Mav71 wrote:

One side of me thinks that it is a shame that the original paint will need to be replaced. But the way paint is applied these days (and being involved with car paint process's through work) I am not worried at all.

Just seen the estimate, and the following is being done :-

Complete new door
New side step, as this was scratched.
New door mouldings on both doors.
All new door rubbers (seals etc) for both doors and the drivers door will be stripped and blended.
New rear quarter glass, as they are blending the rear 1/4 and I won't accept any masking.

So nothing is being taken to chance. The insurance engineer took one look at the car and said, we can't afford to cut any corners with this job. It has to be right.

So apart from the £350 excess and additional £200 non approved repairer excess which of course I am delighted about, I am quite comfortable with the fact she will be as good as new. There was no way she would go to their butcher approved repair centre.

We will benefit as well as there was a few stone chips on the rear door wheel arch.

disgusting that they are charging a extra excess as you want to use your own garage

I would check the small print of the policy booklet, also i believe the garage is the one approved by manufacturers, ie they have a level of service, and its not the garage been approved by the insurance company so they get the back hander Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Im thinking we need a 360 degrees in car camera that works when youre parked.

Thats more than the usual parking dint, I doubt they didnt know they had done it.

Thats bad luck - bet you wish you never parked next to that tractor now

Mona Geeza wrote:

Im thinking we need a 360 degrees in car camera that works when youre parked.

Thats more than the usual parking dint, I doubt they didnt know they had done it.

No need for 360 deg camera leave wife in the car (her car ) bag of boiled sweets and a bottle of gin as a reward and let anyone get within 1 foot of her car and BLAM better than a Rottweiler...  Wales
Were the mud is thicker, and the ruts are deeper.
(And we have the water to wash it off, and more on the way..! )
Sd4 and chrome Ar*e piece, Auto box for best fun
09 Xs Gone
12 xs Gone
HSE with Leather seats and 4 years warrenty.. staying for now !

Had exactly the same thing happen to me on my last FL1 back in 2005. I reckon a clumsy reverse by a van/light truck did for me. Insurance paid up bu lost a year NCD.

Sorry to hear about this

I have a forward facing Blackvue camera with motion sensor fitted in my Disco 4, I think I need one in the Freelander as well now.

Hope you get it sorted soon.

GM

shilen wrote:

Thats bad luck - bet you wish you never parked next to that tractor now

what you saying? mav accidentally reversed into the tractor? At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

doxxen wrote:

Out of interest, how did this affect your no-claims?

npinks wrote:

disgusting that they are charging a extra excess as you want to use your own garage

I would check the small print of the policy booklet, also i believe the garage is the one approved by manufacturers, ie they have a level of service, and its not the garage been approved by the insurance company so they get the back hander

sorry to see the damage to your car Mav, its very high up the door what could have hit it? 1995 P38 now dead
2012 FL2 GS Fuji White
winter pack
arm rest pack

big-al-cove wrote:

sorry to see the damage to your car Mav, its very high up the door what could have hit it?

Slaneydore wrote:

On another note does this mean I have the best looking Stornoway Grey 2008 freely on here for a few weeks till you get yours sorted

CG perhaps? He doesn't like grey cars that pull caravans.

Blimey Mav, sorry to see the damage ! It makes me angry when a dork does that and drives off ! Hence why a always reverse in a space and leave the camera on !
Yours is such a great example.

Just finishing off my hols in France and Saw a Lorry reverse into a Passat and it just folded the rear end up like a cola can ! Driver did put a note under the wiper blade.

Hopefully you enjoyed you holiday old geezer. I'm currently on a ferry to Bilbao and about to start my holiday around Spain and France for 2 weeks with my FL2.

I've seen an old lady in her Honda Jazz reverse into a Land Cruiser, twice! And then she drove off without leaving a note or details.

France is the worst place Ive seen for parking damage, the locals actually use the bumpers as bumpers and shunt the cars along to make space for theirs, the end car gets pushed off the end and out into the main road.
You have to leave the handbrake off so your car moves otherwise it gets smashed up as they use force to try snd nudge it along.
I would never take my car to France, especially Paris.