And they walked away

[MattS2]

Dest, I'm sure he has posted in the 'Showcase - Best picture...' thread.

Matt.

[dest]

Do you have any photos of how it used to look?
Would be good to have one for the Avant register, rather than just one of it looking rather sorry for itself

[5potblair]

Thats exactly the way I feel.

Cheers Blair

In all truth... if I walked away from that carnage, I wouldn't worry if the insurance offered me 5000 or 500 quid. Money is immaterial sometimes...

[shark_90]

That's quite amazing. A real mess. Glad to hear you're still in one piece.

[S2central.net]

In all truth... if I walked away from that carnage, I wouldn't worry if the insurance offered me 5000 or 500 quid. Money is immaterial sometimes...

[5potblair]

I have taken a settlement figure and have not put in any request to buy it back. I don`t have space to store a non mover scrapper like this.

[HPmuirt]

The car is now in the hands of the insurance and I`ve no idea where it went

This is common as 99% of owners do not question this and therefore the insurance companies treat the car as if they have already scrapped it and will have already agreed a price for the salvage with the accessor.

Until you have agreed a settlement, it is legally still your car, make sure THEY know that YOU know that. Do not take the first offer as that will be the lowest they believe that they can get away with, based on the valuation of their accessor (who remember is accessing it to try and turn a profit). In fact, do not accept anything before their 3rd offer

finally, if it is a modified car and you want the parts back but have not had a chance to swap them over before the car was moved, then you can negotiate to buy it as part of the settlement, however that becomes tricky as the damage increases as you car will more than likely be classed as 'must not be repaired'.

The advise must always be to recover the vehicle to a place that YOU control and only release it to the insurance company when you have the money in your hands. This also gives you a chance to speak to the accessor when he values the car.

Good luck and remember my parts list

Cheers n

Si

[5potblair]

The car is now in the hands of the insurance and I`ve no idea where it went

[pixsaudisex2]

wow

[Smith_S2]

You wanna bet, I'll take: -

The clocks
The wheel caps (and the wheels if they're not bent)
The aerial (mine is falling apart)
The centre console (mine has lost the top plastic lugs so it does not sit properly)
The rear audi rings (they are obviously lucky)
The isv (one can never have too many of those)
The gearbox

And Sal will take the engine and the running gear I am sure.

We'll leave the rest for the vultures

Cheers n


Si

hands off the clocks are mine!!!!!

[HPmuirt]

Not much left that anyone could salvage off of this slipper wagon

You wanna bet, I'll take: -

The clocks
The wheel caps (and the wheels if they're not bent)
The aerial (mine is falling apart)
The centre console (mine has lost the top plastic lugs so it does not sit properly)
The rear audi rings (they are obviously lucky)
The isv (one can never have too many of those)
The gearbox

And Sal will take the engine and the running gear I am sure.

We'll leave the rest for the vultures

Cheers n

Si

[5potblair]

The one bit I managed not to break !

Not much left that anyone could salvage off of this slipper wagon

[5potblair]

I would very much doubt My mate and I would not be here today if the car I was driving was anything other than a QUATTRO SLIPPER WAGON !!

Cheers min

Good grief... What an escape. If you had posted those 1st pics and said your mate was dead and you had just come out of hospital after a month I would have believed you. Tragic end for the car, but it looked after you until its demise - that is for sure. You are very very lucky.

[5potblair]

Cheers mate

That gearknob looks okay ^^^^^^^^ How much?


Seriously, you a one lucky man. Glad to hear you are okay and the car looked after you.

All the best

Steve.

[S2central.net]

Good grief... What an escape. If you had posted those 1st pics and said your mate was dead and you had just come out of hospital after a month I would have believed you. Tragic end for the car, but it looked after you until its demise - that is for sure. You are very very lucky.