His mate is a right lard arse, plus the disco had spun an was goin backads when it hit the concrete block. The seats are designed to deform so that you don't. The mot was up yesterday, so I took it down to the guy I bin using for years. It failed, but the guy said it'd pass with a new front ns indicator cluster, ns headlamp (held in place with black nasty at the mo) and a new rear os fog lamp (showing white light). Think its time to tap little bro up for some squids........or put his beemer 330ci through a fookin wall! Ha ha ha ha
 
Where abouts are you in the uk? Coz if you are local i'll give you a hand with the paintwork when i get back off holiday.

Dave
 
I'm in the west mids, dudley area.....bit out of the way from durham. Thanks for the kind offer anyways. Me bros insurance have just rang, said the cars a total loss, an offered 8.2k squids. I told him to call em back an see how much it'll be to buy it back an I can get it sorted myself. Or do you reckon I should take the 8 grand and get another one, or get a defender 110?
 
I would wait and see what they say about buying the car back...You might get it for a grand....

May i ask what year and model your disco is?
 
Blimey...you were only expecting £5k weren't you? Normally i'd not accept the 1st offer, haggle a bit, but you must be tempted to take that...even if they wont let you buy it back...get a lotta disco for £8k.
 
with storm on this one if you were expecting 5k and offered 8.2 thats a lot of disco/depender you can buy.

Take the money unless they want something stupidly cheap to buy it back ;)
 
Plus...having read your 1st post again...you can pay off the £3k finance..saving you a fair bit every month i'd guess. Still got over £5k and at the mo theres a fair few landys about, prices seem to be heading back to a reasonable level.
 
Fcuk me he was one fat chunt!! :lol:
Seems a nice tidy sum from the insurance however i will still haggle a bit. Be surprised what you can get out of insurance companies in return for end the claim. Defo buy it back too, easy fixer.
 
as insewerants companies only work with numbers, they calculate the scrap value of your car and that is what they'll sell it back to you for, so you take the £8k, they'll deduct the scrap value of the car (plus your excess) then send you the rest. I reckon little bro ( and his not so little mate) should be tapped for your excess. You should be able to do a hell of a rebuild, pay off your loan AND still have the cash for a playday special if you work it right.
good luck and let us all know what happens
remember you owe the insurance company nowt exept your premium so dont take no **** from em.
 
I really don't know what to do......my disco does need a few things doing that aren't accident related......new hub fitted, rear air suspension bags could do with being changed, new front springs, xyz switch, a/c fan seized, cracked windscreen........prob about a grands worth in itself.....so I think I might see what they offer for a buy back / final write off price. I could end up gettin a newer disco or depender 110 with nowt needing doing for the write orf price me thinks....I'm gonna ask one of the nice gents at ultimte land rover if they'll give any potential replacement landys a once over if pay em fur their time.....
 
Good idea..sounds like you may end up better off too, lots of problems with that disco...tell you what, i'll take it off your hands for £500 and lots of top quality bacon.
 
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