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Brommers
I feel another saga coming on. Our 2006 Outback was recently damaged by another driver while it was parked. I found them and exchanged details, they agreed to pay for the repairs privately.
Fast forward a month and I have quotes for the repair but the other party start fucking me around. I get really angry and consider how to take revenge...... frozen sausages etc. I then call my insurance expecting them to say I'd left it too late to claim but surprisingly they are amazing, take the details of the damage and arrange for the car to be repaired. No excess, no fault or claim on our policy, great I thought.
This morning they drop of an excellent hire car to replace ours (top spec BMW X1 which is a surprisingly good steer).
My wife then calls me at work to say they've collected the car, towing it behind a low loader on a dolly.
I immediately call all the body shop to ask,"have you towed my 4wd car to Perth (40 miles from my house) on a dolly?" To which the woman on the phone replies, "no, these drivers do this every day, they know that towing a 4wd car on a dolly is a major no no." Then she promises to check with the driver when they return.
To her credit she stays at the depot until they return at 6pm and finds they have towed the car on the dolly the 40 miles to the work shop! She then phoned me back and tells me this and that the phone calls are recorded so I have evidence.
The manager will be calling me in the morning.
What are the hive mind's thoughts? My car a permanent 4wd with a LSD in the middle. Will it be fucked?
What if it fails at some future point?
Anyone with experience of this?