jamesvalver
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Registered: 21st Feb 03
Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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i need a lil advice if anyone can help me please.
im going to court on the 22nd feb 2006 to attend the hearing of the old uninsured bloke who hit my corsa gsi way back in june 05. this is all so that the company that delt with the repair costs can claim back the £2300 bill.
the problem i face is that the car was never finished as it was stolen from the bodyshop under very suspicious sercumstances and was later found burnt out on a country lane. the company dealing with the money, Direct Accident Management obviously want to claim back there expences from the third party.
once the money etc has been claimed back, and the court procedure is over, i would like to know if there is anyway inwhich i can legally take D.A.M. to the cleaners because of the trouble that have cause me.
by trouble i mean as in the company "repairing" the car, LA Styling, took 3months just to start the car and told the insurance it was completed after just 1 month. after many phone calls i finally managed to get an assessor from D.A.M to go and see the car for himself to prove that i wasnt lieing about the car being there still.
the assesor confirmed what i had been saying and D.A.M told me that they where going to persue LA Styling for insurance fraud.
the manager of LA Styling then disapeared
after this i didnt hear from D.A.M so i called them a few weeks later.
i was then told again that the car would be removed from LA Styling and that it would be completed at one of there approved centres.
yet another few weeks passed anf i had heard nothing so i called them yet again. i expressed my feelings about the situation and asked if i could remove the car myself to get it repaired elsewhere as after hearing about some problems that LA had been having, i feared for the safty of my car. to this D.A.M said NO, WE WILL HAVE IT REMOVED AND REPAIRED FOR YOU.
then a couple of weeks later, the manager of LA appeared again and gained access to the workshop. that nite my car disapeared and all the CCTV footage for the workshop was erased.
i had a phone call the next day from an employee of LA asking me if i had removed my car or if D.A.M had. to this i said no and feared the worst.
i then heard through a mate in the fire service that a car was found on fire just 2miles away from the workshop at 5am the night the manager apeared.
we comfirmed 2days later that it was infact my car.
what i would like to know is, as i was told on many occassions that my car was going to be removed, and when i asked to remove it i was told no, is there any way inwhich i can claim for compensation from Direct Accident Management?
so about the essay but thanks for taking the time to read it
cheers
james
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p4uls corsa
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Registered: 2nd May 05
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go to trading standards mate they should be able to help u
have ur insurance said they would pay for it?
[Edited on 12-01-2006 by p4uls corsa]
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jamesvalver
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that havent given me a defo answer as the car has been "stolen" again. the insurance company went to remove the car but only found the burnt patch on the floor and my headlights which fell out. now there is no evidence at all to prove the car was mine apart from the photo i have of it where it was burnt
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Charlene
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Registered: 29th Sep 04
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 You seem to have no luck with cars, hope it gets sorted for you
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p4uls corsa
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the cops may of had it towed u should contact them thats what ussually happens with them
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jamesvalver
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spoken to the police, the local council and insurance and none of them had moved it. we suspect that the manager of LA either realised that we where onto him about it or the local gypo's had weighed it in for scrap
before -
after -
also, how many people go and steel a car with a car battery and a pair of headlight bulbs?? - the car had neither of these fitted when it disapeared. also the car didnt have a radiator, radiator pipes etc, no front bumper and it had an odd alloy on the front which was swapped bak to the std alloy to match the rest. also roughly £1k of bits in the boot wern't removed so my new chipped ecu, coilovers and MHW rear lights went up in smoke aswell
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jamesvalver
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ne1 else?
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