Insurance woes

Personally I would expect more like what you paid. £1800 seems to be the insurance company extracting the urine.

Nothing new there then.

Steve. Suffolk. remove 'knujon' to e-mail

Was the insurance an agreed valuation - if so they have (I think) to pay. If not, what value did you insure it at, coz a vehicle at that age will not loose money like driving a new one off the forecourt.

At end of the day it is a risk the company takes and they will do their utmost to cut their losses. Fight them - it took me quite while to get the insured value of my Dolomite sprint (and that was me writing it off).

It's the insurance's responsability to put you back into a position you were before the loss, ie a similar vehicle, with similar maleage and condition etc. the fact that you can't find one in Autotrader works for you. This indicates the vehilce is rare-er or of greater value than the more common versions, use this with the insurance company.

In the end it will depend on what you are happy with, and how long you want to wait. Try asking the auction house if they have had others going through, and try all the other web sites to find prices, then print them out and send them to the insurace company.

Hope this helps

Gary

J> My car is a total loss claim due to some git stealing it.

Thanks all, that's a bit of ammo for me!

Jon [in Omega :-(]