Vonnie
A2OC donor
Back in February, just before a business trip I got the car out of the garage to take it to A2Cars (Tony) for my suspension to be replaced with Monroe Reflex and H&R Springs (which is fantastic now by the way), and we noticed that the first glass panel [The fixed panel above the windscreen] of the open sky on my car was starting to craze. Further investigation established a stone dent that had caused the issue.
After some deliberation on reviewing my insurance policy I decided that it was covered under my windscreen cover. So I called the Insurance company and was put through to someone who after checking confirmed that it was indeed covered. Then followed the need for Autoglass to confirm that they couldn't replace the panel even though I knew they couldn't - Processes have to be followed, and to also get some quotes - which is where A2Cars came in. Then I had to wait three weeks until after my business trip - as the car is kept in a garage so the insurance assessor couldn't view it until my return.
The assessor arrived, looked at the car, took some photos of the damage and the mileage, then said he needed to go away and work out a valuation and talk to the garage who would be doing the work. Then the remainder of the day was a tense one, as he mentioned 'of course we could write it off' Not what I wanted to hear, but then I guess the car is after all over 10years old with over 156,000 miles on the clock. I did of course advised the assessor that original painted White A2s are uncommon and even more so in the sport model with open sky, and that the car was always looked after, having just been serviced and the suspension replaced, and that I must care for the car if I was prepared to take it the distance to Milton Keynes for a service - I guess we will never know if that helped my cause of not, but it couldn't have done any harm. Fingers and toes were crossed and later that day Tony let me know the insurance man had given the go ahead.
The roof was ordered and we agreed that the car would be done during this past week, so last weekend we left the car with Tony and said we would collect this weekend as getting back to Milton Keynes is easiest for us at the weekend.
So this afternoon after Mike (A2Sumo) had finished work we drove back to see Tony and to collect my car. A fantastic job has been done and my Open Sky is perfect again, I just had to open it on the drive home
I forgot to get a decent picture of the car with the damaged panel, will see if Tony can send me one.
After some deliberation on reviewing my insurance policy I decided that it was covered under my windscreen cover. So I called the Insurance company and was put through to someone who after checking confirmed that it was indeed covered. Then followed the need for Autoglass to confirm that they couldn't replace the panel even though I knew they couldn't - Processes have to be followed, and to also get some quotes - which is where A2Cars came in. Then I had to wait three weeks until after my business trip - as the car is kept in a garage so the insurance assessor couldn't view it until my return.
The assessor arrived, looked at the car, took some photos of the damage and the mileage, then said he needed to go away and work out a valuation and talk to the garage who would be doing the work. Then the remainder of the day was a tense one, as he mentioned 'of course we could write it off' Not what I wanted to hear, but then I guess the car is after all over 10years old with over 156,000 miles on the clock. I did of course advised the assessor that original painted White A2s are uncommon and even more so in the sport model with open sky, and that the car was always looked after, having just been serviced and the suspension replaced, and that I must care for the car if I was prepared to take it the distance to Milton Keynes for a service - I guess we will never know if that helped my cause of not, but it couldn't have done any harm. Fingers and toes were crossed and later that day Tony let me know the insurance man had given the go ahead.
The roof was ordered and we agreed that the car would be done during this past week, so last weekend we left the car with Tony and said we would collect this weekend as getting back to Milton Keynes is easiest for us at the weekend.
So this afternoon after Mike (A2Sumo) had finished work we drove back to see Tony and to collect my car. A fantastic job has been done and my Open Sky is perfect again, I just had to open it on the drive home
I forgot to get a decent picture of the car with the damaged panel, will see if Tony can send me one.