Dracoro

More like 70%.

Simoted

It must be a decent repair if you'd offered 18k for it. I take it that you had viewed the car and only the HPI brought this to your attention?

FastPat17

Thats worse again. That'd leave damage near

Dembo

[QUOTE=Davey_2,Sep 15 2007, 12:06 PM] Now for it to be a write off in insurance terms, on a newish car that costs say

Rew

That would be me.

Mine wasa GT and less than a year old and after a few quid short of 13 G's, it was back on the road by the insurance company. If its been a write off then I reckon this car could have been a good 5 figure sum to get back on the road.

Thing is, the border line between write off ( cat D'd or worse ) or viable to repair can be literally a few hundred quid so even if clear on HPI, it could still be a car with History.

I got an HPI check on a very low mileage Escort Cosworth last year ( wanted one as a concours car ) and found a very clean car that appeared perfect. The history was impecable, car immaculate ( kept in a carcoon in the garage ) but I noticed that the door handles and fuel filler cap was from a more newer small turbo model, not a big turbo model that I was supposed to be buying. Eventually the seller confessed ( after putting him on the spot ) to it been reshelled many years ago but this did not show up on the HPI report I got.

Ste_Nova

for it to be a cat d it must have been non structural damage... anything major would have ment cat c

i'd be looking at stolen and vandalised 90% panel/glass/paint, i bet it's full of filler

now who is going to view it!

Bogsye

I'm a bit geeky and check through Universal Salvage from time to time.

Some cars seem to be Cat D when it's obvious that they are really very badly damaged, and seem unlikely to be economically repairable even with secondhand parts.

Insurance companies want to get max money for salvage, so I guess that there's pressure on assesors to label a car Cat D, rather than Cat C. Cat C will always appear on the new V5C, and Cat D is only revealled when it's HPI'd. So this really drives values at auctions, for people repairing salvage and pasing it off as "straight"

http://www.crimereduction.gov.uk/mso06a.pdf

We have a company Alfa 147 that was 13 months old and got thumped at a roundabout.

Bogsye

Here's a CatD from Universal Salvage

Imported and damaged 350Z

Pretty nasty looking. Front wheel has shifted back considerably into passenger wheel arch.

Mike9000

Nope. I didn't travel the 80 miles or so from Whitby to Huddersfield to see the car. So I didn't get to see the car in the flesh. The fact that he appeared so keen to take the

Ste_Nova

yes but thats mostly bolt on fix, rear 1/4 is the only hard bit

where as this.. crashed in japan, not recorded here, repaired with stolen parts and on the road in the uk today, you bet