Tiger
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Insurance company said the labour charge of £70 an hour has written off my car, I need a car so i've told my mate i'll buy his S Plate Audi A3 1.8T off him. Possibly have it by Sunday.
Watch this space......
[Edited on 30-07-2008 by Tiger]
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pow
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What if he tells you to GTF 
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fazza
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fix it yourself
or buy a pink corsa
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Tiger
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Well, if I buy it and repair it, it'll go down as a Class C Write Off, on it's HPi etc. The repairs are going to come to a touch under £450, I dont have time to do it myself.
If I buy it back off the insurance they charge me 23% of the value for their fee's and I have to have it retested once its repaired to make sure its roadworthy before they'll insure it again.
Too much hassle by the sound of things.
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fazza
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isnt this the laguna?
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AK
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what the hell do you drive that isnt worth £450 
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pow
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Now now AK, we arent all as rich as you (£450 is less than my excess btw)
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Tiger
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Well, the going price for the car (Laguna 2.0), if you look at what they sell at in the papers is £1000 for the same spec as mine. It needed a new wing, bonnet, bumper, inner wing, headlight and indicator so they wrote it off, nothing more to be said really, I wait for the valuers to ring me in the next couple of days.
Regardless, I've got my new motor lined up 
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fazza
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dont insuracne go off book value though? which is about 500quid?
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Tiger
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Yeah they do, The book price for the same spec/condition/mileage for mine is about £750, but they said if I can prove, using current examples of cars the same as mine, that I beleive the value to be greater than what they offer, they reconsider.
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fazza
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sweet!!!!
pics of new motor?
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Tiger
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Not got a pic yet, the cars only just 5 odd miles away though, my mate who's selling it I also work with, and I know he's out on site tomorrow so i'm gonna get over to check it out properly on Saturday fingers crossed, i've seen it before mind you, just not had a proper proper look like, he's bang into his cars though so I know he looked after it well, he's done 1000miles in 9 months coz he has a company van.
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Colin
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Offer to buy it back for £50 or so then new wing bumper & light from scrappy? Cheap motoring
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Tiger
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I dont know how it all works to be honest, never been in the situation before. I'll see what they say.
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Colin
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Usually they will have an option to sell the owner the car back for very little, probably scrap value in this case.
It will be a cat c or d or whatever but if its just a car you were planning to keep & run into the ground anyway?
Bits from the scrappy can be uber cheap, all bolt on parts - you could have the car looking decent again in an hour & a half.
Just another option for you to consider. Ask them about buying back then get round the local scrappers at the weekend looking for lagunas with intact front ends.
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Tiger
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The valuers just rang up, I just agreed to a value of £700, cheque in post. Going over Saturday to take my headunit out of it and collect any other bits I left in there, including Tax Disk
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Tiger
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I bought the Audi - hopefully have it this weekend 
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Corsa Sport Gav
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quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
I bought the Audi - hopefully have it this weekend
good move 
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Colin
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Tiger
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Took it out for a spin today, turbo, turbo, turbo, where have you been all my life
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Brett
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Just wait til you get a turbo car that's fast 
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Tiger
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Well, this should be about 200bhp within 2 weeks, thats not bad for a tiny car.
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Brett
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lol was only joking, altho they're not up to much in standard form, but still lovely cars.
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Corsa Sport Gav
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they are great cars, im on my 3rd audi now, had two A3's and im onto a S3 now, just had it remapped makes a huge difference, you will love it
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