Car being written off - help with Insurers please

Brooker_Dave

goldspanners wrote: »

over priced trader who is also covering potential warranty trouble within the price.
are they advertised at £1200 or actually selling at £1200?

Old Japs are worth a fortune, I sold an N reg Mazda E2200 - damaged, and with no MOT and had people fighting over it.

dacouch

The only problem is it sounds like they are in a credit hire vehicle which will be costing a foirtune per day. This can have an effect on how the Insurers settle the claim eg it could be cheaper for them to just say we are writing the car off here is the money as it means they can cease being responsible for the hire car costs a few days after the claim cheque is cashed.

patchwork_cat

Been there had it happen to us. We managed to get our offer upped by 10%, but that was it. There was still no way we could affford to replace our car with the money the insurance gave us. We had a Scenic bought from new, main dealer serviced etc. We are still feeling the pinch of replacing it 15 months on.
It is effectively the second rape as it where. You have to replace a car you were perfectly happy with all because some idiot wasn't driving as carefully as you. However you are lucky that the lorry has finally accepted it was their fault - years ago a lorry did a similar thing at some traffic lights and our insurance accepted joint liability, even though we had our handbrake on!

I too was advised to collect adverts, but the loss adjuster wasn't interested and said that was a fallacy - they use Glass's she said.

mcjordi

you might get some extra off them but i wouldnt hold your breath £700 is a good price, take it and tell them yuo want the car aswell, find a scrapy get a door and a wing, get a VIC check done and away you go

dont forget its a 13year old car and wasnt worth £1700 last year sorry