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Hello Friends,
I need a suggestion, how to proceed on a bumper crash for Tata Nano test drive vehicle. Let me first explain the back ground of the issue.
My father is very eager to drive a car, he is 55 and now a Novice driver. I own a Maruti Ritz and he don't want to drive it since according to him the view from the vehicle on road is not that good and hence he wanted to try a small car.
As a son its my duty to full fill his wish and hence I though let him sense the pleasue of small vehicle before we actually go on to decide a car. I called Tata motors and arranged for test drive
Dealer appeared promptly on Sunday around 11AM. Unfortunately I was unable to accompany my dad because of personal reasons. You know roads in chennai is pathetic and people from other countries would think that we are under chaos all the time on seeing the traffic.
My dad started to move the vehicle(Tata Nano) and hit a bike parked in the left side of the road with in 3 meters(not 3KMs its just 3 meters). Reason being the road is a bit inclined to the right and the vehicle sliding to the lift. My sister asked the agent to move and talk later since my dad was very frightened as he never had any crash/hit incident before. My self and my dad use to drive my vehicle(Maruti Ritz) on the same road and on the same inclined place many times and this never happened. This proves the stability of the vehicle and at least the agent could have given a caution since only he knows the stability of the vehicle where my father never had a driving experience in that car.
Apologies for the huge detail on the incident background. Now Tata dealers are bugging me to bear the charges to repair the vehicle. I was pretty cautious since I haven't been in this situation before. They also claims that the vehicle is not covered under the insurance since its a new vehicle. I was shocked and started firing back at them. Now they want 50% charges to repair the damage since it would be only 50% if its covered under insurance
Damage details : Front Bumper hit. Either it required replacement or a body shop work. I personally didn't see the vehicle yet and hence I'm unable to give you all the details.
Friends, request you to provide your suggesstions on this to help me proceed further.
Mods : Request you to move this thread to an approapriate sections if this is not the right place to be in.
Thanks
Ramesh
I need a suggestion, how to proceed on a bumper crash for Tata Nano test drive vehicle. Let me first explain the back ground of the issue.
My father is very eager to drive a car, he is 55 and now a Novice driver. I own a Maruti Ritz and he don't want to drive it since according to him the view from the vehicle on road is not that good and hence he wanted to try a small car.
As a son its my duty to full fill his wish and hence I though let him sense the pleasue of small vehicle before we actually go on to decide a car. I called Tata motors and arranged for test drive
Dealer appeared promptly on Sunday around 11AM. Unfortunately I was unable to accompany my dad because of personal reasons. You know roads in chennai is pathetic and people from other countries would think that we are under chaos all the time on seeing the traffic.
My dad started to move the vehicle(Tata Nano) and hit a bike parked in the left side of the road with in 3 meters(not 3KMs its just 3 meters). Reason being the road is a bit inclined to the right and the vehicle sliding to the lift. My sister asked the agent to move and talk later since my dad was very frightened as he never had any crash/hit incident before. My self and my dad use to drive my vehicle(Maruti Ritz) on the same road and on the same inclined place many times and this never happened. This proves the stability of the vehicle and at least the agent could have given a caution since only he knows the stability of the vehicle where my father never had a driving experience in that car.
Apologies for the huge detail on the incident background. Now Tata dealers are bugging me to bear the charges to repair the vehicle. I was pretty cautious since I haven't been in this situation before. They also claims that the vehicle is not covered under the insurance since its a new vehicle. I was shocked and started firing back at them. Now they want 50% charges to repair the damage since it would be only 50% if its covered under insurance
Damage details : Front Bumper hit. Either it required replacement or a body shop work. I personally didn't see the vehicle yet and hence I'm unable to give you all the details.
Friends, request you to provide your suggesstions on this to help me proceed further.
Mods : Request you to move this thread to an approapriate sections if this is not the right place to be in.
Thanks
Ramesh
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