Just crashed... Any advice?

[simey]

Sean,

From what your saying you'll need a new bumper £220 + VAT & the front grills on ebay are £50 - £60. If you've damaged the carrier your looking at £180 + VAT. (These prices are for genuine parts)

What colour is your car? As I know of a black bumper for sale.

If you chose not geniune, prices will be cheaper but the bodyshop costs will be the same.

[Gti Jal]

Glad your ok and taking it well, these things happen to everyone.

It may look like superficial damage but a trained eye will know if legs need straightening etc..  Finding a decent bodyshop will be key, get at least a couple of quotes.

As has already been mentioned parts aren't that much and the bay can yield bargains. Best to get quotes for new parts, beware there are a lot of pattern parts around.

Hope it all works out for you.

[SeanyK]

My car is Black, what is the carrier? Is that something the bumper hooks on to?

[simey]

My car is Black, what is the carrier? Is that something the bumper hooks on to?

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,20914.0.html
PM del boy for the bumper

The bumper is clipped/screwed to the carrier.

[SeanyK]

Hi guys,

Just thought i'd update!

I took it to an accident repair centre, decent guys actually, came out and showed me a few things I'd never have noticed!

In summary;

Front bumper & grills need replacing
Radiator behind bumper smashed at the bottom - he wasn't sure if that was the AC rad if it was he said it needs regassing etc and all that.
Headlight bracket broken (apparantly only come as part of a new headlight not separately?)
Passenger side front wheel potentially damaged


He then said until they take the bumper off they can't tell, as there are foam pieces behind there etc that they can see what damage has been done / if any structural damage any bent frame etc

When he said that, to me, £££ signs appeared in my head, so I just called my insurance and will just get it sorted under that.

I did ask if they could diamond-cut refurb all my wheels whilst they are fixing the broken one! (they all needed doing anyway!) So we will see if they can do me a discount or something on that.

It's a pain, but there you go!

It's not like for like courtesy car which I understand, although when she said 'something like a Cinqucento' alarm bells were ringing, but thankfully the company said only cars 2 years old or newer are used (which rules out that!)
... Oh and a £50 fuel deposit is a bit of a joke! I will have to put fuel in the courtesy car anyway so why am I giving them an extra £50 lol

[stealthwolf]

In case you don't!

I had the displeasure of having to go through a courtesy car (via RAC). The RAC bit was brill. The rentacar or whoever they are were a bit of a nightmare. They gave me a brand new fiesta, barely 700 miles on the clock, and told me it was diesel, so I drove it very slowly. Bit annoyed when, at the petrol station, I struggled to try and fit the diesel nozzle into the car. Turns out it was petrol! The fuel cap states it's petrol, but all of the paperwork, including the keyring all had diesel. The muppets had to confirm with the Ford dealers down the road from where they got the car that it was petrol!

[QD MBE]

You can get a headlamp repair kit.

Let me know which headlamp/Bracket as I have a few stashed in the garage.

[apollo13]

Shaun,

Lepsons 5mins down the road from me can re cut your monzas mate. I dont mind dropping them off for you  


Lee.

[jmspear]

couple of things to think about before you pull the trigger on the insurance:

1) Excess
2) as has been quoted they will load your premium for the next five years, of any car you drive, this happens even if a no fault claim
3) I was test driving a mk 6 R today and the sales man asked if my car had ever had an insurance recorded accident, not an accident, if it is insurance recorded (not a cat but just std accident) that would affect the part ex they would give me. If it had been in accident and repaired without the insurance being involved then they will buy the car as no accident damage and sell it as such as it will come up clean on the insurance repaired register!

worth knowing!

anyway, may still be worth getting the insurance involved even with the above costs

HTH

John

[SeanyK]

Hey guys,

Yeah I did initially want to avoid claiming (I do have a non-fault claim from 2007)

Once I added up the cost of a bumper, all the grill pieces, lower splitter, wheel arch linings, radiator (if a/c regassing etc etc) it was a lot more than the 550 excess I have.

It's a real pain I know, but at least this way I just give them the car and let them deal with it, and also there could be worse damage than the above.

[SeanyK]

It's gone! :(

I now have a mighty Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 whilst the Golf gets assessed / fixed!

[apollo13]

   go easy with all the POWER Shaun!  

Will it be repaired with genuine VW parts or INSURANCE approved parts??

[SeanyK]

 

Good question! It's one of these RAC approved places so probably Insurance approved parts!

They are BSI Kitemark approved whatever that is!

[stealthwolf]

I remember when my car broke down. I was given a 1.2 litre fiesta. The return to the GTI was such a huge improvement. It was like rediscovering the GTI all over again!

[chungE]

Glad your ok and hope you get your car back soon.