Normal for insurance company to take car away?

Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

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The wife managed to get my car written off last week.

Had a call today from a salvage company who said they are going to come and take my car and then have it assessed for valuation. Is that a normal thing to do? I thought it'd be assessed first in my presence and then get taken away?
 
The wife hasn't got your car written off if its not been collected by anyone. A writeoff is an insurance term - its a writeoff if they decide to pay out in full to you rather than repair it, a decision they wont make until its inspected. Therefore at this stage its entirely normal for it to be recovered by somebody.
 
As others have said this is normal, Reminds me, I visited my old boxster last weekend at my local s****py sad to see the old girl in such a state stripped back to a bare shell. Good to grab some parts off of it though and they let me have them for free :)
 
My car was recovered and assesed at the salvage yard without me being present. I was then contacted to discuss the amount i would accept for the car.
 
When my 306 was written off, the insurance company sent someone to assess it, then called me and told me the result of it. In my case, they took the price of salvage off the claim, so I needed to s**** it myself. Made £50 more than they thought I would, result!
 
Phate said:
Dude?! How'd she manage that! Errr details? Pics ofc too!
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The cars been cursed since that lorry side swiped it a year a go. That accident caved the back door in and I'm still waiting for a pay out on that one.

A few months later a car went into the back of it, frustratingly this one actually got settled on the day of this accident!

At christmas the wife went into the back of Range Rover that had a tow bar, this caved the whole front of the car in and I had to replace the radiator, air con radiator, inter cooler, cross member, bonnet and bumper (should have got rid of it at this stage). Luckily there was only minor paint damage to the Range Rover and the guy she hit was incredibly reasonable and didn't go through the insurance.

Once it was back on the road she filled up 3/4 of the tank with petrol instead of diesel, the stupid bint in the petrol station told her to brim the rest with diesel. Luckily I rang her on the off chance after she was about a mile down the road and told her to immediately stop and switch the car off. I then had to pay for the AA to come out and siphon the tank for £220 :(, although the petrol station refunded the £80 cost of the fuel for giving out poor advice.

A little while later the starter motor went, not expensive for a new one but a royal pain to change, I fitted new brakes and pads all round at this stage too.

Following this the missus was driving home from work and the hand brake jammed up on one of the rear wheels but she carried on driving it and nearly burnt the clutch out (luckily she didn't), another call to the AA who couldn't fix it at the roadside so I had to pay to upgrade to relay cover to get the car recovered, another £110 :(.

This brings us to last week when my wife again was driving on the M25 in the outside lane and a car that was 2 cars in front of her swerved out the way of something and smashed into the central reservation, spun into the middle lane and got hit by the car that was there, my wife managed to stop but a car in the middle lane tried to swerve out the way of what had happened and crashed into the front wing of my car, which buckled the wheel, bent the suspension, shock absorbers, steering rack, wheel hub and wishbones. I had new tyres fitted a couple of weeks before too :(

So that is the end of the Mondeo and hopefully the curse is now lifted!
 
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