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Slightly OT. Insurance success.

A day after I repaired the leaking diesel seal in my wife's 106 someone ran into the back of it whilst she was waiting at a roundabout. The cost of straightening it out would have been about £560 ish and as the car is somewhat (oh, ok then very) scruffy and is 13 years old we thought Direct Line might write it off. Anyway, after chatting to/up the engineer who examined the car she was told they would value it at £600. Bargain, considering we paid £700 for it 3 years ago. Yesterday a cheque for £600 plopped through the letterbox and today the car was removed.

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malc
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Good news. A similar thing happened to me with my 1988 mini City E. I bought it for =A3600 in 2000 with a good engine but some rather rusty panels. Drove it for a year and then got hit by a car pulling out into my left wing. Badly damaged the wind and the door so the car was a write off. The insurance company (Norwich Union) gave valued the car at =A3595 (spooky) and gave me the car back minus scrap value of =A320.

Unfortunately I advertised it for 2 weeks as a "for spares" car for "offers" with no success. The the day after I let someone have it for free just to get it off my drive (and into a banger racing field) I got a call from a mini enthusiast who offered me =A350 for it. Bummer. I had advertised in the mini groups etc but no luck until then!

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loony

The "success" in both of these is that they were both low value third party (i.e from the other driver's insurer) claims.

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adder1969

Maybe but in my case I was thinking that I had got more than I anticipated the car would fetch.

--=20 Mal;c

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Most Noble and Honourable the Malcolm of Giggleswick under T

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