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Someone rear ended me yesterday while I was stationary at a set of lights - other driver completely at fault.

Pushed in left side of rear, smashed light, warped LHS rear quarter panel, boot won't open, etc.

She didn't have any insurance (of course), but I have comprehensive and am now in the process of finding a place for repairs. No one seems very interested, Nissan told me to go to Barrett Bros so they've checked it out and I'm getting a quote from them today (although the guy wasn't very interested there either), and booked in to get a quote from Tony Farrugia on Thursday.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can go?

John

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Damn man that sux :D

David Smash Repairs in Queanbeyan do awesome jobs... Barret Bros repaired my sisters Falcon when it was rear-ended, and did one hell of a half arsed job... there were gaps in the doors, boot didnt line up etc, I wouldnt reccomend them to anyone.

David's got it all nice and fixed and flush, awesome job, and they even cleaned the inside and outside of the car before they gave it back! I highly reccomend them.

And on a side note, if Barret Bros cant even fix a Falcon, how are they going to fix a skyline? :?

Davids fone number is 6299 3977, and there out on Yass Road in Queanbeyan... hope this helps :(

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I'm with Famous and they don't have any preferred repairers. Part of the deal with their policies is that you get to choose who does the repairs I think. They're sending a assessor guy to check it out and then hopefully giving the repairs the all clear. Not easy to find people willing to quote me for an import insurance job, but I got one from David Hand Smash Repairs who seemed good.

John

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jnr-j - sorry to hear about the rear end job :D

Hope you get it sorted out...

Re: Auto-Co, I wouldn't go near them, from both personal experiance and from what I've heard.

There's a thread on PF about a bloke who put his car into a certain smash repairer and within 2 days stuff was pinched from his car when it was parked in the smash repairers workshop.... When he confronted the smash repairer, the stolen stuff magically returned to his car within a few days !!!!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Took the car to David Hand Smash Repairs last Monday, got it back today looking good. Just waiting on indicator light frosted plastic cover thingy, everything else looking like new. Based on my experience I'd certainly go back there.

(and as a side note Famous are paying no probs - but of course they'll presumably get the money from the other party)

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