From this thread. https://www.scoobynet.com/insurance-...to-my-car.html.

Moved my car out of the drive last night as we were having new household diesel tanks delivered and didn`t want my car getting damaged as they brought them up the drive, and was woken to be told a lorry had clipped it, a neighbour up the road had seen it all and came to tell me.

Looked out the front and couldn`t see anything, so go the dog and went for a look. Hiding from view behind next doors hedge was the van/lorry/tipper delivering new tanks, so went into the road and turned around and saw my car. So walked up to the side of the lorry and saw the un mistakable yellow paint on one of the side drop hinges (yellow as thats the undercoat colour (previous colour) on my car), any scratches or stone chips come up bright day-glo yellow.

So started taking pictures and they got out and when asked said "I dunno", and when I showed them the marks and the paint left behind, and said "I`m a qualified lorry driver and bus driver, and I know if I`ve hit anything, do you want me to get the police here for failing to stop" they said oh sorry must have turned in too quickly.

So got him to write down his name and company address and phone number, and also on paper that its his fault, got a police reference number, all reg`s taken.

Keith Michaels have been great so far, and I have an insurance assessor coming tomorrow to have a look and give a rough cost of doing the work and cost of car. So pics and receipts are ready, as this may look a dog, but its not!!

Here`s the damage, what you recon will be the result??
The paint is not great and they would never be able to get a colour match.









Some close up pics.

 

B~@#'ds, they would have driven away from that as well. Hope you get it sorted quickly and smoothly

 

Nasty.

 

Bit hard, but they did try lol.
The tank on the back of the truck was being delivered and installed, I`m VERY lucky someone passing saw it and told me. Would have been in a world of poo poo otherwise.

What sort of work is needed to sort it??

 

itll get pushed out and painted/blown. Not a massive job. I had exactly the same thing done to my old Cordoba Coupe by a lorry in a yard office.

 

**** head, how did he apparently not feel that.

 

Problem is going to be paint, I can see it being a big problem.



Cos he was half asleep and a **** lol.

 

mate owns a bodyshop in swansea he owes me a few favours , i can get a quote for you if you want , might be able to save you some money

 

lol.

 

My missus has reversed into a neighbours car twice now in the X5 not even leaving a mark and not noticing each time, the poor wee corsa didnt fare so well. Luckily the neighbours are great and were very good about it.
When you drive a big heavy wagon, a scrape like that wouldnt make much of a fuss to the heavier motor.

 

No option but to repair it James as a new 1/4 is not really a cost effective option, their nuggets to repair too due to the very thin steel used, paint wont be a problem but it will show up the rest of the car

 

No option but to repair it James as a new 1/4 is not really a cost effective option, their buggers to repair too due to the very thin steel used, paint wont be a problem but it will show up the rest of the car

 

Which is what I will say, I`m hoping to get a spray job out of it.
But that is going to be only if I`m lucky.

 

All the best.

 

Perhaps she should be more aware, once OK, twice . Re-test?

 

I would push for a respray as the panel will look outa place compared to the rest of the car,unless they a good at coulour matching ,good luck fella

 

Thats what I`m hoping for.


The assessor has been and he`s going to ring me later with his "calculations", he suggested as the paint was rubbish having cash in lieu of repairs and putting that towards a respray, so will do a bit of haggling later.

Just need a rough estimate to fix this, as he said its repair, spray and blow in and a new rear lamp. I just hope it comes to a decent figure so I can chuck a bit more on top for a full respray.

 

Shes got heaving bussoms though! Who am I to tell her off.
She certainly knows not to ignore the beeping now when she reverses.

 

Perhaps she could use her bumpers instead !

 

I'm thinking around £500+ a lamp to repair that.

 

Hopefully the assessor will sort it so its around that, so I can get it resprayed.
If not I got some severe haggling to do!!

 

Assessor says £650, so now looking for someone to do the whole car.
Don`t think I can get much more out of it tbh, and if I push too much they may just write the car off lol.
If I can take it in somewhere to get the repair done and they do the rest of the car for cash I`d deffo do that, as then the job can get done in one.

Just need to look around and ask about.

 

not sure you will find someone who will spray the whole car and fix repair for £650 and get a tidy job but all the best tho and hope you get it sorted and do find someone keep us posted fella

 

Nah what I mean is they repair it and get the £650, and I pay cash on top to say £900/1000 in total to get the whole lot done if that makes sense??

 

ian davies in the bont fella...........

 

I`ve not won the lottery lol!!
Hes good but the most expensive sprayer around.

 

you maybe surprised fella,he did mine relatively cheap,when someone run up the *** end of me....................





ceri

 

To be honest Jimbob I think given the panel repair plus the rear light I think you are going to struggle to find a repairer to carry out a full respray within your budget assuming the £900/1000 includes VAT. I'm assuming that you'll want a near bare metal job or at least a barrier coat with primer on top of that.

The trouble is the previous paint jobs that have been carried by the previous owner, there are always ways and means but your best hope is to find someone interested in a 'cash' job.

Best of luck and I hope you get it sorted.

 

It's gonna have to be someone with a small body shop that'll do a cash job and you'll probably have to sort the lamp yourself, then you should get a half tidy job.

 

Lamp is fine

Know of anyone??