Would you? CAT D Maserati

[Juber]

Would you buy it? Personally think its overpriced for CAT D (then again id never buy a CATD supercar...ever but I know some here would?)

Discuss..... *Popcorn*

Before:
http://wrecks2riches.co.uk/2012/12/salvage-cat-d-m...

After:
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/m...

[Harji]

It's not a super car and no, for that money there's a lot more out there.

[Raize]

What if you repair it then export it to Japan or something?

EDIT: I wouldn't buy any CAT C or D unless it was something I intended to keep forever and didn't expect to appreciate in value.

[Juber]

Harji said:

It's not a super car and no, for that money there's a lot more out there.

The Stradale is not a supercar, really? Id class it as one personally

[Matt UK]

All depends on who did / the standard of the repair I guess.

For sale from Shaks Specialist Cars Ltd, in West Yorkshire...

[soad]

I wouldn't personally.

[Evil.soup]

Raize said:

What if you repair it then export it to Japan or something?

EDIT: I wouldn't buy any CAT C or D unless it was something I intended to keep forever and didn't expect to appreciate in value.

Why would you need to keep a cat C or D car forever? You buy then cheap and sell them cheap once you are done. They depreciate at the same rate as any other simular pre-accident car.

I dont fear cat c/d cars as long as i can see pictures of the car before and a record of the work completed. I have seen new model fiestas written off after having lost a wing mirror and crunched the drivers door and rear door against another object/car/wall.

As for this car, its a stunner but i wouldnt touch it at 60k.

[Evil.soup]

Raize said:

What if you repair it then export it to Japan or something?

EDIT: I wouldn't buy any CAT C or D unless it was something I intended to keep forever and didn't expect to appreciate in value.

Why would you need to keep a cat C or D car forever? You buy then cheap and sell them cheap once you are done. They depreciate at the same rate as any other simular pre-accident car.

I dont fear cat c/d cars as long as i can see pictures of the car before and a record of the work completed. I have seen new model fiestas written off after having lost a wing mirror and crunched the drivers door and rear door against another object/car/wall.

As for this car, its a stunner but i wouldnt touch it at 60k.

[k-ink]

You do realise they probably just bin the broken parts and bolt on brand new parts. Therefore it should be perfect.

Secondly there are some cars properly smashed up and fixed by main dealers (using the method above) and sold on with no CAT warning at all. So you may well have owned a car which has been through a similar story with no knowledge of it at all.

[Juber]

k-ink said:

You do realise they probably just bin the broken parts and bolt on brand new parts. Therefore it should be perfect.

Secondly there are some cars properly smashed up and fixed by main dealers (using the method above) and sold on with no CAT warning at all. So you may well have owned a car which has been through a similar story with no knowledge of it at all.

Pretty sure its not as simple as lego when it comes to repairing accident damage cars.

[Muncher]

Juber said:

Pretty sure its not as simple as lego when it comes to repairing accident damage cars.

Many are!

[DaveyBoyWonder]

Not a lot of visual damage to have written off a 100k car.

[Turbodiesel1976]

Wouldn't entertain the notion for one nanosecond

[andymc]

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...


any dealer worth his salt with high end sports cars would avoid Cat C/D cars

[Dracoro]

DaveyBoyWonder said:

Not a lot of visual damage to have written off a 100k car.

Could take a while to get parts, hire car won't be a stty little Vauxhall either so costs will mount! I'd also imagine that the loss in value would be more than more day-to-day cars.

The repair looks odd though, the bonnet panel gap (all round) looks massive. Shoddy repair perhaps? Or a more underlying chassis issue such that this is as close as they could make the panel gaps!!

[J4CKO]

So, should that car have been scrapped if everyone would avoid it ?

I would entertain it, but would have to have an engineers inspection and it be a lot cheaper.

[Stenn]

I wouldn't spend £60k on car with wear to the drivers seat bolster, nevermind it being Cat D. That sort of money buys a lot of immaculate machinery.

[Camoradi]

I wouldn't...I have a rule never to buy a car where the advert ends with three exclamation marks.

[dudleybloke]

innit!

[Snowboy]

Anyone know what it sold for in its' damaged state?