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Another one bites the dust....


Jimmy James

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Decided to go for a nice drive today and get a bit of shopping, car was nice and clean and running perfectly then suddenly....

a stupid little nissan micra decides to make a right hand turn in front of me. Not good, didnt even have time to hit the brakes. Travelling at 30-35mph i attempted to avoid him by going into the oncoming traffic but too late. Lucky i did swerve to the right because if i didnt i would have smashed the entire front of my car. The 65 year old man did two 360's in his little car which must have been quite the experiance.

 

He accepted full resposibility at the scene and says so on the police reports, however i have whiplash now and it seems to be getting worse. Been down the hospital and all they did was poke around and give me a pack of co-codomal. Being from Canada i havnt had any crashs here before and not sure how it all works in the UK. I'll attach a pic of the car before and after, any thoughts on the damage and if it will be written off because of this.

 

From looking this is what i see broken:

 

headlight (disintergrated on impact)

indicator (same)

bumper (same)

rad support (bent)

carbon bonnet(smashed on one corner and piece of headlight speared through it...lol)

wheel(bent)

tyre(gouge in side wall)

wing(crunched)

undertray(dissapeared)

wheel arch liner

Also wheels are pointing in different directions so suspension components.

 

It was already quite dark out so the pic isnt the best i'll get some better ones in the morning. Glad i decided on factory Range Rover paint now. Lucky no one was behind me or it would have got messy.

 

 

Thanks.

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Gutted for you James

 

I would think the Insurance will want to write it off, but in the UK you have the option to buy it back and do the repair yourself

 

You really need to find out what is twisted underneath, chasis leg/suspension etc to see if it's reasonable to do

 

You have to remember that it will be listed as a Insurance Write off repaired then, so will have an impact if you ever try to sell it on

 

Hope you can get sorted and make sure you give us SouthWest lot a shout if there's something we can help with

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Gutted for you James

 

I would think the Insurance will want to write it off, but in the UK you have the option to buy it back and do the repair yourself

 

You really need to find out what is twisted underneath, chasis leg/suspension etc to see if it's reasonable to do

 

You have to remember that it will be listed as a Insurance Write off repaired then, so will have an impact if you ever try to sell it on

 

Hope you can get sorted and make sure you give us SouthWest lot a shout if there's something we can help with

 

Doesn't matter about the write off status mate because it already is a cat "c". That's why I was fixing it up to keep and enjoy for the years ahead and get the TT conversion done in the spring. Hopefully it looks better in the daylight and is mostly cosmetic. Just really disappoints me that it's caused by someone in a rush to get to morrisons. I guess if I end up being able to keep it the bonnet will

have to be painted now. My neck and shoulder is killing me this morning, think a lawsuit is in order.

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If its's a cat c write off already then the insurance company will only value it at a certain percentage of its true value. I think this changes between companies. Taking this into account means they will probably write it off and you'll.have to buy it back, but their settlement figure will be lower than if it wasn't a cat c

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Insurance will write that off. Might cost you 1000 pluss parts to repair. just don't put in a claim for your car and have a bodyshop do it. Get the parts yourself. That's what I did. Even if the legs are bent a bit they can me moved but from that pic I'd not imagine they ate much out. Mine had only moved an inch. Needed new headlights. bumper. Crash bar. Cross member etc. But even some of the weld in bits you need to get new are quite cheap!

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I have it insured with Livingstone Warman Ins. co. on a cherished car policy, and the value agreed was 4000 pounds before it was painted. Im sure they would have known it was previously cat "c" from the history, and based the evaluation on it being repaired and inspected in 2009. Just got another pic of it, and the headlight stuck through my bonnet. Looks like a supra eating monster came down my road and took a bite out the front :) Cant see any significant damage to the suspension components, so hoping all the damage isnt in the leg. Better go swap my recaros over to the stock seats in case insurance does write it off.

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A lot depends on how it goes with the insurance, if they insure a car does it automatically flag up its a Cat C or

do you have to imform them of this ?

Same as you do with any points you have or accidents

 

Im just struggling to see how an insurance comp values an NA at £4000 on an

agreed value policy knowing its a Cat C

 

I hope your right and im wrong and good luck with how it all goes.

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A lot depends on how it goes with the insurance, if they insure a car does it automatically flag up its a Cat C or

do you have to imform them of this ?

Same as you do with any points you have or accidents

 

Im just struggling to see how an insurance comp values an NA at £4000 on an

agreed value policy knowing its a Cat C

 

I hope your right and im wrong and good luck with how it all goes.

 

You need to declare its a cat c to the insurance company, I think this may void your policy :(

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keep us informed. still cant beleive this happened! like i said when i called you after it happened, the recaro's should be sold for safety reasons lol ;)

 

 

Haha funny guy, already got them out the car and stock ones back in :) Guess they will make nice gaming chairs till i get another supra. Spoke to the insurance company this morning and they said it will be a write off most likely :(

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