Nice update on this, so after the accident on Tuesday I originally contacted the insurance company, they told me mine would possibly be a total loss. I told them to hold fire with the claim as I knew I would buy the car back if it was and repair it but didn't want it registered as a Cat N etc. I contacted the girl who hit me and explained the situation and she agreed she would prefer to sort out away from insurance as her excess was high
So went to a few body shops and got a few quotes, quotes ranged from £700 and all the way up to £1300. I kind of lost hope this was going to be sorted outside of insurance then Thursday afternoon I was dropping a friend to the the next village and drove past the small industrial estate literally 2 mins down the road to me and clocked a sign for a body shop so popped in he was very helpful and explained the tailgate would have to be replaced obviously but he could repair and paint the rear bumper RESULT!!! gave me a quote of £370 to paint the replacement tailgate and to repair and paint the bumper
I think someone on here put a couple of links up for a few tailgates on eBay which I checked then managed to find one off a 197 in the same colour which also had a spoiler attached aswell for £126 including delivery so all in the repair is going to cost me less than £500 and I'm going to gain a spoiler which I would've bought at later date anyway
Gave the girl a call told her the quote and she was more than happy as it was going to save her nearly £200 plus the bonus of not losing her no claims i had the money transfered to me half hour later and got the tailgate ordered which should be with me Tuesday/Wednesday next week then hopefully should be back looking as fresh as it did in a couple of weeks.
