alexl94

Thanks for the quick responses guys. Yeah it's a bit of a conundrum at the moment. I ran an insurance quote with 1 claim and it increased my premium by about £500, presumably because of my age. My insurer specifically said that when it comes to my renewal quote time that my premium will not be affected due to neither myself, or the taxi making a claim. It's just a bit of a pain all in all. At my age no claims is worth more than gold! The car is on a 2 year lease, so one alternative that i'm considering is waiting till a few months before I have to hand my car back and taking it to get repaired then, my theory for this is the parts may be cheaper due to it being an older model car? Baring in mind all my parking sensors still work perfectly fine, the damage seems just cosmetic. Sorry if i'm confusing anyone here!

Recently had the pleasure of getting rear ended by a private hire taxi while I was stopped at a set of traffic lights, my first ever accident. I thought the damage would be a lot worse, in the photo it's quite difficult to see but the left side of the load lip for the boot has popped upwards, also cracked middle part of rear reflector. Insurers are aware and they've declared taxi at fault, but due to my age i'm not going to claim for the damage to my car as my insurance increases by eye watering amounts. So I was just wondering whether it would be a whole new rear bumper job or a repair and also what the rough cost of this would be? Hopefully won't be too bad!

Correct! Car doesn't have any options just a standard vRS DSG in race blue. I'm rather happy with how the shot's turned out in the end!

Finally got around to taking some proper pictures tonight of my race blue vRS!