Dinged a work colleagues car

[S5man]

Hi Guys,

Wind caught my door last week and it caught a work colleagues car door. It is a 17 plate VW. Slight little crease in his door.

My work colleague took it to the dealer recommended accident and repair centre. The quote has come back at £1044. 19

I will upload the pictures but I think they are taking the piss. Can someone suggest any options I have? If I get sorted out myself where doies this leave things legally. It is on the dealers system somewhere but I think this price is ridiculous.

I also think the work being suggested is unnecessary eg radiator grille removed

[S5man]

[S5man]

[S5man]

[anonymous-user]

It's basically a new car. If you did that to mine I'd want it fixed properly too.

And is it worth the bad blood at work to argue?

[S5man]

[AndStilliRise]

How much do dentmaster or someone else want? That work does seem excessive.

[S5man]

I should have clarified. It is a company car. Paid for by his company. technically not his car. I work for another company. But it is a small block of offices so we see easch other daily.

[Ayahuasca]

I know nothing about repairs, but as a layman I was surprised by the amount of work / money. Can't they just pull the ding out?

[Tyre Smoke]

Don't know where you are in the country, but I have a local bloke who is brilliant at this sort of thing.

Similar happened with one of my taxi drivers hitting a Skoda in the work car park. It was a company car and the bloke was immediately 'insurance, insurance'. Once he'd got over the initial shock, he was happy for 'my man' to fix it. I think the total cost came to about £150.00

I'm no expert but that looks like a £200 tops repair to a decent body shop.

[robdcfc]

I do this for a living, they dont need to blend the rear door if they have someone that can paint the damage is far enough forward.

They dont need to remove the bumper they can loosen the corner and drop it down, takes 2 mins.

I would be charging this out at around £350+vat and done in the day.

Paint and materials also actually cost around a third of the quoted, they have booked those at full retail for insurance work.

HTH

[Mexman]

Pisstake quote, but I do think it's a little more than a "slight little crease"!
That's a fair old dent and has taken the paint with it.
Half of that nonsense on that quote is unnecessary IMO.

[S5man]

Anyone know where I stand legally if I pay for it be done elsewhere? As it is lease in the contracts it says must be done via approved dealer etc.

I am going to go back to them and argue the costings. Any suggestions for how to go about this? Thanks.

[Zetec-S]

Firstly, well done on owning up.

Secondly, what's your insurance costs/history like? In some cases it might be cheaper to put through insurance and take a slight increase in premium for the next 5 years.

[nickv]

bodyshops are like all business's they are there to make money, and will make the maximum they can, for every job that comes through their door.
The price quoted is to take your car back to as close as possible to pre accident condition. ( supposedly )

The other problem is when creating an insurance estimate you need to go in high as they will always knock you back, they dont call them " loss adjusters"
for know reason lol, and if you are under contract, the insurance company also want a kick back 12% of the bottom line is not uncommon.

It may seem excessive, its about what i would charge if it were going through the Insurance, reason being that is what the estimating system will generate, if enough options are allowed

BUT i know there is the real world as well, if a customer was paying themself, we judge every job on that assumption, we know a customer of the street will not pay that amount, so the quote would be discounted accordingly, plus payment will be on completion not like insurance when we can wait up till 60 days to get paid.

The problem you are facing is the system the bodyshop is generating an estimate based on the assumption it will be an insurance job, you will get a decent enough job at a 1/3 of the cost

[x type]

S5man said:

And we all complain about insurance prices

Now you can see why

Why can't they just take the door off to remove dent / repaint

No they got to take front end off and wing first before removing the door !!

[fourstardan]

I've just had to replace my bumper and went through the Approved against Non approved situation.

1. It was a new bumper and came in at 1200
2. By the labour charges This quote is probably an approved repairer, they bung it in a thing called AUDATEX and it gives out the quote.
3. I had a similar crease on the swage line but it was lower down and got this done before by unapproved, i think with other work it would had been about 2-300 for that bit of work. Difficult to know if they just filled it or beat the panel.

Interesting they charge for ODS https://www.centralaudivw.co.uk/odis-diagnostic-te...

I had this and thought it was a charge because I had to reset the parking sensor...other than a side airbag wtf they charging you that for?

[Vipers]

About 10 years ago had a similar ding on my Volvo S80, did t even crack the paintwork, that was £440 then.

Don't even needed anything being removed first either.

[TTmonkey]

S5man said:

I should have clarified. It is a company car. Paid for by his company. technically not his car. I work for another company. But it is a small block of offices so we see easch other daily.

If its a company car why doesn't he just get it done on their insurance?

[Sheepshanks]

TTmonkey said:

If its a company car why doesn't he just get it done on their insurance?

He'd have to play along now the OP has admitted it, and the insurance might have a big excess - ours was £1000.


Gulping at the quote vs damage though - I caught the side of my wife's VW on the end of a wooden fence a couple of weeks ago. The paint damage almost polishes out but there's a slight crease - I was thinking £150!

I know it's going back a bit but I managed to open the door of a brand new Renault Clio into the corner of a wall - just touched it but it broke the paint, pearlescent blue. A Renault approved body shop repainted it perfectly and it cost £65.