Poll: 1 x bent VW Passat, repair costs?

Has Merlin wrote the beast off?

  • Yes

    Votes: 53 23.6%

  • No

    Votes: 32 14.2%

  • Try Harder

    Votes: 140 62.2%
  • Total voters
    225
Generally speaking an insurer will do sums and pick the lowest figure from:

a) Market value of vehicle minus salvage value of vehicle
b) Repair cost of vehicle

So if the salvage is worth £5k, it only needs £9-10k worth of damage to write it off.
 
ZG002 said:
I thought it was less than that? Its not going to cost £15k to fix that.
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Will differ from between insurance companies. Obviously won't cost 15k to repair but i'm assuming it is up to the insurance company and the owner whether it is worth to repair or write it off.
 
your getting a passat hire car and then your own one repaired and sent back to you


you fail, smash it up good and proper next time :) :)
 
Full airbag set is around 3k on a Golf as it needs half the dash replaced if the passanger airbag came out sure the Passat will be the same, I think this also includes the cost of the front seats being replaced.

The actual bodywork damage doesn't look that bad I did way more physical damage on a Fiesta with every panel bar the roof and drivers door and it was "only" 7k worth.

I suspect it will come down to chassis/suspension damage if its written off or not.
 
I was expecting this thread to include some sort of round about :(

Glad you're ok though merlin!

Surely it's nsx time now though? ;)
 
Try Harder ;) :p :D

If you have though I shall give you
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After I posted I thought about it possibly being a company car. Surely then though they'll just supply a new one?* :D


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*I don't know how company cars work
 
Uncanny, I was driving along at around 50mph the other day, sending a text, eating some crisps and tuning in my radiogram when I noticed all hell break loose behind me and some VW with big marshmellows coming from within. Must be honest I did think it odd at the time and I would never had noticed it had it not been for having a shave in the rear view mirror at the time.

Move house now just in case they bring it back!
 
Im by no means an expert... far from it lol... but im gonna say it might get repaired.

My wee corsa was involved in a crash, and by all accounts i thought it would be written off! Its a 05 1.8 SRi... was crashied into over night. Front, passenger side and rear all smashed to bits! (front bumper, bonnet, headlight, wing, rear quarter panel, 2 alloys, 1 tyre, tailgate light, rear bumper, boot lid and anything else under all that) Was an estimate of 3.5k - 4k to repair and i got i hire car for 38 days whilst they sorted it...!

I was there when they basically made the decision to write it off... but then they decided to get one last value, how much a dealer could sell it for, this came to £7500 and then on that decided to repair it.

Im lead to believe that if repairs are more than 50% of the cars worth, they write it off... :)

Just what i encountered, thought it might help! :)
 
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