Keyed car

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maccboy

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632 posts

137 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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My daughter's car (which she's only had for two months) has been keyed along the two nearside doors. A Revive man has been to see it and says, because the line goes right across the doors, it will need to go to a body shop. He reckons it'll be around £800. If she doesn't use insurance - and she can get it cheaper than that - does she have to tell the insurance company? If she does, will the fact that it's vandalism count in her favour and mean that her next premium is not quite so sky-high? She's only 21 and is pretty upset about it all. It's such a senseless thing to do.

poocherama

396 posts

208 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Christ on a bike.

Mines been keyed 4, yes 4 times in the last couple of months. At this rate it'll be more stripes than paint soon. I've been quoted considerably less than £800 to get the scratches taken out, it may not be perfect but in all honestly there isn't much point in going overboard. Based on your quote I'd be in for about £3000!

If your daughter gets it repaired herself I can't see why she'd need to tell the insurance company.

Blanchimont

4,076 posts

121 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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If you get it done yourself, it won't have to go through the insurance.

I'd get to a local, independent body shop and get them to look at it. You could probably get it done, depending on how bad it is for a couple of hundred quid.

easytiger123

2,591 posts

208 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Can't answer the question about insurance going forward, but you both have my sympathy. Why some people are such total s as to do something so mindless and destructive constantly amazes me.

steveo3002

10,493 posts

173 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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if you pay from your own pocket then no need to tell insurance

you should be able to get it done a bit cheaper or nearer half that if youre not so fussy , bloke near us does "trade" jobs to a decent standard for £70 a panel

might be worth leaving it until the scum bag has moved onto something else or forgotten about the need to key that car , could touch it in to stop it getting rusty though

paintman

7,669 posts

189 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Not a job for a mobile repairer. Try a few local small bodyshops locally.
Son of a friend of mine has just had his car keyed full length of driver's side.
Quoted just under £400 by local small bodyshop. Cash only!

Dodsy

7,172 posts

226 months

Monday 30th November 2015
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Half that price would about right. I had a huge dent in a rear door and rear wing knocked out , both panels sorted and resprayed plus a fair amount of mopping on the whole car to get rid of scratches and marks and that came to about £600 from my local body shop so that should be a lot less.