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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Fielder on 17 August 2006, 09:45
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4 months ago a friend was driving my car and managed to rip the bumper off the mount on a grass bank. She paid for the car to go to a local bodyshop to have the bumper fixed.
Last night while driving down a FLAT road my bumper fell off the back of my car!!! Luckly nobody was behind me or it would of caused a quite serious accident! my bumer is scrateched and the underside splitter has taken a right battering!! If a motorcyclist had been riding behind me at the time it could of caused a fatal accident!!
It looks like the bodyshop simply put 4 dollops of fiberglass on the metal bumper mount and then tigersealed the bumper to the dollops of fiberglass :huh: Im trying to get hold of the bodyshop now. I persionally dont feel i should have to pay for the repaires as i expect a bumper to last longer then 4 months!!! Am i in the right?
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tigerseal is good stuff, but not on a bumper :shocked:
You should get in touch with them and find out what they are going to do about it. Did you or your friend get a receipt for the work carried out because that will help a lot with this...otherwise they might just fob you off.
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luckly the bodyshop do work for all our cars (keeping the bodyshop annonimious for now) and we are all on first name bases with teh staff. No reciept but its common knollage that they fixed the car after the accident.
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just spoke to the bodyshop. Waiting on a phone call in the next half hour to find out whats being done about it
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mention the words 'nut and bolt' to them :wink:
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i hope u get it sorted hun..ive ended up havin to pay for half the paint to get my scratch done as i cudn prove that the hood fitter had done it.. :cry:
Dinx :kiss:
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sounds to me like its their fault it came off so they should do the repairs. Shame it doesnt always work that way but it should in your case buddy.
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if its stuck on its not gonna work as a bumper though it needs bolting on. id be very angry tbh thats a dangerous bodge
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i'd get it done at a proper garage and send those scamming gyppos the bill. i've heard of cutting corners before but that's a p!sstake.
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Damn thas f**ked up :shocked:
If the bodyshop doesnt fix it then dont use them again tbh.
Contact me if you want my local bodyshop. He done my mk2 and gives discounts to people i know :wink:
I dont think black cars are good luck for you fields. one thing after another :rolleyes:
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now if he had a blue car.........
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luckly the bodyshop do work for all our cars (keeping the bodyshop annonimious for now) and we are all on first name bases with teh staff. No reciept but its common knollage that they fixed the car after the accident.
no offence feilder but if they work on "all our cars" and you know them "all on first name basis" i'd be straight round there to have a strop at them!! that is bang out of order and especially if you lot are common customers. remind them that you know alot of people and this could easily damage their reputation as i'm 99% sure you will have posted this question on other forums.
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Cheers to everybody who replied. Basically i had a bit of a moan about it. They mostly blamed the coilovers and said they wouldnt usally mind but they witnessed me wrangle the car around the track on two occassions now so there not suprised its so battered.
There fixing it on saturday for me. They always give me dirt low prices anyway as ive braught them a fair bit of business but hopfully they get it all straightned out so i can drive again. im currently not driving the car incase i get rear ended. Having another car written off is the last thing i need. Especially as i live in that car 3 nights a week at the moment :smiley:
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now if he had a blue car.........
nah..they are bastid unlucky as well.. :rolleyes:
so are you payin for it to be fixed then?
Dinx :kiss:
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erm.. "sorry mate but because you drive fast and have coilovers we bodged your bumper on instead of repairing it properly" .. ? doesn't seem quite right.. fkin cowboys.
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Take one bottle of petrol, an old rag and a match....easiest way to deal with a cowboy outfit
Even if you do go down for arson
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I had exactly the same thing happen with my back bumper after getting the car back from the body shop. Looked to me like it had been stuck on with silicone! I just drove the car back to them and told them to sort it and do it properly this time! Didnt even give them a chance to argue. A good bodyshop is very hard to find! im still looking.
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I had a similar issue with my rear bumper - the bumper cover fell off on the way home from work one day, but the actually bumper stayed on. (This happened about 2 weeks after I bought the car!)
The scary thing is I didn't even notice it went until I next looked at the back off the car!! :shocked:
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Took it to the bodyshop today who used fiberglass and two hand made brackets to bold the bumper in two places and fiberglass it in another 4. Took them two hours and i walked away with a free breakfast for me and the misses and the work done free of charge. Couldnt be happier with that result :cool:
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Nice one mate although they had no other choice but to rectify the problem