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Looks just like my grandads one, except his is dark bluey green. He bought it new in 1992 ish to replace his then 6 year old skoda estelle (my dad had that for 2 years after him). Always garaged, serviced at least once a year. Don't know milage on it but its pretty low.
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1977 datsun 810 180b estate
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vast amount of work gone into that... if the insurance won't play ball its simple you have to be returned to the position you were in before the accident! which just means you have to be provided with the money they say the car is worth. All the insurance is obliged to give is the book value of the car, stated as £200, or if you argue the toss they may take a value from representative adverts. As someone in the business has already said in this thread it doesn't mean they have to fix his car, or pay him out what he spent on it, nor find an identical one. Just that he has to have a car of equivalent book value (£200) by means of a payout. Also, from honest John They have to put you back into the position you were in before the accident. Normally this would, as you say, mean money equivalent to the value of the car - presumably book value. However in this case the OP has extensive documentation showing that his Proton isn't just some old banger (and even then, I think, you'd be hard put to find one with tax and test for the £200 "book value")but a fully restored car in excellent overall condition. Now it may not be a particularly sought-after car, but I think if it were to go to court a judge would hold that as a nice example of the model it is worth considerably more than the book value. I think the OPs offer of £1200 isn't unreasonable in the circumstances, though I would have started higher, perhaps at £2000 in order to allow for some haggling.
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1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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And having read the rest of the thread, congratulations on resolving the matter to your satisfaction.
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1995 Range Rover 4.0 1995 BMW 320i Saloon 1989 BMW 325i Touring 1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 1991 Mercedes 190e 1970 Sunbeam Imp Sport
1966 Valiant 200 Custom 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 Station Wagon
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To be honest a fair portion of what was said in this thread is nonesense. I don't want to embarass anyone by commenting on who was wrong and who was right though. I am very thankful to one forum member who kindly advised and helped me over the course of this journey to getting paid out. He wishes to remain anonymous as he works as an insurance engineer himself and he knows exactly how the system works. I'm sure he will help anyone else in a similar situation. Sorry I only just read through this thread as I could have advised you on it before but it's great you had some decent advice about insurance claims for a change on here,there's so much Internet bo11ox spouted about this subject it's frightening. I've dealt in this game and can 100% tell you that you got a really good deal on that,about what I would have thought. "they have to put your car back to the way it was" What a load of toss!!! Id be amazed if they make that worse than a cat d,poss a cat c but with no VIC check required,as that stands for Vehicle Identity Check and has nothing to do with any repairs as idiots still seem to struggle with on forums. I did a lot of recovery in my old place and all this ripping parts off putting screwdrivers through fuel tanks is the biggest pile of curse word I've ever heard,same people who think that your car gets driven around town for 6 hrs when you drop it off at a supervised carpark. Yes,when the ins company finally give you the go ahead to collect the car because its going to a salvage yard things like a spare wheel and a battery may get replaced or go missing but before that you are offering a secure service of storage of a vehicle,if they suspect anything else they won't pay out storage costs,in fact sometimes they won't pay out if you just act on the word of the person having the car recovered(have had this happen first hand,lost £2000 on it). Glad it worked out for you mate,can't say I've ever been a huge fan of these cars but I certainly appreciate someone who goes the extra mile in keeping anything rare on the road.
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Id be amazed if they make that worse than a cat d,poss a cat c but with no VIC check required,as that stands for Vehicle Identity Check and has nothing to do with any repairs as idiots still seem to struggle with on forums. For you to call people "idiots" after mentioning the Vehicle Identity Check check seems a bit high-handed. I did a lot of recovery in my old place and all this ripping parts off putting screwdrivers through fuel tanks is the biggest pile of curse word I've ever heard,same people who think that your car gets driven around town for 6 hrs when you drop it off at a supervised carpark. Despite reams of first hand information to the contrary. We all know it happens and many of us have seen and experienced it first hand. Yes,when the ins company finally give you the go ahead to collect the car because its going to a salvage yard things like a spare wheel and a battery may get replaced or go missing may get replaced or go missing stolen
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.I did a lot of recovery in my old place and all this ripping parts off putting screwdrivers through fuel tanks is the biggest pile of curse word I've ever heard,same people who think that your car gets driven around town for 6 hrs when you drop it off at a supervised carpark. I can tell you 100% it does happen, as I mentioned earlier in the thread my boss allows the accident repair center up the road to use part of our works car park for storing the damaged cars. I've sat out there on my lunch break in the summer chatting to the lads doing it, I even offered to buy some of the petrol off them once but the lad said it gets used in their courtesy cars. One of the lads up there had a pug 306 a while back and when one came into the yard guess who I see removing bits of trim from it? Obviously I can't say that it happens everywhere as this is the only place I've ever been in the situation to see it happen, but that was enough for me to know I wouldn't want my car going to that sort of place if I can help it and it more than justified my warning to the op
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Feb 13, 2012 14:05:23 GMT
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They delivered the car back for me as well. In this case I think I was lucky in that it went to a very secure compound and I had a couple of people kindly keeping an eye on it for me. I can well believe that petrol, batteries, radios and all sorts of parts do go missing in less reputable places though. A maye of mine had a mini written off which he eventually bought back and in addition to the accident damage it went in with, it came back to him with crushed front wings like something had been sat on top of them. Another story was my colleague's BMW. The insurance company told him he could buy it back, and when he rang the contracted garage to arrange having it delivered back, it became apparent that it was already in transit to the scrap yard. They had to ring the driver and tell him to come back with it!
By the way, my car got no marker put on it at all. Its just a case of fix it and carry on.
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Last Edit: Feb 13, 2012 14:06:28 GMT by se325919
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speedy88
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"Nice Cortina mate"
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Feb 13, 2012 18:52:44 GMT
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Awesome result ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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