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Rotor *
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 34 Location: SPAIN
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 15:38 Post subject: |
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The way used 4x4s are depreciating the valuation will soon cost more than your cars worth!!! checkout www.autotrader.co.uk,guess its good for newcomers but painfull for us current owners!
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car and coach *
Age: 52 Zodiac: Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 43 Location: morecambe
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 21:30 Post subject: |
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Yes please the sooner the better. Female reversing hubbies 7 series BMW out of her drive managed to let me get alongside before hitting the go pedal with all her might. Totally creamed all the nearside "doing" the A and B posts and creasing the floor. Hence "not economical to repair." They have made an interim payment and it has cost me that plus £2000 to replace my Paj with one 5 months younger than my original. Then I have had to go about getting alarms,tow bars,wind deflectors etc etc etc fitted. Very dissapointed with both insurance broker and ins company who between them although they term it a no fault accident have charged me £37.50 to alter my new reg for the old which they wrote off! Also been without a vehicle for 10 weeks but still had insurance to pay. Please get this off the ground asap. I have even had BIMTA fighting my case with the ins company but they still dont seem to want to budge. I know how hard it is to find a very good paj, i have just bought my second, i was looking for 6mths to find the right one , the majority was just no good the insureance companies dont take this into consideration when kickin you in the gonads when making an unreasonable offer
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triclops LifeTime Member
Age: 74 Zodiac: Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Rossendale
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 19:15 Post subject: |
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sounds interesting had ageed valuations on bikes through carol nash insurance by just supplying photos and milage lets see if we can sort something ? |
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rick the biker LifeTime Member
Age: 53 Zodiac: Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 822 Location: HECKMONDWIKE
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 23:33 Post subject: |
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the term market value is very subjective..yeah by all means have a look in the auto trader..but remember the "mint!" examples you see advertised are er...well *beep*..you really need to spend time looking at whats on offer before condeming residual values..my 92 swb paj is mint and only done some 60k miles..I think its worth somewhere around two and a half to three grand..I have seen the same thing locally but in pants blue and a million miles for fifteen hundred quid. about the same to get it in usable condition too....you really do get what you pays for!
we NEED agreed value insurance cover but not everyone in the insurance world agrees or even offers this for non classics. |
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IGOR *
Age: 54 Zodiac: Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 45 Location: Near Heathrow, London
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Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 23:18 Post subject: |
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Ok insurance companies pay out on whati s known as the pre incident market value for the vehicle. THIS DOESNT MEAN WHAT YOU PAID FOR THE CAR OR WHAT YOU HAVE TO PAY TO BUY A NEW ONE but what your car would have been worth before it was written, stolen etc.
Modifications to a car add little if anything to its value. Some modifications can detract from the value of a car.sorry but that's the way it is. JUSt becasue your new alloys cost £500 doesnt mean the value of the car increases by £500.
and before everyone jumps on me here, yes i do know what i'm talking about..i work in the insurance industry as the claims manager for a very well known insurance company... and yes if any member of the forum has a problem with insurance claim if you post in the forum or send me a PM I will try and help out with advice where I can, if that ok with Simon and the mod team |
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squeek LifeTime Member
Age: 41 Zodiac: Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 2353 Location: Guernsey c.i.
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Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 22:02 Post subject: |
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More like because of the value of the alloys the car is more likely to be stolen and therefore higher premiums!! |
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Rotor *
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 34 Location: SPAIN
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:24 Post subject: Valuation certificates |
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I`d call my insurance company first to see if they would accept/recognise any valuation certificate, which I doubt in most cases so it would be 20 quid or more wasted.
Valuations based on someones wishfull thinking are pretty worthless, the real retail value is easily worked out from the glasses guide and similar trade publications which base thier figures on actual sales and purchases.
Having dealt with valuers over the years they all seem to lean in favor of who ever is paying for the report.
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Guardian *
Age: 62 Zodiac: Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 15 Location: Poland
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 22:59 Post subject: |
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Agreed Value insurance can and does work very well, provided you use an insurance company that is willing to work WITH you.
I had a classic MG Midget 1500 for a number of years and each year sent them date stamped photographs of the car together with receipts for any work done on the vehicle and extra photo's of completed modifications such as oil cooler, uprated suspension etc so they could physically see I had actually done the work.
I bought the car for £350 spent around £3000 on it and when it finally got nicked and the miscreants drove it under an artic, they paid me out the full agreed value of £5,000 without any quibbles. |
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flipper LifeTime Member
Age: 61 Zodiac: Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 34 Location: birmingham
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 19:55 Post subject: |
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hi simon you can count me in |
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