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Have any of you ever had a relatively small issue end up costing you a significant amount of money?
Apparently, my drivers side windshield wiper blade broke - there are normally three metal rods insulated by rubber, but in my case, two of the metal rods became exposed and started sliding out of the casing. Since it was raining today, I had my wipers on (I didn't know it was broken) and I heard a scraping sound with each swipe.
When I got out of the car, I noticed that the metal rod from the wiper had carved through my roof wrap, through the original paint on the car, down to the metal. I was pretty pissed and called up the dealership - the car is an 18' Camaro, so everything was still under warranty.
Long story short, in order to repair the damage, they need me to remove the car wrap at my expense (which originally cost me $2500). I understood where they were coming from, they acknowledged that the wiper malfunctioned, but they can only cover costs to the stock vehicle. My insurance company said that since I never notified them about the wrap, I am shit out of luck.
In the end, I contacted the company that did my wrap, and they offered to repair the damange and re-wrap the car for $2900 - all in all, not a bad deal. Since I am redoing the whole vehicle anyways, I decided to go from matte black/white to matte black/color shift gloss blue. Avery makes a gloss transition wrap that goes from blue to red depending on lighting.
Not my car, but same model/color:
I would normally be alot angrier, but everybody I dealt with was trying to bend over backwards to make the situation right. The dealership (Gateway Chevrolet) was actually really accommodating - just an unfortunate set of circumstances.
Apparently, my drivers side windshield wiper blade broke - there are normally three metal rods insulated by rubber, but in my case, two of the metal rods became exposed and started sliding out of the casing. Since it was raining today, I had my wipers on (I didn't know it was broken) and I heard a scraping sound with each swipe.
When I got out of the car, I noticed that the metal rod from the wiper had carved through my roof wrap, through the original paint on the car, down to the metal. I was pretty pissed and called up the dealership - the car is an 18' Camaro, so everything was still under warranty.
Long story short, in order to repair the damage, they need me to remove the car wrap at my expense (which originally cost me $2500). I understood where they were coming from, they acknowledged that the wiper malfunctioned, but they can only cover costs to the stock vehicle. My insurance company said that since I never notified them about the wrap, I am shit out of luck.
In the end, I contacted the company that did my wrap, and they offered to repair the damange and re-wrap the car for $2900 - all in all, not a bad deal. Since I am redoing the whole vehicle anyways, I decided to go from matte black/white to matte black/color shift gloss blue. Avery makes a gloss transition wrap that goes from blue to red depending on lighting.
Not my car, but same model/color:
I would normally be alot angrier, but everybody I dealt with was trying to bend over backwards to make the situation right. The dealership (Gateway Chevrolet) was actually really accommodating - just an unfortunate set of circumstances.
And it's going to look cool with that wrap but I would be too afraid of getting tired of it. I'm more of classic colour guy, I actually love beige cars so I might not be the person to give you any advise on this. lol
