Do you get rid of a damaged car?
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I am not sure where others get their 3 or 4 hundred pounds from, that will not cover the parts needed.
As a fairly new car I would not be happy with any new panels fitted as the welds, joints/seams will not last as long as the car was intended to last.
Your car after being welded together at new would have been subjected to dipping before being painted, this seals them all and cannot be replicated in paintshops.
As a fairly new car I would not be happy with any new panels fitted as the welds, joints/seams will not last as long as the car was intended to last.
Your car after being welded together at new would have been subjected to dipping before being painted, this seals them all and cannot be replicated in paintshops.
potato muncher said:
As a fairly new car I would not be happy with any new panels fitted as the welds, joints/seams will not last as long as the car was intended to last.
Your car after being welded together at new would have been subjected to dipping before being painted, this seals them all and cannot be replicated in paintshops.
While this is not necessarily true, some insurers will entertain the idea of replacing a nearly new car for brand new if you have reasonable grounds to suggest that the repairs will not return the car to it's pre-accident condition.Your car after being welded together at new would have been subjected to dipping before being painted, this seals them all and cannot be replicated in paintshops.
I am in the same position, 7-month old Focus ST that was damaged earlier this week when the guy behind couldn't be bothered using his brakes. Bill, including labour, parts etc is over £2K so nowhere near the write-off threshold but I don't want to keep it when it comes back from being repaired 
Can't really afford to lose probably £4 to £6K on what I paid for the car last September, or to put any £ towards another car at the moment.
Can't really afford to lose probably £4 to £6K on what I paid for the car last September, or to put any £ towards another car at the moment.
sb-1 said:
Following on from my last post.
My 16 month old Golf need new 1/4 panel,rear bumper inner wing repair.
Do I keep it,or move it on? What do you guys do?
I can probably offer a few words on this having been through this 4 years ago. I was stationary when hit from behind, car needed, repairs to boot floor, inner panel, and new rear quarter, tailgate, bumper , repainted about half the car to blend. Repairs came to about £4k at a manufacturer approved bodyshop ( as I wanted to maintain the body warranty).My 16 month old Golf need new 1/4 panel,rear bumper inner wing repair.
Do I keep it,or move it on? What do you guys do?
Although I never felt the same about the car, and to this day I felt that corner never handled the same as the other, I did another 30k miles in it to minimise my loses. Fact is it will never be the same as a factory built car, corrosion set in after 2 years and had to be repaired again under warranty, as stated above the act of cutting out and replacing structural parts has to lead to sections unprotected from rust. Once I knew what I wanted to replace it with , I moved on....
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