorrow if the weather is kind and post my findings.

GCV6 wrote:No replacement parts all labour and paint

i thought as much


Not your fault of course, well, lets not get back to the initial issue! ha ha!

but even trick paint, in that quanitity, i'd guess £200 at the outside, leaving 1500 quid labour!


I know what my next career turn is gonna be!


what do you reckon Johnboy?

Yep crazy money
House of colour chameleon paint half a litre £150+
We're in the wrong chap

Johnboy wrote: We're in the wrong chap

You can be in whatever chap you like, its all wrong to me!

yes very wrong ! Ok who nicked my game

typos on an Iphone don't half land you hot water eh mate!

just a bit chap

The car was eventually washed and looked ok , however , the next day in direct sunlight you could clearly see that it had not been buffed correctly. Its not an issue as the work carried out has a lifetime warranty. just need to get it re booked ..

a fortune and rushed!

tut tut tut!