New car in a smash within 12 hours - write off?

[LoonR1]

Sheepshanks said:

Well certainly some friends of ours had their car repaired after a non-fault accident when it didn't make any sense. And that's without the hire car bill unless the car was free from the bodyshop - it took 6 weeks to fix it.

Could this be a result of no-fault claims being farmed out to AMCs? It's obviously not in their interest for cars to be written off.

Not true. A written off car can be just as lucrative for the AMC, it depends whomtheybask to deal with the salvage.

There is no truth in the original comment, no matter what scenarios you can come up with.

[Sheepshanks]

LoonR1 said:

There is no truth in the original comment,

It's written the wrong way around, but the sentiment is correct. They clearly do apply different standards. Indeed, suddenly the OPs car is being repaired so you're obviously, and not for the first time, wrong.

[LoonR1]

Sheepshanks said:

It's written the wrong way around, but the sentiment is correct. They clearly do apply different standards. Indeed, suddenly the OPs car is being repaired so you're obviously, and not for the first time, wrong.

Its being repaired because it's a viable economic repair. If they have tomoaybout £14k which is highly likely for a write off a few days after purchase then a repair is the right commercial decision. If it was only £11k the. It's be a write off for the same commercial reasons

It's hardly rocket science.