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[steve6367]

I got the HT leads for the 2.5, Bad news I  had an accident and shoved in the bumper and bonnet on the way home! Still drives but does not look pretty! 

Typical having just finished the HG / wishbones / Exhaust / Setup / Cam Belt etc etc

Insurers want to come and get it, but I would rather keep it as it looks like a new bonet and bumper would see it good. Any advise?

[VXL V6]

I got the HT leads for the 2.5, Bad news I  had an accident and shoved in the bumper and bonnet on the way home! Still drives but does not look pretty! 

Typical having just finished the HG / wishbones / Exhaust / Setup / Cam Belt etc etc

Insurers want to come and get it, but I would rather keep it as it looks like a new bonet and bumper would see it good. Any advise?

Pictures required really to make a judgement, but insurance company will write it off if you let them take it.

Usually the crash bar will be bent, depending how heavy the shunt the slam panel may also be bent which may mean that the fans have pushed into the condenser. What's the gap between the wings and bonnet and wings and doors like?

If the bumper has sprung outwards either side it will have ripped the fixings from the bumper mount rails and the arch liners.

As always, Ebay is your friend for parts

[biggriffin]

DO NOT allow insurance to take the car, as they will write it off,and you have no say in the proceedings.
If you also want salvage you need to keep hold of the car,they will try every underhand trick in the book,but remember its YOUR CAR not there's.
Be somebody along soon who put it better.

[steve6367]

[steve6367]

Off to see if I can get the bonnet open now - insurers will assess from photos rather than collecting, thank you for the advise 

[Andy H]

SWMBO was shunted a few years ago. We got the car home. Resisted suggestions from insurer that they take the car away to be assessed and made sure that they sent an engineer to us to inspect it.

Insurers offered to repair it so car was collected. Next day we got a call "it's worse than we thought mate, it's a write off". SWMBO got some money towards a replacement car but it wasn't what we wanted. Bastaards 

I had a look on the Tax disc website a couple of months ago. The sodding thing is back on the road and taxed and MOTd. 

Did anyone mention DON'T LET THEM TAKE THE CAR AWAY, EVER, EVEN IF THEY PROMISE TO FIX IT AND SEND IT BACK GIFT WRAPPED?

Baaastaards

[minifreek]

Same thing happened to my sister in laws clit, insurers took it away to be 'assessed' they wrote it off without even looking at it...

All it needed was a bumper and scratch repaired...

She paid £750 for the car from her son (my nephew) and ended up with £60 in her pocket...!!! She only had the car 2 months...

the accident wasn't her fault either, someone ran into the back of her, but they denied it happened until photographic proof was given to the police...

[EMD]

Yep , there are specialist groups of people willing to buy your ride and be back on the road in a week repaired even though they call it a write off . Took my vectra as a write off , next week i seen it back on the road 

Although that does look a hefty prang to me 

[05omegav6]

Have fixed worse...



 

Hopefully noone injured etc, but certainly enough to write the car off, probably a Cat C, but very easily repaired 

[steve6367]

Well I've got it all apart - I'm no expert in car repair but I think I need:

Bonnet
Bumper
Crash Bar

[Andy H]

It does look as though the bumper/crash bar did a good job of absorbing the impact.

Are the headlight, radiator and condenser OK?

Any signs of wrinkling of the chassis legs ? (or cracked paint)

[Vicar]

This is where you need to find someone to look closely at it for you and if you can do a deal with them. Get the garage to give you a bill of repair, send it to the insurance company and they will ha e to honour payment. They can't write the car off either or categorise it. ;-)

[steve6367]

It does look as though the bumper/crash bar did a good job of absorbing the impact.

Are the headlight, radiator and condenser OK?

Any signs of wrinkling of the chassis legs ? (or cracked paint)

Headlight, radiator and condenser all seem ok 

I need to look more closely at the chassis legs.

[05omegav6]

I am potentially down that way early next month if that helps

[steve6367]

I am potentially down that way early next month if that helps

Thank you - having no experience of this any input would be great