[Carloszoe]

Someone ran into the back of us on the motorway when crawling. This was 5 weeks ago and we have been waiting for them to pick up the car ever since. The steering is pulling to the left and due to this RSA is saying that it is not drivable and this is causing issues. All the garages that the car has been assigned to have said that they have no room for non drivable cars. Has anyone else had this issue?

I really need my car back as the courtesy car is deisel and costing twice as much to run

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[thedon]

Same issue ,

My wife drives me or I don”t go out.Some numpty kept going at a give way junction straight into the side of her.RSA passed it on to some repair organisation.Been told 4 times now can’t get a local repair.

Going to be good when it is finally fixed and they want feedback on how well they didn’t do.

Lucky she can still drive mine.

[Carloszoe]

Oh no I’m gutted to hear that. Its clearly a countrywide issue. I’m more annoyed as based on what is wrong we think it’s simply a tracking issue but RSA won’t let us drive the car, and garages won’t take them if they aren’t driveable. Will have to arrange a smaller car soon as we can’t afford to run this mercedes which no doubt the insurance are making a fortune from hiring it to us.

[Zantose]

What would happen if you repair a notability without putting a insurance claim in would you get banned or something

[Asc]

Yes you would..

[thedon]

Update.

Mine is going in next week.

Seems the local repair shop had not been told I could get a hire car from Enterprise.

The car the repair place only has a small amount of cars for customers to use.So they didn’t have anything suitable at the moment(hence could not repair).

Also spare parts are hard to get so could have a hire car for a long time(lady in repair shop said).

[POPS]

Zantose wrote:

What would happen if you repair a notability without putting a insurance claim in would you get banned or something

Any damage that affects the roadworthiness of a vehicle must be dealt with through Motability insurance.

Minor scratches and dents (cosmetic damage) can be repaired without notifying Motability by companies such as ‘Chips Away’.

[Michelle]

Our car a Peugeot 3008 was hit in the rear at the end of January on the motorway!  I was relieved when they said it was repairable as the other car that hit us was a write off.  The anxiety of trying to get another motability car when waiting for the garage assessment was horrendous! The original estimate was completion by end of march, 5 months on there are 2 parts that are still waiting to be Manufactured in the Peugeot factory and we have no timeline for completion of the repair.  In the meantime we have a Nissan trail hire car that is like driving a tank, still at least it’s roomy if nothing else!

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