dodgy insurance repairs by AAMI

[fat4D]

first off i would like to point out that i have only had experiences from one AAMI office. The one in the ACT. I would also like to mention that this is not an attack on people who work for insurance companies as i am sure there is some of us forum users who are assessors, and if they are i would appreciate any feedback.

ok so ive had a long run of bad experiences over the last few years. Starting with an accident that i had in a 03 Ba xr6 sedan in 2007, at the time the car was insured for 21,000.The original repairs totaled 18,500 which as far as im aware should have ment it should have been a write off. to give you a general idea of the extent of the damage all panels apart from the read passenger door and the roof were replaced, the car was strapped to a jig to straighten the cars frame, the front end was cut off from about 10cm from the fire wall and replaced, and thats just the major parts of the repairs. not to mention i had to take it back 9 times for various issues from one engine mount completely snapped and the other badly bent. to the body of the car wasnt prepared originally after a month the paint bubbled.

after all this i sold that car for only a few thousand losing out almost 10,000 on a lost from what the pay out would have been. this was how bad the repairs were.

which ended up me buying my current car which i love, about 2 monthsfter putting a fibreglass front bar i was involved in a car park incident where somone hit the front left corner of my car cracking my nice new front bar... off to AAMI again the front bar was repaired again a poor job. the crack was nt repaired properly and the bar didnt clip into place and when i tried to push the bar into the clips the crack opened again and cracked the paint, i then spent a week fighting with AAMI to get it fixed properly. that was about 3 months ago and it had been ok as ive been busy with changing jobs hadn't had a chance to spend lots of time polishing the car and today had noticed that yet again the crack has appeared, so i plan to go back to AAMI tomoro and yet again argue to get it fixed properly.

any suggestions with how to deal with them would be appreciated. if you would like pictured of the big car crash to show how bad it was and that it shouldnt have been repaired let me know and ill post


p.s sorry for the long comments just really P*##@$ off