Can a garage withhold your bike?

[Albigularis]

So my bike is in for an insurance repair - purely cosmetic, just fairing panels.

One fairing panel is out of stock and it's had to be ordered from overseas and 'might' be here tomorrow.

Problem is I work weekends and my work isn't even remotely accessible by public transport - you can't even walk there. My hire bike will be going back tomorrow evening and the insurance company won't extend the hire.

Do the Garage have any 'rights' as such to withhold the bike from me? Apparently I need to sign saying the job is done or they don't get paid, but it's not like I won't come back for the fairing panel and sign when that's put on.

I don't understand why they couldn't order the parts in and just have me bring the bike in for a quick bolt-on when they were in either?
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[stinkwheel]

They can exercise a lein on your vehicle until the work has been paid for.

This isn't exactly that but I suppose has some aspects in that they don't get paid until you sign and you can't sign until the work is complete..
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[Lord Percy]

Has a problem actually occurred yet? Or is this just to ask what we all 'think' about the possible outcomes of a situation you haven't actually looked into yet?

Why not call the garage and ask?

[arry]

It sounds to me that your position should be one of hiring a car for the day at a reasonable rate and then billing it back to the insurance company if they're 'unable' to extend the hire. On what grounds can't they? The bike hasn't been delivered back to you - that's not your fault.

[Minty]

Extend the bike hire, pay for it and charge the 3rd party as an uninsured expenses claim.

Assuming they have admited full liability.
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[Lord Percy]

I was also going to mention claiming from the insurance company, but it depends on what the whole insurance thing is about.

I was in a crash, bike written off and was given a hire bike. My written off bike was then valued by an engineer, at which point it was deemed to have a value of £300, which is nowhere near enough to replace it... My insurance company then took the hire bike off me and told me to sort my own problems out as I'd been given the money for my broken bike. Wankers.

So I was stuck without a bike for a while, and just got taxis and sent the bill to the insurance company of the person who wrote off my bike.

In that instance it worked out for me.

So it depends on what your insurance issue is all about, I guess?

[Albigularis]

[Minty]

Speak to the 3rd party and request they extend it as you are left without transport due to their insured. Explain the other option is mini-cabs at an expense far greater than £65 per day. Invite them to choose which option they would prefer as they will be getting the bill for either.

edit- Who elected to use this particular garage? If they did then that adds weight to your 'claim' as it was their garage and they appear to not be up to the job in hand.
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[Rogerborg]

Did you choose the repairing garage, or did the 3rd party insurer select them?

[UPDATE] D'oh! Too slow.
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[arry]

[Albigularis]

[arry]

So have they stipulated on what grounds they're imposing the £600 limit? You have no contract with them - their liability cannot be limited - they are legally liable for cost of the hire bike whilst yours is not returned completed.

[Albigularis]

[Rogerborg]

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[Pol Anorl]

taxi > bill insurance.
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[Rogerborg]

Have you got any reason for believing that Micke- that the dealer is going to cause trouble? Unless they've actually done significant work to it then they've got no basis for billing you, let alone liening it.

Go in, "give me a call when the parts are in", ride away surely?
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[Albigularis]

[andyscooter]

might sound daft but have you seen your bike

even though you said it only needs this and this doing they may of found something else

mrs took a car into be repaired and popped in to see how they were getting on
just waiting for a bonnet was the reply

there was f all wrong with it when we took it in and the bonnet had been taken off and set about with hammers by the look of it

so wonder if they have done similar to up the moneys off insurance
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