How to make sure your car is repaired properly after an accident

Recent weather has prompted a significant increase in the number of cars involved in accidents. If your car has been involved in an accident, we urge you to choose your repair centre carefully.

We encourage all our customers to use Poole Accident Repair. This is the area’s only accident repair centre which has manufacturer approvals from the Volkswagen Group. It means Poole Accident Repair is the recommended centre for not only Audi cars, but also Volkswagen, Seat and Skoda.

Poole Accident Repair is fully equipped with the correct machinery and technology for your car. They use official manufacturer parts in the repair of your car. The business has to pass strict audits from the manufacturer.

Using the right accident repair centre means that your car is returned to its pre-accident condition. The safety systems will work just as well again if you are unfortunate enough to be involved in another accident. Your warranty is unaffected. The value of your car is unaffected when you present it to us for part exchange.

Remember, as the owner of the car it is up to you to decide where it is repaired. Many insurance companies will try to railroad you into their own network of repairers, which will not have manufacturer approval and will be favoured largely on the basis of low cost. You do not have to follow this direction. Instead, take your car to Poole Accident Repair and let the team there liaise with the insurance company for you.

Bear in mind, we could be working with your car’s suspension, or airbags, or steering. Do you really want the people doing that work to be recommended by your insurer, or by the company which built your car in the first place?

More details can be found on their website http://www.pooleaccidentrepair.co.uk/ or call Poole Accident Repair on 01202 733866 – they are on hand 24/7 365 days a year.

Time to put quattro in your life?

Recent exposure to driving in snow and ice has only endorsed our belief in the relevance of quattro to modern driving.

Over the last couple of days, show any rear wheel drive or front wheel drive car an un-gritted hill of any kind, and all you will see is a flurry of wheelspin and zero forward progress. We have seen premium cars thwarted by the most innocuous of inclines, their drivers forced to abandon their cars and set out on foot instead. It’s only when it happens to you that you realise just how heart-breaking that feels.

Meanwhile, the Audi quattro discretely and safely drives on by. Four wheel drive traction enables the car to get a purchase on the surface. The car feels planted and secure. The quattro owner is able to carry on with their day.

Of course, quattro doesn’t just help when there is snow around. It makes a big difference in the rain, or even when it has stopped raining but the roads are still wet or greasy. That must be about half the year in this country.

For anyone who relies on their car round the year, specifying a quattro model is worthy of consideration. On most models the premium for quattro is about £1400, and of course the quattro will always be worth more when you come to sell it.

Many of our customers upgrade to quattro, and then never go back. There is good reason for that, and in that equation this week’s snow really is just the icing on the cake.

Poole Audi take up the Bangers4BEN challenge

Our team will only have £250 to spend on a road-legal car that is capable of making a 1,500 mile journey in just 3 days. Naturally we are only looking for an Audi and with the Audi reputation at stake we have to find something very special. Plus there is the small matter of rivalry between the 30 teams taking part. All of whom representing various car manufacturers, dealers, magazines and all hungry to win the challenge.

So armed with only £250 and charged with finding a suitable Audi with road tax and MOT, our team has been searching all known sources, both online and offline. Everything from the experience of getting out-bid at the last minute on an online auction, to thinking you have found the perfect car only to find it has a fatal flaw – or many in our case!

Some would say though that buying the car is the easy part. Our team will then have to take our £250 banger and over the course of 3 days, will have to complete over 1,500 miles across the UK. At the end of the mammoth journey we will be doing a few celebratory laps of Brands Hatch race track and then the cars will all be auctioned off with the full sale price going to charity. We hope to win some prizes, but without a doubt the real winners will be BEN – the Motor and Allied Trades Benevolent Fund. All money raised from this event will go to the charity and on the trip we will be paying them a visit.

Be sure to follow our progress on the event both here and via Twitter: http://twitter.com/poole_audi

If you know of a suitable Audi then please think of us…

Poole Audi sponsors Party in the Park

Poole Audi sponsors Party in the Park

Poole Audi are delighted to sponsor Party in the Park 2009. This takes place at Ashley Cross Green in Lower Parkstone, Poole on Sunday 6th September – midday to 7pm.

This event is a cool mix of great live music and tempting food – always a wonderful atmosphere, and what a way to kick back and enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon!

We invite all our customers and friends to come and join us. We will be displaying some cars and you can rely on us to drive a little glamour onto the green. We’ll also have an interactive competition to give the grey cells a weekend work-out! Join us for a drink and a chat. We look forward to seeing you.

To download the event flyer click here: www.pooleaudi.com/pdf/partyinthepark.bmp