Any views on these pictures? They are telling me the thread must have been stripped on the way in because you can't strip threads on the way out. The additional cost is presumably based around the welding in of a new nut in picture 2. We've been through a conciliation service, he offered to take £55 off the bill, I'm still not happy, but the time for pragmatism might be nigh. Court is aggravation and the time it would take is more than the money we are fighting over.
The thing that pees me off is that the car was driven into their garage, and before I knew any more about it, it was a non-runner, with the nut having 'disintegrated', 'shattered', whatever. I get no option to ask myself if the car is worth it, maybe sell it on (as a runner). I just don't think that is right.
Don't tell me what you think I want to hear about this, I don't want punches pulled. Tell me straight. Fight on, or pay up?