I’m looking forward to finally getting a fully fixed car back this weekend after my Dec '15 accident and bodged repairs by the local bodyshop. I told the insurer I’d had enough and would get someone competent to repair the damage the local bodyshop either did not repair, or made worse, e.g.
- collapsed handbrake shoe that they simply disconnected and tightened up the adjuster so that one side worked better
- rear coil overs refitted upside down
- rear brake pad sensor socket moved behind the bodywork so you can’t change it
- mangled wiring loom near diff simply scotch-blocked and taped
- graunching diff where they insisted they couldn’t hear anything wrong
- missing bolts holding rear chassis reinforcement
- misaligned driver's door
- half the bodywork clips missing
- front air guide ripped in half
- drop link not connected at one end
- completley cock-eyed alignment/geometry
- bent rear ARB (hence the replacement Eibach kit)
- etc.
They’ll still be getting a letter listing everything that the bodyshop messed up, so that they can decide themselves if they’re happy to keep using a bodyshop who claims to guarantee their work, but then refuses to talk to you to fix anything and tells you to contact the insurer when you have an issue.
It also goes to show how a car professionally repaired to industry standards, with a QA certificate guaranteeing that work, can be unroadworthy and a pile of lies.
About the only parts on my car that haven’t been changed at some point are the roof, bonnet, hatch and gearbox.