Repair my Smash

Any info on quality of work by Kelley Body Works in Mitchell and Fuller Bros in Belconnen. Kelley Body Works uses Glasurit and Fuller uses Spies Hecker / Protec.

Insurance expired back in November. Hence the reference to my ignorance earlier… by way of explanation I can say that both my car and my business were insured with the same carrier, and every bit of mail coming to our PO BOX from the carrier was being handled by my business partner (ie leaving it unopened – the payments were coming out of our credit card so as far as he was concerned everything was hunky dory).

The carrier, whilst being nice and friendly, assure me there is no way I’m covered :-\

how long was your insurance expired? .. if by a week or two then they may have something in your PDS that covers you for lapse.

Terry Pullford in Fyshwick, they repaired an old work car, and are doing my rx7 as well now

*sigh*

If you must know the story (and I think you should before you try and lecture me or anyone else on the moral to the story), the traffic was bumper to bumper in the crawl along Haydon Dr heading into Canberra Stadium. Three of four cars in front braked suddenly and hard and everybody avoided hitting everybody. A split second later I took my eyes off the road to move something that had fallen onto the gear stick (whilst still braking) and the cars in front braked again harder.

Was it my fault? Yes – took my eyes off the road for half a second. Was I tailgating? We were crawling. Everybody was ‘tailgating’.

The speed at which we were travelling was insufficient for my car to do anything other than scratch the paint of the car in front of mine – the tow bar simply pushed inside a crumple zone.

The moral of this story is: if you are going to tailgate, make sure you are insured! And if you are going to be tailgated, make sure you have a big horrible tow bar to get them with.

Athol Morris at Fyshwick. Not sure about price, as my insurance company pays. But they do a good job.

PS: The paint peeled off the bonnet also. I was blamed and told it was my fault???????

Well if you hadn’t let your car overheat, it wouldn’t have damaged the bonnet…

🙂

I have always thought it funny, that there is a few industries out there (panel beating or glazing being examples), where by the simple act of vandalising cars or smashing windows round town, they can increase everybody’s business.

Do NOT use MARCO body works in Mitchell.

I had a car of mine repaired there.

They did NOT reconnect the thermo fans, engine cooked, sent me to Pulfords in Mitchell, did compression test, told all ok.

Week later, head gasket blows.

I say to Marco: “WTF”

Marco say” Go and get F.”

End of story.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

PS: The paint peeled off the bonnet also. I was blamed and told it was my fault???????

zagons said :

Braddon Smash Repairs – pregnancy brain resulted in two nasty scrapes (and dents) – and they fixed them quickly, cheaply and didn’t make too much fun of me.

Yeah, sadly I’ve had to use them a couple of times (and not once my fault 🙁 ) they seem pretty good.

Skidbladnir said :

But generally, they’re a matter of “Good, fast, or cheap. Pick any two.”

Further, apply this rule to pretty much anything else in life!