The dealership service (of VW) once crashed my old car. In my country, if a car has a paint on any part of it, people think the car has been involved in a very, very serious accident; so the price diminishment is insane. (And if a piece is changed.. Oh my god! The car must have gone through an apocalyptic zombie war!) Anyway, they were going to paint a rather large piece, so I demanded them to pay my lost value, or I'll sue them.
The man said: "if you do that, we would claim that you had already crashed your car before you came here. Also you know how the justice system works; you would wait for years, and spend too much time and money, and at the end you would get nothing. So, I offer you a free spoiler. Just take it. Feel lucky that you have it."
This talk might sound you like a threatening. However it is not. He just told the truth. A friend of mine bought a brand new BMW and had a transmission issue in a few weeks. The dealer offered to change the transmission, but my friend wanted them to give a new, untouched car. The court lasted 2 years (if not more) and during this time, according to his lawyer's advice he did not took back the car from the dealer. So he had no car for 2 years! At the end, my friend gave up and get the car back. No tranny change was made (I don't remember if it was his choice) and still using it like that.
So I accepted the spoiler offer. Then go and have a chat with the service guy (we call them master) who would repair my car. I admire those guys. Anyway, maybe he liked me, or maybe for another reason, after a while they called me and said: "our master used some vacuum technique and, the problem is gone without a painting!" And they gave me the spoiler as well..
And OP, sorry for trolling your thread
Cheers..