Guess they should be grateful they’ve still got it . A friend bought a brand new Range Rover last year, parked up on his driveway, 48 hours later it had gone .

I presume not taken by the dealer?

There are some brilliant bodyshops about Andy, you may remember the tale of my Vitara attacked by a drunk? The bodyshop that undertook the repair where brilliant, I'll attach a couple of pictures of before and after if I can remember how!

Worth mentioning the i**** responsible did the right thing and admitted his guilt, got a suspended sentence, obviously paid for the repair (£1500 including recovery) and was ordered to pay me £700. In compensation.

In the case being discussed here there will be no need for the insurance to be involved, the dealer will just pay the bodyshop direct and with such seemingly minor damage it won't effect the cars future value.

Think it's best if ORB's friends just move on, it's being sorted.

My car before:

ibb.co/dbLYmgc

And after:

ibb.co/MxCd8bPf

Edited by paul 1963 on 14/03/2025 at 14:38

I bet that 'repair' (and how many of them - even at 'approved' repairers, are actually good these days?) has a detrimental effect on the value of the car and maybe future insurance premiums, because surely the damage has to be declared in some manner?

I also hope that the dealership are paying for the time and fuel costs too, and (rightly) some extra 'pain and suffering' payment, given what happened.

In a similar vein, I've heard more than one story over the years of staff at dealerships using customers' cars for personal use - shopping, even having a nice 'blast' around, if you get my drift. I'd bet some of this lot would also not carry out a good deal of service items but pretend and charge the customer as if they did.

Repairs don't need to be "declared", not bodywork or mechanical - my Hyundai Santa Fe had and engine/transmission rebuild at 3 years old, all under warranty, so when sold at 5 years old would have been "better" than most equivalent 5-year olds.