Automotive Assessor as a career?

khaldrogo

Anyone on here currently working at this willing to talk to me about it as a career?

Old diesel

I've never been one.

But imo you would need a frànkly impressive level of car expertise .

The ability to know with some certainty if a repaired car had been crashed previously for example .

Was a particular fault there for a while .

The ability to find a prior to an accident fault when the car in front of you is wrecked.

That's the sort of knowledge you need .

Toyotafanboi

Seems like a very handy gig if you are in with an insurance company or the likes of Assess Ireland, seems to be a bit of a closed society or at least that's the impression I got. No idea what the money is like.

You'd rarely meet an assessor to dispute anything unless you are taking the absolute piss. Comes out, takes a few photos, generally agrees with you, then asks for discount on the paint and materials and to call him if anything major changes.

Old diesel

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Seems like a very handy gig if you are in with an insurance company or the likes of Assess Ireland, seems to be a bit of a closed society or at least that's the impression I got. No idea what the money is like.

You'd rarely meet an assessor to dispute anything unless you are taking the absolute piss. Comes out, takes a few photos, generally agrees with you, then asks for discount on the paint and materials and to call him if anything major changes.

What I had in mind was the chaps who you call in because your daughter's car had big issues from day one and she needs to take a case against dealer.

Toyotafanboi

It's the same people, generally, but their bread and butter is verifying damage estimates. There wouldn't be huge demand in this country for much else.

I've never yet met an assessor hired by a private individual for anything like that, I'm sure it happens but not often enough for it to be a sustainable stand alone business. You'd see the manufacturer hire one from time to time though. That's all getting off topic a bit though.

mickdw

I hired an assessor privately as I was getting the run around from manufacturer re a new car.
Resulted in manufacturer at least engaging and sending their own assessor.

bladespin

Old diesel wrote: »

I've never been one.

But imo you would need a frànkly impressive level of car expertise .

The ability to know with some certainty if a repaired car had been crashed previously for example .

Was a particular fault there for a while .

The ability to find a prior to an accident fault when the car in front of you is wrecked.

That's the sort of knowledge you need .

You'd imagine so but you'd probably be mistaken.

Thankfully only had to deal with one once, very nice guy but really didn't know much about cars (at all), he was really only there to verify the car was 'smashed up', took pictures as proof, he did know the market price of the car though.

Fault finding etc would be in an engineers report, if that was needed it would be an escalation, an assessor couldn't do a full analysis in a carpark or driveway etc.