Book price for sons car?

vaio

Good result and to round it all off the scores on the doors are…….

forgotmyname with £400-£600
spacy2012 at £475
motorguy at £500
Geforce with “snatch their hand off at £500”
cardinalbiggles comes in with a pretty vague “not a grand”

and we have a tie for first place between

dktreesea with £800-£1200 and
dacouch with £850-£1000

dacouch

Next time try using the Insurance forum part of MSE.

taylor72

sorry this was posted in the wrong area but to be fair there are many posts on here about claims!!! Darcouch, i dont really understand your need to shoot me down, i said you were accurate, not disrespected you in one post as far as i am aware. If i have offended i am sorry

dacouch

taylor72 wrote: »

sorry this was posted in the wrong area but to be fair there are many posts on here about claims!!! Darcouch, i dont really understand your need to shoot me down, i said you were accurate, not disrespected you in one post as far as i am aware. If i have offended i am sorry

It was meant as in you will get advice on that forum from posters who work in Insurance so understand it.

cardinalbiggles

vaio wrote: »

cardinalbiggles comes in with a pretty vague “not a grand”

Lots of room to manoeuvre on a vague guess :-)

I still cant believe the OP got £1100 for a ten year old 1.2 Punto, that's just complete madness, there is no way its worth anything like that imo....

dacouch

I think Admiral often over value older cars, there must be a business reason behind it either that or their staff are not well trained on valuing cars.

Asking the OP for the recent service should not have much effect on the value as servicing your car is an expected expense, although a main dealer FSH has an effect.

Tilt

Dealer price according to What Car is £1015.00

dktreesea

taylor72 wrote: »

quick update - after a lot of haggling and sending proof of servicing to file handler and all works done and checks by fiat and AA figure settled today at £1100 - first offer 600, second offer 850 - offer today which i have agreed on 1100 ))

Their process sounds about right. I got caught out the first time my car was side swiped and accepted the offer because it seemed okay and the car wasn't in the best of shape. If I knew then what I know now! The second time, a few years later, I was rear ended. And just like what has happened in your case, the offer I eventually accepted was several hundred pounds higher than their starting position.

People just get worried and overwhelmed when it comes to insurance claims. Apparently they rank high on the list of stress causing incidents, along with moving house and divorce. It pays, literally, to stay focused and not back down. Good on you for standing your ground and congratulations on getting a realistic, replacement cost, settlement.

vaio

dacouch wrote: »

I think Admiral often over value older cars, there must be a business reason behind it either that or their staff are not well trained on valuing cars.

Asking the OP for the recent service should not have much effect on the value as servicing your car is an expected expense, although a main dealer FSH has an effect.

Don't know about that but given that (round here at least) scrap vales are £150+ and when you think about the SOG responsibilities a dealer has to accept there is an argument that pretty much any car from a decent dealer is going to cost £1k.

A car comes in.......Dealer knows he can get £150-£200 risk free from the scrap man, but to sell it retail he needs to check it over, service it, maybe MOT it, then it needs a clean & polish, add a bit of cover for actually selling it, add a bit more cover for any unexpected SOG issues and there isn't a lot of profit on a £1k car.

No doubt unscrupulous dealers can cut corners (& costs) but insurance companies shouldn't be forcing punters into the hands of that sort of dealer.