General: Am I being ripped off?

[capt jack]

So SWMBO backed her S70 into a space in a busy car park and nudged a blue Jag. Result? Not a mark on the S70, Jag superficially scuffed. Picture attached.

The Jag's owner is saying that the repair will cost £240 as the bumper needs to be removed and repainted. I know it's Christmas, but I'm not Santa!

I'm more than a bit suspicious. It seems one heck of a lot of dosh for a very small, very superficial scuff.

Unfortunately the damage is the scuff in the picture that's behind my Mrs's shadow, but even so, it doesn't look like £240 worth to me.

Anyone able to comment on what a ChipsAway type repair is likely to cost?

Cheers

Jack

[XC90Mk1]

Originally Posted by capt jack

So SWMBO backed her S70 into a space in a busy car park and nudged a blue Jag. Result? Not a mark on the S70, Jag superficially scuffed. Picture attached.

The Jag's owner is saying that the repair will cost £240 as the bumper needs to be removed and repainted. I know it's Christmas, but I'm not Santa!

I'm more than a bit suspicious. It seems one heck of a lot of dosh for a very small, very superficial scuff.

Unfortunately the damage is the scuff in the picture that's behind my Mrs's shadow, but even so, it doesn't look like £240 worth to me.

Anyone able to comment on what a ChipsAway type repair is likely to cost?

Cheers

Jack

Sounds cheap to me. I would pay up and consider myself lucky.

[canis]

Originally Posted by capt jack

The Jag's owner is saying that the repair will cost £240 as the bumper needs to be removed and repainted.

It will need repainting.

But it can be done on the car, indeed I'd not take the bumper off for fear of breaking the plethora of stupid plastic clips which seem to always break and hold cars together these days.

And you just know those cage nuts on the wings will be siezed, and resist unscrewing to the point they tear the metal. That will require a bodge, because what else can you do? All in all, removing the bumper is more likely to cause more damage, leave it where it is and paint it in situ.

Of course we all knew this would happen. Plastic bumpers are ****, always were. And that visible panty line between the wing and the bumper which everybody seems to ignore somehow, I presonally find absolutely disgusting.



It's lazy design. Just butt the two edges together, absolutely no attempt has been made to design around it.

But I digress. There's no cheap option with plastic bumpers. Repainting is the only way.

[S60RDesign]

It may well be that the whole section needs respraying to blend in. I had a quote for a few small scratches in that area and it was about the same. Paint repairs aren’t particularly cheap

[The Thong]

That’s about the going rate tbh, I had my bumper dinged in a car park and it’s cost me that to have it filled, painted and blended. My repairs were done without taking the bumper off so given the costs of removing the bumper too I’d say that pretty good.

TT

[andy_d]

seems about right £ wise,
suppose that is why so many drive off and say nothing about the damage they cause to others cars.

if your moaning about the £,, talk to the wife as she did the damage. perhaps if she took the correct amount of car driving /parking you wouldnt need to moan

[mentepazza]

Yep, needs repainting and that’s the price, more or less.

[KerPLoD]

You might be able to get it cheaper, but you certainly won't get a good job done, that's for sure. £240 is about right.

[DaveNP]

The alternative is to get all litigious with the Jag owner, make him put it through the insurance and then you pay your excess and increased premiums for the next few years, £240 will seem very cheap by then.
Chipsaway may be able to do it cheaper but you've got to persuade him he wants it done that way, and as it's your (wife's) fault, the ball is in his court.

[christheancient]

The only useful addition I can make is that I had a front bumper scrape right on the 'corner' a couple of years back repaired by my local ChipsAway guy. It needed a little amount of filling and rubbing down and it cost me £150! And he spotted a scratch elsewhere that he could polish out - and he did so free of charge! The results were incredible and the repairs undetectable.

ChipsAway are very strict with their franchisees about work standards and charges - and the franchisees are well aware that complaints can cost them their job!