Dealership damaged my car, denies responsibility

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White95Max- I'll be on the edge of my seat...sure hope things turn out OK. I understand your dilema so I'll hope for the best.

I'd sure be careful about inspecting their work though...and for a while afterwards too (in case shrinkage/etc. brings something to light).

Hey, Moe- And consider that Stoddard (while the world's best Audi dealer IMO ) isn't the *good* paint/body shop that I take my important jobs to Finding a good paint/body guy is really tough.

But yeah, the aluminum cars pose special challenges and they did OK wreck-repair work on the A8 and S8...it was just the paintwork that wasn't 100% (hey, I understand that silver *is* tough). And as a regular dealership that I can trust with my cars, yeah...they're great. They even drive over an hour to pick mine up (leaving a loaner) for little stuff like oil changes, with no extra charge.

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Wow. That's why I avoid dealers for this kind of work. Any place that doesn't SPECIALIZE in the area of work that I'm interested in, doesn't get my business.

Case in point:

A customer backed into my Porsche. Damage was pretty bad. Not sure how, but he managed to mangle the rear panel and crack both tail-lights, among other things. His insurance wanted me to get the car fixed at a PONTIAC dealer. I almost laughed.

I did laugh when I got the dealer quote on repairs though. They appraised the value of the damage at about 900 bucks. Puhlease! I ended up having two other body shops, certified in Mercedes etc. repair, look it over and they both estimated more than 3500 dollars in damage!

After much hassle, I got my way and have a car that looks just as good as it did before. Don't believe me? Check my sig and go look at the pictures.