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From: Bewdley, Worcestershire
Originally Posted by wingnutLP,Jan 22 2008, 02:35 AM
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?
Do you have a loan car in your policy as that is a useful tool for pushing for a write off?
Did you know with some insurance companies the loan car bill can tip the claim making the car written off.
I purchased a mint Mk2 Golf Gti 16v with a dent in the door, it was in the salvage, I asked why had it been written off and he replied, it has and it hasn't, it is known as technically written off, although the car was well worthy of a repair the person had a loan car for several weeks making it an expensive claim so they wrote it off instead then get money back through the salvage. I have never really understood how that can be better off financially for the insurance.
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From: Hertford
Originally Posted by Lloyd Six,Jan 22 2008, 09:39 AM
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.
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.sounds like one of those bollocks videos, since Mondies used to be factory-delvered like that!
Toe one of the rear wheels out by a couple of minutes, whilst the is other toeing in by 15-30 will achieve a similar result.
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You cannot say what an insurance company will do; it's usually counter-intuitive.
There is no way of judging from the pic; I could barely see it's a 3er.
The wings can pop straight with a tug, but a new boot floor & chassis legs must be then correctly inserted.
TBH, boots have soo many seams & shuts, I'd out it if I got it back. Too much to go wrong.
There is no way of judging from the pic; I could barely see it's a 3er.
The wings can pop straight with a tug, but a new boot floor & chassis legs must be then correctly inserted.
TBH, boots have soo many seams & shuts, I'd out it if I got it back. Too much to go wrong.
No one asked.............did you kill any of the bl00dy pigeons?