Be quick - FREE Disco 300TDi bits!

After my bit of a bump in my disco, it's on its way to the big car park in the sky ...

Before they collect the car tomorrow, if anyone is short of bits of trim etc. for their disco. Let me know before about 10 tonight and i'll whip it off mine FOC!
Obviously nothing too obvious that it's missing or they might get shirty!

BTW - The £50 worth of Diesel has already gone and I'm keeping the mats and seat covers for my next one!

Bugger, who nabbed the diesel??

Would it not be worth buying it back and stripping and selling the bits? if you get your money back good enough, if you make a bit more then even better

I had a K reg Rover 216 GTi a few years ago, I paid £600 for the car, when I insured it I gave a value of £1500 and then it got written off (claim went through as 50 50) after excess I got £900 in me skyrocket plus I bought the car back for £50! I sold the alloys and fairly new tyres for £250, fairly new discs and pads for another £40, half leather interior for £100, someone paid me £100 to remove the electric sunroof, remove his knackered manual one and install it (pish easy as I had not long transfered the electric sunroof from another 216 GTi that I had into the good car) £50 for me stereo and speakers, £10 for me K&N air filter and I got £50 from the scrappy for the rest of the car *big fecking cheesey grin*

My cousin has just driven away with a full tank, call it compensation for his injuries (silly bugger wouldn't claim against me)!

I actually wanted to buy it back to repair, but they wanted 500 notes to do so...

He should have claimed!! a mate of mine pranged his car with his mum and bro in it, they both put in claims for whiplash, I think his mum got about £800 and bro about £500

lerk said:

I actually wanted to buy it back to repair, but they wanted 500 notes to do so...

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Haggle with the bastids over the price, you never know.....

if not, buy it back anyway, strip it and sell the bits, at least someone will get the use of the bits rather than them being squashed....

Don't worry I tried! I actually think the assessor wants it to repair himself... Hence why i'm letting any bits and bobs disappear, would you believe it I've just looked out of the window and someone's just nicked my spare wheel!

Can't imagine how they managed to relocate the bottle jack to my garage though

They have no right to take the car if you don't want them too. The vehicle is yours and not the insurance companies. Phone them up and tell them your keeping it and repairing it your self. Fook all they can do about it.

Thought the car belonged to them once they paid out, therefore I have to buy it back from them????

Aye once you've been paid the car has effectively become theirs. You'd have to do a deal with them beforehand but I'm sure they'd still be open to a bit of haggling.

hughesy said:

Aye once you've been paid the car has effectively become theirs. You'd have to do a deal with them beforehand but I'm sure they'd still be open to a bit of haggling.

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I had the same deal with insurance co., they told me I could buy it back for 700 notes and the rest of insurance payout in cash( £2300 total payout)....I'm no mechanic (basics only) & where I lived was a sh**e area so it would have been stripped outside me door! so I cashed in....needless to say my old Disco is now back on the road after not much work for some other lucky sod (I'd had shed loads of work done on it while I owned it)!

You'll definately make your money back on spares though if you make them an offer.

I think my problem is that the guy dealing with the claim/valuation wants it himself, so even after getting 25% rather than the 35% value he started with, I tried a half bluff of 'well if thats your lowest offer, come and fetch it then...' and he couldn't get onto the phone with the 'salvage driver' quick enough!

I really do suspect he's got some kind of deal going on...

lerk said:

I think my problem is that the guy dealing with the claim/valuation wants it himself, so even after getting 25% rather than the 35% value he started with, I tried a half bluff of 'well if thats your lowest offer, come and fetch it then...' and he couldn't get onto the phone with the 'salvage driver' quick enough!

I really do suspect he's got some kind of deal going on...

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We refused the 1st offer (£1300) and got proof from Autotrader for the same model,milege condition etc. the Insurance co. then sent out 2 "engineers" to re-check the Disco hence the later offer of £2300 (whole back end, new wings, bumper, full service prior to crash and generally very tidy). I spoke to one of the mechanics who checked our car and he himself said that he would buy it off the Insurance co. because the repair cost if done "off trade" was so little (£600 - £800). I unfortunately was not mechanically minded to fix it and was already doing big hours at work.

If I had waited a few weeks I moved to a rural area where the car could have been done up without scally's ripping it to bits....gutted. Personally I'd give em a call and see what deal they can give you, thats if you have the space to keep her whilst she's off the road.