British Car Auctions, "assessed" my car yesterday help needed

DaveTheMus

Why did you leave the tape on the parking sensor?

bigjl

Without pictures of the paint nobody can really judge the quality of the paint job.

And BCA bought WBAC late last year.

They were selling most of the cars WBAC used to buy anyway.

BCA have decades of data on how much cars sell for. And that includes what difference a badly painted bumper would make to a cars value.

And it would not be £900

A trade buyer could get it painted at cost in their own bodyshop for a couple of hundred at most.

Why was the bumper replaced and why did it not go via an Insurance Co Approved Repairer.

balgreenbhoy

It was a different body shop from the one that done the replacement bumper.

balgreenbhoy

I never even noticed the tape was on the sensors, the job was done 2.5 years ago.

balgreenbhoy

The bumper was replaced as some one rear ended me, it was repaired at an approved insurer body shop.

DaveTheMus

Could it be deemed as a consequential loss due to the accident? Maybe speak to your insurance company.

balgreenbhoy

Its just the BCA assessor trying to inflate the work that needs done, to give me a huge bill, then they do not do the work and auction the car off to sell as is. Its a con.

AdrianC

Let's go back a step... This assessor (the precise details of who are irrelevant) has never seen your car before. He has no idea that the bumper on it is not EXACTLY as it left the factory.

And yet he manages to pick on the ONE bit that's been worked on and choose that as his random "make-some-money" fib? C'mon. He's spotted something you haven't. He's a trained pro who assesses dozens of cars a week. What's barely visible to you is glaring to him. That bumper is clearly not right.

It's now 2.5yrs since it was done, so there's roughly zero chance of any comeback on the insurer or bodyshop. How much is he hitting you for?

balgreenbhoy

DaveTheMus wrote: »

Could it be deemed as a consequential loss due to the accident? Maybe speak to your insurance company.

AdrianC wrote: »

Let's go back a step... This assessor (the precise details of who are irrelevant) has never seen your car before. He has no idea that the bumper on it is not EXACTLY as it left the factory.

And yet he manages to pick on the ONE bit that's been worked on and choose that as his random "make-some-money" fib? C'mon. He's spotted something you haven't. He's a trained pro who assesses dozens of cars a week. What's barely visible to you is glaring to him. That bumper is clearly not right.

It's now 2.5yrs since it was done, so there's roughly zero chance of any comeback on the insurer or bodyshop. How much is he hitting you for?

The reason he picked up on the rear bumper was, the fact that the tape that was used to cover the parking sensors, when the bumper was replaced was still on them. I had an independent body shop check it over after he had been yesterday, and as I said earlier, they thought his assessment was laughable. Its not just the rear bumper, he is saying a wing repair was sub standard because of over paint, which is on the inside of the grill! I have been on another web site to ask anyone if they had come across the mob, and the stories are almost identical to mine, its a con.

DaveTheMus

It's the danger of driving a hire car for 3 years I guess....