Nothing new. When a neighbour scraped our Aygo the insurance wanted a whole rear bumper, respray, badges (!) and of course expected us to take a rip off hire car for over a week. Cost would have been thousands.

As the insurance was so useless when I refused a hire car as we didn't need it, I did a direct claim with the other party insurance and used my own bodyshop. It was £250.

The car is now almost 16 years old and I see it around the area.

My Tesla Model 3 suffered at the hands of 1) Storm Eunice and 2) my 9 year old. The inability of 2) to wait for me and not open the passenger door resulted in 1) whipping the door open and causing multiple dents in the door as it was flung forward. The door now doesn't shut properly and I think the front has also been affected.

Anyhow, it's being recovered to a bodyshop tomorrow (that's another pain - the nearest insurance and Tesla approved bodyshop is 70 miles away and I'm expected to attend to collect the courtesy car). Lord only knows how long it's going to be there for - looks like at least a new door and I'm led to believe there's a long lead time.

Edited by DieselBoy on 20/02/2022 at 17:44