Pot Hole - dammit need a new wheel and tyre

[blujay10]

Managed to slam into a pot hole on saturday night. Knackered the tyre and the alloy has a scratch on the inside. Booked into Tonbridge Audi on wednesday for a check. Any idea how much a new wheel will cost? I've googled tyres and have a rough idea, but no joy on orig Audi alloys. Plenty of replica's so does anyone know if they are any good?

[blujay10]

Ok just in case anybody is going through a similar scenario quote from Audi: 1 new wheel £529 2 tyres@£176 each and laser alighment at £236 grand total of £1116 ish! Oh yes and insurance company are being really difficult as Audi main Dealers are not approved repairers! That has to be the most rediculous thing I have ever heard, how can the manufacturer not be approved to repair their own cars?

[Yorkshirepud]

Can't you claim this from the council?

I'm sure I read somewhere that councils were dreading having to payout lots of damage costs when the cold weather had broken all our roads, as it has.

[agent006]

Yorkshirepud said:

Can't you claim this from the council?

Only if it had already been reported and they failed to fix it, from what I remember.

[Tame Technician]

blujay10 said:

That has to be the most rediculous thing I have ever heard, how can the manufacturer not be approved to repair their own cars?

Thats insurers for you. They want to pay an approved body shops £45 per hour labout rate rather than the Audi centre £100 per hour rate.

We often get cars back from body shops and have to finish the repairs they did wrong or didnt have the equipment to do. That said, I tend to trust there alinement equipment alot more than ours.

In the case of wheels tyres and alinement, what differance does it make who does it. IF its not drivable get your insurer to trailer the car to the aproived repairer.

[agent006]

blujay10 said:

Oh yes and insurance company are being really difficult as Audi main Dealers are not approved repairers! That has to be the most rediculous thing I have ever heard, how can the manufacturer not be approved to repair their own cars?

This old trick again. You can have your car repaired at any VAT registered repairer, approved or not.

[blujay10]

Thanks for the replies, I spoke to my insurer this morning and have faxed off the invoice. They were trying in on until I mentioned that I worked for a LLoyd's Syndicate....they still want to send an engineer to look at the wheel and the tyre which is now at home. This will take about 10 working days! This whole things seems like a complete waste of time and money. I suppose I could have got pre approval and incurred a 7 day hire car fee as well.
Re the council, I have registered the pot hole with them, however, as previously said the pot hole has to be registered and not fixed within a reasonable time frame for any compensation. Thanks once again