Insurance companies, sly B**stards

[matt0677]

I was selling a car a year or two ago, and it needed a chip filled for the MOT - ten minutes on the internet revealed a local guy who repairs windscreens, and has contracts with various local supercar dealerships. He was happy to deal with the car I was selling and he saw my particular chip as a challenge, giving it two treatments for the price of one after I agreed to waive his MOT-pass guarantee. The final result was almost invisible, and it flew through the MOT.

He said that the difference between himself and the idiot in Halford car-park, was not the equipment (I commented on how it looked so similar) but the experience, training and skill. He was evidently correct since I had a chip done at Halfords once and the "repair" fell out within a week.

It cost me £50 since I was not insured to use that car at the time.

[Monkey boy 1]

lesson learnt

[collateral]

munroman said:

voicey said:

DaveL86 said:

I learnt two things, make sure your policy covers glass and autoglass must rape insurance companies.

You're not wrong - Autoglass wanted to charge my insurance company £6,500 for a new windscreen for my car! Even the dealer only wanted £3k...

Is your car the Space Shuttle?

I'm guessing it wasn't his Civic

[citizen_smith]

if you've made a claim on your windscreen policy, does it have to be declared when the insurance ask "any claims or losses in the last 5 years"?

[Shinobi]

Curry Burns said:

EK993 said:

Hang on a minute.. am I missing something here? You are not claim free - you claimed for a new windscreen which probably would have cost a few hundred £. How does that make you claim free?

Also I don't understand what you mean by "I had windscreen insurance"? Of course you did, that's why the insurance company paid out, you made a CLAIM on the the insurance....

Generally (I know the company I work for does this), windscreen claims do not count against you, but the OP should really of read the small print before he 'expected' his money back. Some companies are weasely bds!!!

Hey Mr Korma, youve just been snowballed.

[bazking69]

Any form of cash back deal usually has every stipulation and clause under the sun...