Buying Cat C or D car- Help/ Advice

AdrianC

spacey2012 wrote: »

The risk is this, the structural shell of the car is designed to crumple ONCE.
Who ever is sitting in the car if it is hit again is likely to be killed as the car is nowhere near as strong second time round.
Some think this risk is worth a few quid, some think it is not.

How do you think a bodyshell's made? It's made of a lot of smaller pressings, joined together. And, as such, it can be dismantled and repaired without losing ANY strength or impact resistance at all.

Yes, it can be bodged, too.

But a _properly_ repaired car doesn't need to be inferior at all to a never-repaired one.

Whether any used car has been repaired without any marker, Cat D or Cat C is _purely_ a question of the insurer's decision on the repair costs versus the pre-collision value of the car.

'course, you have no way of knowing your _new_ car hasn't been damaged and repaired, either.

ioscorpio

HBC buy written off vehicles from insurance companies. http://www.hbc.co.uk/

rum1

3 years ago a bought a 1.8 auto Astra from a main dealer ex mobility car with 19k on the clock it was 3 years old and i only paid 5K it, have you thought about looking at ex mobility cars. I got mine from Bristol Street Motors if you go through them don't sign up to the service plan they offer it is a rip off with hidden extras when the service is due.

forgotmyname

Unless you know what your buying or paying for an independant inspection dont touch a cat C or D.

There was a post a couple of days ago where someone bought one and found a list of serious issues hidden underneath.

It wont fail an MOT if the tester cannot see the damage. So its easy to hide some serious issues.
You may not know until parts start to fail or you have an accident and it folds instead of taking the impact.

Google 5th gear ford focus crash. They test a repaired car to a non repaired one and the repaired one was much worse.

spacey2012

forgotmyname wrote: »

Google 5th gear ford focus crash. They test a repaired car to a non repaired one and the repaired one was much worse.

It is, that is how crumple zones work, anyone who says any different should not be anywhere near cars, let alone selling them.
Once impacted metal is weakened.
You can straighten and jig and weld new bits in, but next time God forbid, you are sitting in a car that has a unknown amount of resistance.
Not the best place for your kids and certainly not the smartest money saving tip.

AdrianC

forgotmyname wrote: »

Unless you know what your buying or paying for an independant inspection dont touch a cat C or D.

There was a post a couple of days ago where someone bought one and found a list of serious issues hidden underneath.

Which, after a few posts, it emerged was nothing to do with the original write-off, and related to a completely separate and far more recent collision.

Hintza

spacey2012 wrote: »

Not the best place for your kids

Aye got to think of the weans!