Search smart repair in google maps and check for a local place with good reviews which also does alloy wheel refurb
Managed to scrape my Tesla against a pillar today and need to sort the paint out. It's a lease car.
Some pics below. Can anyone recommend a reputable repairer please?
Search smart repair in google maps and check for a local place with good reviews which also does alloy wheel refurb
I used chipsaway when some kind sole ran a supermarket trolly down the side of my car,very pleased with the repair.
You could just take the hit and pay at the end of the lease. This happens all of the time and I have heard that it is sometimes cheaper to take the hit when you hand the cat back.
Some years ago now , I used ChipsAway twice, next door in the LB of Richmond. I thought the chap who came on both occasions did a very good job. Not sure if the quality and consistency of work is more dependent on the equipment onboard or technique and skills of the particular individual. Anyway, I was satisfied, although you might be a more demanding customer than me.
So none of the smart repairers will touch a Tesla it seems because of the electronics in the panels. So I've had my 1st Tesla approved bodyshop quote back.
£4.8k.....
No wonder insurance has skyrocketed. Needless to say, I'll be going down the insurance route.....
You’re being milked by cowboys. It doesn’t need to be Tesla approved.
I had two Teslas done here and not one issue
https://maps.app.goo.gl/Gomkm6qkx2fr85b98
My wife has since done the same one again so it’s due back soon. Not somewhere I thought I’d be a repeat customer.
Interesting article telling us what we already knew:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/ar...cost-of-claims
Exactly the experience I had with a simple bumper repair on 2009 Mazda 6. I was phoned every day by Enterprise trying to persuade me I needed a hire car, probably costing £500 per day. Eventually my car was written off for £4.5k. It just needed a minor repair and respray.
How are they getting away with it?
We recently got a quote from Chips away to fix a scratch in the Ipace door, it was a complete ripoff, I could get the whole panel respray'd in a Bodyshop cheaper
I caught a q/panel on a VW golf lease car, was cheaper to leave the damage (Tesla may be different)
Leave it for the lease co.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
I think some of the ratings come from having safety tech as standard. So not having Lane drift alters, or distance control radar etc marks you down.
I suspect someone will actually know and clarify.
Edit: Googled and found this
https://www.topgear.com/long-term-ca...ogger/report-5
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Last edited by xxnick1975; 13th May 2024 at 22:28.
To me, yes it does.
Over the 30 years+ attending collisions there are a large number of life changing/fatal accidents where the car containing those unfortunate people was stationary when hit. The time to find out if it is important is not when you are tailgated by a truck. Journo's (including the motoring press) have very little social/technical responsibility IMO, it's about 'being in the industry and selling copy'.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
The local chips away franchise holder did some paint on my wife’s Tesla sill after she scraped it. £200 quid, and it was a great job, probably better than the original paint! :-)
There’s no electronics on those panels that have been damaged, and they won’t have to dismantle anything at all to fix that.
I wouldn’t care less what comes first or third. I’ve seen how the sausage is made re reviews and do not trust lists like that. I do like Doug DeMuros Doug score though.
Why it has one star and if it makes the car unsafe? Couldn’t care less I’m not getting in a one star car.
Another vote for chipsaway. Excellent finish for a very small amount of money. Wasn’t a Tesla I got fixed though
I bashed the back corner of my leased Velar into a concrete bin and was quoted £2k to patch it up and £4.5k to fix it properly, as it would/might need a new bumper, new reversing sensors, two different paints etc etc.
I took the view to just send it back at the end of the lease with the damage still in place and take the hit.
The bill from the lease company was £75.
I therefore know what I would do!
I complained to Axa about a £3.5k repair to my car that chips away quoted £400 to repair, £220 if I'd have lived with a small spot of paint missing from the wing.
They upheld my complaint but didn't deal with it besides giving me £75 for not acting quicker.
The bodyshop swapped out a perfectly good tyre (for no reason) and sprayed the bumper wing and door (all fair). Took a month with me having a hire car all that time.
God knows what the repair to the Tesla cost that hit me.
My wife’s friend had a similar scrape in her new car (well, looks similar in the photo) and whilst she was telling my wife how upset she was I popped out to have a look, literally 5 minutes later with some polish it had totally disappeared. Most was material from whatever she’d scraped against. I was surprised but I’ve had a few minor scrapes on cars over the years that have polished out. Might be worth a try.
Are you near the end of the lease? If not I'd hang on, and fix it just before it goes back. sod's law says you'll fix it and then do the same again.
I do not miss the stress of leasing!
I've been following this thread with interest. About ten days ago I did this to a guys BMW, totally my fault. I managed to track him down by knocking on doors and we agreed not to go through insurance.
He rang me back tonight, £675 all in including new bumper, colour match respray, and fitment. I'm bunging some on top for him for his troubles and understanding nature, and he wants to buy me a pint next time he sees me, so I'm light of pocket but heavy on good karma.
Some of the figures on this thread seem a bit toppy to say the least!
Well done, you are one of the few this day & age, and glad he recognised this.
I had someone rub-park their car on ours outside their house when visiting friends, they deny it, despite matching scratch marks. Clearly felt they owned the space that wasn’t even opposite their house.
Wish everyone was as honest as you were.
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Makes me long for the old black plastic bumpers that acted as protection for the car as opposed to a pristine painted surface ready to be damaged! - and if they did get damaged you just bought a new one, no colour matching etc. But cars get bigger, spaces get smaller, bumpers as bumpers disappear and insurance goes up. Seems like another licence to print money and rip off Joe Public!
Going thorough insurance they'd still milk it, a hire car for a month while the correct plastic end caps arrived from china.
That'll be £2k please and £7 for parts.