Interested to see if people think this is a write off?

I found this: http://www.salvagesparefinder.co.uk/sold-BMW.htm

This made me think it probably is -

Things I know are wrong - rear exhaust, mid section(pushed by rear exhaust), rear bumper, parking sensors, boot lid, spoiler, related boot parts such as hinges etc, boot floor, internal boot plastics etc, bend on both big panels near rear screen(both sides) and god only know what low down in the rear - shell? chassis? Im not sure what is down there, oh and also a collection of pipes, and some carbon filter thing was split - thats a rough idea!

 

I'ts hard to say, if it was a regular 320 then probably but as an M3 the expensive bits are up front and you need to do more damage to get the cost up high enough as a % of the value.

It depends what the car was worth before really.

It doesn't look like the rear wings are bent but it is hard to see in that photo. Are they?

If they are OK then it suggests that there is a fair chance that the chasis is straight in which case it is just cosmetic and probably not a write off.

 

All day long it will go Cat C, it is way beyond Cat D with the quarters creased.

Infact I have seen lighter Cat C's in the salvage.

 

The picture doesnt show it well, but I can only describe the majority of the shunt as low down - my guess is there is chassis/shell down low for rigidity / strength etc.

Can anyone explain categories?

I take it you have some experience on this lloyd?

 

He's had a lot of experience of being smashed up the backside!

 

I used to work for Vauxhall Technical reseting airbags, transponder keys, sorting engine faults after crashes and working along side engineers when cars are close to the line on whether to repair or not. I also buy the odd salvage car to mess with.

The shell on the BMW is the chassis, I bet if that was to sit on a jig it would be twisted, maybe only by a mm or so but that on an M3 is serious.

When working with Sykes Pickavant tools many years back I went on a training course, during the course the Mondeo / Fiesta subframe alignment pins came up, these should be used if the subframe has been unbolted to do a clutch what ever, use them to get the subframe back 100% straight. It was shown on a graph what just half a milimetre did to the thrust-line - shocking, they showed a video of a Mondeo with the subframe slightly out, it was driving at 80mph making overtaking on a test track and it just spun out after that I realise how important it is for chassis's to be 100% true.

 

I was waiting for that comment right from the start of this topic!




I... am not... GAY!

 

OK cheers, I think its fooked!

 

50:50

I suspect they will repair

Needs to be done by a main agent Andy

 

While waiting you should look for similar cars and find out what it would cost you to buy a car you consider to be of the standard yours was. If it is written off then they will offer you as little as possible so you will need to put a case together to maximise your settlement.

Do you have a loan car in your policy as that is a useful tool for pushing for a write off?