Some Tw*T just ran into me.

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its fixable but your insurance will say its an "uneconomical repair and try and scrap it, but it off them and just use it for a bit of off roadin
 
You are lucky the numpty in the...dare I say it clio:eek: was insured, my mate got ****ted up the jacksy last night while he was stationary at a roundabout by some 18 year old tart in a slitty....and she werent insured! He had his wife and baby in the car too. All were fine except wifey has stiff neck. I suggested to complain about a stiff neck aswell cause it earned me 3k a few years ago when a dumbarse hit me up the arse. He wasnt as fortunate though cause he was in a VW Golf and was hit at 80mph.
Enjoy the trouble free motoring in that masturbatey while you can.
 
Just rung garage who are assessing the damage, they have said that they were struggling to get the old bumper off to look at the hidden damage. They said they were going to have to get the plasma torch out to cut the bumper off due to the bolts that hold the bumper on are not accessable because the bumper has pushed back too far.

That sounds fun.
 
It'snot sounding good news, estimaters have priced the repair work at approx £3500 and they say the car is only worth £1900-£2300. Looks like a write off, but I am pricing up parts myself at the moment so I can get them to release the car back to me and then pay me the cost of the parts alone with out labour costs.

The old part I am strugling to find is a rear chassis cross member, if I cant find this then I will have to just cut it out and weld in a 60x60 box section.

Does anyone know where I could source just a cross member part?
Or should I just go to a scrap yard and cut one out of another landy?
 
I don't think such a part exists. I'm not even sure you can buy a rear chassis section. best bet as you say is either box section or a visit to a breakers with an angle grinder. I suppose the advantage of a DIY crossmember is that you could use 6mm wall box section and reinforce it for when the next tw*t drives into the back of you. Haggle on price and ask the insurance company what they are basing their price on. get specifics (which they have to give you)
 
I have priced most of the parts up myself.

There is No body work painting to be done.
But requires....
Full Tow pack
Bumper
Both corner caps
Bumper chassis mounting parts
All new bolts
Both bumper tail lights
Top of the bumper plastic anti-slip bit.
All that comes to approx £600.00

And a Cross member £ NO PRICE YET

So I am wondering how they came to £3500 (I cant belive £2900 is for the labour)
 
When you negotiate money with the Insurance you should be looking at getting the cost of replacing the vehicle minus it's scrap value (£250) not just getting the vehicle back + cost of parts. You want to be ending up with a couple of grand cash and the disco out of this not a few hundred quid.
 
redhand said:
When you negotiate money with the Insurance you should be looking at getting the cost of replacing the vehicle minus it's scrap value (£250) not just getting the vehicle back + cost of parts. You want to be ending up with a couple of grand cash and the disco out of this not a few hundred quid.
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Couldn't agree more with this. A mate of mine got rear ended in his car - it was written off - he got the replacement value of the car minus a few hundred quid to buy it back, then he and a mate fixed it up for the cost of the parts. I think he ended up with about £1000 profit once the car was fixed.

The labour costs are a killer on these insurance jobs because the companies go to town on it (and I'm sure they have special rates for insurance jobs). A dented door on my old golf cost just over £1000 to put right, but the job was, as far as I could tell, perfect - that side of the car looked like new. I couldn't tell if they'd fixed the door or replaced it completely.
 
Simon72 said:
I have priced most of the parts up myself.

There is No body work painting to be done.
But requires....
Full Tow pack
Bumper
Both corner caps
Bumper chassis mounting parts
All new bolts
Both bumper tail lights
Top of the bumper plastic anti-slip bit.
All that comes to approx £600.00

And a Cross member £ NO PRICE YET

So I am wondering how they came to £3500 (I cant belive £2900 is for the labour)
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Hi Simon, here is a price for a rear crossmember: LRD157 Rear Body Crossmember

Here's another: MPS 4x4 Store Catalogue

I'm not saying they have them in stock as I believe someone on here said they were on back order.
 
redhand said:
That's for the rearbody Simon wants the rear chassis crossmember not not the body crossmember. The're 2 totally different parts.
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My understanding is that the part that Simon needs a price for is the rear crossmember that the rear bumper bolts onto. This same component also holds up the back of the body hence it's name "body crossmember".

Or I might be wrong :confused: :(
 
I have checked with both Paddocks and Craddocks and the parts /\ /\ above are the body to chassis cross members, NOT the part I want.

I have been told by both of them that you can't get that part (NEED A COMPLETE CHASSIS) or find a scrap chassis and have it plasma cut out and re-welded back on to mine.

Thanks for the help
Simon.

(Still waiting for a valuation)

On another subject what would you lot value my Truck as??

On the Auto-trader and What-Car price valuation guides it ranges from £2800 and £3600 for a 136,000 mile basic 300Tdi.
Also on E-bay and Auto trader they are selling between £2000 and £4500???

Where would you put mine for a decient settlement figure.
Not sure which model mine is, but I have got 5x alloys, twin sunroofs, headlight washers, which the basic model doesn't have.

Cheers Simon
 
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