Car Accident Repairs and The scandal of insurance companies

If you have ever had to go through the pain of getting car accident repairs after a prang or crash you will have experienced an insurance company telling you that you need to go to one of their specialist approved repair centres.

In our experience the problem is that most insurance-approved repair centres do not do a very good job. Typically they are very large businesses with a huge turnover of both work and staff. You will find your car will be re-sprayed extremely quickly but the actual quality is often suspected. And what most people do not realise is that you can use a local garage you trust to do the work. You just need to insist that they do it.

In addition to actually doing car repairs we also deal with a lot of insurance claims. We actually handle the whole claim on behalf of the customer so we know what goes on from both sides. We work with the insurance companies and we also see the kind of work that a lot of the big insurance-approved centres turn out. And the scandal is that your car would/could be repaired for less money and to a higher standard at a local shop.

But why does this ridiculous situation persist? Why are people being ripped off by insurance-approved centres? The simple answer is that basically you and I the car owners are paying for it with our premiums. The insurance companies don’t care because they are just passing on the cost in the premiums each year. And the repair centres are certainly not going to object to charging more.

But it is still possible to have a quality job done on your car by a reputable local car body-shop like Woodstock Motors. You need to insist that you use your own body-shop. The insurance company will say you need to get a quotation and this is easily done with our online quotation generator.