Notes

- Remove and Refit
- Repair
- Refinish - Sublets
- Parts
At present, insurance companies have different means of calculating the cost of repairs for vehicles. Generally speaking, insurance companies have a set rate for labour and a set rate for paintwork.
A quote for repairs to a vehicle can be broken up into the following sections.

Different insurance companies charge different rates. For Remove and Refit and Repair, rates will vary from $28 per hour to $31 per hour. Refinish ranges from $45/hr to $70/hr, depending on the type of paint finish on the vehicle.


AAMI argues that it does not use an hourly rate but a dollar figure. However, commonsense would correctly identify that what is being sold by the repairer is labour. To measure the cost of labour one must obviously have a formula to determine what the correct labour rate is and how long it would take to carry out a process.

Therefore, one must ask how does a repairer charge out labour at a rate of $30/hr and cover costs when the cost of employing labour and covering overheads is greater than $30. The answer is simple. Under remove and replace, the time given to remove the item is correct, but the labour rate is not sufficient to cover the costs.

Under vehicle repairs, the time taken to repair a panel may be 2 hours. However, the assessor will allocate 4 hours. Therefore, instead of the amount paid being $60 (2hrs x $30), what is paid is $120 (4hrs x $30). This is known as funny time, funny money.

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