Cat C Help

[TW]Fox;18497705 said:
Category C or D is a category of insurance writeoff. The fact it was repaired and put back into service suggests it wasn't a total loss. Therefore it wont have been written off - it was repaired and then went back into service.
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Afaik it was a total loss (not surprising when you see it up close!)

While yes, its back on the road (well, its still showing up as insured on Askmid!) I'm 99% sure its not come back to the Stobart fleet....


I had assumed it wound up at a salvage auction?

Anyway, sure, I see what your saying if it was not written off. :)
 
Ah, I see. I thought you meant it was back on the road with the Stobart fleet.

If somebody else has it its entirely possible that yes it was written off and then subsequently purchased and repaired by somebody else.
 
[TW]Fox;18497830 said:
Ah, I see. I thought you meant it was back on the road with the Stobart fleet.

If somebody else has it its entirely possible that yes it was written off and then subsequently purchased and repaired by somebody else.
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Yes, it was mangled quite badly!

less than 3 weeks old at the time of its crash, I'd have thought ideal Cat C fodder given its high value as a new vehicle, despite being wrecked.

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This, by comparison, would have been unclassified.
 
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[TW]Fox;18498088 said:
Well technically the higher the value the lower the chance of being Cat C.

Category C is given when the repair cost exceeds the value of the vehicle.
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The £35k figure I quoted was only the "jungle drums" rumoured cost,its possible it was a lot more I guess.....

:)
 
I saw a W221 Mercedes S class advertised at 14k or so the other day, which I thought was odd ...then I noticed it said in the advert it was cat D, it was a '56 plate. God know's what happened to it, to do that to a 4 and a bit year old S class.
 
Until the introduction of the 'E' classification for Stolen / Recovered vehicles, you would occasionally find a 'C' (but more usually a 'D') applied to a vehicle that might never have suffered any damage whatsoever. It was often down to the individual assessor.

(Stolen / Recovered - vehicles that had been stolen, and the insurer paid out the claim before, or in spite of the vehicle being recovered)
 
CAT c is quite common place especially in vehicles with multiple front airbags. Example if my passenger airbag deployed in my car it's bye bye dashboard and a nice 1.5-2k bill
 
I have seen Cat C with just a dented door, like my brothers 307 HDI, someone at low speed T-boned him and dented his door, it was cat C, he got a pay out of 1650 and the car back, he bought a door from ebay the same colour and I fitted it, it's as good as new now.
 
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