Aviva car insurance - Approved Repairers

dacouch

Calling another member a liar is not good, although he did refrain to tell you that your pants were on fire

C_Mababejive

If your car is relatively new,you need to make sure it is repaired my a manufacturer approved body shop in order to retain warranty etc..

Approved repairers are sometimes high volume,high turnover bodge shops..

Kilty_2

C_Mababejive wrote: »

If your car is relatively new,you need to make sure it is repaired my a manufacturer approved body shop in order to retain warranty etc..

Approved repairers are sometimes high volume,high turnover bodge shops..

It's only 3 years old....I don't know how long the bodywork warranty is though.

adamc260

C_Mababejive wrote: »

If your car is relatively new,you need to make sure it is repaired my a manufacturer approved body shop in order to retain warranty etc..

Approved repairers are sometimes high volume,high turnover bodge shops..

As long as you use genuine parts you should have no issues, thats just a myth for dealers to charge insurers about £130 an hour labour.

Aviva guarantee work for 3 years, some insurers for 5 and more than has a lifetime guarantee.

Kilty_2

One of the approved repairers is Renault approved anyway, so I'll just insist it goes there.

mikey72

adamc260 wrote: »

As long as you use genuine parts you should have no issues, thats just a myth for dealers to charge insurers about £130 an hour labour.

Aviva guarantee work for 3 years, some insurers for 5 and more than has a lifetime guarantee.

For a bodywork warranty, you'd be hard pushed to prove it was genuine paint, or the cavities had been filled with genuine rust proofer or underseal.
The only insurance repair I've ever had done I insisted was done at a dealers.

Kilty_2

mikey72 wrote: »

For a bodywork warranty, you'd be hard pushed to prove it was genuine paint, or the cavities had been filled with genuine rust proofer or underseal.
The only insurance repair I've ever had done I insisted was done at a dealers.

Aviva really have me over a barrel with their non approved repairer excess - with a £650 excess already to pay an extra £200 hurts

Like I say, one of their approved repairers is Renault approved, although I seriously doubt they'll do a good job since it's the same place I bought the car from and their sales/aftersales was RIDICULOUS.

Quentin

Kilty wrote: »

Aviva really have me over a barrel with their non approved repairer excess - with a £650 excess already to pay an extra £200 hurts

Whatever else may be true about aviva, this is not quite!

They haven't forced you into this suation (the excesses you have won't have changed since you took out the policy and accepted them of your own freewill!)

Kilty_2

Wasn't much free will involved in accepting the 50/50 settlement though, believe me.

Quentin

If you have a 50/50 liability, do you know you can get half your excess back from the third party?