My dad's just dented someone's car...
Discussion
...parking in my street.
It's an X reg Toyota Corolla. Reckon it needs a new front wing and black plastic front bumper surround. My dad's car's fine.
I've left a note saying sorry and asking them to call me.
Would anyone know what roughly sort of cost we'd be talking about to get it fixed?
Cheers (and Happy Easter)
It's an X reg Toyota Corolla. Reckon it needs a new front wing and black plastic front bumper surround. My dad's car's fine.
I've left a note saying sorry and asking them to call me.
Would anyone know what roughly sort of cost we'd be talking about to get it fixed?
Cheers (and Happy Easter)
Hammer67 said:
Will be a write off.
Not without an insurance companies involvement it wont - becuase 'write off' is an insurance term. No insurance involvement, no writeoff.[quote] Probably be cheaper to buy it for a couple of hundred and scrap/break it.
Fox- said:
Hammer67 said:
Will be a write off.
Not without an insurance companies involvement it wont - becuase 'write off' is an insurance term. No insurance involvement, no writeoff.[quote] Probably be cheaper to buy it for a couple of hundred and scrap/break it.
[quote] couple of hundred quid for an X reg Corolla? Dream on. That aside, if you had a perfectly functional, reliable car and you were not planning on replacing it would you be happy if somebody dented a wing and instead of repairing for you bought the car off you for a 'couple of hundred quid' and then scrapped it?
Well, just how much do you think a new wing and bumper would cost to have replaced properly? Plucking figures out of the air: Wing £150, Bumper £200, Paint/Materials £200, Labour £150, Stuff you can`t see £? Hire Car for claimant £? VAT £?. So perhaps a grand or more. What`ll happen here is the OPs dad will say I`ll pay for that, go get a quote. When quote comes in he`ll say Yikes, I`ll go through insurance. Insurance will write it off. See it all the time.
Now, of course, the owner may be happy with a cheap fix using second hand parts and a non-approved bodyshop but IME most people in this situation will milk it for all they can get.
Just my 2p worth. No need to tear me a new one.
Pcot said:
Whip down there and take the note off........quick!
so hard to do the right thing now days , hope he dies but I think that nite is well gone by now . I was involved in something similar but the damage was clearly nowhere near ops and the guy took me to the cleaners and even asked my INS co to pay for loss of earnings . I think next time I will not be so willing to leave details frosted said:
Pcot said:
Whip down there and take the note off........quick!
so hard to do the right thing now days , hope he dies but I think that nite is well gone by now . I was involved in something similar but the damage was clearly nowhere near ops and the guy took me to the cleaners and even asked my INS co to pay for loss of earnings . I think next time I will not be so willing to leave details 
Nice darts.Hammer67 said:
Fox- said:
Hammer67 said:
Will be a write off.
Not without an insurance companies involvement it wont - becuase 'write off' is an insurance term. No insurance involvement, no writeoff.[quote] Probably be cheaper to buy it for a couple of hundred and scrap/break it.
[quote] couple of hundred quid for an X reg Corolla? Dream on. That aside, if you had a perfectly functional, reliable car and you were not planning on replacing it would you be happy if somebody dented a wing and instead of repairing for you bought the car off you for a 'couple of hundred quid' and then scrapped it?
Well, just how much do you think a new wing and bumper would cost to have replaced properly? Plucking figures out of the air: Wing £150, Bumper £200, Paint/Materials £200, Labour £150, Stuff you can`t see £? Hire Car for claimant £? VAT £?. So perhaps a grand or more. What`ll happen here is the OPs dad will say I`ll pay for that, go get a quote. When quote comes in he`ll say Yikes, I`ll go through insurance. Insurance will write it off. See it all the time.
Now, of course, the owner may be happy with a cheap fix using second hand parts and a non-approved bodyshop but IME most people in this situation will milk it for all they can get.
Just my 2p worth. No need to tear me a new one.
- If they didn't and I'd found them out I'd have reported them to the police for driving away and made it as awkward for them as possible.
If the wing and bumper are replaced, a thorough repair will also involve blending the adjoining door, undamaged wing, and the bonnet, so repairs are potentially an entire front-end paint, plus a door paint, plus the parts.
Even at a back-street shop, that's not going to be cheap.
There are lots of threads giving advice to the innocent party - and lots of the posts are along the lines of "insist on a <manufacturer> approved bodyshop!!!!!!" - if the owner takes that line (which many owners who aren't car people have been conditioned by dealers into thinking they are obliged to) then the bill to the OP/OP's dad could be eye-watering.
Tol
Even at a back-street shop, that's not going to be cheap.
There are lots of threads giving advice to the innocent party - and lots of the posts are along the lines of "insist on a <manufacturer> approved bodyshop!!!!!!" - if the owner takes that line (which many owners who aren't car people have been conditioned by dealers into thinking they are obliged to) then the bill to the OP/OP's dad could be eye-watering.
Tol
crystalmethod said:
No. He's 75, and it was in my street, so I told him I'd take care of it as much as I could.
This is utterly unrelated but perhaps made me prejudge OPs story. My missus was reversed into by a 70-odd year old the other day in a supermarket car park, and he had no idea she was even there. He jumped out the car and gave her a piece of his mind, despite being 100% in the wrong, and whilst my gf is a bit of a tough nut when she needs to be, he was that threatening that passers by called the police. He said he was on his wifes insurance due to the fact that he couldn't get insurance any more, and after taking a look round his car and seeing that he had 2 bald tyres, he disappeared off sharpish saying that he was off home to paint his bumper! The police went straight round to his house to give him a piece of their mind. I tried to explain to her that his anger was probably anger at himself and that he may have realised that with this final accident, his driving days may be nearing an end. Gassing Station | General Gassing [Archive] | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff