Thinking this is cheeky of friend?

Ask her for a receipt for the repair of the dint that you caused and pay when you receive it.

What would you now be paying your £300 for, what is it to cover. It can't be to cover the cost of the dent, as that is being paid for the insurance, so what does she think it's for ?

Maybe send her a message saying as the insurance are covering the cost of the repair due to your DH worsening of it, do you want me to pay the excess ?

I'm with the don't pay crowd, insurance are now sorting it, no one is being paid £300 by her to repair the dent therefore you don't owe it. If she's a really good friend (which TBH I doubt if she'd do this) then I'd consider paying but otherwise she can get to fuck.

If you'd have paid then then it would still have needed paying for or going through the insurance now.

I bet you've already paid, haven't you?

If so, then I've no clue at all why you've posted on here

Personally, I would have paid her the £300 immediately. I would have hated this hanging over my head for all those years. It’s nit m6 problem if she spent the money on something else. But as you didn’t, it’s not my problem that the insurance is paying, you agreed to give her £300 so just give her the money

Op isn't paying for it all to be sorted, friends insurance is. All op is paying is the £300 she originally agreed to pay.

She's a major CF expecting to pocket the cash now it's being fixed on the insurance.

She's probably thinking that'll cover the excess, which she shld have explained.
The car was damaged previously so shld have been fixed but she just left it so not really your fault.

My excess is usually £100 but that because I pay a little more to keep it down. Most people will be £2-300 excess on a claim.

She wld be a cheeky fucker if someone had hit the car and it was their insurance paying so no excess to pay. As they are claiming their insurance then there will be an excess.

Just pay it and forget about it. Next time something like that happens get bank details and pay so it's done with.

Seriously? They're friends supposedly, not strangers in the street!

Is her insurance actually paying for the dent though? Insurance companies aren't stupid and will question how a dent was caused by scraping a car, plus they'll probably be able to tell any chips are older. It may be they're just having the work done at the same time as it's going in

So her insurance is paying for the repair? Where is your £300 going, in her back pocket? If so then yes she is the CF. I'd ask her how much the excess is & pay her that-yes you could have paid her at any point in the last 3 years but hey, you snooze you lose!
Suppose it depends on how much you value the friendship though clearly she doesn't value it much as presumably you'll think of her differently now...

Its not fair enough tho. Her husband has massively damaged the car far more than op's ds but op is paying for it all to be sorted. (Depends on her excess fees but mine is £250).

If she didn’t have the repair done you shouldn’t pay where is the invoice to say it was repaired. As the insurance is sorting it now why would you pay if it’s the same side and being paid for by the insurance sounds like they trying to get you to pay their excess.

Absolutely she's being cheeky, it's not your fault that she's fannied around for three years, I presume you asked for bank details in that time and she didn't provide them.
The damage your DS did is now irrelevant. If you had already paid her she would be paying the full cost of repairing her DH's damage-which is what is being repaired and has nothing to do with you.
My reaction would also have been 'lucky escape for you' if the tables were turned

Don't pay this at all. Your quote no longer stands, she isn't being billed for work, she is basically getting you to pay the excess. She's being an absolute CF. Yep you damaged her car but that wss 3 years ago. She should have sorted at the time. She's lost her chance but is chancing her arm now.
Message her and say you won't be paying her excess fees for the damage her husband has done to their own car.

Don’t pay if the insurance is paying, she’s taking the piss big time if the car is already being repaired via insurance. Why does she need your £300?

I think she is the CF. You agreed on a price and kept asking her when she was getting it sorted. She didn't, which clearly shows she wasn't that bothered by the dent. And now she's done something worse (which would cost the same whether your previous dent was there or not) she's chasing you for the money? Nah. I'd tell her where to go.

Three years later? Not a chance!

Don't pay her, she can't enforce it.

Just laugh.

The £300 will probably cover her excess. If it hadn't been damaged more I reckon she'd not have bothered, but now it's costing her it's fair enough.

Friend = CF.

She should have fixed and you should have paid at the time. As that didn't happen, and where things stand now, she is seeming grabby as she won't need the £££ for the repair. Unless she does?

I’d split the excess 50:50.

I'd pay her the £300 as agreed, you're not out any more money than you would have been if you'd paid her at the time like you wanted to do. It's annoying, and her timing is off but perhaps your annoyance is down to the fact you'd secretly thought the £300 had been written off and you wouldn't have to pay?

Personally I think she is being a CF.

If I were the friend, I'd just forget it, as if it had been fixed and you paid £300 a couple of years ago, then they would now be paying for it to be done anyway. This way they're making money out of it.

Pay the £300, but you are clearly going to resent her for this!

but once the money is with her it’s not YOUR problem anymore @pop243 you could have a completely different circumstance now which could mean that YOU couldn’t afford it! What would she do then?