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Car insurance - can I choose who repairs my car?
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After a bad experience with the local repairer " as recommended by the insurer"; can I insist that a main dealer or other repairer be used?
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(Note that some insurers now have an additional excess if you don't use their repairer)
I would get a quote from your preferred repairer and present it to your insurance company and ask them to confirm it's OK first.
You'll need to sort out whether you are paying and the insurance company are paying you back, or whether the insurance company are paying for the repairs direct.
I'm going through a claim where I'm choosing the repairer, but that's because my insurance company approved repairer say there will be a delay before they can fit me in as they are busy, and my MOT is due soon, so I can't wait around for them. I know the place I am using will be cheaper than the approved repairer, and it's the third party insurer that will be paying in my case anyway.
Good luck getting it all sorted...
If you hit someone else, then follow the guidance obve.
and we will never, ever return.
No.
No, you have the right to get it repaired at your choice of repairer, orrespective of which side you are claiming off.
(Downside is this may mean no courtesy car is provided by your insurer)
That's exactly what they want you to think!
But a right is a right!