Hey!
I left my flat the other day, and noticed that the car parked in front of mine was only about a cm away, which was troubling. Surely they must had at least touched my car to have got so close.
Then I noticed a post it note stuck to my window to which I thought, ah, another person wants to buy my car for a fiver, but when I took another couple of steps around to the back of my car my theory about the car in front was proven to be ******** - they hadn't hit me - I had hit them!
And the post it note wasn't from some fellow enthusiast or some chancer, it was from the guy that rammed the back of my car, shunting it about a metre from where I'd parked it, into the car in front.
Well, at least they did the right thing having first done a very wrong thing.
To cut a long story short, my insurance company, who acknowledge that the fault is with the person who hit my parked car, decided minutes after I completed the online claim form, to treat my car as a total loss. This is upsetting.
I am trying to get them to repair it as I have no intension of parting with my car. In the meantime, they've told me that an independent evaluator has valued it at £6,400. I am now trying to present sources of valuations to dispute this paltry sum.
It's a 1996 Coupe with about 130k on the clock. It's mechanically sound, has a bunch of the usual upgrades. I'm not sure how much attention they've paid to the condition (it needs some TLC), as they've valued it off the back of some photos I sent of the damage.
The problem is that there aren't that many for sale and it's difficult to get an idea of what they've changed hands for recently. I've got a few examples, one great one of being one that was up for auction on Bohmans that didn't meet its reserve that got up to £17,500.
Does anyone on here have any info that could help me get the evaluator to appreciate how much these cars are worth these days? If you've sold or bought one recently and have any info I could use I'd be extremely grateful. Any figures that are given to me privately, I'll obviously keep private.
Worse comes to worse, I'll keep the car, it'll be flagged as a category N, and I'll try and get it repaired for the £5k that they'll give me. Not entirely sure where I'll get the bumpers from.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
Marc
I left my flat the other day, and noticed that the car parked in front of mine was only about a cm away, which was troubling. Surely they must had at least touched my car to have got so close.
Then I noticed a post it note stuck to my window to which I thought, ah, another person wants to buy my car for a fiver, but when I took another couple of steps around to the back of my car my theory about the car in front was proven to be ******** - they hadn't hit me - I had hit them!
And the post it note wasn't from some fellow enthusiast or some chancer, it was from the guy that rammed the back of my car, shunting it about a metre from where I'd parked it, into the car in front.
Well, at least they did the right thing having first done a very wrong thing.
To cut a long story short, my insurance company, who acknowledge that the fault is with the person who hit my parked car, decided minutes after I completed the online claim form, to treat my car as a total loss. This is upsetting.
I am trying to get them to repair it as I have no intension of parting with my car. In the meantime, they've told me that an independent evaluator has valued it at £6,400. I am now trying to present sources of valuations to dispute this paltry sum.
It's a 1996 Coupe with about 130k on the clock. It's mechanically sound, has a bunch of the usual upgrades. I'm not sure how much attention they've paid to the condition (it needs some TLC), as they've valued it off the back of some photos I sent of the damage.
The problem is that there aren't that many for sale and it's difficult to get an idea of what they've changed hands for recently. I've got a few examples, one great one of being one that was up for auction on Bohmans that didn't meet its reserve that got up to £17,500.
Does anyone on here have any info that could help me get the evaluator to appreciate how much these cars are worth these days? If you've sold or bought one recently and have any info I could use I'd be extremely grateful. Any figures that are given to me privately, I'll obviously keep private.
Worse comes to worse, I'll keep the car, it'll be flagged as a category N, and I'll try and get it repaired for the £5k that they'll give me. Not entirely sure where I'll get the bumpers from.
Anyway, thanks in advance.
Marc
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