RevNev
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The worst repairs I've seen in SA are from the panel shops AAMI send their policy holders, but "lifetime guarantee" on repairs is the confidence factor to insure with AAMI and others who don't offer choice of repairer. However, this particular vehicle a Phantom Black VF2 Redline with driver's door and side skirt damage repaired by an AAMI panel shop I'll start at the top:Yes choice of repairer can be good for some but for most who don’t know the difference between chlorophyll and blue let alone what a good or bad repair is, the life time guarantee can be their best option. And one doesn’t need to preclude the other.
As is, I’ve had a very good outcomes using the lifetime repair warranty guarantee would these issues not have occurred if I went to a different repairer, I’m not sure
Door handles were masked up instead of removed, with mask lines on the doors and clear overspray dulling the door handle finger cavity.
Colour was blown into the rear door and front guard as they couldn't match the color edge to edge.
The rear door, driver's door and front guard were re-clear coated with too much orange peel that didn't match the rest of the car.
The lower inner B pillar was coated and dulled with a mist of grey primer.
The side skirt was 2nd hand previously from a white car where it meets the rocker panel, the black re-spray didn't fully cover the white paint.
The side skirt clear coat likewise had too much orange peel and didn't match the bumper finish as they do OEM.
Despite numerous complaints of a poor-quality job with the panel shop and with AAMI, the end result was AAMI declaring the job acceptable and ultimately ruined a previously nice car. The owner eventually paid a good panel shop 3.5k to fix it properly!
Whilst a "lifetime guarantee" may remedy premature deterioration, it doesn't remedy a poor quality job a policy holder rejects when collecting their vehicle from the repairer unfortunately. Having said, I've seen repairs the owner thinks is a good job in my eyes is garbage and wouldn't accept. There's a wide range of interpretations on a good or bad job dependent on who's looking at in many cases.
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