Submariner1
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- Your Mercedes
- CL500 2009 5.5
Need to fix this hit and run bash
Not sure whether to
1. mend the rear quarter panel and the bumper scratch and blend into the rear door (which is undamaged)
Or
2. Write the car off ... as the insurance company want to, and just mend and paint the rear (metal) quarter panel.
Anyway looking for recommendations of someone, who can straighten this panel and deliver Mercedes level paintwork, and who is reasonable. Please
Its been established by Mercedes their is no structural damage. Just cosmetic.
BTW ..... usual insurance write off scam.
Atm more interested in finding a bodyshop who can fix it.
If you are interested see below.
Effing cheek .. despite telling them I did not want it written off, their engineer apparently looked at it and then decided it should be written off! Beyond economic repair. If I wanted to take it anywhere else, I would have to pay for their engineer to come out again!
Well thats a dam lie, I was there with the MB assessor all the time ... and the car never went back for an Underwriters engineers report! Opps they thought it was in the garage!
They tried to phone me at 8.05am ... I missed the call, and by 10.00pm when I rang them back ... they had written it off. “Well its too late now, we tried to call you”,
They then tried to lie to me .. that “any car that has a repair bill greater than 60% of its value must according to the DVLA rules be written off!, thats the law! “
Hmmm not too impressed with this underwriter.
Pretty shocked at the amount of lies they have tried to con me with !
They are in the process of being retained to understand Submariners Law!
1. They had no right to right it off .. as I hadnt even claimed.
2. The write off value is too low .. they are Now reconsidering that .....
3. The definition of fraud, can be to create a false instrument to gain a pecuniary financial advantage.
Hmmm telling me it was the law to write it off , and force me to accept a low value ... pretty much fits the bill!
4. They are reversing the write off! Quote the DVLA “the catergorisation is nothing to do with the DVLA! “
- Its just to do with the Insurance companies scams!
Not sure whether to
1. mend the rear quarter panel and the bumper scratch and blend into the rear door (which is undamaged)
Or
2. Write the car off ... as the insurance company want to, and just mend and paint the rear (metal) quarter panel.
Anyway looking for recommendations of someone, who can straighten this panel and deliver Mercedes level paintwork, and who is reasonable. Please
Its been established by Mercedes their is no structural damage. Just cosmetic.
BTW ..... usual insurance write off scam.
Atm more interested in finding a bodyshop who can fix it.
If you are interested see below.
Effing cheek .. despite telling them I did not want it written off, their engineer apparently looked at it and then decided it should be written off! Beyond economic repair. If I wanted to take it anywhere else, I would have to pay for their engineer to come out again!
Well thats a dam lie, I was there with the MB assessor all the time ... and the car never went back for an Underwriters engineers report! Opps they thought it was in the garage!
They tried to phone me at 8.05am ... I missed the call, and by 10.00pm when I rang them back ... they had written it off. “Well its too late now, we tried to call you”,
They then tried to lie to me .. that “any car that has a repair bill greater than 60% of its value must according to the DVLA rules be written off!, thats the law! “
Hmmm not too impressed with this underwriter.
Pretty shocked at the amount of lies they have tried to con me with !
They are in the process of being retained to understand Submariners Law!
1. They had no right to right it off .. as I hadnt even claimed.
2. The write off value is too low .. they are Now reconsidering that .....
3. The definition of fraud, can be to create a false instrument to gain a pecuniary financial advantage.
Hmmm telling me it was the law to write it off , and force me to accept a low value ... pretty much fits the bill!
4. They are reversing the write off! Quote the DVLA “the catergorisation is nothing to do with the DVLA! “
- Its just to do with the Insurance companies scams!