Damage to car

thebrickdepot

Hi there, bit of a tricky one this. I work for a company as a night trunk driver and have to leave my car on premises overnight. I drove my car into the warehouse at about 20:00 hours as we usually leave for our trunk at this time. The warehouse is locked up when everyone leaves. The warehouse is opened up again at 03:00 hours and the vehicles are moved out by morning staff with my permission. One morning the staff member who moved my car has come to me and told me that she has damaged my car whilst moving it. She says that she will pay for the damage, but not happy with quote I got from garage where I bought car. My car is only 3 years old and we paid an extra £200 for supagard on the car, so I want to take it to a garage that will not invalidate the supagard warranty. If she refuses to pay, does anyone know where I stand with getting the damage paid for.
Thanx in advance.

Quentin

Either make a claim off your employer or consider taking the driver to the small claims court.

Otherwise swallow the costs yourself.

diesel_dog

Re applying supagard isn't difficult at all. Have you got any spare from when they done your car? If not some of the internet sites will sell it cheaply.

bigbulldog

Here you go.....http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPAGARD-SUPAGUARD-SUPERGUARD-SUPERGARD-KIT-PAINT-PROTECTION-SEALANT-WHEELS-/151038939469?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item232a9f514d

This is one of the other dealer rip offs,but can be found as above alot cheaper.

diesel_dog

bigbulldog wrote: »

Here you go.....http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPAGARD-SUPAGUARD-SUPERGUARD-SUPERGARD-KIT-PAINT-PROTECTION-SEALANT-WHEELS-/151038939469?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item232a9f514d

This is one of the other dealer rip offs,but can be found as above alot cheaper.

Great find :T

gilbert_and_sullivan

Do you own the premises in question?

If not has this parking inside the warehouse with all its implications been approved by management, if so then they presumably have also arranged and approved the warehouse staff to drive your car out of the building at the due time.
If this applies then its down to the company to fix your car, unless the company expects itsemployees to pay for accidental damage which would be unsual but not unheard of in the industry.

It seems grossly unfair to penalise someone if their working responsibilities don't include driving other employees cars officially, if driving your car is official then i would have expected the company to be responsible.

All this is only my opinon of course but having worked in transport for more years than enough, i suspect this warehouse parking is either unofficial or a quiet nod, is the warehouse insurer aware?

It also seems rather unfair bearing in mind the possible 'colleague favour' scenario here not to mitigate the costs as much as possible, either way i wouldn't be expecting my colleague to pay up whatever the circumstances unless they had damaged my car by driving their car into it in the normal car park if they have one.

colino

Why is she paying at all? If it was done accidentally in the course of her duties, the company or their insurance should be involved.

thebrickdepot

Hi there, thanx for all your replies so far.. I will try and answer a few of the questions. I do not own the warehouse, employees park cars in warehouse as a favour to keep them secure with permission from owner of car to drive them out. I have spoken to one long term employee of the firm, and they state that this has never happened before that she knows of, but it has happened to me twice in six months with said firm.

[Deleted User]

I wouldn't fancy having someone else having to drive and move my car everyday who is potentially not insured to do so. I'd park my car somewhere where it doesn't require being moved every night.

artbaron

You can replicate Supagard with a tenner's worth of stuff from Halfords (and have enough left for the next five years). Don't fret about the warranty, it's meaningless.

Strider590

thebrickdepot wrote: »

supagard

Waste of money, it costs the garage £30-£60 to do and costs the customer anything up to £400 to buy.

I like to call it:

"can't be bothered to wash my car" diamond+ceramic+unobtainium composite quadraspaz paint protection.

It's just something they after sell to recover any discount you managed to get on the sale.