Wrong Bull Bar Fitted!! Fer Fitch's Sake!

yeah mate i recently had someone smash into the front of my car and mess up my allow bull bar..

So it all went through insurance, it took 9weeks to finally get them approve the works... The alloy bar i had on the car was a TJM and was pretty expensive, so i said i would settle for a steel ARB bar..... they were happy with that and it was all going great, until i get my car back and the repairer had MADE ME UP A BULL BAR!?!?!?!

I had specified that the bull bar had to be able to hold a winch... they 'forgot' that...

So yeah mate your not the only one...

Ring up your insurance company mate get on their backs about it, its them being tight, not the repairer i spoke to the repairer about it and he said insurance company only gave him a small amount of money..

So yeah hastle them mate hastle them

Justin

I don't know what State you are in, but I think in some States it is not legal to have bull bars that lean forward!

Chump_boy

So what your trying to say is that your new bar doesn't have a fitch,,,, like the old one did and 'might' be illegal by sloping forward. The legalities of forward sloping is one thing but without the fitch, you should be fuuurious.
Sicem Chump, why should you be the one put off side

Regards
Andy

You didn't get what you lost or equivelent, take it back and hound them.

Hey Chump Boy! there is nothing wrong with that kind of bar, it's called a Veal Bar, just make sure you hit smaller animals!! (: ) sorry i cant be more help!!! Michael.

if you have photo of the bar on the cruiser,take that to them
to show them the style

Mongral bastards.

Hi Chump, as far as I've seen Vic Police 4X4's have ARB or TJM winch bars. Sounds like the apprentice was given some welding practice!! Throw it at them and tell them to go and get an ARB/TJM winch bar, what a crock of s**t they're trying to do!!

Regd's Darryn

The insurance policy for each of my two RA Rodeo's specifies the manufacturer of fitted accessories, ie Gitsham Mega Bar for the SA Rodeo and Irvin for the WA Rodeo. That way the bull bar shall be replaced with that one

Cheers,

Dion.

There's a basic principle of insurance called "utmost good faith" and it means that both parties (insured and Insurer) should show "utmost good faith" to the other party.
In this case, I would suggest that your insurer has not abided by this principle and you have cause for complaint. Most general insurers have a Dispute Resolution procedure, where by the first two tiers are internal and if your complaint/dispute is not resolved to you satisfaction by then the dispute/complaint will go to an independent external panel.

My advice, call your insurer and lodge your complaint and keep the pressure on. If it happened as you have described they should fit the same/similar bar that you had.

Don't believe all the repairer says, it would be interesting to see what he ahs billed the insurer for.

Cheers

Macca