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Offline readie

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« on: September 11, 2010, 09:48:41 am »
 :fighting: just received my quote to repair my car atfer some c""nt tipped paint stripper all over my car  every panel as been damaged £3635 to put right  my car must be worth £8000ISH some body told me they might right the car off ???
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Re: insurance
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 12:31:48 pm »
Ouch, I don't think they will write that off ?
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Offline gazbutS3

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Re: insurance
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 07:31:17 pm »
thay usually work on 2/3rds value=write off
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Re: insurance
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2010, 01:45:08 am »
Quote from: readie on September 11, 2010, 09:48:41 am
:fighting: just received my quote to repair my car atfer some c""nt tipped paint stripper all over my car  every panel as been damaged £3635 to put right  my car must be worth £8000ISH some body told me they might right the car off ???

no way has a body shop quoted that for a full external respray....

you must be able to better that quote
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Re: insurance
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2010, 11:16:27 pm »
I may well be wrong but I've heard paint stripper is very hard to remove because it gets into the metal so a respray would still be impacted by it afterwards. Can't think why anybody would do this to any car!
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