Accident Crash Repair - Thoughts?

[Adelaideprosound]

Please dont use ****.

Take it from me, they arent what they used to be. They damaged my GTR.

[Luke_ENR34]

Was about to say the same. Never going near there after what I've seen and heard.

[J_Red33]

^^ Is ****actually still running the place, last I knew he'd been off work for quite a while.

And as for *****do yourself a favour & go elsewhere, if you don't have something expensive like a Ferrari or a Mercedes they don't give a toss.

I've still got problems left over from their work 4 years on & I found a spot of rust on the edge of my boot lid the other day where they had to cut it back too damn far from being lumpy.

Not happy Jan

[SLED]

c'mon guys, you know you can't do this....thanks for the heads up though.

[J - Rad]

If you are on the west side go to Vassallo Crash Repair. I got my whole bonnet resprayed a week after buying the GT-R because all the paint just blew off after cleaning it. Sat me down and told me why it had happened. I picked it up 2 days later with the bonnet looking like glass.

[aahh32]

i suggest Pearce Crash Repairs 657 Port Rd, Woodville Park ph: 84456666 they have looked after all mine and my mates cars and done excellent work at excellent prices he can also get the work done really quick (hes willing to work really late to get your car done on time).

[J_Red33]

c'mon guys, you know you can't do this....thanks for the heads up though.

Apologies, got a little carried away

[funki_munki]

Sorry to bring up a old thread but ive been in a accident (not my fault) need the front and back done (samwidged between a volvo 4x4 and ford hatch back)

need to get 2 quotes done (insured with just cars) ive been given silvers motor bodies address as i need to get a quote from them and a quote from a repairer of my choice, just wondering who would be a good crash shop to go to for this in adelaide? i dont want anything dodgy or substanderd done (nothing less for my line )

Any help will be most appriciated,PM is probably best as i dont come on here often to check all the threads.

Thanks heaps SAU

Daniel

[Adelaideprosound]

c'mon guys, you know you can't do this....thanks for the heads up though.

I apologise, but that was my first hand experience with them, and when someone takes a failry expensive car there and they put screws into the kick trim wall damaging wiring and putting holes into the cockpit which will collect rust and eventually muck things up i think i have the right to warn people.

Defamation is another issue, its not as simple as people make it out to be.

[craig R33]

i agree, naming a shop after a first hand bad experience is ok,

defamation as part of hearsay, or story about a mate of a mate, is not...

[SLED]

yeah I appreciate your position George and I see where you're coming from Craig but unless the evidence is at hand, it's still hearsay.

Nightcrawler had a similar experience awhile ago and was contacted direct by a business's lawyer (poor Prank had his hands full with a similar situation).......hence why we're a bit anal about publicizing such details on a public forum.

But hey, by all means PM each other and go to town on any company that has trashed your pride and joy.

Hope you can understand our predicament.

[Dohmar]

yeah I appreciate your position George and I see where you're coming from Craig but unless the evidence is at hand, it's still hearsay.

Nightcrawler had a similar experience awhile ago and was contacted direct by a business's lawyer (poor Prank had his hands full with a similar situation).......hence why we're a bit anal about publicizing such details on a public forum.

But hey, by all means PM each other and go to town on any company that has trashed your pride and joy.

Hope you can understand our predicament.

Yeah, its cause the legal responsiblity lies with the publisher in any medium, and being a public forum, the admins and mods cant vouch or back up all claims of poor workmanship, and if even one of them is found to be untrue then the forum/forum owner gets sued for libel and we all lose ;\

that said, I wish is weren't so, I love name and shame.

-D

[writeoff]

yeah I appreciate your position George and I see where you're coming from Craig but unless the evidence is at hand, it's still hearsay.

I have evidence.

I have a lot of evidence in the form of emails, recorded (by my insurer) conversations with my insurer, reports from 3 different workshops and the fact that my car had to undergo considerable re-repairs at another crash repairer. Yet I am not allowed to name and shame.

I understand the risk that SAU doesn't want to take but in my specific experience the crash repairer took too long, and then returned my vehicle in a dangerous state. The company responsible for this should be named and shamed.

[typevu]

So if we have photo evidence of the poor workmanship we're allowed to name and shame.....?

[SLED]

Dave I know that you do have evidence only because I had some involvement but to post your thoughts on here would mean you would have to post all of your evidence as well and SAU Mods & Admins would probably not want to be reading for the next 5 days, not to mention that we would have to review everything 1st before you could post.....we do have lives away from SAU.

Hope this makes sense.

VU, photographic evidence does not speak of circumstances unfortunately so without doing the above as well, photos alone are not a clear indication of an outcome unfortunately.

[RubyRS4]

Pete, is it worthwhile starting a thread about bad experiences? No naming names of course, but saying (for example) "I had a bad experience at an exhaust shop" and leaving it open for members to PM only that member to enquire? People can leave the rant out, then if members want details they can do it via PM. Repeating their story over a few PMs might help get their anger out.

I'm aware most members just want to know who they can trust ... rather than feel the need to flame businesses for no reason.

[craig R33]

mmm kinda sucks how these kinda shops are ''protected''

i actually agree with rubys idea tbh...

[jrm]

Hope nobody ends up using the mob who Shannons recommended, and who I tool the car to (for the damage at the start of this thread)...

They took longer than they said they would, kept ringing me up to push expectations back, and once I did finally get it whilst the bumper repair was good, the new bonnet looked great, and even the repair of the mounts of the headlight looks surprisingly factory - the silver color just doesnt match to my satisfaction. In certain lights, you can tell it's been repaired. For an accident that wasn't my fault, I feel pretty hard done by to end up with a car that wasn't repaired 'right'. On top of that, the paintwork on the bumper was very easily damaged from stone chips from a single trip to Melbourne - which never occured over literally tens of trips to Melbourne and Sydney with the factory paintwork...

Despite weeks of back and forth with Shannons and the repairer, they both refused to do anything about it. Shannons sent a guy out to inspect it at least, but the repairer pretty much just laughed at me.

Ahhh well. I'll probably end up getting it resprayed at my expense when I get some bodykit parts fitted.

[Adelaideprosound]

Dave I know that you do have evidence only because I had some involvement but to post your thoughts on here would mean you would have to post all of your evidence as well and SAU Mods & Admins would probably not want to be reading for the next 5 days, not to mention that we would have to review everything 1st before you could post.....we do have lives away from SAU.

Hope this makes sense.

VU, photographic evidence does not speak of circumstances unfortunately so without doing the above as well, photos alone are not a clear indication of an outcome unfortunately.

I understand your position champ. Thanks for the heads up, ill be more considerate from now on.

George

[SLED]

thanks George ^^^

mmm kinda sucks how these kinda shops are ''protected''

i actually agree with rubys idea tbh...

I by no means will go out of my way to protect a repairer or cover up their shonky work, however, I will protect the owner of this site from possible litigation.

Only problem that may arise from a thread like Roo's suggestion is that hints maybe made as to who the repairer is and we're all too busy to be policing sensitive threads like that every few seconds of the day.........take it to Wasteland or PM I reckon.