I had that thought too but I thought the other party will send their surveyor to look at the car before the workshop can start work? that way the w/s cannot anyhow claim right? please correct me if im wrong
hhhmm think you may need to understand how is the final billing amount computed.
Such workshop will 1st charged a high fee for towing your car to their workshop, next a high price for your rental car with all the nicenice service.
Which you may think, ya they deserved it when especially your are not paying a single cents.
Plus all the admin charges, this and that.
The start of bill may just jump to a few hundreds to thousands before your car is repair.
Next move to your car's repair.
As you do not know their workshop and they do no know you.
The claim via repair is very subjective to how 'well' you find their workmanship,etc.
I do not mean all but some workshop will submit a OEM parts to be claim and replaced but give you a chiong brand for that.
And all these small actions bring up the claim amount maybe for a very simple job to be done outside.
If not if doing back in your AD; you can still ensure the parts changed, repaired, replaced is confirm 100% OEM parts.
So my personally opionion, just do not take up such offer from anyone on road.
As if their business is really good which lot of customers, why do they still need to do such things?
Just my 2€ worth.
