Just had a look, £33k to £35k for a 2017 car with similar mileage
Car Hit by Drunk Driver
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Just had a look, £33k to £35k for a 2017 car with similar mileage
Underboss
push for 35K
Underboss
sorry, jumped the gun
Haha, I think acemastr asked how much it was worth as the cost to fix it came to over £14k
Underboss
yeah, thats why i assumed a write off then lol
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It will never be the same again.
Once you get it back sell it and buy another or something else.
Caporegime
Shocked they aren't writing that off.
Why?
If it's a 14k payout versus a 30k/35k payout plus the hassle of selling it to recoup any costs, I'm sure the choice is obvious.
Caporegime
Beacuse 14k is only an initial estimate it could be much more once they take the car apart, then you add on hire car costs and things quickly escalate, and to top things off the OP could reject the repair.
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Only if it's not been done properly, the liability for which will fall to the body shop.
It's a valuable car and it's not badly damaged, it'll be repaired like thousands of other cars.
Caporegime
Then who pays for the additional hire car costs?
Replacing critical front suspension components and a 14k bill equal to almost 50% of the cars value, i'd class that as bad damage, i'd rather have body damage than something which could well involve critical suspension mount location points and may end up resulting in structural geometry issues.
But hey, armchair expert here..... I just know when my CC was punted up the rear resulting in a 7k repair bill the car never drove the same again.
Replacing critical front suspension components and a 14k bill equal to almost 50% of the cars value, i'd class that as bad damage, i'd rather have body damage than something which could well involve critical suspension mount location points and may end up resulting in structural geometry issues.
But hey, armchair expert here..... I just know when my CC was punted up the rear resulting in a 7k repair bill the car never drove the same again.
Caporegime
Its not just the value of the car to take into account though is it, it is the total cost of the claim, they must be paying out £500 a week just for the hire car.
Underboss
Will it end up as a cat C/ S ??
No.
Underboss
That's good then
When I was signing the paperwork for the Toureg the price for the week they initially signed up for was £1285 pending info from the garage. No doubt now the hire will be for 5 weeks the price will come down a bit or perhaps because it’s being paid for by her insurance company they will charge as much as they can.
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