Cat C Help

Trying to classify all Cat C cars as either fine or deathtraps is just stupid, it's a massive sliding scale depending entirely on the age/value of the car in question. Something under 3 years old - yeah that's probably still worth a few quid so to be written off it'll probably have been in a fair old smack. On the other side of the coin, on a car over 6 or 7 years old say, you could write one off without it even having been in an accident at all.

It's not something you can just easily stuff into a good or bad category.
 
SB118 said:
pfft, iPhone users. First they can't make calls, then they can't take a decent photo, now they can't post! Is there anything that POS can do! :p
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I got an iPhone last week and loving it, its not as good a phone as my blackberry bold, its not as good a satnav as my Ipaq 314 with IGO8, its not as good an mp3 player as the one I had, however after selling those three I paid £100 for the iPhone and the convenience of having all those devices rolled into one plus its apps and internet abilities make it a very awesome device. But its not a phone with loads of extra features, its a PDA with an average phone app.

EDIT: OT I know but the OP was answered in the first couple of posts, the threads free game :P
 
[TW]Fox;18414591 said:
Did you know Jez's Mercedes S430 is a Category C writeoff? Do you know why? Because it had a scrape in a carpark. Literally just that - a scrape in a carpark. A scuffed bumper and a cracked light cluster with a mark on the wing. It was written off Category C for that because the cost of an S Class light cluster, replacement bumper and work at a Mercedes Benz authorised repairer along with a hire S Class was many thousands of pounds.
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i;m not arguing that every Cat C write off has had a big bump, just that statistically speaking, i best more of them have than have not.

Especially on newer cars.

Trouble is, if you're buying one thats been repaired, unless the seller has full documentation and photos etc... you've only got their word of what the damage was. And even worse, if you're buing it from a buyer who bought it from somebody else who repaired it, in which case the bloke selling it may have no information about the repair or the damage whatsoever other than its Cat C.
 
Buy a Cat C / D hope it breaks in half and you end up with two cars for one so excellent value imo.

Every seller I have ever met or spoken to who has been selling a Cat C / D has been or sounded the dodgyest stereotypical back street car sales person ever, whether from a private or trade sale.
 
[TW]Fox;18427110 said:
Nice u-turn there ;)
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No i still maintain the same - that they aren't worth the bother.

Theres too many cowboys trying to fix up cars on the cheap that have been written off after a big shunt and will never be the same.

If you can find a gem - something that has been properly repaired, with documented and photographic proof of the damage, and the repair work etc.. so you know its only had a bump in a car park great.

But most of the Cat C write offs for sale will have no history, no proof of the supposed "minor damage" and loads of them will have had big accidents.

Stuff like this :

http://combellack.dhsystems.co.uk/salvage-vehicles/vehicle-details/hyundai/i30/petrol/manual/707

http://combellack.dhsystems.co.uk/salvage-vehicles/vehicle-details/audi/a4/petrol/tip-tronic/706

http://combellack.dhsystems.co.uk/salvage-vehicles/vehicle-details/renault/megane/petrol/manual/696

and a Cat D Write off for comparison

http://combellack.dhsystems.co.uk/salvage-vehicles/vehicle-details/renault/megane/petrol/manual/704

Easy to see why that was Cat D.
 
Cupra said:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/02-RENAULT-SC...0694932?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4aa8455114

this is cat c with very light damage

ive seen cat d cars that nead front legs welding on before so it all depends on the person looking the car over

here is a cat d damaged car with more damage than the cat c
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2009-FORD-MON...9270090?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item43a4e4d94a
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the 1st is cat c is because its a renault scenic thats nearly 9 years old. The cat D is a 2009. Thats why. I've already said that its newer cars that don't get written off easily. Of course a 9 year old scenic can be a cat C with little damage.
 
MrLOL said:
the 1st is cat c is because its a renault scenic thats nearly 9 years old. The cat D is a 2009. Thats why. I've already said that its newer cars that don't get written off easily. Of course a 9 year old scenic can be a cat C with little damage.
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Congratulations, you have arrived at the point we've all been making all along.

From earlier in the thread..
Fox said:
The biggest factor in whether a car becomes a Cat C or Cat D writeoff is the value of the car, not the severity of the accident.
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MrLOL said:
i;m not arguing that every Cat C write off has had a big bump
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Then you probably shouldn't have started out with a statement like "Cat C vehicles have been in a nasty accident" if that wasn't what you were actually trying to say :p
 
I normally associate CAT D has stolen / recovered, old Escort, broken into type thing. Or flood damage in a newish BMW for instance would typically be classed as CAT D
 
[TW]Fox;18429044 said:
Congratulations, you have arrived at the point we've all been making all along.

From earlier in the thread..
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still doesnt change my original point that on newer cars most of them that are cat C write offs have faily substantial damage and you'd want to stay well clear.

On older cars, there are ones (like the scenic posted above) that get written off as a cat C with very little damage. But these cars are of so little value anyway to get written off the in the first place, the savings of going cat C won't be worth it, since their value will barely be 4 figures anyway.

And thats assuming you know its had minor damage, and not buying the car from somebody who bought it form somebody else that told him it only had a little bump and has no proof to back it up ....
 
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