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Jul 9th, 2020, 16:58 | #1 |
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Volvo Body Repair
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Anyone has done a body repair work at a Volvo dealer? Are they consideravly more expensive than the local garages? And doing this will affect the car final settlement figure at the end of the contract? Thanks |
Jul 9th, 2020, 18:33 | #2 |
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I don’t think dealers do body repair, they use authorised third parties (like most manufactures they aren’t set up for it).
You will be able to find out who they use by asking them.
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Jul 10th, 2020, 11:39 | #4 |
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They may offer it, but it will be done by a third party. The Volvo dealer in Poole uses a body shop locally who is approved for Volvo. You can google search Authorised body repairers for Volvo local to you humans it should show you who they are. Also in the Volvo Owners Magazine it shows you who they are and who gives discount to VOC members.
We just picked up a Jag, and Jaguar/Landrover also have a third part who comes in to do the work onsite including wheel refurb. They also say they aren’t out body repair etc but it isn’t them, it’s their authorised third party.
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Jul 10th, 2020, 12:37 | #6 |
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The local dealership near me used to have their own body shop, but that closed a good 20 years ago. It now farms out the repairs to an approved repairer.
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Jul 10th, 2020, 17:08 | #7 |
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My local dealer still has a body shop, wether they still do repairs there I don't know.
My volvo insurance assures me the car will be repaired useing genuine parts in a volvo shop. Paul. |
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Thanks. Then what about the second question. If I repair it at an approved volvo repairer and the volvo knows it, then they will use it as an excuse to charge me at the end of the contract?
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My view is if they don’t see it, they don’t know about it.
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