most supercars wont be a £75 excess and a trip to autoglass, gallardo front windscreen for example would set you back 5 grand
Are excesses higher for windscreen damage on certain cars?
Genuine question this - I actually don't know.
most supercars wont be a £75 excess and a trip to autoglass, gallardo front windscreen for example would set you back 5 grand
Are excesses higher for windscreen damage on certain cars?
Genuine question this - I actually don't know.
Are excesses higher for windscreen damage on certain cars?
Genuine question this - I actually don't know.
I picked up a chip last week, rang up insurance company who sent out someone to repair it right away completely free.
A replacement would have cost me £75 I was told if the chip cracked during repair. (replacement screen cost circa £2k)
It depends entirely on your insurer. It's only a relatively recent thing to start increasing windscreen excesses (even then they aren't stupidly high).
Also rather than it being driven by supercars, or high value cars, It's actually all the autonomous technology being build into windscreens that are causing it. Even your bog standard hatchback these days can have windscreen repair costs that are in the high hundreds to £1k.
Mines just a big sheet of glass, nothing fancy at all. Apart from a lambo badge. Which makes it worth 2k. Apparently.
How many people on this forum do you think can afford £20k-£25K per year cost of ownership? Not a willy wave, but I think most people who are not doing this have little idea.
Depreciation £12K a year
Services £1K a year
Tyres £1K per year
Warranty £1.2K
Fuel £2.5K
Insurance £1K
Stuff
Add in things going wrong and other consumables (pads, set up etc). We are talking a different league in costs to a fast M car or 911 for example.
Hope not but knowing my investment prowess they will be 2k next year.
458 pads and discs cost @Gibbo ?
£22k? Holy poop! That's a 1 year old 3 series!
Ceramics are not cheap on any car!
True! Saying that when I was looking at the Boxster and some with ceramics were coming up I think I was quoted about 12k all round.
True! Saying that when I was looking at the Boxster and some with ceramics were coming up I think I was quoted about 12k all round.
A raw ceramic disk for any car will come to around £1500-£2500. You then have to have the correctly fitting bells made which can be anywhere upto £500 each. Add onto that dealer and brand tax and boom.
Yeah, true. They might have been an option I'd consider if i was intending to track it a lot, otherwise naaaah.
I do recall a boatload of the m4s I looked at had them as an option and were normally the cheaper ones...guessing the owners had been bitten or scared by the repair cost and wanted rid.