Rough costings

[Premiershipman]

Although its not technically the right place as its more a social type topic.

But my eldest has bumped a van with his handlebars and scraped the rear panel of a boy racer's pride and joy.

Sods law that it was the nicest vehicle condition wise in the area, and that the lad was in the car at the time cleaning it so saw my son coming past and hitting his van.

It has just been resprayed and so the scrape is really noticeable, you can catch it with your fingernail and it looks like it has scraped through the clearcoat and part way into the colour coat.

I am not really a car paint expert but I wondered if this can be part filled and polished out without having to respray the panel ?

The 2 scrapes are about 5 cms or so each in length.

Advice ??

 

[mike os]

smart repair I guess

 

[rtbcomp]

There's loads of firm specialising in scratch repairs, Yellow Pages would be a good start.

 

[richie00boy]

If it was my car and it had just been resprayed, I'd be looking to take it back to the place that did the respray for the repair. They should be able to do a local repair easily enough.

I think you should be expecting to pay about 100 pounds.

If it has gone through the clear then polishing is not an option.

 

[Premiershipman]

Downside is where I live, not many on the IOM for competition !!

There are some but they charge a fortune as you don't have massive choice, I may be overthinking it though.

The lad is good mates with the place that it was sprayed so he 'may' be able to get it done cheap as long as he doesn't attempt an inflated price and split profits etc..

 

[rtbcomp]

Tell him your lad's paying for it out of his pocket money, go for sympathy discount.

 

[Premiershipman]

I can try but I doubt it will go anywhere to be honest.

The lad is only about 17 so I don't think he will try to con me and he is best mates with the owner of the company that has just resprayed the vehicle recently - I am hoping it wont be more than about £150 but who knows...

Just something I can do without at the moment !!

Frustrating as my son shouldn't have been anywhere near that road and was supposed to go to drop his mate's bike off to him and come straight back.

More annoyed that he lied to me to be honest !!

He loves being out on his bike but beginning to wonder if he is too young at 7 to be safe and conscious of his surroundings.

 

[Wallace]

The van owner should be thankful you are being so good about it, most of the "new" neighbours I have round here would tell him to do one as it's only kids and a couple of scratches. Tell the boy to be more careful, don't take his wheels away just his no claims bonus!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

....Frustrating as my son shouldn't have been anywhere near that road and was supposed to go to drop his mate's bike off to him and come straight back.

More annoyed that he lied to me to be honest !!.....

That's youngsters for you. Don't be too hard on him [unless he really is 17 ], we've all done things we weren't supposed to - he'll learn.

 

[Premiershipman]

The owner phoned this evening to advise me that the 2 quotes he has received are £460 and £490 as supposedly it's scraped down the base metal and caused a pressure dent !!

Great....not.

 

[rtbcomp]

Can you claim on your house insurance?

 

[Premiershipman]

Funnily enough just rang them before dinner and they have agreed that I am covered so thankfully it shouldn't cost more than the excess of £100.

Still annoying though, kids eh ?

Who'd ave em ...

 

[Premiershipman]

Thanks for everyone's advice as usual, even better news this morning as Co-op said they will cover all costs and were more concerned that my lad was ok.

Even said I wont have to pay an excess...great stuff.

 

[Robotstar5]

That's good news, although you may notice a difference at renewal time?

 

[Premiershipman]

They said it would reduce my no claims by 10% but only on my liability section of my policy.

So 30% NCD instead of 40% for the liability section.

 

[Wallace]

Look on the bright side, you can rib him for years to come over this! Looking at your avatar the mischievous one is on the right.

 

[Premiershipman]

She's not so bad to be honest (apart from the girl strops), its the one in the middle that has the 'innocent' look !!