Selling a car after a crash

Jodun

A month ago a bus drove into the rear of my car, nobody was hurt but as you can imagine the damage was substantial. The insurers/garage took a week to decide if they would repair my car or write it off, they have decided to repair it. I'm due to get it back sometime next week. My question is will the repair be public knowledge and will it affect the re-sale value of my car? Should we just accept the car back or should we try and get some money from the insurance too? It's a 2004 A4 with 90,000 miles and the repairs are apparently costing around £6k :eek:.

Silk

Jodun wrote: »

It's a 2004 A4 with 90,000 miles and the repairs are apparently costing around £6k :eek:.

I would have thought they would have written it off ?????
Theres plenty of 04's for less than that !
What sort of value did you think it was worth at the time ?
It's a bit risky for them to repair it at that sort of money if the car's not perfect when it comes back :eek:

Jodun

That's exactly what we thought. We're in the North of Scotland and prices do seem to be a bit higher here but we still wouldn't have though the car would be worth more than £8k at a push. We pointed this out to them before the repairs started (last week) but they went ahead anyway. The reckon the car is worth £9.5k!

terryya

Jodun wrote: »

The reckon the car is worth £9.5k!

In that case it would be awful if it got 'stolen' when you get it back



Disclaimer: Before the PC brigade get on my back for encouraging illegal activity, can I say that it was a joke.

Dave101t

a smashed up audi? no one in the world is going to buy that.

anewman

Dave101t wrote: »

a smashed up audi? no one in the world is going to buy that.

At a price they will unfortunately, much less than £9.5k unfortunately.

Bowdyjan18

At that sort of cost for repair it may be classed as a cat c write off.

motorguy

Bowdyjan18 wrote: »

At that sort of cost for repair it may be classed as a cat c write off.

That would be if it was classed as 'beyond economical repair' - thats not the case as they are repairing it.

chrisw

If it's not been written off it won't show up on HPI checks, etc. If it's repaired properly to a good standard, no-one will know and no-one will need to know.
However, if you are selling it and somebody asks whether it's ever been in an accident, you will have to say 'yes, but it was properly repaired.' In my experience, if you trade it in they usually only ask whether it's ever been written off and you can truthfully answer no.

roswell

I will guess its been decided it was definately the other parties fault then, I had a crash last december the repair bill was £2300 the car value was £2300 but as the other party paid my excess it was repaired because in the insurance companys mind it was not 100% total loss purely because they could claim the excess fronm the other party, I only found this out after having problem when the car was returned ... would I have paid £2300 for my car .. nope not a chance in hell whan i found that out i was surprised it was repaired at all. And in all honestly I would never have a repaired car back again I have had endless problems suspention wise with things wearing out premeturely which I put down to the crash in my mind.

artbaron

That's some repair bill for no write-off! There's no 2004 A4 that's worth £9.5K on 90K miles to my knowledge. My mate has his 2001 Scooby written off (<90k miles, good condition) when someone nicked the front bumper.