Hi guys,
Some silly cow reversed into the driver-side rear of my Trophy yesterday, damaging the rear bumper and scratching the rear lights. The chap at the body shop said it's a new bumper job, 400-500 quid plus VAT, all fair enough as it's off her insurance anyway.
However, I'm convinced the position of the rear light has been displaced and the gap between the RHS of the tailgate and the RHS lights is larger than the gap between the LHS of the tailgate and the LHS lights. The response of the body shop bloke (Renault approved) was "that's Renault"... I said to him I'm aware of Renault being a bit like that, but I'm also aware of every bit of Renault mis-alignment on my car, and that's not one of them, the impact has bent the light mounts or whatever... but he's having none of it. I can see that I'm going to have to prove this isn't the norm, because I want to make damn sure my car is restored to its former glory, but unfortunately none of my pics show that gap clearly enough :dapprove:
So therefore, do any of the guys that came to the Oxford meet have any pictures of the rear of my car apart from the ones they already posted to the forum? Also if anyone else has a good quality pic of the rear-end of a 172/182 that'd be good as well, to prove it's not normal and ensure I get it corrected!
Many thanks in advance guys, I want to make sure the Trophy isn't scarred
Edit: Pics of the damage to my car also to follow at some point!
Some silly cow reversed into the driver-side rear of my Trophy yesterday, damaging the rear bumper and scratching the rear lights. The chap at the body shop said it's a new bumper job, 400-500 quid plus VAT, all fair enough as it's off her insurance anyway.
However, I'm convinced the position of the rear light has been displaced and the gap between the RHS of the tailgate and the RHS lights is larger than the gap between the LHS of the tailgate and the LHS lights. The response of the body shop bloke (Renault approved) was "that's Renault"... I said to him I'm aware of Renault being a bit like that, but I'm also aware of every bit of Renault mis-alignment on my car, and that's not one of them, the impact has bent the light mounts or whatever... but he's having none of it. I can see that I'm going to have to prove this isn't the norm, because I want to make damn sure my car is restored to its former glory, but unfortunately none of my pics show that gap clearly enough :dapprove:
So therefore, do any of the guys that came to the Oxford meet have any pictures of the rear of my car apart from the ones they already posted to the forum? Also if anyone else has a good quality pic of the rear-end of a 172/182 that'd be good as well, to prove it's not normal and ensure I get it corrected!
Many thanks in advance guys, I want to make sure the Trophy isn't scarred
Edit: Pics of the damage to my car also to follow at some point!
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