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[steve6367]

£600 - £30 scrap value so £570 settlement and I can keep the car....any comments?

[Nick W]

Find panels in the correct colour(which shouldn't be too hard ), don't spend more than £200ish and you've not done too badly.

The important/difficult thing to this sort of job is keeping the costs under control.

[steve6367]

Good point on keeping cost down - I've not accepted the offer at this stage, so just pondering if its enough.....

[deviator]

They can't write the car off either or categorise it. ;-)

Not true. Wife was rear ended, (minor damage) I drove car to accident centre for assessment. They took some pictures and off I went. A few days later got a phone call to say the car had been written off, Cat D.

Might I add, when that call was received it meant that the car no longer had a valid MOT and was only insured 3rd to and from repair centres/MOT centres. WE WEREN'T TOLD THIS. Subsequently 2 days later the wife phone Adrian Flux who confirmed she had been driving with no insurance/MOT. Complaints have been raised.

On a side note, avoid Adrian Flux, 5 months for a no fault accident to still not be resolved.

[05omegav6]

If you buy any new parts, depo headlights with decent bulbs... £100 a pair... But more importantly the crash bar and brackets... As these are critical to getting the bumper location spot on. Which in turn affects the headlight trims and bonnet position...



Ignoring the crack

[steve6367]

Ok - are you saying get the crash bar from VX not second hand?

[05omegav6]

Entirely upto you... They're not exactly cheap but it does pretty much guarantee that it will go back together straight... Second hand crash bar and brackets tend to be quite rusty, even if still straight, which makes them almost impossible to adjust... imho of course