ahmedabad due to the heavy waterlogging after torrential rains battered ahmedabad on july 10 many cars were among the casualties at least 6000 cars have queued up for insurance claims with major or minor damage caused by waterlogging at car workshops suggest conservative estimates by the federation of automobile dealers association fada gujarat pranav shah chairman gujarat region fada said at least 6000 car owners have contacted authorized and privatelyowned workshops for major or minor repairs across the city this number may grow further because some the workshops have wait lists for attending to damaged cars with the unprecedented number of requests insurance surveyors are overloaded and are unable to promptly survey cars availability of parts is another major concern due to which workshops are flooded with carsin certain cases wherein cars have suffered engine damage the insurance survey takes more time as a result of which delays continue even after ten days shah addedthe majority of claims pertain to damage to electrical parts followed by engine damage our dealerships attended to at least 1000 cars for waterdamage related claims due to the heavy rain the average ticket size for minor electrical damage is around rs 20000 a car while for highend cars or those with greater damage the bill goes as high as rs 1 lakh said jigar vyas ceo of a city dealership the number of car damage claims across gujarat due to waterlogging damage will be much higherour company has received at least 250 claims in the past 10 days from across gujarat including ahmedabad navsari saputara and amreli among other places the total claim amount is around to rs 4 crore and many have applied for total loss in which the cars insured declared value idv is to be paid off said a senior official who handles the gujarat business of an insurance service providerin fact aftermarket demand for spare parts unavailable at workshops is also high we have begun receiving requests from workshops for certain older models where electrical parts engines motors among other parts are not easily available we expect the inquiries to go up said jeet goswami founder of an online marketplace dealing in automotive components