Tasmaniak
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- Joined
- Apr 30, 2005
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- S.E. Melbourne
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- www.ranjinstallations.com.au
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- VR Stato, C180 Kompressor, Prado and Ka
Not neccessarily, but they are still responsible regardless.
In regards to their insurance, it would totally depend upon their actual policy. E.G. My policy covers third party damage, so and so forth... but since I so rarely need to drive a customers vehicle (2-3 times a year and rarely leave the parking lot) I decided to not pay for that extra coverage. But, if I was to drive their vehicles on a regular basis, I would consider it more important than damage incurred in the workshop. Since the cost of repairing a smashed car is far greater than a busted panel or letting the smoke out of an ecu/bcm.
So, I highly doubt a dealership would risk not having that on their policy. Regardless though, I'm completely aware that in the eyes of the law, if an accident happens... I'm responsible in taking the neccessary actions for getting the car fixed back to the condition it was in when it arrived in my care. Whether it be my fault or not. If not my fault, the other driver must be responsible but... if the other driver flees, doesn't have insurance or contests the accident, the costs fall back to me to get the repairs done ASAP and follow up afterwards with the at fault driver. The owner of the vehicle must not be incurred any costs or unreasonably (taking too long to repair) inconvenienced due to them not being responsible and myself holding a duty of care... even though I dont have insurance for it. It's because of this law that the insurance policies exist to cover their arse in such an incident.
Still baffled at why it would take so long... their response of the speeds and distance is baffling. I can understand the speeds required but the only reason I can think of the distance being UPTO 200kms is a generic disclaimer to allow all dealerships nationwide the distance required to get to a 100km/h speed zone and safely travel for the time required to maintain 100km/h.
They may need to calibrate the difference between the detected GPS speeds and the speeds that the car detects through tyre rotations to adequately calculate ETA and DTA on the maps. The system may be updating more than just maps, it may require a firmware update to calibrate it all. Although, I would then assume that all new cars delivered could potentially have to go through the same process before leaving the assembly line and the sheer cost of labour on that would be stupid and passed onto the end consumer.
