Ok so today I got stuck in a field. Properly stuck, both front wheels sunk right into the ground with no traction at all. At least I had company, another car and two vans were also stranded.
The other car driver had already called the AA out and I called the RAC but, when they both turned up, they were unable to extracate either of us as we were stuck too firmly and they couldn't get enough traction to pull us out.
Cut a long story short, eventually a very good samaritan in a Landy Defender 90 turned up and pulled us both out without any problems at all. I'd even left my handbrake on and he managed to get me out!
Laughs aside, I now have a small problem. Whilst the RAC man was trying to get me out, he tried putting metal board/plate things behind each of the front wheels (was trying to pull out backwards). When I got home and jetwashed the ton of mud off the car, I noticed some damage to the underside of the sill on one side. It looks like the metal plate has flipped up and scraped the bottom of the car a bit.
It's scraped a kind of strip off the underside of the sill. The strip appears to be a thick rubbery type material with paint on it. Where this has been taken off, it's down to the metal underneath. Now it's not visible unless you get your head down to ground level so I don't really care about that but I obviously need to get it seen to as metal is exposed.
Does anyone know if this rubbery substance will form part of the undersealing of the car? My concern is that, if it is and I take it anywhere other than an Audi dealer to get sorted then it could cause problems with corrosion warranties and so forth in the future if there are any issues. OTOH, Audi will probably charge an arm and leg just to reapply some more rubbery stuff and paint it.
Have already reported the damage to the RAC in case it ends up costing a bomb to fix and I need to make a claim against them.
The other car driver had already called the AA out and I called the RAC but, when they both turned up, they were unable to extracate either of us as we were stuck too firmly and they couldn't get enough traction to pull us out.
Cut a long story short, eventually a very good samaritan in a Landy Defender 90 turned up and pulled us both out without any problems at all. I'd even left my handbrake on and he managed to get me out!
Laughs aside, I now have a small problem. Whilst the RAC man was trying to get me out, he tried putting metal board/plate things behind each of the front wheels (was trying to pull out backwards). When I got home and jetwashed the ton of mud off the car, I noticed some damage to the underside of the sill on one side. It looks like the metal plate has flipped up and scraped the bottom of the car a bit.
It's scraped a kind of strip off the underside of the sill. The strip appears to be a thick rubbery type material with paint on it. Where this has been taken off, it's down to the metal underneath. Now it's not visible unless you get your head down to ground level so I don't really care about that but I obviously need to get it seen to as metal is exposed.
Does anyone know if this rubbery substance will form part of the undersealing of the car? My concern is that, if it is and I take it anywhere other than an Audi dealer to get sorted then it could cause problems with corrosion warranties and so forth in the future if there are any issues. OTOH, Audi will probably charge an arm and leg just to reapply some more rubbery stuff and paint it.
Have already reported the damage to the RAC in case it ends up costing a bomb to fix and I need to make a claim against them.
