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To the Car Hire company (National), for a VW Golf TSi.
Luckily, I have a Reimbursement insurance Policy, but this has still p****d me off immensley. I hire a car 3 times a year and must do 2500 miles per year if that. So I get a stonechip(sounded like half a housebrick) on the M5 yesterday and it's irrepairable, it was a beauty, I'll have to admit.
I had the same thing happen last year in another hire car on the M5, only that time it was repairable and the company didn't bother with any charge.
To me those odds are staggering, a stonechip on 2 out of 5 hire occasions covering less than 5000 miles, there must be sales reps who cover gargantuan amounts of miles and never get one.
I don't know the cost yet as they couldn't find the price on their matrix, they will send the invoice when they know instead of just debitting the whacking £1000 excess cover, you have to have secured.
Insured or not, the hassle I just don't need.
Any of you care to divulge your M'way damage Stats?
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I had to get my windscreen replaced this year, just before my MOT. I was changing the wipers, had the arm stood upright, and Charlie, one of the cats jumped up, knocked the arm, which, being spring-loaded came down hard onto the screen, right on the corner of the arm, and put cracks across roughly 1/3 of the screen.
Lucky for me, I have some awesomes friends and colleagues who got it sorted for me, without any hassle.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
In roughly 200k of mileage over the last 10 or so years, I've had two windscreens go.
One was hit by a golf ball straying from the course that I was driving through (seriously, the road ran between a couple of fairways).
I could do with the current one going though, because it's all pitted and scratched!
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Get one of them resin injection repairs done, otherwise it's likely to crack when the cold/damp gets into it.
Usually the repairer will come to you. I've used Autoglass in Cambridge, and they were excellent.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Looks like I've been shafted by Stats. Can't wait to go through the claims process
8-X@John_P
Yes, I am seething at the reccurence of stonechips. It is a statistical anomaly beyond the meaning of the term. I used to own cars and never got a bad one after miles of driving.
This latest one was beyond belief, the impact made me jump out of my skin and it was an instant dent and spider crack, f**k knows if it was one stone or two but it was like a double impact to do what it did to the windscreen.
It's going to be painful going through this claims process. I feel like I need another Holiday to get over this hump!
@chillidoggy
Hopefully with a Fish and Mushy Peas?