Smash repair

[zuihoujueding]

Anyone here into smash repair?

Curious about one thing. Do smash repairers charge people for preparing a quote? Whether its to claim insurance or private?

[Vectose]

Depends on where you go. But most should give free quotes.

[zuihoujueding]

I was looking for quotes for my wife new civic. Someone bump into her at the parking lot but no evidence.

Then the smash repairer tried to charge her $50 to prepare a quote. That's unheard of

[Astron_Boy]

Not entirely unheard of.
It depends how far in depth you ask for the quote to go.

eg. They can spend time ringing around to find exact prices, give a break down on labor and give a thorough quote, bar anything they cannot see.
As this takes time to prep, they will charge something.

If however you get a beater to look over it and not dig too much and say based on average, and not write anything down, then it would be 100% free.

Personal experience.

[Sahin]

It's their way of saying "go somewhere else there's not enough money in it for us" some places only do insurance jobs and other places don't like insurance jobs

[rock_it]

They got sick of people "getting 3 quotes" and going with the cheaper one for cash jobs.

Most places will charge $50 for a quote, and if you do the work through them, they either refund the $50 or take it off the bill...

Becoming a common practice. Started back in late 90's early 00's ...

It was also used for shops to say cause they didn't want to get involved in cash jobs...