MK5 Golf GTI

General => Random Chat => Topic started by: readie on September 11, 2010, 09:48:41 am

Title: insurance
Post by: 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 ???

Title: Re: insurance
Post by: 182_blue on September 11, 2010, 12:31:48 pm

Ouch, I don't think they will write that off ?

Title: Re: insurance
Post by: gazbutS3 on September 11, 2010, 07:31:17 pm

thay usually work on 2/3rds value=write off

Title: Re: insurance
Post by: edd666999 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

Title: Re: insurance
Post by: Weston 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!